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Marrije Schaake

@marrije.eend.nl

Zakelijk leider van http://eend.nl. Leest regelmatig een boek: https://goodreads.com/user/show/1466725-marrije En heeft er ook een geschreven! https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/the-heart-of-the-matter/9300000170178005/

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Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

It tells me people need and want moral reference points, that they provide a shared moral imagination, and that there's a greater appetite for goodness than our public discourse suggests.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

The one thing I've taken from the reaction of deaths of Dolly Parton and Patrick Stewart is how much love there is towards people who represent goodness, and how much meaning they bring to people's lives, shaping the idea of the world they want to live in, giving them ideals to strive for.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 6d ago

thinking about Patrick Stewart and Tim Curry and Dolly Parton and Catherine O’Hara and how many of the tributes shared after they died translate to something like “their art made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world” it is hard to think of a better way to spend a life than that

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 7d ago

An amazing piece of ancient artistry washed up on a beach! Imagine beachcombing and finding this small amber animal carved some 13,000 years ago! 🤩 Found on the beach at Næsby Strand in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient amber animal figurine, thought to represent an elk, displayed against a black background. Carved from translucent reddish-orange amber, the figure, which measures 7 cm x 4.7 cm. The figurine is viewed in profile with head to the right. Along its back it has a higher hind section, with a slightly lower yet elevated shoulder area. Its neck curves forwards with a downward facing head with a short muzzle. It has backward facing pointed ears, dot-like eyes and two nostrils engraved using a sharp flint point. Around the muzzle, a closed mouth is indicated by a shallow incised groove. The forelegs and hind legs are carved as a single unit, with no separation between them. The lower ends of the legs curve inward beneath the animal, joining a carved frame whose lower edge runs parallel to the animal’s belly line. Delicate zigzag patterns cover its back and sides. The geometric decoration dates the figurine to the Late Paleolithic - early Mesolithic period. “Parallel zigzag lines in various combinations—already played an important role during the Late Ice Age in the decoration of hunters' weapons, personal tools, amulets, and similar items” (Peter Vang Peterson, National Museum if Denmark). Two small metal display supports hold the figurine upright, with its reflection visible on the dark surface beneath. I photographed the figurine at Halle Landesmuseum, Germany, where it is currently on for the Shamaness of Bad Dürrenberg
HulloThere@jethroreading32.bsky.social · 2w ago

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

478 black-and-white doodles of bony fishes. The first fish is a coelacanth; the last an ocean sunfish.
Natalia (娜塔莉)@wrycritic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nothing to see here, just a 200-million-years old Jurassic sea bed, frozen in time. Layers of dead ammonites and drift wood lining a dark, oozy seafloor of the Jurassic, forever locked in stone. Hundreds of tiny shelly squids.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3w ago

When I was a very new pro, I did a signing with Theodore Sturgeon and a couple of other people. I was complaining to him about the trouble I was having with a scene. He looked at me and said, in his resonant tenor, "I give you permission to do it wrong." Most liberating thing I ever heard.

New Years Revolution ✊@tekweenie.bsky.social · 3w ago

I once heard someone talking about up and coming stand-up comics, “everyone needs a place to be lame“ I’ve always thought that was very insightful.

Marrije Schaake@marrije.eend.nl · 3w ago

Voorts is het maar goed dat ik vrij doof ben, want er zit iemand in een volle coupé uitgebreid overheidsinkoopzaken te bespreken via de telefoon. Met bedragen en alles.

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · last mo.

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last mo.

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

Meredith Rose@mrose.ink · 2mo ago

Spoke to a bunch of 70- and 80-year olds at my mom's book club (!) about AI, and what struck me was that they were *acutely* aware of, and frustrated with, the failures of mainstream news coverage to explain exactly what this tech is, what it can and cannot do, and what the risks are.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2mo ago

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us all