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Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lots of people replying/quoting this with jokes about dinosaurs/jurassic park/etc and it’s a good time for a favorite fun fact: all birds are literally a branch of theropod dinosaurs that split off from other theropods in the Jurassic period. They look like dinosaurs because they are dinosaurs.

Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 5d ago

With El Niño expected to bring dry weather to Sri Lanka, paddy farmers and irrigation officials are adopting new water preservation strategies. While field-level techniques offer immediate relief, researchers emphasize that closing data gaps is vital to guide climate decision-making.

Sri Lanka prepares for impending El Niño with traditional and new approaches

COLOMBO — Even though Sri Lankan authorities are preparing to face an impending El Niño phenomenon, Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Suwandarathne feels that the country may not be impacted as forecasted. A…

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics@alexpaknadel.bsky.social · last wk.

Nolan's hardly an underdog, but I really do think we need to get away from the idea that fidelity to source material is an index of quality. There are absolutely problems with the film, but it's an entertainment designed to warn audiences that complex civilization is coming unglued. It succeeds.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2w ago

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Guardian New research sheds light on Spain’s first trans political group: the trailblazing Colectivo de Travestis y Transexuales launched in 1978 to fight for trans rights in the nation's long fought transition to democracy after dictator Francisco Franco's death.

Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective

Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship

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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 2w ago

For @aftermath.site : When Valve announced the Steam Machine, they showed off an eInk faceplate called the Inkterface used for internal testing. Many clamored for it. Instead of selling it, they made the entire thing open source. I built one, and so have many others. aftermath.site/steam-machin...

The Steam Machine's ePaper Faceplate Is Open Source And Full Of Possibility

Valve made the eInk Steam Machine faceplate open source to see what the community could do. We're already seeing results.

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Sam Beck@sambeckdraws.bsky.social · 2w ago

everyone should reflect on the fact that they can open up their little electronic boxes each morning and see the most beautiful art made by your contemporaries. how lucky we are