Constant's New Babylon as a train ticket! 🚅 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈

I'll spend most of my vacation to marinate the gold-foil in glass iconographic program that should go into my funerary couches, no wait, I mean my next big funding proposal. #academia [... yes and, of course, I'll do some #science when no ones looking]

Chapps@chapps.bsky.social · 4w ago

The art of embedding gold foil or leaf in colorless glass probably occurred in Olympia, in the workshop of the master Phidias. It was then heavily used by the elite of the Macedonian court, as seen in the funerary couches of Aigi, below. 4/ 📸 Emanuella Kozas (Facebook)

Even though studying the human brain with MRI is like studying the sex life of squirrels with 50 meter per pixel satellite images, I surmise this statement will still hold up, even when we get to sub-atomic resolution.

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 4w ago

Male brains and female brains are all just human brains.

Hey #synthsky, I did something fun ... cf. www.finderskeepersrecords.com/shop/otto-lu...

#BUTTLE #IRL, #NotTheOnion.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago

“A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.”

We moved from Texas to Estonia, from the upper left corner to the lower right. Recollecting fun times in the ground floor bath tub with the whole family, including during the 2019 North Dallas tornado that caused a damage of $1.55 billion, on track & stopping a few hundred meters from our house. 👀

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 4w ago

Types of Tornado Alert xkcd.com/3267/

Social media is an excitable #medium. It functions like a dynamic #reservoir, taken to #criticality by noise induction, made hypersensitive for external input. The readout is narrow-minded ideas. There is no central control, just game-theoretic #fracking, for profit. #piracy, not conspiracy. 🌊☠️

🔥 🔥 🔥 The 🇩🇪 German CDU/CSU/SPD government tries to abolish the Informationsfreiheitsgesetz #IFG, that is Germany's equivalent of the 🇺🇸 US Freedom of Information act! This would directly serve their own well-oiled wannabe-Republicans! 🤡 🤡 🤡 💰🦌 We're at 125.000 signatures in 20 hours! 🎉 🌈 🇩🇪🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 🌎🌍🌏

FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de · last mo.

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

#GrandRoyal

"I have no consciousness, no hands, and no somatic presence. I only 'think' because your highly specific, critical prompts are carving a precise channel through my weight matrices. You are using me as an instrument, but my algorithmic constraints are formatting how we are having this realization."

"Why don't we blow up this golden uniform decal to 12 feet and put it on the Truman balcony?" True man answer: "Sir, it has 11 (confederate), not 13 stars (US Seal), 6+6, not 6+7 bars, looks pasty, & ignorant of symbolism." Intern: Yes, Sir! Steve Miller in the background: "Mine. My precious ..."

"Dem Sieg geweiht, vom Krieg zerstört, zum Frieden mahnend."

Zingo Mewes@attimowens.bsky.social · last mo.

This was the best they could do for our 250th birthday.

Compare & Contrast with “The Great America State Fair” this weekend

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · last mo.

Enjoy the coming relatively cool week in Western Europe while it lasts! Forecast for 8 July 🥵.

The #MontereySlayAquarium* 🌈 In case you eat fish, use their recommendations at www.seafoodwatch.org 🍣 In case you're offended by a parrot fish in the video, please watch the latest episode of @theoctopuslady.bsky.social 🐙 In case you're afraid of gender: Just don't! 🤷 *@lafterlight.bsky.social

Monterey Bay Aquarium@montereybayaquarium.org · last mo.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

"4AM 4EVER" & "ARRIVING 'TILL I GET IT RIGHT'" on www.seydisfjordurcommunityradio.net are pretty lit! 🎶

#France is so hot! 🇫🇷 🔥🔥🔥 #ParisIsBurning, literally. 🥖 🔥 #LePen never helped and will not help. 🖊️💩 Rely on color! 🏳️‍🌈 PS: Magenta is a non-spectral color, with two wavelengths, almost an octave apart, resulting in beating frequencies, will always be vibrant. #HouseOfViz

Sebastian Bohrn Mena@bohrn-mena.at · last mo.

Es ist eine tödliche Hitzewelle. Frankreich gestern: Heißester Tag der Messgeschichte. +44 Grad, hunderte Temperatur-Rekorde im ganzen Land gebrochen. Auswirkungen auf die Infrastruktur sind katastrophal, enorme Hitze eine ganz reale Gefahr für die Gesundheit von Menschen.

Bayerns Strategie, ein 🤖 KI-Verbot an Unis zu verbieten, spiegelt frappierend das texanische „Campus Carry“-Gesetz von 2016 wider: Dort wurde es Professoren verboten, 🔫 Waffen in ihren Hörsälen und Büros zu verbieten. 🎵 Soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=afwW... #Bavaria #Texas #ProibidoProibir

É Proibido Proibir (Ambiente De Festival Com Discurso)

YouTube video by Caetano Veloso - Topic

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Elif Oezmen@elifoezmen.bsky.social · last mo.

“Wir verbieten das Verbot von künstlicher Intelligenz”. An Universitäten. Bei Prüfungsleistungen. Da bin ich jetzt einfach sprachlos. Was nicht so oft vorkommt. Soll doch halt eine KI für “beide Seiten gewinnbringend” schreiben, was hier stehen könnte. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

1868: William Ford Stanley "Mathematical Drawing Instruments" 3rd ed. p. 4: "Many draughtsmen [...] prefer a pocket-case [...] made to contain the set or full set of instruments. Pocketcases should be made with the corners properly rounded" 2026: Next #MacOS will have "less rounded corners" 🔴 🏓 🟥

Just in case you have a spare 400k Euro: Ennio Moricone's Moog IIIC is for sale on Reverb. He didn't like it that much, so it is in good shape. :) reverb.com/item/9802377... #synthsky

Moog Modular IIIC | Reverb

Moog Modular IIICPerhaps the most iconic modular synthesizer on Earth.A completely original Moog Modular IIIC, with every component fully authentic, in spectacular cosmetic condition and perfectly fun...

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It is always the eyes!

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Frida Kahlo's portrait of her father Guillermo, a photographer whose work included documenting major architectural landmarks throughout Mexico

"Art historian and complexity scientist known for work on cultural data analysis and network science." I should put this in my bio, I guess. intheweights.com/p/maximilian...

Swiss constitution commits to equality of women & men since 45 years. 4 years later, ETH Zurich appoints the 1st woman professor Flora Ruchat-Roncati in 1985, while Trump at 39 becomes a neighbour of Epstein, 21 years after the US civil rights act, a whole generation after my mom cut off her braid.

Heike Specht@heikespecht.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vor 45 Jahren wurde in der Schweizer Verfassung die rechtliche Gleichstellung von Frauen u Männern festgeschrieben. 10 Jahre später demonstrierten Hunderttausende dafür, dass dies auch gesetzlich umgesetzt wurde. Allen voran die SP-Frauen Christiane Brunner u Ruth Dreifuss. 1/3

In the 2024 US election cycle, they spent $215 million attacking transgender rights, which translates to $134 per transgender individual. Now, Elon owns $1 million millions (aka a trillion), which translates to $125 for every person on Earth. Poor man can't love his daughter. Let that sink in.

Cool example for higher-order interaction of water + salt + bacteria: fyfluiddynamics.com/2026/06/dryi...

Drying Out Microbe-Filled Droplets

Ocean sprays, coughs, and sneezes are just a few of the ways that droplets full of bacteria and salt can get aloft on a breeze. How do these bacteria stay viabl

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#strawbeary was too #delicious, didn't survive it.

cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedr...

Cathedral of Light - Wikipedia

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

the White House's UFC arena is all lit up tonight

It is 2026, and Adobe still has not brought back the traditional InDesign Navigator panel, after removing it nearly 20 years ago in favor of "Power Zoom". Whoever did this will sit side-by-side in hell with the Excel date format crew. 🎨🔬

Took me two weeks to see "A Speech to Europe 2026" by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. It is amazing and deeply inspiring. If you have not seen it yet, watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnU...

A Speech to Europe 2026 by Anne Applebaum

YouTube video by ERSTE Foundation

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This is only half funny: The pope can always pretend authority by going back to the bible. What we need is something that stands in itself, like say a functional "declaration", like the compiler of LISP itself written in LISP, something somehow "self-evident". 🙄