Islay based.
Working with plants in the drinks industry.
Eclectic interests.
Rarely post, mostly lurking.
✨ It’s true. I’ve been working on this blog post for ten years.
You see, I’ve been slowly buying up nearly seventy super rare issues of a 80s/90s gadget catalog that meant the world to me growing up. And in the process, I’ve uncovered the secret history of this lost copywriting art.
PLUS, as a bonus, I’ve scanned every single issue — so you can read them all.
I hope you enjoy: https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/
William Darrell describes his kinetic sculptures as “mechanically abstracted organisms,” animated forms that pulse, shimmy, and spin with lifelike motion.
Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween
Margaret Fay Shaw recorded a traditional Hebridean #Halloween with her images & film of South Uist in the 1930s
#Scottish #Gaelic #Hebrides #guising #folklore
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween
@MichDdev Aye, very much along those lines! Although not before buying a couple of bulbs, trying to resurrect the battery etc etc.
I mean, it claims 2,000,000 candle power, who wouldn't want to experience that!? 🤣
Pleased to have put a few vape batteries to good use too, scrounged off the young team at work.
Found an old torch dumped by the bottle bank. Picked it up like the good womble I am. One rainy afternoon later... 🤓
#bluetooth #speaker #diyaudio #audio #upcycling #wombles #maker
In an effort to break the eternal lurking on here. Auld bike, high water, geese.
#bicycle #claudbutler #vintagemtb #lochindall #isleofislay #autumn #geese
@limneticvillains Didn't know this was a thing, cheers.
Word Warriors' "Words that deserve wider use"
L: https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/list
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869144
posted on 2023.10.13 at 06:52:38 (c=0, p=3)
Sue hellish Cruella! Well done, Liberty, and good luck. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/suella-braverman-sued-legal-action-liberty-anti-protest-laws/?utm_source=oD%20Daily%20SEGMENT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%27We%E2%80%99re%20suing%20Braverman%20over%20her%20anti-protest%20law%E2%80%99&_kx=DsiSOnDaDaBzSIKthbspNy-zf67T9DJnAdAn22Yq2cQ%3D.YjCYwm
I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to Idiocracy (2006) scenarios (like Brawndo has what plants crave, Charlie Chaplin leading the 3rd Reich, etc) for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.
Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.
Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.
Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.
@ianames Slugs most likely or maybe snails 🐌
(Oops, didn't see Janet's reply above - another vote for slugs)
@AnnemarieDatBenIk I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure they're slug's eggs. Or maybe snails 🐌
Humanity could have spent its days chasing butterflies and watching sunsets and loving each other and instead I have to download an app and make an account to access the office printer
I'd love to have an ecologist, particularly someone who studies biodiversity, talk with my environmental science class. They've just started their own long-term research projects on the diversity of the stream nearby.
Anything along the lines of research design, data collection, reporting...what does real science look like.
Virtual is great, we're US/EST
If interested, you can leave a note here or send an email to bbennett@buchananschools.com
Mastodon will be our primary social media presence from now on
For archived tweets, please see:
https://qgis.github.io/QGIS-Twitter-Archive/
Are you a scientist who's active on Mastodon and does research in #ornithology, #ecology, #naturalhistory, or a related field? I want to follow you - please reply and introduce yourself! (And please share so this reaches more people!)
It's a loooong way from Christmas, and I'm not a big Die Hard is Christmas kind of person, but this is too good not to share immediately.
@Deglassco this is really interesting, the first I'd heard of it.
