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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 2d

Last year I set up four polar bear sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). Goal: collect pictures and hairs to document the understudied Arctic Basin population. This one, from 8 August 2025, is our first good photo ! 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦑🦊 (barbed wire for genetic hair collection visible)

A polar bear visiting one of our sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). The picture shows a polar bear and the barbed wire collecting hairs for genetic analyses.

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 1d

It's called Green Ice, by Adina, and is worth every second: archiveofourown.org/series/662837

Green Ice - Adina - Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, WODEHOUSE P. G. - Works [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 4d

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 6d

The revolutions will be Victorianised! Happy birth

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 6d

Fences, perhaps? @subhmilis.bsky.social

Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 7d

One summer, when I was seven, my parents sent me to live with two aunts in PARKLIFE. I did not want to go. The elderly have that effect on children. PARKLIFE! But they loved me. And I grew to love them. PARKLIFE! ... but I am hungry. I am hungry, and want to PARKLIVE

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 8d

you say goofy, I say irresistible. At least to insects

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 8d

A parent had heart surgery this way - out again the same day. Some bad tech so endlessly flogged as progress that it's easy to lose sight of the stuff that is. Fingers crossed for your dad's procedure

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 9d

this is one of those factoids (factdroid?) that's 75% there. But it mixes up the (abstract) etymology with the (concrete) neologism: robota means "unpaid compulsory labour" (like corvée), so vaguely "servitude". The Čapeks then coined robot ("serv") from it cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/robota

robota – Wikislovník

cs.wiktionary.org

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 9d

The Full Bollocks

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 11d

4th October 1859 was a regular day for Joseph Taylor Goodsir. Wake early, think about God, pinch of snuff, meet brother John, read the day's post.

Which included an letter sent by sister Jane to their brother Harry of #HMSErebus in Jan 1848, and returned 11 years later as "undeliverable".

A photo of a handwritten diary page. At the bottom it reads "A letter of Jane's to Harry of Jan 7th 1848, intended to go by the Plover to Panama..." Shelfmark: GB 237 Coll-28 Gen 296, courtesy of the Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh.

Image of a handwritten diary entry. The sentence concludes "... returned only to day". Shelfmark: GB 237 Coll-28 Gen 296, courtesy of the Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh.

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 15d

unsolicited, but this eats through apples like nobody's business. 10:1 ratio of fruit in to syrup out. www.toineskitchen.com/recipes/appe... assumes a juicer. More realistically, you boil the apples with a bit of water till pulpy, cool, squeeze the pulp for the juice, measure it, proceed as per

www.toineskitchen.com

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 16d

Let's just put it this way: not heard about it, read about it, Sir Edward Belcher no longer top of my shitlist

Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 21d

#DoesSheLoveBirds

Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 21d

still my absolute fave is this in a bird hide in Cumbria

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 21d

this thread is good vibes muppetsonified (some may technically be pet pictures too but perhaps best not to dwell) bsky.app/profile/riot...

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 23d

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

Beaker as Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson from Die Another Day.

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 23d

USB-port Convention
The Signal Jam
Cardiogram B

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23d

technologically advance a band.

Deep Satellite Dish

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 23d

technologically advance a band.

Nine Inch Nailguns

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 24d

Unhelpfully, probably some Horace, who's a bugger to translate. But Odes 4.1 is an all-time banger of the "I regret nothing | everything" genre, and this version's pretty decent: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/... . The beginning is culturally bound but the break is not. Punch to the gut

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 25d

Not sure what you're packing but from experience a hat and something you can use as a blanket (raincoat at a pinch) do wonders

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 25d

Drake Hotline Bling meme reacting to the University of Oxford's ... ill-considered decision to break off with 929 continuous years of teaching and learning and hop into bed with ChatGPT instead. The top panel shows Drake rejecting LitHums (the artist elsewhere known as Classics), and the bottom shows him enthusiastically endorsing LLMs.

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 27d

tell him it's macho cake, problem solved

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James Fitzjames @fitzjames.bsky.social · Sep 13

My Longest “Devastating News, Lads” Ever

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illuminator ⚓️Franklin Expedition @illuminator.bsky.social · 29d

Just as written records from the lost Franklin Expedition were within reach, Canada is having to pull the plug on archaeological excavation of HMS Erebus & Terror.

loganzachary.substack.com/p/illuminato...

illuminator newsletter #42

The final dive season.

loganzachary.substack.com

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · Sep 15

Not before time, news on 2024’s finds from the investigation on Erebus & Terror, with some very interesting items found including a raincoat! welcome is the news Parks Canada won’t be doing any further active research on the wrecks, at least for the time being.

parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/e...

Exploration 2024

Activities and new discoveries at the sites of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 2024.

parks.canada.ca

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Alison @finger-post.blog · Sep 15

A very happy birthday to Alexander McDonald, born in Laurencekirk #OTD in 1817.

Alexander was assistant surgeon on #HMSTerror and was lost with the #FranklinExpedition.

And he was, without doubt, goth AF. @scottpolar.bsky.social holds some of his letters: each one sealed with a blood red skull.

Image is of an oil painting of an impossibly beautiful young man. He looks early 20s, perhaps. His hair is red-gold and frames his face. And what a face. His eyes are mid-brown. His cheeks are slightly flushed.

The portrait is of Alexander McDonald, a surgeon who learned his trade on whaling ships before joining the Franklin Expedition in 1845 and honestly. #SurgicalTwink

Item number ZBA4548, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by Mrs A N Dew, 2007.

Image shows a roughly circular blob of bright red sealing wax. In the centre of the wax is the impression of a human skull.

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · Sep 15

radio doc, excellent, MLM scam as cult www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Very British Cult

The sinister life coaching company that takes over your life. Catrin Nye investigates.

www.bbc.co.uk

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