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"The leading theory for the formation of the Moon is that a newborn Earth was slammed into by a Mars-sized object named Theia in the pinball chaos of the early Solar System.
....some of Theia may also have remained with the Moon....lunar sulfur may have originated on Theia, too."
....some of Theia may also have remained with the Moon....lunar sulfur may have originated on Theia, too."
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The leading theory for the formation of the Moon is that a newborn Earth was slammed into by a Mars-sized object named Theia in the pinball chaos of the early Solar System.
....some of Theia may also have remained with the Moon....lunar sulfur may have originated on Theia, too."
....some of Theia may also have remained with the Moon....lunar sulfur may have originated on Theia, too."
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The inescapable paradox of fire – of alchemy, of psyche, of intelligent living – consists in this double commandment: Thou shalt not repress / Thou shalt not act out. ~James Hillman, 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The inescapable paradox of fire – of alchemy, of psyche, of intelligent living – consists in this double commandment: Thou shalt not repress / Thou shalt not act out. ~James Hillman, 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺
LETTERS.....😍😍😍
I had fun doing this podcast episode for The Ancients about Old Babylonian letters! We discussed messengers, scribes, and even a certain copper trader of dubious repute! #eanasir #cuneiform #Mesopotamia
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The World's Oldest Letters
Podcast Episode · The Ancients · 11/27/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
LETTERS.....😍😍😍
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A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757.
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757.
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
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Fantastic news for a fantastic shop, absolutely delighted for them! Brilliant selection, the shop itself is gorgeous, so browsable, and the customer service is excellent. Woohoo! 🎉 The comeback kids! @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social #Booksky #Booksky💙📚
The WINNER of the 2025 An Post Bookshop of the Year is...
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fantastic news for a fantastic shop, absolutely delighted for them! Brilliant selection, the shop itself is gorgeous, so browsable, and the customer service is excellent. Woohoo! 🎉 The comeback kids! @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social #Booksky #Booksky💙📚
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November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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There’s a brilliant music streaming platform called Qobuz, sound quality like Tidal, but the music discovery mechanics are sublime. It’s for serious music lovers
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
There’s a brilliant music streaming platform called Qobuz, sound quality like Tidal, but the music discovery mechanics are sublime. It’s for serious music lovers
Sounds like a keeper.
Golden of limbs, blue of head, emerald upon both of his sides. (BDB)
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Sounds like a keeper.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.
for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.
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At the link, this week's oasis of small sanities in one place – how to love the world more, what it's like to meet an orca, how not to be a victim of success: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
At the link, this week's oasis of small sanities in one place – how to love the world more, what it's like to meet an orca, how not to be a victim of success: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.
for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.
"Artist's logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe" looking suitably mediaeval.....
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Artist's logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe" looking suitably mediaeval.....
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Pleiades (Messier 45), 2025 edition.
This gorgeous reflection nebula is high
This combines 36 hours of imaging on a 115mm triplet across 2024 and 2025, taken from my Indiana backyard. 🔭🧪
High-quality prints are available from mathcancer.darkroom.com/products/neb...
This gorgeous reflection nebula is high
This combines 36 hours of imaging on a 115mm triplet across 2024 and 2025, taken from my Indiana backyard. 🔭🧪
High-quality prints are available from mathcancer.darkroom.com/products/neb...
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Pleiades (Messier 45), 2025 edition.
This gorgeous reflection nebula is high
This combines 36 hours of imaging on a 115mm triplet across 2024 and 2025, taken from my Indiana backyard. 🔭🧪
High-quality prints are available from mathcancer.darkroom.com/products/neb...
This gorgeous reflection nebula is high
This combines 36 hours of imaging on a 115mm triplet across 2024 and 2025, taken from my Indiana backyard. 🔭🧪
High-quality prints are available from mathcancer.darkroom.com/products/neb...
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Nice to see Emain Macha / Loughnashade highlighted. A fine place to visit at any time of year. Photos taken on a fine June day 2015 during a visit to the Centre & this impresssive site. All the more memorable on account of the expert guidance by Prof Jim Mallory of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Nice to see Emain Macha / Loughnashade highlighted. A fine place to visit at any time of year. Photos taken on a fine June day 2015 during a visit to the Centre & this impresssive site. All the more memorable on account of the expert guidance by Prof Jim Mallory of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018
Whitley Bay 2018
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018
Whitley Bay 2018
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🇵🇸 Amazing! Did you know that our Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel has reached 2, 376 signatories! We are very proud of this serious solidarity with the Palestinian people and total rejection of Israeli apartheid. Artists sign ➡️
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
🇵🇸 Amazing! Did you know that our Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel has reached 2, 376 signatories! We are very proud of this serious solidarity with the Palestinian people and total rejection of Israeli apartheid. Artists sign ➡️
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Who'd-a-thunk, but thank you Fear, Gratitude and Dread: "Here I am in my mid-50s making this insanely sentimental and lavish orchestral music...."
Do you want to hear me talk for a bit about the forthcoming Soft Pink Truth album from our basement studio? Your wish is granted! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJW...
The Soft Pink Truth on "Mere Survival Is Not Enough"
YouTube video by Thrill Jockey Records
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Who'd-a-thunk, but thank you Fear, Gratitude and Dread: "Here I am in my mid-50s making this insanely sentimental and lavish orchestral music...."
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Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018
Whitley Bay 2018
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018
Whitley Bay 2018
Dave was one of my earliest musical friends and companions - his situation now is so sad, and I'm sharing this in case any of you might remember his work, and wish to help.
Dave Williams, lead guitarist in Mellow Candle, now suffers from advanced Alzheimers, and is profoundly deaf. He lost his partner just recently, and Alison (lead singer and his former wife) has set up a GoFundMe so that we can help out a bit - pls help if you can!
gofund.me/c6ea3d1bc
gofund.me/c6ea3d1bc
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Dave was one of my earliest musical friends and companions - his situation now is so sad, and I'm sharing this in case any of you might remember his work, and wish to help.
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You know what to do!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
You know what to do!
Wonderful piece by @juderogers.bsky.social. Reihill's quote at the end really resonates: “People, for whatever reason, love strange, unsettling, scary stuff, but Eliot is a protective, authority figure, so one doesn't feel abandoned going into the dark with him.”
In 1925, T.S. Eliot was broken, depressed, ill. He thought the poem he was about to add to his anthology was so terrible that he wrote to Ezra Pound, a few weeks before it went to the printers. “1) Is it too bad to print? 2) If not, can anything be done about it?”
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Wonderful piece by @juderogers.bsky.social. Reihill's quote at the end really resonates: “People, for whatever reason, love strange, unsettling, scary stuff, but Eliot is a protective, authority figure, so one doesn't feel abandoned going into the dark with him.”
also impacting GoFundMe....
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
also impacting GoFundMe....