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meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
Regular Mongoose
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Mystery fan of the Franklin Expedition. Chronic punster.
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Cowlitz comedian Joey Clift has a new animated short–Pow! follows a young Native kid at a bustling intertribal powwow. The short includes lessons in Native activism and even uses actual audio from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Watch it here:
Pow!
Pow! is an animated short film about Jake, a young Native American kid scrambling to charge his dying video game console at a bustling Coastal Salish intertribal powwow, where he learns that loving…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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timblor.bsky.social
More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors
Undulating columnar basalts Columnar basalts with some green and red plants. Cliffs of basalt with snow, a water fall, and an icy fiord
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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terrorcamp.bsky.social
He IS a captain—a TEAM captain!

We can't wait to welcome Christos Lawton (Hodgson) back to Terror Camp!
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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terrorcamp.bsky.social
Who's that steward?

It's.... Edward Ashley (Gibson), coming to Terror Camp for the first time to compete in our polar quiz show!!!!
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
the toe goblin has come to collect
madrigal.bsky.social Maddie @madrigal.bsky.social · 18d
excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable
A slipper in the shape of toe
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
Berger Victoria
terrorcamp.bsky.social Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 20d
📣 SUNDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: In Conversation with Edward Berger and Florian Hoffmeister!

Step behind the camera with Terror alumni Edward Berger (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) and Florian Hoffmeister (Pachinko, True Detective Night Country, Tár).
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
#DoesSheLoveBirds
lauropea.bsky.social Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 27d
oh hi. is that you in there
gold painting of a bird on a blue background standing on one leg and regarding us with one very wide eye
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
Screenshot of Ep 10 of The Terror, with Francis Crozier feigning (the nature of his) reluctance to cannibalise Goodsir, face down and arse half-carved to the world, in front of an increasingly Caligula-like Hickey. Caption, from @themountaingoats, reads "parenting is mainly about trying to sell your kids on outright lies like 'eating Nerds before breakfast is a bad idea, buddy'"
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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terrorpinup.bsky.social
Did you know you can support the Terror Pin-up Calendar RIGHT NOW? 👀 Our BigCartel will close ON HALLOWEEN, so make sure to grab your copy before the end of the month! 🎃 12 months of 🔥 HOT 🔥 cold lads await! #TheTerror

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Calendar & merch bundle
This 2026 physical calendar features pin-ups of characters inspired by AMC’s show The Terror (2018) and the Franklin Expedition put together by 20+...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Googly eyes make EVERYTHING better
An actual ship model - AN ACTUAL SHIP MODEL - in the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. It looks like a very happy barrel with centipede legs, and, yes, googly eyes - although the label swears blind that it's a Korean turtle vessel and we're to take it very seriously. Yeah, right.
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
12:01 ÷73 + r/AskAnthropology •• What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that... 11 upvotes • 1 comment As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you. The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is: Little Baby in the dark house You have seen the sun rise Why are you crying? Why are you screaming? You have disturbed the house god. 'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god. 'It is the baby who has disturbed you! 'Who scared me?' says the house god. 'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool. He has disturbed your sleep! 'Call the baby now, says the house god. • 4 Reply A & Vote & Join the conversation
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social
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.
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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terrorcamp.bsky.social
📣 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! 🤩
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
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
October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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finger-post.blog
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.
October 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
#DoesSheLoveBirds
sarahdalgulls.bsky.social Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · Sep 24
still my absolute fave is this in a bird hide in Cumbria
September 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
USB-port Convention
The Signal Jam
Cardiogram B
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 21
technologically advance a band.

Deep Satellite Dish
savasavasava.myatproto.social rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · Sep 21
technologically advance a band.

Nine Inch Nailguns
September 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
meeptheschmorp.bsky.social
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.
September 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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fitzjames.bsky.social
My Longest “Devastating News, Lads” Ever
September 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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illuminator.bsky.social
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.

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illuminator newsletter #42
The final dive season.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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kittyfisher.bsky.social
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.

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Exploration 2024
Activities and new discoveries at the sites of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 2024.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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finger-post.blog
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.
September 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM