When was the last time I had literal goosebumps listening to new music? Today. It was today.

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#music #Bjork #Rosalia

a screenshot of gushiwen dot cn, where two poems in Chinese are stylized like social media posts with little round icons of the authors, share icons, etc. The color scheme is green and calm.

I enjoy how this ancient Chinese poetry site presents its recommended poems of the day like a social media site where all users are very, very wistful about plum blossoms

#classicalchinese

I intentionally say "Move slow and fix things" as the rejection of "Move fast and break things", as opposed to the more popular "Move deliberately and fix things".

Because I want, very specifically, for *slow* to be seen as a virtue. Slow gives time for people whose entire life focus isn't […]

screenshot of advanced most post interface with new UI below it: a list of hashtags with number of times each was used next to each. Clicking one will add it to your post interface.

NEW MASTODON BROWSER PLUGIN

FF: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mast...
Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mastodon-hashtag-...

Tried of trying to type hashtags correctly […]

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Here's something really useful I've found.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is being able to follow hashtags.

But.

If someone puts up a post using that hashtag, and no-one on your instance follows that person or anyone who shares it, it won't appear in your feed.

This is […]

RE: https://aus.social/@mzungu/116339045609573062

This explains a lot. All my favourite shop tools are a slightly more saturated tone of that green, I suppose it's connected.

a couple of very corroded spade plugs on a red plastic pump

Had a good day making and fixing. My daughter brought her espresso machine over because it had stopped esspressing, after undoing about a million screws I finally found the four screws that you actually needed to undo to get to the guts and found a very obvious […]

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"How observing Vibe Coders cured my Imposter Syndrome"

RE: mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/11634841...

Forget Artemis, the real scientific research that will change the course of human history is happening right now, down here on the ground.

RE: masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116...

Just don't tell Rio Tinto where it is.

8 min

The earliest human settlement in Australia pushed further back in time

https://youtu.be/wE2SztCXW9w

#neato #anthropology

90s Australian comedian flacco, who rocked a weird bald 1930s burlesque kinda look

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116345910149835763

I can't be the only Australian thinking that they're pleased to see Flacco is doing so well in his post stand-up comedy career as a French politician.

Das Foto zeigt eine große, mit kunstvollem, schwarzem, schmiedeeisernem Ziergitter versehene Festverglasung, die ein Seitenteil eines Eingangs mit einem halbkreisförmigen Oberlicht ist. Durch das Glas und das Gitter (schmale Streifen als quadratisches Gittermuster, bei dem immer zwei Quadrate nebeneinander einen Schnörkel haben und so eine Art 2x1-Schachbrettmuster bilden) fällt Licht, das ein komplexes Muster aus Schatten und Licht auf die angrenzende Wand wirft. Die Wand ist gelblich-beige und hat eine raue Struktur. An der Wand ist ein Handlauf aus Holz angebracht.

Licht klärt.
Schatten lehrt.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Fotografie #Photography

A photo of 8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts. All in black tuxedos. Except for Buzz Aldrin, who is dressed like Disco King Moon Man.

On this occasion of the launch of Artemis II, I need to reshare this.

This is a photo of 8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts, taken on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

The man wearing ... well ... a heat shield, is Buzz Aldrin. I have to imagine his […]

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This thread is amazing. A data center is probably being built next to you as we speak (making noise, sealing the soil, raising your electricity price, and burning natural gas) because computer code written by "AI" is disastrously […]

So apparently that story about AI was an april fool’s joke. The one about it existing.

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@Codeberg are you mob OK? Getting a lot of this on the website:

"In order for me to write poetry that isn't political I must listen to the birds and in order to listen to the birds the warplanes must be silent" - MARWAN MAKHOUL

From Gaza Poets Society, A beautiful artwork of Marwan Makhoul's poem.

#gaza #poetry #MarwanMakhoul #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

A couple reading in bed. She holds a thick novel he holds something much slimmer. Him "We must beware the tyranny of the long novel. Length is no barometer of literary merit." He continues"I have scoured the bookstore, looked past the fat spines and sought out perfection in the miniature!" He concludes "May not profundity dwell in the humble cottage As comfortably as in the sprawling castle?" Her, without looking up from her book, "100% agree. But you're aware that's a greetings card, right?"

Caption: Our team is working on these unsolved mathematical problems, but also pitching them as a trilogy of action movies starring Matt Damon Images: Posters for the three movies The Riemann Hypothesis starring Matt Damon (image of Matt running heroically surrounded by elements of a formula) The Yang-Mills problem starring Matt Damon (image of Matt fearlessly jumping a motorbike surrounded by parts of a quantum equation)

Title: Classics reworked for the older reader Image of four book covers: Our nan in havana Grand-fatherland Country for old men The grey gatsby

Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”

I've added a few drawings to my website tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Any journalists want to write about this? Or anyone know how to figure out who insures Reflect Orbital? Reflect Orbital will cause eye damage to people using telescopes, as astronomers have previously calculated, and they openly admitted it in their reply.

(There is a whole slew of absolutely […]

Every city that provides public money to build a sports stadium should demand that the building be named for the city or the team in perpetuity. It’s ridiculous that some corporation that provides MUCH less money for “naming rights” than the public has put up gets their dumb name on the building.

I propose we make 1st of April into April's Sincerity Day. No scams, falsehoods, fake news, pranks or irony the whole day. The rest of the year is already filled with it and we already don't believe most of what we hear. On 1st of April this year, we celebrate speaking with frankness and […]

I am not a huge fan of cats to be perfectly honest and I think ownership should be encouraged if owners neuter them and end the right to roam. I'm a firm believer in conservation and cats adversely affect this. A bell around the cats neck as well to cause […]

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A rusty folding bicycle (folded) and a cargo rack

An e-bike kit consisting of motorised front wheel, motor controller box, throttle cable, battery and a smart battery management system (optional)

Bicycle mocked up with electricals. Front wheel motor, motor controller near the handlebars, throttle draped over the handlebar, batteries mocked up on the cargo rack. This represents about an hour's work and the hardest part of the whole project was I lost one of the nuts from the front wheel and had to make a new one. (Bicycle nuts are infuriatingly non-standard)

The bike unfolded. This is probably what bicycle snobs call a BSO a Bicycle-Shaped-Object meaning it came from a variety store and is of indifferent quality. I don't actually know, I got it from the trash on large-item-collection week.

Let's make an #e-bike out of garbage. You will need.

* One dumpster bike (free)
* One cargo rack (free)
* One hub motor (dumpster dived, but about $200 new)
* One motor controller (about $20-$50 new)
* A battery (recycled, but about $100 new)

I'm going to rewire […]

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It really annoys me how HTML has <head> for putting CSS in but no <foot> for putting JS in. And yes I know it would serve zero practical purpose, but the asymmetry is bleurgh.

what are people using nowadays to create a custom layer map? kind of like leaflet/mapbox but ultra simple. just wanna change a few colors here and there.

#lazyWeb #WebGIS

RE: https://aus.social/@swlawrence/116318785301725033

Oh great, another oil crisis.

RE: https://aus.social/@stib/116281144554622278

Oh, lookit that, the gummint got something right for a change.
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/...
#ausPol #Victoria

**Scientists have extracted and analyzed DNA from 216 canid remains, including 181 from Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe. The oldest data that they recovered are from a 14,200-year-old dog from the Kesslerloch site in Switzerland. Their results suggest that domesticated dogs (_Canis lupus familiaris_) predate farming and share deep ancestry with wolves (_Canis lupus_) from Eurasia, challenging ideas about where and how domestication began.** Bergström _et al_. found that dogs were domesticated more than 14,000 years ago and that dogs living in pre-agricultural Europe contributed substantially to the genetics of dogs living after agriculture and in the present day. Illustration by John James Audubon & John Bachman. Dogs were domesticated from gray wolves toward the end of the latest Ice Age, becoming the first animals to form a domestic partnership with humans. Where this process took place, and which human group or groups were involved, remains uncertain. The earliest known canid remains displaying probable dog-like morphology have been found in Europe, dating to roughly 14,000 to 17,000 years ago. “Dogs were the only domesticated animal to predate farming, so their evolution can help us understand how a big shift in lifestyle shaped our own history,” said Francis Crick Institute’s Dr. Pontus Skoglund, senior author of the study. “It’s fascinating that dogs living before the era of agriculture contributed substantially to the genetics of farming and present-day European dogs.” “Dogs were clearly important to our ancestors, as the first farmers seem to have adopted previous hunter-gatherer dogs into their groups as they moved into Europe.” In the study, the authors analyzed DNA from 216 canid remains, including 181 samples predating the Neolithic period (before approx. 10,000 years ago), before the invention of farming. These samples came from sites across Europe and its vicinity, including Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Sweden, Denmark and Scotland. The researchers used a technique called ‘hybridization capture’ to boost the amount of usable DNA, designing probes to ‘fish out’ canid DNA from the large amounts of DNA from microbes like bacteria that tend to contaminate very old remains. The scientists first categorized the samples into dogs and wolves by working out how similar each sample is to a present-day dog. Identification as dog or wolf was possible for a remarkable 141 out of 216 remains, with some surprises. A 13,700-year-old canid from Belgium, previously thought to be a dog due to its small size and traces of human modification, was identified as a wolf, demonstrating that genetic data is important to confirm conclusions based on the appearance of remains. The authors also confirmed that a previously proposed dog from the Kesslerloch cave in Switzerland was genetically a dog. At 14,200 years old, this dog is the oldest in this study and one of the oldest ever recorded. Previous research suggested that dogs derive ancestry from two distinct wolf sources, one from eastern Eurasia and one from western Eurasia. Using a statistical model, the researchers showed that all the early European dogs in this study can trace their origins to the eastern wolf source, with some showing small amounts of ancestry from the western wolf source. This new evidence suggests that European wolves didn’t contribute detectably to dog evolution, and that early European dogs weren’t domesticated independently from dogs in Asia, as both share the same ancestry profile. The Kesslerloch dog was genetically more similar to European dogs than to Asian dogs, suggesting that dogs were domesticated well before 14,200 years ago, to give time for European and Asian dogs to become genetically different by this time. The spread of farming into Europe was accompanied by a large-scale migration of people from Southwest Asia in the Neolithic period. By modeling the ancestry of European dogs after the arrival of Neolithic farmers, the team showed that the dog genetic changes largely mirrored the changes in human genetics, but to a much smaller degree. This suggests that dogs from local hunter-gatherer groups already living in Europe contributed substantially to the genetics of dog populations living with Neolithic farmers. And genetic analyses of modern European dogs show they are still largely similar to these Neolithic dogs, implying that most common European dog breeds might trace about half of their ancestry to dogs that lived in Europe before farming. “Without using these advanced genetic tools, we wouldn’t be able to confidently distinguish dogs from wolves based on skeletal evidence alone,” said University of East Anglia’s Dr. Anders Bergström, first author of the study. “We also wouldn’t have been able to put together such a comprehensive view of their evolution.” “As the Kesslerloch dog, at 14,200 years old, was already more similar to later dogs in Europe than those in Asia, dogs must have been domesticated well before this point, giving time for these genetic differences to emerge.” “Yet, many questions remain: we’re still researching where and how dogs spread across Europe after likely domestication somewhere in Asia.” “Each piece of evidence is a step forward in this journey.” The results were published in the journal _Nature_. _____ A. Bergström _et al_. 2026. Genomic history of early dogs in Europe. _Nature_ 651, 986-994; doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10112-7

Ancient DNA Study Rewrites Origins of Europe’s First Dogs
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