Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "Hand-drawn map of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton in 1579." #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #England #Wales #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #C16th #16thCentury #PublicDomain @histodon @histodons

Attribution: Christopher Saxton, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglia_Atlas.jpg

The Chestatee River Diving Bell. Built to enable gold mining underwater and you'll immediately recognise that was not subsequently "a thing", as I believe the kids say. Essentially dropping an iron balloon into the river bed to poke around for gold is less financially rewarding than going somewhere dry and - rather more important, this - with actual gold present.

When histories say it was abandoned in mysterious circumstances please substitute "in extreme embarrassment".

#FailureFriday

If you have had an adult family member or friend that was recently diagnosed with a previously unknown developmental psychological disorder (ADHD, autism, etc), you might have noticed something that confused you. Right around the time they were diagnosed, maybe even a bit before, they "suddenly" began to exhibit symptoms when never had before. You might be like, "I've known this person for X years and they never behaved like this." You might even think they are "acting" or something.

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Fact of the day:

ISO3103 is the International Standard covering the serving of tea. It's there to ensure consistency in taste testing.

Key points:

- Pot should be porcelain or earthenware
- Milk should be added AFTER hot water

Ireland were the only country to object on its submission, noting there was no provision for pot-warming in the specification.

This was overruled.

Five years ago, New York magazine reported less than 60% of web traffic was human while bots masquerade as people.

On days that the Internet seems particularly unpleasant, it’s helpful to remember that many of the individuals we encounter online aren’t real.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html #AI

Last night on Glastonbury Tor. As the veil begins to thin.

RT by @CopernicusEU: 71 out of 162 ice shelves have reduced in volume around Antarctica.

This led to a release of almost 67 trillion tonnes of meltwater into the oceans.

But this ice loss was uneven.

Researchers found that the western part of Antarctica experience more ice loss than the eastern part - where some areas even gained ice!

🔗 http://esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Antarctic_ice_shelf_demise

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ESA_EO/status/1715365927305334809#m

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How Canadians are hatched:

Eggs are laid in early fall and hatch mid-winter. The pucklings then make their way into the forest to forage for syrup amongst the moose.

If you love data visualization, particularly geospatial, I recommend you check the 30-Day Map Challenge, which occurs during Nov for the 4th year.

https://30daymapchallenge.com/

#30daymapchallenge #dataviz #datavisualization #DataScience #rstats #js #python

Today we got what must be the most alarming first line in a newly file sec issue to #curl:

"To replicate the issue, I have searched in the Bard about this vulnerability"

... followed by a complete AI hallucination where Bard has dreamed up a new issue by combining snippets from several past flaws. Creative, but hardly productive.

Closed as bogus.

@Lazarou
Holding a blank sheet of paper is an offence.
Throwing glitter is an offence.
Strange how we didn’t hear a single word from her when people were waving actual swastikas at vaccination centres, at pride events… nor did we hear a word about an actual gallows being erected in London.
Sick.

And this is how #ConspiracyTheories get started.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #StarWars #StormTroopers #ConspiracyTheory #Conspiracies #RumorMill #InsuranceScams

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🪐 individuals with Neurotypicalism often don't have normal, age-appropriate special interests like cosmology, mysticism, obscure subcultures, cartography, or how cats are so soft. they might be more interested in unusual things like going to work or observing sports competitions (and don't be alarmed if they cannot give you an in depth statistical or tactical analysis of them or know the complete history of the teams, they may be more interested in whether or not their chosen team has scored the larger number of points).

it's okay, they're not "weird," they just have a different culture from normal people

Powerful

Morten Morland on #LizTruss - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Really gutted! My old telescope mount is fried and my new one not set up yet ... because ...

THERE IS A FRESH CORE COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA IN NGC 1097

I've imaged this galaxy many times before so a fresh supernova would have been a good pre/post image to catch!

One thing I really love about this galaxy is the central star-forming ring, which measures about 5,000 light years in diameter. It's a beautiful feature and one that can be captured from backyard telescopes.

A couple of older images from me first. NGC 1097 and a close-up of it core, where I compared my very shabby 1-hour, no darks, flats, bias image to Hubble's of the star formation ring. Amazed I could even get any of these results from my light-polluted backyard.

Supernova 2023rve was discovered on 8 Sept 2023, and is a great target for southern observers right now (crying) ... the galaxy reaches almost the zenith (85-degrees elevation) around 2:30 am Sydney time ... the perfect imaging time!

Also sharing a capture from South Australia by Kym Thalassoudis.

Southern observers, turn your telescopes to NGC 1097! A pulsar was just born (well, 48 million years ago it was) ...

#Astrodon #Astrophotography #Supernova #Galaxies #NGC1097