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I offered to write “Happy 7th Birthday” in the speech balloon, but my daughter said that didn’t make sense. She had a very specific vision, which was for me to render this Squirrel Girl panel in buttercream so she could eat Hippo the Hippo’s face. @ryannorth.ca @ericafails.bsky.social

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Sunrise has once again made the Gundam movie trilogy free to watch on Youtube for a limited period. I don't know how geolocked this is (the Gundaminfo North America twitter account posted it) but if you missed the theatrical screenings last fall, now's your chance. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Earth Ranked Number One Party Planet theonion.com/earth-r...

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"I want to break free..."

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whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.

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Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

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Samurai Jack is a classic. And it's fueled by its rich images -- the backgrounds, animation and visual storytelling. Genndy Tartakovsky was sick of dialogue. He wanted to take a risk on a visual series, and Cartoon Network supported it. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual...

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What a neat, mathy observation: "There has almost never been a time when bsky's user count wasn't falling." A series of big spikes with slow declines. Decreasing in almost every short term (for a certain definition of short) but still growing long term. #ITeachMath #ITeachPhysics

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Support human workers. Support human artists. Buy a t-shirt. aftermath.site/buy-destroy-ai...

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Beefing up one of my #desmos simulations for #ITeachPhysics! Finally added a second current to it and displaying the net magnetic field. The wires are draggable, too. Still have more to do before it's ready to share out the link. I've improved the functions quite a bit from my old version!

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Wow this single image touches on like 50% of the history told in the @drskyskull.bsky.social book "Falling Felines & Fundamental Physics". I read it a few years ago and don't have my copy handy (it's in my classroom) but I'm going to assume this particular Muybridge study is in there.

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New example for graphing and linear models at the beginning of the year, #ITeachPhysics folks. Even ties in with one-dimensional motion!

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I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars. These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born. 🧪🔭 public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/

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I don't think I've heard this perspective before. It does seem like doing some all-class mental health lessons could/should be helpful, but I also know from observing them that they often end up being a waste of everyone's time, which Dr Foulkes goes into in her piece. Something to think about!

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Although I found its pacing/storytelling a little boring when I watched it (not so surprising for a film from 1926), The Adventures of Prince Achmed is strikingly beautiful and cleverly-made using stop motion cutouts. Read more about it in Animation Obsessive's article!

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It's #worldmetrologyday! 150 years ago today, a group of nations signed a treaty called The Metre Convention. It established the framework for the first global, unified measurement system & changed the world.

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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

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Captured from my Google News page this morning: @aftermath.site mourns the great site that Polygon once was before being sold and forced to post garbage. Meanwhile, present-day Polygon had Andor finale spoilers in a headline that they posted fewer than 48 hours after the three-episode arc dropped.

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After about 1,000 replies to my right thumbstick survey, I have written a lot of words about the results and learned something about myself in the process (namely, that I'm old and stubborn). Thank you to everyone who participated! medium.com/@parkinjc/th...

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Not only is this sweet boy 10 years old today, but the NYT has honored him by using his name as today’s #Wordle solution! I didn’t realize he was that famous! #dogs

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Our school has a set of three "core values" that we try to use to guide decisions. Today I overheard a student dissing another by saying "Your core values are the game, food, and sleep," and I gotta say I was pretty amused.

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I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents: www.404media.co/american-sch...

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Happy birthday to Joe Johnston! He designed a lot of great ships, then directed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Jumanji (1995), October Sky (1999), Jurassic Park III (2001), and Captain America (2011).

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I'm playing Star Wars: Jedi Survivor and just fought a unique B2 battledroid named "Beetu Deetu". So, basically this game is fantastic.

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