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Musicals are my jam. Data is nice, but open data is so much better. Rollercoasters are awesome. Tea is good. So is courage.

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Winter landscape, by Shiokawa Bunrin, ca. 1865-1870
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Dotombori, from Views of Osaka, by Oda Kazuma, 1917
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Shinjuku's Coffee District, by Oda Kazuma, 1930
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The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍 This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: go.nasa.gov/4ak4Cdu
Landscape image collage spelling "NASA"

ALT Landscape image collage spelling "NASA"

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Tabby Cat, by Takeuchi Seiho, 1924
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Meanwhile, in Japan 🇯🇵 Office chair grand prix. The race sees teams battle it out on office chairs for two hours to see who can complete the most laps of the 656-foot course. Anyone caught modifying their chair is disqualified.
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Firefly Hunt, by Kisui, early 1920s
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this is the oldest māori map of aotearoa, drawn by tuki te terenui whare pira in 1793 after he was kidnapped by the norfolk island governor to teach prisoners flax weaving. he couldn't, so he instead drew a map of the north/south island (focused on the far north) to get home
Smith K. Stead@smithksteadFeb 21
it's pretty funny that "new zealand" "nationalists" are so insistent on using a name not even given by the dutch guy who didn't land here, but dutch cartographers who realised that the guy who didn't land here was wrong about where he thought he was
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@simscircuitFeb 23
Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.
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@Rainmaker1973Jan 21
The dog on the leash is proving exactly why he’s on a leash
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Eastern Genji: The Garden in Snow, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1854
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It's that titipounamu nest building time of year again
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4 of the 5 senior historian roles at Ministry for Culture & History are being cut. This cannot fail to have a significant impact on its responsibility to research #NZ history & maintain & update critical online platforms like Te Ara. @ManatuTaonga⁩ rnz.co.nz/news/political/567…

Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Manatū Taonga is going ahead with cutting the jobs of most of its historians.

rnz.co.nz
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Bird and Frog, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1887
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Maiko Washing Hands in Tsukubai, by Hasegawa Sadanobu III, 1950s
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Raghu@IndiaTales716 Nov 2024
The beauty of Wildlife ~ A Thread 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody.
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If we shine a torch up at the night sky, some of the photons released will eventually leave our galaxy and travel for a vast distance. They will eventually be able to reach any galaxy that is currently within 16.5 billion light years of us. 6/
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I have a long feature in the new Listener, looking at the purge on walking and cycling infrastructure in the draft Transport GPS. It's highly out of step with the ambitions of local authorities – and with what's happening in the rest of the developed world.
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Marrying the wrong man could make a woman stateless in early 20thC NZ. After she married a Dalmatian non-citizen in 1908 Miriam Soljak was told she had lost her citizenship, & must register as an alien. She did so only after being threatened with jail.
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Snow at Zojoji Temple, by Kawase Hasui, 1953 masterpiece-of-japanese-cult… #shinhanga
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