@nprofile1q... Great thread. So many epic photos!

@nprofile1q... This is terrific! It’s such a great idea to spell it all out explicitly like this. I’m already following your code of conduct, although I’ve just been ambivalent about the quality of Turnitin. You make a good point that it’s a for-profit business that’s exploitative because it’s built upon the labor of students.

The tricky thing is going to be with how you (and we) navigate this when students purposefully choose to break the student code of conduct (as some inevitably will).

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... 😂 Yes, that’s good.

@nprofile1q... I like “Horns of Brahma”. Evocative. Perhaps we could go with something modern for anti-crepuscular rays like “AI fingers”. 😄

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Good question. I’m not sure if it’s a specific cultivar that is doing this. Quite possibly. In recent years I’ve noticed that some of the city’s flowering cherries in recent years have had a small flowering attempt about now and then go big later near Spring. We’ll see what this winter brings.

@nprofile1q... I’m pleased you’re a gradual student. Abrupt students can be so unpredictable. 😄

All the best for your PhD defence (and for the world) in a November.

@nprofile1q... I excitedly told my climate activist daughter about this but she was in another room and thought I said that Scotland was introducing Proto-Jet Pants. 😄

@nprofile1q... The Global Justice Report reminds me of a passage from The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy:

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”

The time *is* right, and this report shows that it *will* work.

Here's hoping we shift in this direction.

#DouglasAdams

@nprofile1q... Yikes, indeed. It's very early.

I saw my first cherry in flower today too. Nature is getting increasingly out of whack as we steer the world's climate into uncharted waters.

We'll soon see whether these are just a few confused trees and most of them flower in August-September, as they usually do. Or, not.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/368274702

@nprofile1q... Yes, they are something else. I stopped a few times to take photos.

The sunset itself was mediocre, and mostly blocked by clouds, but it lit up this light show on the other side of the sky,