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Found an image on Flickr Commons that looked a lot like a piece of art I had in my house. Did some research, found it was mis-identified on Wikimedia Commons (it's a navigation map, not a Chinese in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] Hey hey, from the same collection, looks like.

Found an image on Flickr Commons that looked a lot like a piece of art I had in my house. Did some research, found it was mis-identified on Wikimedia Commons (it's a navigation map, not a Chinese in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] You can read more about them here and here. I suspect the one I have is just artistic but the other ones may have been functional

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/11/the-unique-seafaring-charts-of-the-marshall-islands/

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Found an image on Flickr Commons that looked a lot like a piece of art I had in my house. Did some research, found it was mis-identified on Wikimedia Commons (it's a navigation map, not a Chinese (fedia.io)
 

Found an image on Flickr Commons that looked a lot like a piece of art I had in my house. Did some research, found it was mis-identified on Wikimedia Commons (it's a navigation map, not a Chinese kite) so I've put in a "move" request to get the name updated.

Original cyanotype by Smithsonian photographer Thomas Smillie. Here's a huge set of his photos.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/albums/72157604590559182/

#photography #Wikipedia

A similar image to the previous one except this one is hung on a wall and has a few seashells at some of the intersections of the sticks.

Mullenweg/Automattic offers a *second* round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

@dgerard Thank you. Me and my three WordPress blogs (self hosted and one on Dreamhost) feel seen.