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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The hilarious thing about Whole Foods banning MSG is that Whole Foods is, nonetheless, packed full of MSG.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social Today's 4x3 still claims it can't load. Just FYI.

A screenshot of the 4x3 game board taken on October 7th, 2026. There is a pop-up message that reads, "Couldn't load today's puzzle, so this is a practice board. It won't count, but you can play! Refresh to try again." The game has a 3x3 grid of gray boxes with words in white text. The nine words fit into four categories of three words each, with one word being an anchor word that shows up in every category. The words are 'heavy', 'glam', 'grave', 'somber', 'death', 'nine', 'middle', 'one', and 'welter'.

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Laura Hollister @xenolith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fuck yes! This!!!!!!

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At least our air conditioning finally got repaired 3 days ago, after 2 months without it.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The backyard weather station says yesterday got up to 44°C (112°F), I'm not entirely sure I believe it, but also the NOAA weather station that said it was 2°C (4°F) cooler was 5 mi closer to the coast, so...maybe?

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wanted to make some clever quip about how the temperature where I live reached 104°F on 2026-10-4, but I checked and it actually got all the way up to 106°F in my backyard, which may have been in the running for an all-time October record, except yesterday was even hotter.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If it makes you feel better, my district hasn't changed the standards at all, and yet we've still made changes to the curriculum every semester.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice! I mixed up blue and green this time...

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Full disclosure I'm not an expert, just a science teacher who took courses on both oceanography and the geology of natural disasters. Also my response is somewhat oversimplified, there are some intermediate cases.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They can take hours to cross significant portions of an ocean, by the time they've been detected by multiple buoys and we can tell where they will hit and when, in most cases we have plenty of time for warnings, or they were too close to get detected by a buoy to give notice at all.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social Squid have two tentacles and eight arms, octopuses have just the eight arms.

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Caltech IPAC @caltechipac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"There is so much out there to explore," said Patrick Lowrance, the Roman Science Support Center co-lead at IPAC. Congrats to NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a successful launch 🚀 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/ready-t...

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Ready to Roman: Caltech Teams Celebrate Telescope Launch, Look Ahead to Future

The next generation of exoplanet imaging technology, designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for the agency, has launched aboard NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Sp...

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At some point I want to try something like this but with tracking, so it would be a picture of Earth's shadow, with Luna smeared across.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Because the required paperwork was put together by the Redundant Department of Redundancies Department. And they'll need that form in quadruplicate.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026

AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/

The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/08/2026

this is an admission of a crime btw; superpacs cannot coordinate with candidates

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

KOO-puh-luh United States, California

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Morning sunlight is the single strongest signal for regulating when you feel alert, and it is far more powerful than indoor light.”

Column chart of morning sunlight exposure comparing the status quo (97% of urban Americans seeing sunlight before 8am) to permanent DST (13%).

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A long but good thread about perverse incentives around AI in the business world, and the smoke and mirrors games that are letting it drag on longer than it should, wasting resources at multiple levels all along the way. Essay version linked in Doctorow's second post.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov Please vote NO on HR 139. @mikelevin.org Please vote YES on HR9638 for permanent Standard Time. As both an astronomy teacher and a parent, I'm telling you that this is the better option. We had permanent DST once, it lasted a year. Standard should be standard

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Refreshing honesty on the internet‽ What's happening?

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've been getting notifications about that one, I hope everything turns out alright. I second your recommendation of Watch Duty.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@phaneritic.bsky.social saw some cool rocks on top of San Jacinto while backpacking and thought of you. Sorry I didn't get any full 3D scans.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RIP my wallet. I've been able to say "no" to so many cool Lego sets for so long, but I'm not sure I can say no to this one...

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1, makes the joke more clearly. I feel like half of why number two works is because I read number one first.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I get what you're saying, but on the other hand, if he got away with it, was there really a limit? Still, gross...

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My money is on the mantis. 10 times out of 10 they beat a bee, but admittedly a wasp is more of a contender, so I'm not as certain in this case.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I feel bad for all the people who went into the park to see the fireworks...

View from the top of a parking garage looking down onto the launch site for the 4th of July fireworks at Legoland California.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Not surprising, but still sad. I asked my 8yo what happened on this day 250 years ago, they responded "we declared independence." "From who?" "England". The bar is on the ground and half the country couldn't step over.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Very shitty Alternative (derogatory*) Referee *As in "alternative facts"

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@realinfowars.bsky.social just blew this wide open. The Phoenicians made secret tunnels, took over hell, and then encoded numerological messages in the Declaration of Independence taking credit for the plagues! youtu.be/tdSB8muDtzc?...

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WELCOME TO THE REAL INFOWARS

YouTube video by The Onion

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Funny, I could have sworn that once upon a time he claimed he was going to be losing money by becoming president since he would miss out on so many business opportunities. Surprise, surprise, he wasn't content to actually miss out.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You troll... I can only hope the flight attendant sees this.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Pretty sure my 3 y.o. has been taking notes from Sampson (Romeo and Juliet). I told them to stop hissing at the cat and they denied it, then when pressed said, "I'm not hissing at *that* one". They knew the law was not on their side if they said ay.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Only slightly unrelated, there's an opportunity for a sequel here: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2: Electric Boogaloo", about diverting power from Toontown to run a data center, and replace toons with AI agents.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Given the behaviors I witnessed in college, that tracks.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli starts: "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion..."

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There is no mirror, there are five actors and a mannequin head that you see the back of.

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You're right. Why use many words when few words do trick?

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Jonathan Ross? That name sounds familiar, isn't he the guy that shot and killed Renee Good after placing himself in front of her vehicle, contrary to best practices?

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Linda Hamilton and her twin Leslie didn't practice mirroring their actions perfectly to get this mirror shot without a camera in the reflection so you could tell me AI is "inevitable".

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Can we reset the switch? | Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Director's Cut]

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David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social Grellow, then Grue, now... Blurple? One of these days I will nail it! Side note: This should be a "God Damnit!" as well.

Score screen for the June 24th 4x3 game. Blue and purple got swapped, otherwise it would have been a perfect game.

Score screen for the June 23rd 4x3 game. Blue and green got swapped, otherwise it would have been a perfect game. Background is red and it says "God Damnit!"

Score screen for the June 22nd 4x3 game. Yellow and green got swapped, otherwise it would have been a perfect game. Background is red and it says "God Damnit!"

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