Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMichael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2hBackyard #Solar #Astrophotography. Last time we checked out the #Sun, he wasn't up to much of anything. Today he has a few more moderate-sized spots. 051
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 7hHiRISE 3D: A Small Channel The objective of this observation is to examine a small channel on the wall of an old impact crater. The scene is also visible in Context Camera image data. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09393… NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona 0164
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 5hPetrichor [PET-rih-kor] (n.) - The pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. Use: "The petrichor of a sudden summer shower, mingled with the golden light of the setting sun, transported me straight back to my boyhood on an Iowa farm.” 39622
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialRobin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social · 8hDo we know which services will be live streaming the execution? I would like to begin my boycott of them and their advertisers now. The man to be executed is paralyzed. Will he be seated in his wheelchair for this or tied upright to a post? Do we still condemn cruel and unusual punishments? 916232
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialAstronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 15h🔭 Stickney Crater Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA ap261009 36723
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMichael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 10hBackyard #Astrophotography Caldwell 12 (NGC6946) is a face-on galaxy in Cepheus. It is also called The Fireworks galaxy because there have been 10 supernovas observed in it over the last one hundred years. 031
hanstitched1st.bsky.social @hanstitched1st.bsky.social · 9hNot as good as yesterday, but still a fun board. OUTLIER · Day 141 · 872 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟨🟪🟦🟪🟪 🎯 4 words nobody else found · 🦄 6 found by under 1% of players 🚩 2 Pioneer words: nobody had ever found them before Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/2MMCQ5playoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 141hanstitchedfirs scored 872 on Day 141. Can you beat them? 110
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/10/2026Juice xkcd.com/3308/ 363238494
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026HiRISE 3D: Quite Lovely Bedrock in Aureum Chaos Imaging this part of Mars is always a delight with the stunning chaotic terrain and bright exposures of bedrock against darker surroundings. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09419… NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona 0196
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026HiPOD: Cutting through Lava Flows on Olympus Mons There appears a single deep channel that is cutting through a field of lava flows on the eastern flank of Olympus Mons. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065254_1975 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA 0225
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Daaaaaaaang 013618
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMichael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Backyard #Astrophotography One of my favorite galaxies is M33 in Triangulum. Its wispy structure is like a beautiful starry lace doily. Under very dark skies, it is barely visible to the naked eye. So when someone asks how far you can see, answer "2.878 million light-years." 1141
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026LLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem 202366475
hanstitched1st.bsky.social @hanstitched1st.bsky.social · 08/10/2026New personal best! One day I'll hit 900. OUTLIER · Day 140 · 894 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🟨🟨🟪🟨🟦🟪🟪🟪🟨🟨 🎯 4 words nobody else found · 🦄 6 found by under 1% of players 🚩 2 Pioneer words: nobody had ever found them before Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/9ENDRAplayoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 140hanstitchedfirs scored 894 on Day 140. Can you beat them? 100
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialAstronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 08/10/2026🔭 The Saturn System Smörgåsbord Credit: Tom Williams ap261008 07518
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 08/10/2026An absolute giant. 6743139
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026HiRISE 3D: Beautiful Jezero This is the third of 6 stereo pairs requested for building an SRL EDL system reference map for Mars Sample Return. And it looks stunning. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09404… NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science 0123
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialBea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ennya sobria treehopper 424450
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026HiPOD: Crommelin Dunes This is one of many observations we acquire to aid in the classification of dunes in the USGS global dune database. Studying dunes is useful because they are abundant over a wide range of elevations and terrain types. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077344_1855 #Mars 1279
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026The grammatical 'colon' and the anatomical 'colon' are not etymologically related. The anatomical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kolon’ which means “large intestine.” The grammatical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kōlon’ which means “limb.” Both are a means to an end. 411178190
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Acnestis [ak-NEES-tis] (n.) - The part of the back that cannot easily be reached to scratch. Used in a sentence: “Ever since our illicit dalliance in the back garden, my acnestis has been afflicted with a most infernal rash of Poison Oak, and Miss Drollup has ceased returning my correspondence.” 18929
hanstitched1st.bsky.social @hanstitched1st.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Not my best day, but better than it started. Just wasn't seeing things today. OUTLIER · Day 139 · 846 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🟩🟨🟦🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟩🟪 🎯 1 word nobody else found · 🦄 7 found by under 1% of players Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/TPYLQFplayoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 139hanstitchedfirs scored 846 on Day 139. Can you beat them? 110
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialKevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you buy books from bookshop.org today or tomorrow you get free shipping in the U.S. Plus you usually get a discount & a portion of your purchase goes to an indie bookstore of your choice. It’s dang swell. Authors win. Bookstores win. YOU WIN Thanks for reading! bookshop.org/shop/kevinhe...bookshop.orgKevinHearne BookshopKevin Hearne is the New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, the Ink and Sigil series, the Seven Kennings Trilogy, and co-author of the Tales of Pell with Delilah S. Dawson. He’... 03411
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/10/2026More weird and worrying questions Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/shorts/alBQC...youtube.comMore weird and worrying questionsYouTube video by xkcd's What If? 962772
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026HiRISE 3D: Irregular Structures The aim of this image is to study cell-shaped structures on the surface of a debris-covered glacier to investigate if they are linked to an interaction between the ejecta and the ice. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09346… 0237
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMichael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Backyard #Astrophotography Waka-waka-waka. The Pacman Nebula--NGC 281--is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia. It was discovered by astronomer EE Barnard who gave it that name because "it looked like it was gobbling up all those stars." This is most remarkable because he discovered it in 1883. ⬆️ joke 081
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026HiPOD: Streamlined Landforms These streamlined landforms adjacent to Shalbatana Vallis show multiple levels of fluvial dissection. An outflow channel carved by massive floods of escaping groundwater, Shalbatana Vallis is over 1300 km long (808 miles). uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077332_1895 02910
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialAstronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 06/10/2026🔭 A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE Credit: ESA, CAS, SMILE, UVI ap261006 310726
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Go max !! 48292541517
hanstitched1st.bsky.social @hanstitched1st.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh I fumbled hard at the end! On pace to break my record and then crash. Still, fun words! OUTLIER · Day 138 · 862 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟨🟪🟨🟩🟪🟦 🎯 7 words nobody else found · 🦄 2 found by under 1% of players Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/J2MT8Rplayoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 138hanstitchedfirs scored 862 on Day 138. Can you beat them? 110
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pileus [PY-lee-us] (n.) 1. The cap or expanded upper portion of a mushroom or similar fungus. 2. A brimless felt cap worn in ancient Greece and Rome, especially associated among the Romans with manumission and liberty. 17114
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try 414022659
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.social'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Oh, well, AI is already here so—" "Asbestos." "Well, I mean—" "CFCs. Leaded fuel." "—but—" "Portable baby cages." "—okay, I—" "Radium. Agent Orange. DDT..." 519093
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/10/2026Accelerator Energies xkcd.com/3306/ 221805206
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994592975
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026HiRISE 3D: Streamlined Shapes in Harmakhis Vallis Harmakhis Vallis is a valley near Hellas Planitia, Mars. It has been identified as an outflow channel, the site of catastrophic floods of water during Mars’ past. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09378… #Mars 0368
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialHiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026HiPOD: Down in Blunck Crater The remnants of a landslide in this part of Blunck Crater is the most interesting feature here, but there is also a lot of diversity of bedrock brightness and the nighttime IR is quite strong. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077266_1525 #Mars #science #NASA 0235
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMichael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Backyard #Astrophotography We've had several days of clear skies during the dark of the moon with more predicted this week, so I have been taking quite a few pictures. Here is Sh2-142 in Cepheus, also called the Wizard Nebula. Why? I have no idea. Open star cluster NGC738 is embedded in it. 9356
hanstitched1st.bsky.social @hanstitched1st.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Decent score today. Couple of words I expected to be higher weren't lol OUTLIER · Day 137 · 841 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🟦🟦🟦🟪🟪🟦🟪🟦🟦🟪 🎯 2 words nobody else found · 🦄 7 found by under 1% of players Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/QJZXY9playoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 137hanstitchedfirs scored 841 on Day 137. Can you beat them? 120
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialJunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying. Sandhill crane dancing. 217631
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialAstronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 05/10/2026🔭 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy's Tidal Streams Credit & Copyright: Engelbert Vollmer ap261005 113229
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialomgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When the neighborhood bully meets the real OG . 🤣 14677401293
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026I'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but 521550138
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fatuous [FA-choo-us] (adj.) - Foolish, inane, or absurd, especially in a smug, complacent, or unconscious manner. From Latin “fatuus” (foolish, silly, insipid). Of uncertain origin. Recorded in English from the 1530s. 37819
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing. 481443424
hanstitched1st.bsky.social @hanstitched1st.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Here you go people. Read it all. 000
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialAstronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 04/10/2026🔭 Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey Credit & Copyright: John Entwistle ap261004 430969
Reposted by @hanstitched1st.bsky.socialMichael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Backyard #Astrophotography As we head into fall, the early night sky turns from the summer Milky Way's nebulae and star clusters to looking out of the disc of our galaxy and seeing other galaxies. What better harbinger than M31, the great galaxy in Andromeda located 2.5 million ly from us. 0284
![4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihvb6ef4girxg5xticymwvtuopbv5gpcbdc6ptxn2p3qauk7ldfja)
![Comic. [Chart with track length on x axis: 10cm, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1km, 10km, 100km; collision energy on y axis: 1eV, 1keV, 1MeV, 1GeV, 1TeV, 1PeV, 10^18eV, 10^21eV, 10^24eV, 10^27eV. Scatterplot increases in a mostly linear shape with points for first cyclotrons, ADA, cosmotron, bevatron, BEPC-II, J-PARC, CEBAF, RHIC, tevatron, large Hadron Collider. An outlier near the top of the chart is Daytona Speedway.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigb7y4wjazav26yc36vymk7d5ixfbk3amnkpbdf6w6ntskaweftjy)
