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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(suspiciously) shake that trenchcoat again, see how many more brains are stacked up in there

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“I better not write this thing I love, or else jerks might interpret it the worst way possible—” Fun fact: if you ever hear this voice, you are legally allowed to beat it to death with mental hammers.

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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This whole thread is a delight.

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I really enjoyed The Dragon Has Some Complaints by @wiswell.bsky.social ! I sat with chapter 17 (It Feels Like It Never Changes) for a good long while - it really captures the struggle to maintain hope through incremental progress. It's too easy to forget that it *is* changing, when change is slow.

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

(It has really been an Experience to discover the degree to which I *AM* my body, not an independent brain that happens to be carried around by some body-that-could-have-been-a-jar, and there is a lot of Me that I absolutely do not control.)

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Heatwaves, ironically, make my chronic illness(es?) psychologically easier to bear; my heat woozies are prrrobably the symptom closest to being able to ACTUALLY kill me, so the goal for the day becomes just don't die and that feels achievable! I can let everything else slide, guilt-free, for that!

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

omg they made Lessons In Chemistry into a tv show! and it's Brie Larson!! i think this is my jam!!!

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

... was it deliberate, do you think, that they cast Doc Ock as the wearily superintelligent octopus voiceover in Remarkably Bright Creatures? that has to be on purpose for the lols, right

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I do not know what reckless courage came upon me to attempt painting on an 18"x24" canvas, instead of a tinier, more easily buried display of my ineptitude.

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

my manager has come to supervise my work

A black cat lies upon a black-and-rainbow striped blanket. The blanket is unfinished, and the photographer has her crochet hook out, ready to work. The work cannot be rotated while the cat lies upon it. The cat knows this, and looks upon her human with disdain. Checkmate, Mother.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

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NASA scrubs promise to land first woman, first person of colour on the moon from web pages | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th...

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm a little bummed about an all-male Artemis crew, but at least (a) it is not also all-white and (b) it's not going to the moon itself; a necessary test, but hopefully entirely boring. I *want* to believe this one's all dudes because the ladies are getting actual moon missions. I hope that's true.

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"oh, you are *interesting*," purrs my favorite doctor as she peers at my minor but prophetic eczema and looks up obscure conditions and rare side effects

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Frankenstein's MonsPubis 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏴‍☠️ @samanthaduke.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My mom finally switched from google to duckduckgo, and has already substituted "ask the Duck" for "google it" No notes

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

OMG the great CANADIAN baking show has shown up on Roku!!!! (Different judges/hosts, it looks like, but same, whaddyacallit, production team?)

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i now have one (1) "signature" recipe and it is salted bourbon-butterscotch brownies

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

oooOOOooo, the next season of the Great American Bake-Off is out!!! I like to daydream about what kind of stuff I would bake, in such a challenge - which is unrealistic, but it does actually help me think through various health recovery benchmarks.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Aries: You don't have a haunted doll in your collection because you are the haunted doll.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

~Funny~ how people dismayed at low birthrates oppose universal pre-K, maternity and paternity leave, free natal care, housing assistance, nutritional support, and diaper programs. You say you want kids while you're abolishing the Board of Education. We know what you really want.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 05/05/2026

Happy New Murderbot for those who celebrate!

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I recently read Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle and cannot stop thinking about it. Like, here's this family of three disabled folk taking care of each other, making it work, it's been YEARS since anybody did an arsenic, they're minding their own business, when -

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 29/04/2026

As a Pluto scientist, it's wild to "make Pluto a planet again" while decimating the careers of those of us that study it! The idea of dominance in space and planetary science supersedes the actual practice of planetary science.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/04/2026

I think all of us born between like 1975 and 1985 need a support group for the fact that living through a rolling apocalypse, living with long covid, and starting menopause apparently all have the same symptoms.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/04/2026

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards have been announced. Congratulations to everyone!

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Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards - Reactor

Congratulations to all!

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am now extremely invested in what I perceive to be a Deku Tree/Master Sword buddy movie

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Waiting up for Vampire Jolene with a shotgun, as one does:

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

PS the king has been dead for a literal century, long live Queen Zelda

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Birthday shenanigans this year involve Zelda: Age of Imprisonment. I am excited about a truly Zelda-led Zelda game! ...so I'm having some serious mixed feelings about this Mysterious Construct, who moves and acts exactly like Link, sharing the damn spotlight.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's a new story day! "The Metamorphosis" is my heart story, about how turning into an invisible sloth is a Kafkaesque metaphor for getting ME/CFS or Long Covid, but you can still find a path to a happy ending. Read it for free in @gavagai.com gavagai.com/posts/3894

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/04/2026

Artemis II today.

scene from lord of the rings
"this is it, if I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been"

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 06/04/2026

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA). It should be amazing to watch!

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Key lunar flyby times, milestones
All times Eastern, subject to change based on real-time operations

1 p.m.
NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins
1:56 p.m.
Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970
2:45 p.m.
Lunar flyby begins
7:02 p.m.
Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles)
7:07 p.m.
Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles)
8:35 p.m.
Orion enters solar eclipse

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/03/2026

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Abolishing ICE is a deeply mainstream position.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 31/03/2026

What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/03/2026

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

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Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

My first thought was "Why would I want to do that? It clearly wants to be friends," but then I remembered about wasps

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 12/03/2026

Lydian Kind's poem "ACCESS DENIED" is an unusual look at Rapunzel's story.

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ACCESS DENIED - Small Wonders

Rapunzel, Rapunzel / let down your hair. // Access denied.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

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