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I was today old when I learned about the Battle of Cable Street, 1936, in which the people of London build barricades to hold back a march of British fascists

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Be strong Be kind Make a little time for joy Repeat

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Def done that for a meteor shower

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Would you believe that I met Alexei Leonov in the 1990s, at a Planetary Society event? I was a high school space nerd. His wife had a big bag of Payless Shoes

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Mel knew that you would be fine

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Please tell me it was the provost’s cat walking on the keyboard

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

2/2 “and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” This is the oath that I, like every other US federal civil servant, swore. I could make more $ outside the gov. I chose public service. I believe in our mission.

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

1/2 “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; …

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

That was our conclusion, too!

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Okay peeps, what made these tracks?

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This was my first AAS meeting in 3 years as a regular attendee again, rather than as an elected AAS Trustee. I thought it would be less exhausting. It was not.

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

$A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.$ $Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.$

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A whole bunch, on the second and first floors. Labeled as “Core”, with C prefixes on room numbers. It’s a whole different world from the offices

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Work sunset, with liquid nitrogen delivery

A worker in yellow safety vest fills a tank of liquid nitrogen from an 18 wheeler truck. The tank is approximately 4 m high and has an acid meatball on it. There is a pretty orange sunset in the background, and a large building.

Close up of a worker filling a large tank with liquid nitrogen. There is vapor all around.

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

But I needed to spend 3 hours sending rec letters. It really is the dumbest possible process How many of our brilliant colleagues spent hours clicking radio buttons to certify that each of their dozens of students is in the top 10%?

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Ah, the “new big bosses” anxiety dreams have started, right on time

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Resurrecting a dead windsurf board as a “drag board”: a land simulator to practice windsurfing tricks, to build muscle memory. Sawed off the nose so it will fit easier in my car, and refresh my epoxy skills. Here’s the world’s best coach explaining why: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This was the most oddly satisfying project. The kee-kew kee-kew sound of the hand saw as it slid through the board, the huge ratio of effort to destroy : effort to create, getting to see the cross-section of the (shitty) construction. Ahh

An ancient windsurf board, with a hand saw halfway through it, sawing from the starboard rail to the port rail, about 1/3 back from the nose of the board

The windsurf board in 2 pieces, with the saw resting on top

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What do you mean, you don’t have a non/palm random orbital sander in stock? What kind of hardware store are you? Also, prove to me it’s random

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Sarah, my deepest condolences to you and your family on the loss of your father. Sending care and strength

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Nope. I don’t have neoprene shoe covers yet. Is that the first step?

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Numb toes are what cut short my winter bike rides. If you have ideas, hit me. I use mountain bike style clippy pedals and cleats

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I would just like this feat of self-control recorded: I got to share a clean room with Roman, and I did *not* give it a hug

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Current coping mechanism: Online shopping for 5/4 hooded wetsuits to stretch the windsurfing season further into “stupid cold” territory

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That you should never trust atoms — because they make everything up? That’s a good one

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Me, beginning this paper: Surely we understand the IR emission from our solar system! I can subtract it off to measure the glow from JWST itself. Me, after talking to the COBE experts: There’s so much we don’t know about the IR emission from our own solar system!

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Saw a license plate that I’m pretty sure was a “Rural Juror” joke

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Deleted all my tweets with @luca.run ‘s free tweetXer on GitHub. Painless. Deleting all the Likes now. It’s strangely freeing

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Wait, I thought Bluesky didn’t have DMs?

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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I decided to "reactivate" my Twitter account, just to delete all my tweets. Great points have been made over here the past few days that deactivating is not enough. Doing that right now. Once done, deactivate final time. Here is a free script: github.com/lucahammer/t...

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GitHub - lucahammer/tweetXer: Delete all your Tweets for free

Delete all your Tweets for free. Contribute to lucahammer/tweetXer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

“I’m not giving up. And neither should you.”

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I learned a history today, my friends. The point of history isn’t to make you feel good or feel bad. It’s to make you understand the actual world and how we got here

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #289,827. Are you not impressed?

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #289,827, Jane Rigby ‪@janerigby.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 11, 2023"

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Today was my first time in an embassy: the British embassy in DC, to celebrate the power of international partnership for space science! Lots of discussion about amazing JWST and next steps They had OG red phonebooths but I forgot to take a selfie, so pls use your imagination

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Oh good, you can have my share

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

As for harvesting, on-the-tree fruit wasn’t ripe; fresh windfall was best. And I figure it can’t hurt, when finding overripe windfall fruit, to toss it it away from its parent. An easy way to mammoth

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Wait… this isn’t about politics, is it? It’s about… college football? <realizes that’s still a thing> Um, carry on, then

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Advice from the interns: - there are foraging websites that list good sites - riparian areas are generally good. Around here I’m told Carderock and Great Falls. - But I wonder how much of that is that paw-paws do well in those areas, versus that’s where humans brought seeds Other advice, hive mind?

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

I believe federal workers are allowed to post a sign at home and put a bumper sticker on their car. Overall I think the Hatch Act has the right idea — the career civil service should be non-partisan. However, I think it needs a range of consequences, and updating for the digital age

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Jane Rigby @janerigby.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

And don’t even get me started on how the flowers of a paw-paw change sex multiple times. Science is weird

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