Reposted by John P. MurphyRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21hJupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/ 121768251
Reposted by John P. MurphyAllan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Stories by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @tiatashiro.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social @alansmale.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social @stevetem.bsky.social @moonsheen.bsky.social @isabel.kim @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social @johnpmurphy.bsky.social @trnapper.bsky.social + Order: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKKDB8JK 055
Reposted by John P. MurphyPBS News @pbsnews.org · 24/09/2026A 6-year-old girl in China has set a new women’s record for solving Rubik’s Cubes. Recent videos from state TV show Lian Yunzhi setting a record at a certified competition in Wuhan, China. Days later, she broke that record with an average pace of 4.27 seconds per cube. 56611
Reposted by John P. Murphyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884018698
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today in “nature is gross”: a dolphin seeking out a snack of fish vomit. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgThis dolphin chased a fish until it puked—then ate the vomitThe behavior, known as kleptoparasitism, marks one of the few well-documented examples of a cetacean stealing food 000
Reposted by John P. MurphyWilliam Butler Yeets @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026i need to know what happened 309163043162
Reposted by John P. MurphyChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tyme nowe to playe the musique Tyme nowe to lighte the lightes Lo! See the gathered muppets on The Muppet Showe tonighte! Tyme nowe to put on grease-paynte Tyme nowe to dresse up righte Tyme nowe to rayse the curtayne on The Muppet Showe tonighte! 837072
Reposted by John P. MurphySL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 18/09/2026How do you plan a creative project that will last 3+ years? John Zhu knew bringing ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS to English podcast form would take at least that long. 12 years and 4 Chinese epics later... See us interview him 7PM CDT at #flightsoffoundry! www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of... 082
Reposted by John P. MurphyKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 18/09/2026"We've air-gapped these systems!" "An actual air-gap involving actual air, or just firewall rules" "...just firewall rules" 2201
Reposted by John P. MurphyJohn P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tonight at 8pm EST/ 7 CST, @slhuang.com and I will be interviewing Flights of Foundry guest of honor John Zhu @chineselore.bsky.social about his Chinese Lore podcast retellings of classic Chinese literature. It should be a lot of fun! www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of... 133
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tonight at 8pm EST/ 7 CST, @slhuang.com and I will be interviewing Flights of Foundry guest of honor John Zhu @chineselore.bsky.social about his Chinese Lore podcast retellings of classic Chinese literature. It should be a lot of fun! www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of... 133
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sometimes I stop and look at the ads on even reputable sites, and am astonished by the extent to which we swim in intellectual sewage. Medical journalism sharing a page with lurid ads explaining why you'll die if you eat blueberries; economic analysis jostling with goldbugs. 150
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don’t watch a lot of television, but I really enjoyed this one. Glad to see it getting recognition 000
Reposted by John P. MurphyAlex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 11/09/2026...rotating a piece of clear calcite toward the sky creates two images of equal brightness only when pointing directly at the Sun. This allowed the Vikings to navigate the fog-dense North Atlantic, even when the sun was entirely hidden behind clouds or below the horizon. Great demo of this here:youtube.comHow the Vikings may have used calcite to locate the position of the Sun in a cloudy skyYouTube video by Michael Masuda 627077
Reposted by John P. MurphySteen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Book friends! I am a freelance proofreader looking for more work. I have done a bunch of work with Tor, but I will happily also do nonfiction. Are you a publisher or self-pub author who needs a proofreader, or know one? Please DM. (Please boost for visibility, if you don't mind) 15567
Reposted by John P. Murphyfravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Cherries & Chardonnay Saskia Rem Brandt Mixed Media, Oil on canvas, 2025 302054224
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I just saw someone unironically tell someone “Google is your friend” about a hot-button topic. Like… no? It’s going to radicalize them into insane positions? If you don’t want to argue or explain, fine, don’t, but also don’t send them off to the disinfo mines with a good luck and a fare-thee-well. 010
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ah the New Hampshire primaries: Saving democracy one held nose at a time! 020
Reposted by John P. MurphyJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius 15945131
Reposted by John P. Murphylit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare but now you can set ammunition, food, and drink assignments for squads. 084
Reposted by John P. MurphyHead of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026From @kyliu99.bsky.social, the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of #ThePaperMenagerie and #HiddenGirl, comes a dazzling new collection of 13 stories that explore the boundaries of imagination. #ThePassingOfTheDragonAndOtherStories is out today: geni.us/TPOTDAOSorgsoc 0176
Reposted by John P. MurphyElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116673304
Reposted by John P. MurphyVenicello @venicello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026(35 year old chuunibyou) rrrgh!! the demon sealed inside my lower back... it's struggling to escape... 1740192003
Reposted by John P. MurphyBluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Chris Rodrigues & Abby the Spoon Lady 🎶'Angels In Heaven' #bluesmusic 611305311
Reposted by John P. MurphyDaniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe @dandkuniverse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Daniel and Kelly answer questions about crackpots, hearing meteors, and the age of everything. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-... 0172
Reposted by John P. MurphyMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166633668
Reposted by John P. MurphyKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/08/2026The telescope has been set free in space! Successful deployment! #Roman 261653137
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026That moment when, up on a ladder painting, you realize the song you’ve been singing under your breath isn’t “If I were a rich man” but “If I were a smart man”? Excellent time to stop and do a safety check. (I’m fine! Everything’s fine!) 030
Reposted by John P. MurphyCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026been doing a lot of recommending this book this weekend, you should get a copy if you haven’t 1014328
Reposted by John P. MurphySpirals doesn't fit in your boxes @tealed-copper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026 8105751807
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Shit, I'm hearing that an MIT student was exposed to dimethylmercury. That's some of the scariest stuff I've ever heard of-- when I started grad school 25 years ago, it was still THE number one example of "stuff that might kill you if you're not scrupulously careful" 200
Reposted by John P. MurphySky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 29/08/2026to put iit another way: nissan motors has had operating losses in their automotive manufacturing business for 3 of the last 5 years. their finance arm, by contrast, has net income around $300m/yr they make cars as a loss leader to sell subprime autoloans 1332738
Reposted by John P. MurphyBrian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 28/08/2026Hey, if you know anyone in Brooklyn, Sunset Park specifically, who recently lost a cat, I found this very personable (and LOUD) little polydactyl on 53rd and 2nd. She's unbelievably sweet. I would love to reunite her with her people 663110835
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Man, I earned "y'all" the hard way, and fuck anyone who tells me not to use it when I damn well see fit. 110
Reposted by John P. MurphyShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The end of an era: Phil Tippett is shutting down his stop-motion studio. 715862
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I really wish people would internalize the notion “the thing I thought of within 30 seconds of reading a headline probably also occurred to the people who lived it / spent years studying it.” 120
Reposted by John P. MurphyEmily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com 25904619
Reposted by John P. MurphyThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly. 73183182649
Reposted by John P. MurphyWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026[Exit Queen.] 2063895211000
Reposted by John P. MurphyAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121565979
Reposted by John P. Murphydillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026dudes will always find a way to rock 523032595
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Make a band bigger; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young 020
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Huh. I drank that water once on a dare. www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...japantimes.co.jpIn U.S., rare earths extracted from coal mine wastewaterA new pilot project achieves two purposes: environment cleanup and the recovery of the critical minerals as a valuable byproduct. 010
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Fellow Satisfactory addicts will enjoy this: someone built a 40k piece LEGO model of a full crystal oscillator factory from ores to finish. (plus obligatory doggo) www.reddit.com/r/Satisfacto...reddit.comI built a full Satisfactory production line out of LEGO, with around 40,000 pieces! 020
Reposted by John P. Murphy👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/08/2026lads please stop sharing shit that is unsourced, even (especially) when it agrees with your pre-existing biases. misinformation exists on both sides 328118
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I've been out of the robotics field for a long time, so maybe the recent progress isn't as stunning as it seems to me, but that's pretty stark. (Anyway, I had robots explode on the bench, so a flameout mid-run doesn't seem that bad) 031