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Kayla "Iacovino with an i"

@kaylaiacovino.com
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Scientist, cat owner, python coder. Doesn't know how to quit vim and refuses to learn. Volcanologist trying to make the world a better place. “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What, and I mean *what*, TF??? Let the memes ensue. (Hopefully everyone is OK. www.latimes.com/california/s...
LA Times push alert:
Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Rod: Why does Star Trek endure? Mike: Because it's f---ing awesome! #stlv
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Panels like this are the best thing about Star Trek conventions.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/08/2026
Also can we please all appreciate the official Clark County logo?!
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/08/2026
The most Vegas thing I’ve seen on the strip, maybe ever.
Vertical video billboard at the intersection of Flamingo and Las Vegas Blvd (the Strip) showing an extreme heat warning.  

Extreme Heat Warning
helphopehome.orp
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society
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Antimatter Pod @antimatterpod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Is Christopher Pike the worst Star Trek captain? 100% of the Antimatter Pod hosts say yes!
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 05/07/2026
Today’s moment of zen.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 18/06/2026
Just me sending my emotions into the void 🥵
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/05/2026
Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.
A close up of captain kirk getting his eyes scanned. It is cut off above the eyebrows and below his mouth.The same image in a thumbnail for Star Trek, the wrath of Khan. But AI has painted the rest of the image so that Kirk is a balding man in a business suit.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 27/05/2026
I love writing object oriented code libraries for simulating natural materials and processes. You get to create objects like Star(), create objects like Planet.from_star(), and retrieve properties like get_gravity(). It makes one feel so powerful.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 25/05/2026
My first pocket holes! (please clap)
Photo of a wooden board with two pocket holes drilled, about 1” from each side of the board and about 1” apart. On the workbench below you can see a speed square, an. Lamp, and park or a power drill with a pocket hole drill bit in it. Reply if you remember your first Walkman.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 23/05/2026
If I’m interested in a product or service and it describes it self as “AI” in any capacity, I will immediately pass.
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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#booksky
Page from a book. Text reads: 
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MARY W. SHELLEY

He sprang from the cabin window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

[handwritten in pen]
As he drifted away I could just make out his final words.
"It's okay if you just call me' Frankenstein' instead of 'Frankenstein's Monster.
I really don't mind."

The end
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/05/2026
Embrace the challenge! /s
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/04/2026
Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.
A detailed image of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space, showing its solar panels and cylindrical body in space.
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 27/04/2026
Your moment of zen: this street in Pelham, New York.
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Joe Renaud @spacetides.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Earthset" photo taken by the Artemis 2 astronauts showing a cratered lunar surface starting to overtake the crescent of Earth as it begins to set behind the lunar surface.

Overlaid on the top of the image is text stating '"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither of those are working" - Cmdr Reid Wiseman - Artemis II mission'
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Moon tells a story—and it’s been missing voices. Only ~2% of its named craters honor women. As we return with Artemis, artists and scientists alike are asking: What would a more inclusive Moon look like? 🌕 🔗 www.seti.org/news/women-w... #WomenInScience #Space 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 🐡
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Women With Impact: Reclaiming the Moon's Missing Half
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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Rockets are pretty. (This is the photographer posting his own work.)
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 17/03/2026
Found on top of a stack of junk someone is getting rid of. Devastating.
Pile of black polo shirts; the left side says “ASU Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Arizona State University Center of Excellence for Energy”; on the right it says “USAID from the American people”.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 16/03/2026
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from my local grocery!
Cupcakes decorated to look like one large clover from the top, with frosting across the tops of several cupcakes pushed together. But it really really looks like a dick and bush.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/03/2026
AI is such an improvement to our lives. Thank you, robot overlords. Tech bros really doing the lord’s work.
Screenshot of an item from DoorDash that reads:

French Fries 薯条
Thin cuts of potato typically deep-fried until golden brown.
Description generated by DoorDash using Al
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 22/02/2026
Hotel notepad with the word IDEAS printed on it in large print. Someone has written “Drive thru chowder” in shitty handwriting at the top of the note.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 14/02/2026
New development: pistachios are only for the bourgeoisie.
Photo of a portion of the Southwest Airlines in-flight menu showing packs of pistachios with the text:

Wonderful Roasted & Salted PISTACHIOS

Exclusively for our Extra Legroom seat Customers.
Enjoy a complimentary premium drink and Wonderful® Pistachios No Shells Roasted & Salted or Honey Roasted. Extra Legroom seats. Extra refreshment.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/02/2026
I’ve just boarded my second Southwest flight since they changed all the rules AMA
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/02/2026
Photo of one of those metal wall mounted toilet seat cover dispensers in a public restroom with a piece of paper glued to it that says:

"What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life-integrity."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Please flush toilet paper only.
The integrity of our historically sensitive plumbing depends on it.
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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A year ago yesterday 🤖🆘 #neverforget @kaylaiacovino.com
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 08/02/2026
I hate the future.
Screenshot showing a commonly searched term, “What is the best doorbell without a subscription?”
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/02/2026
Normal people: omg gross! Maybe a month tops. Field scientists:
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a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans .
ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans .
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 03/02/2026
Being in your late 30s to early 40s is weird. How am I the same age as Gen X?
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Lutz101 @lutz101.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
There are lots of great moments in the film, but it misrepresents the actual social dynamics of lion prides, while the thematic centering of patriarchy and monarchy is not in keeping with progressive values. I enjoyed this article by @erinbiba.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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In real life, Simba’s mom would be running the pride
A lion expert breaks down lion family dynamics.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 22/01/2026
The Lion King is one of my favorite films. But I never liked the ending. Simba defeats Scar, the rains magically wash the bad away, and everyone is happy again… with Simba as King. Maybe the lesson should be: the proletariat forms a democracy to have the power to stop this from happening again.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 15/01/2026
Here’s just a few
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 14/01/2026
Feeling despondent? Try searching “Judge blocks Trump” and “Congress rejects Trump” and note the number of news stories in just the past two weeks. I stopped counting at 15.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/01/2026
A friend sent me this photo of a talus slope. The radial fracture in this granite is astounding. Can anyone point me to literature or other photos of this? If I had found just one of those wedges, I’d have thought shatter cone, but it’s unlikely someone put a lil TNT dead center in the boulder.
Photo of a hillside covered in large gray (granite) boulders, with grass on the flatter portion of the image closer to the observer. Jn the center there is a large round boulder. It is hard to know the diameter, as the surrounding shrubs are ambiguous in size, but maybe 2-3 meters. There is a point fracture in the dead center of the boulder with fractures radiating outward, giving it the appearance of a pizza with slices. The terminations of each slice are very pointy toward the center.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 02/01/2026
Water has the rare quality of expanding when frozen. On this dry ice is a hydrophilic gel bead made up almost entirely of water with a pliable shell. As it freezes, the water decreases in density, dramatically increasing in volume, as the shell is relatively unchanged, leaving this teardrop shape.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 26/12/2025
Mele Kalikimaka from Pele herself! Two fire fountains in Kīlauea’s lava lake, Halemaʻumaʻu. Unspeakably amazing.
Silhouetted human figures in front of absolutely HUGE fountains of lava. The sky is red, and lava flows can be seen flowing to the right on the ground.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 18/12/2025
Don’t you just hate airport layovers?
A lovely tropical garden with a small manmade stream in what looks like part office park part Star Trek set. It’s in the middle of the Honolulu airport.
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RoninYorch @roninyorch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/12/2025
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 28/11/2025
Watching “The Menagerie” on PLUTO TV right now, and I always love when Mendez asks Kirk if he ever met Captain Pike. 😜
A scene from “The Menagerie” with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Commodore Mendaz in a hospital corridor. 

Mendez: You ever meet Chris Pike? 
Kirk: Yes, I visited the Enterprise every other week while I was serving on the Farragut.
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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 23/11/2025
Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano
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Prof. Simon Carn @simoncarn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/11/2025
But his emails.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 18/10/2025
What can I say? The Shuttle Pod crew are tastemakers! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Shuttle Pod 98 – Who Gets The Chairs?
Podcast Episode · Shuttle Pod - The TrekMovie.com Podcast · 06/02/2021 · 1h 3m
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 14/10/2025
A devastating loss to the Star Trek community and the world. Subrina, you will be missed.
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