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Lance

@lancenichols.bsky.social
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IT profesional, poly, Star Trek geek, 4x4 enthusiast, dad of two and fur dad of two GSDs

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spooky lamb 🐑🕷️ @lambslewds.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Kinktober 2026 - ⚡ 11 Overwhelmed Even if he wasn't 3 times her size, with the constant buzz of electricity clenching her muscles down, it's all she can do to just lie there and take it ✨💦 { #kinktober #kinktober2026 #anal #sizedifference #electric #noncon #dubcon #denial #monster }
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Getty Images is filing for bankruptcy and going private in a $533 million Koch deal qz.com/getty-images...
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Getty Images filing for bankruptcy, going private with Koch
The photo company plans a prepackaged Chapter 11 process in the coming weeks, with the Getty family and Koch Equity Development taking full ownership
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Archaeologists Reveal Secrets of Medieval Tower in France www.medievalists.net/2026/09/arch...
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Archaeologists Reveal Secrets of Medieval Tower in France - Medievalists.net
Archaeologists investigating a medieval tower in Nantes have dated it to the 15th century and uncovered new evidence about the city’s defences.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale arstechnica.com/security/202...
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I seem to recall we spent the 80s, 90s, and oughts trying to keep teen pregnancy rates down. Success! Also: a 15 year old should not be having babies.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
But I’ve been told by climate people with high-carbon lifestyles that “individual action” was meaningless?
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Pembina institute has released a report demonstrating that under the UCP's current program for data centres, Albertans could see their electricity bills going up hundreds of dollars a year. /1 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/08/2026
CBC Kitchener-Waterloo wrote up my interview with them from last week about my book! See link for interview and short video :)
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Do you ever wonder what our universe is made of? Waterloo astrophysicist's new book gives some insight | CBC News
What is the universe made of, and how do we know? Those are the questions Katie Mack, a Waterloo astrophysicist and researcher at Perimeter Institute seeks to answer in her new book, "How to Build a U...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19/08/2026
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mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, I have seen the "smut doesn't count as reading" post and yes, it is bullshit. Take it from your friendly, neighborhood, smut-loving librarian. All reading counts as reading. Stop worrying about tallies and totals and what other people think about your reading. Enjoy yourself.
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Kath Coyle @mrscoyle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I sure hope we get to see more of #ElizabethPrince after devouring #TrinityDaughterofWonderWoman I want a series run of 'elder' Elizabeth.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
❄️ 🌀 Science! Read to end.. Like a hot knife through butter, the radar beam is blocked and the storm’s reflectivity is sliced in half by Hawaii’s huge mountain range as Hurricane LaLa’s Eyewall makes a direct hit on the South Tip of the Big Island of #Hawaii (The first one in 150 years+)… 1/
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Prediction market line goes up? They treat his posts as official comms, but no one should be surprised he’s completely corrupt.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Absolutely gutted to hear that my longtime friend, physicist and science communicator Becky C. Thompson, creator of the Spectra comic books, has died. She was a gifted athlete attempting to complete the Catalina Swim: 20+ miles in open water from Catalina to San Diego. (1/3)
photo of a smiling pretty blonde woman in glasses and a white cowl necked sweater with a stuffed dragon perched on her shoulder
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There are a million ways you can support Locus Magazine! You can become a Patreon member for just a couple bucks a month, or you support us via Buy Me a Coffee and leave a video note! Just watching our videos helps us out a lot. Show support @ linktr.ee/locusmagazine
toto with his tongue out
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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026
Police refused to release the arrest report, saying it could "could interfere with ongoing investigative efforts."
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Person Opposing Data Center Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting
Police refused to release the arrest report, saying it could "could interfere with ongoing investigative efforts."
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I love her Jubilee!
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@gailsimone.bsky.social and now I’m back enjoying you’re Red Sonja run!
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
First teaser for Apple TV’s Neuromancer debuts at SDCC. Plus Mike Flanagan’s "Carrie" gets a teaser, trailers for "Dark Matter" S2 and "Matchbox the Movie," and a bit of Marvel casting news. arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
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First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
Plus Mike Flanagan's Carrie teaser, trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox the Movie, and Marvel news.
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sometimes Kickstarter campaigns are surprisingly better value than you thought. Even the shipping box for the Heavy Metal campaign is fantastic. #heavymetal Yes, I’m keeping the box.
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@gailsimone.bsky.social I’ve just somehow stumbled across Swords of Sorrow…
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Long-lost love story by Alan Turing rediscovered in archive www.popsci.com/science/alan...
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Long-lost love story by Alan Turing rediscovered in archive
'Pryce's Buoy' is an unfinished romance tale between two men.
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Narrator: it wasn’t cancer it was HIV and AIDS and the amount of victim blaming and ignorance killed thousands. It some regions of the world it still does.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Okay so I just had a strange moment in our local grocery store. It started out neat, though. I stopped to get some things, just a few items to avoid going on a bit grocery trip. Husband went with me, we had a nice lunch. He was wearing a ROGUE shirt (he is proud of me). 1/
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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Don’t fucking call me sunshine indeed (Maybe we need tshirts for the next protest)
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Lance @lancenichols.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Just finished reading Lost Girls from the Summer of Supergirl Special by @gailsimone.bsky.social and I loved it. I’d be happy with a series with those two!
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Scientific American workers put out a statement about the magazine's sale & firing of 15 employees: "We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting." www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
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WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
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Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I'm so tired of being right when I make predictions
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I kinda have to seriously question anyone who still have a significant presence on twitter. Every kind thought, every nice comment by anyone is inevitably met with hate, and racism, homophobia, and more are just around the corner. Other platforms ad dicey, Twitter is just grotesque. 1/
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026
"an audit by Lighthouse Reports of public data on the government’s chosen AI provider shows that its tech misclassified more than a third of 16-year-olds as adults and, in some tests, was shown to give the wrong assessment in 70 per cent of cases" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed — but rolled it out anyway
Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How right-wing influencers are transforming America’s churches www.vox.com/politics/491...
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How right-wing influencers are transforming America’s churches
The Southern Baptist Convention’s rightward drift is emblematic of a deeper problem for American Christianity
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TurningTexasBlue @tigerfan519.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A novel but accurate description
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
No one man should have all that power.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/06/2026
The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average.
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Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network
Alaska's multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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With Measles Roaring Back, the Search for a Treatment is On
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/06/2026
Nostalgia Content xkcd.com/3256/
Comic. [Person in front of images of pogs, a Tamagotchi, and huge fungal tower over mossy ground.] PERSON: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep? [caption] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the Early Devonian.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026
bisexual final boss
Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock
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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2026
Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
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Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
Emma Thompson among voices supporting anti-ageism campaign, which has uncovered striking findings in top-grossing UK films over past three years Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits. The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat. Continue reading...
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Boycott FIFA in the United States. Watch it in Canada or Mexico if you want, but stay away from the US.
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