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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 03/07/2025

Hey @socialismconference.org attendees! I have two sessions on the schedule tomorrow (Fri), come say hi! ✨12pm Make a Community Constellation: Quilting Workshop ✨5pm (w/ @chanda.bsky.social): Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination

a hand holding a mini zine title Community Constellations, which accompanies the 12pm workshop

a flyer for the 5pm session, Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 26/06/2025

i'm not signing up for the NYT, show me your Letterboxd favorites

a list of four movie covers: The American Astronaut, Parasite, No Country For Old Men, and The Shining

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 24/06/2025

Here's what I sent-- feel free to alter this and use as a template (I used someone else's template to write it!). Replace the middle paragraph with anything that shames them, eg some of the cosponsors are members of the Chicago Progressive Reform Caucus & are being hypocrites

I am disappointed by your support for the Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 4-4, which will install more surveillance cameras at sites where Chicagoans are preventing ICE from kidnapping our neighbors. This amendment puts protesters, journalists, and legal observers at increased risk of arrest and detainment.

Considering the prominent use of a slogan originating with the Defund CPD campaign, "We Keep Us Safe", on your website, you should be aware that increasing surveillance facilitates increased violence from ICE and CPD. Voting for this amendment will hurt many people in our ward.

I urge you to rescind your support for this amendment when it comes before the City Council.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 24/06/2025

Note that I no longer use Substack, I use Buttondown-- you can find me here: buttondown.com/notnotrocket...

a quote from the last paragraph of the article linked in the previous post:
Space has always been a proxy for our dreams about the future. It represents possibilities, though what those possibilities look like in detail is inevitably shaped by the worldview of whoever is doing the dreaming (be they aspiring space barons, or real estate salesmen who have moved on to national politics). Much like Mars colonization to shore up humanity in case of global catastrophe (a catastrophe always conjured in the form of an asteroid strike, or really any disaster that doesn’t come with human responsibility the way that climate change does), or satellite constellations (brought to us by unilateral actions whose urgency pivots on a murky understanding of what communities without internet access may or may not want or need), these feints to the “greater good” distract us from the bigger blow: they are arguing for their greater good, not good for the greatest number of the rest of us. You cannot save humanity by relocating a small sampling of us to Mars for the same reason that you can’t avert a pandemic by hiring 100,000 new workers to labor in a warehouse where they, too, may get sick.

None of us is expendable. We are the greater good.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 23/06/2025

an extremely niche meme for every Rubin Observatory person who loves Vera Rubin and knows who Charles Simonyi is

Goya's painting of Saturn Eating His Son, with Saturn labeled Vera Rubin and the his son labeled Charles Simonyi

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 20/06/2025

Join me in 45 min (4pm CT) for Beautiful Trouble Story Time! Live on IG here: www.instagram.com/sucasall?igs...

a yellow graphic of joyous protestors that says beautiful trouble story time

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 16/06/2025

Chicago! ICE is kidnapping people out of their immigration hearings daily-- start your day by showing up for our communities! ICE watch starts daily at 8am outside 55 E Monroe and 50 E Adams

a graphic that invites people to join autonomous chicagoans outside immigration court to interrupt ICE kidnappings of people from their immigration hearings. Show up daily from 8am on at 50 E Adams and 55 East Monroe

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 21/07/2023

Today I wrote about Nauru, the island that Gabe Bankman-Fried wanted to buy to build and apocalypse bunker for "effective altruists" www.patreon.com/posts/nauru-and-of-…

A long exposure photo of the strip mined fields of Nauru, with stars and the milky way hanging over ghostly rocks.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 08/07/2023

I was just wondering if you’d made it over to Bluesky! Welcome and here’s a comic I made about you a while back

A comic in two columns with three rows. Upper left panel: Alternatives to Steve Albini, for when he’s busy or you’re allergic or something. Comic by Lucianne Walkowicz, quotes by Steve Albini.
Panel 1: Steve Linguini: a drawing of Steve Albini in a bag of dry pasta noodles with the quote “ I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm. ' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.”
Panel 2: Steve Tankini. A drawing of Steve Albini in a tankini withthe quote “I think fashion is repulsive. I would like the fashion industry to collapse”
Panel 3: Steve Sardini. A picture of Steve Albini in a can of sardines with the quote “Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything”
Panel 4: Steve Scallopini. A picture of Steve Albini as a veal Scallopini with the quote “buy groceries and feed yourself even on t

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 05/07/2023

Pleased to report that Stella, yeeter of cat fetuses, has returned from the vet with a clean bill of health and a future of zero fetus-yeeting

Stella, a tan and black tabby cat with green-amber eyes, relaxes on a gray towel. Her head is resting in Lulu’s hand.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 01/07/2023

6000 TWEET BURGERS, 600 UNVERIFIED FRIES, 300 NEW UNVERIFIED TACOS, 55 PIES, 55 COKES, 100 TATER TOTS, 100 PIZZAS, 100 TENDERS, 100 MEATBALLS, 100 COFFEES, 55 WINGS, 55 SHAKES, 55 PANCAKES, 55 PASTAS, 55 PEPPERS AND 155 TATERS

Elon Musk throwing his arms open and yelling something with his stupid face

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 30/06/2023

Sitting with the news. Thought the skyline could use a cute pic of Stella the matryoshka kitten aka fetus-yeeter (who is feeling better)

Stella, a brown tabby kitten, is sitting on a table covered with a blanket and towel. She’s sticking her tongue out to lick her nose and her amber green eyes give her a brash, unapologetic look

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 28/06/2023

In the meantime we’re home and Stella is eating/drinking fine, seems to be feeling ok etc! Here she is looking confused as to why I am upset

Stella, a brown tabby kitten, is sitting on the exam table at the vet, looking very relaxed and cute

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 27/06/2023

Good afternoon from the veterinary ER because two mystery objects came out of the stray kitten and who adopted me last week Kitten is considerably less stressed out than I am

Downward view of lulus cat hair covered shirt and their arm and hand around a tabby cat, who is sitting on an exam table and craning their head back for scritches

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 21/06/2023

I knocked out the last two of those today— I only meant to do the gardening, but a cat adopted me

Stella the tabby cat is staring into the camera with her green eyes, sitting in a garden next to some night sky petunias

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 21/06/2023

I received a delivery from the Cat Distribution System today 😸

A tabby cat sitting on a tree stump, meowing!

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 18/06/2023

I’ll post a string of professional things (bc I’m freelance and desperately in need of work) and then worry I’m not enough of a horny shitposter to be on here— so here’s my personal philosophy in bathroom graffiti form

A bathroom door upon which “juicy ass terrorism” has been scrawled in large black letters

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 17/06/2023

Hey you hot weirdos: I’d love to work with you! Just this past year, I’ve helped over a hundred people navigate career change, shine in big presentations, explore their values, speak truth to power, & express themselves authentically. Let’s do something cool notnotrocketscience.com/workshops

Lulu, a white non-binary person with a purple French bob, is smiling and laughing at right. They’re wearing a jean jacket. To the left is their business name, Not Not Rocket Science, and the words “work with me”

A golden yellow slide that has a list of thing Lulu can help with: creative coaching, speaker training, career transitions, education consulting, goals and accountability, writing support, and EFL tutoring

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 15/06/2023

The friend who’s watching my cat has started taking headshots for her

O-Ren, a gray tabby cat, looks pensively into the distance from her cat bed

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 13/06/2023

She has cast aside the toy pickle. Now who’s a big dill, pickle?

O-Ren, a gray tabby cat, is sitting primly in her homemade cat bed with all her feets tucked under her. She has cast aside her toy pickle, which lies next to the cat bed on the ground. Not such a big dill now, are you, pickle?

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 11/06/2023

Trains so great they’ll fuck up a yacht:

Lulu’s hand holding an “orca” card, the transit pass for Seattle’s light rail system

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 09/06/2023

It’s also a fine time to google “Is Kissinger dead yet” even if the search results remain disappointing— one must cultivate hope

The grim reaper using a claw machine game, saying “Pat Robertson? Is Henry Kissinger even in this thing?”

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 08/06/2023

Thank to @chanda.bsky.social I just got this news via this perfect meme 🌈🧱

A progress flag that says “happy pride” with PRIDE spelling out “pat robertson is dead everybody!”

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 01/06/2023

In a few days I will have finished my first year of circus school, and I really can’t believe it

A black and white photo of Lulu, an aerial hoop performer, crouching in a hoop suspended in the air. Their arms are entwined with the top of the hoop and they are perched on the balls of their feet. They are looking up and to the left, into a beam of light.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 21/05/2023

This summer I’m creating a sky-gazing program in a community farm here in Chicago, which will take place in a space-themed patch of garden I’m planting! This burgundy “starry night” petunia, a variety with speckled petals that resembles an image of stars, arrived this week 🍀💕

A deep burgundy flower, with cream colored speckles that make it look like an image of a starry patch of sky

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 14/05/2023

Just got home from working stage crew for our youth ensemble circus show, which was about ✨SPACE✨ (!!) and so sweet & heartfelt! Please appreciate my on-theme styling

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 07/05/2023

Spent some time w a friend today greeting the spring plants in prep for drawing a zine about medicinal perennials 🌱

A bud on a giant onion plant, about to open and show off a purple flower

Lulus hand holding a teeny purple flower called a Creeping Veronica

A shot of plants growing close to the ground, with feathery yarrow, purple violets, and green mugwort all growing together

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 06/05/2023

I know you can’t tell here but I’m leaving the house in non-training clothes please clap

Lulu is smiling and wearing a russet colored rubbed tank top and necklace that looks like a vertical magic wand of crystals

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 05/05/2023

Hey so uh got a project sitting half-finished somewhere? 👀👀👀 I have a new workshop for that! Cmon over and let me help you Make It Real! notnotrocketscience.com/workshops

An orange and saffron yellow graphic with the words MAKE IT REAL in bold, blocky font, and the URL https://notnotrocketscience.com/workshops

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 05/05/2023

Feel like pure shit just want do leg x

A picture of an older person walking away from the camera, wearing a jacket embroidered with the words “Do Leg” and no other context

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 04/05/2023

Holy fuck Holy fucking fuck That body of yours is absurd

A picture of ALF, but drawn shirtless and disturbingly muscular

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 30/04/2023

I started tattooing last year! This is the second I ever did (on my own leg). Any other tattooers in the house?

Lulu’s right inner calf, displaying a tattoo of red and orange maple leaves next to yellow and green ginkgo leaves

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 30/04/2023

Me seeing my Twitter mutuals roll in

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 30/04/2023

ok, I have lurked, time for an actual intro: hi I’m Lulu! I’m an astronomer, movement artist, & educator in Chicago. I study the search for life in the universe & the social implications of space exploration, and I make art on aerial hoop. Just your friendly neighborhood antigravity antifascist 👽

Lulu, a non binary white person, is standing by the sign of the Little Ale’inn, the only business in Rachel Nevada, a town close to Area 51. They are grinning and drinking an alien themed Budweiser.

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