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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Tried to do lunar norite thin section nails again for SSERVI NESF this week. My stamping polish didn't arrive in time to try the rock texture stamping, unfortunately.

A hand with sparkly blue nails sitting on a chair next to a phone case with a lunar norite from Apollo 17 on it.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If my ELS shopping spree doesn't help me recover my French competency, it may lead to me taking up smoking and contemplating the futility of existence.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

But I got to scream scare the doggo.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

That helps a ton. Sometimes I try to drain the boiling water into a stopped sink to try to soak it off, but that means I have to be cleaning efficiently in advance of that. I also have this little beauty, but it's getting worn out and cleaning *it* when I'm done has become maybe worse.

A small looped brush sitting on a countertop

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Couldn't make myself wait. Here is my first prototype with polish totally not designed for stamping. I think the colors will work, if I start with a blue base coat and manage to either get a stamping black or just improve my skills to get the texture.

A thumbnail with an attempt at painting the colors of a rock thin section on the nail.

Screenshot of an image of lunar sample 78238 in thin section

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'm so fished in. I went from having three bottles of nail polish. Black, dark blue, and a way to scratchy black with large glitter chunks that looked like chrondrules. Now I've bought a giant assortment to try to paint my nails to look like lunar samples in thin section. May start with rainbows.

Way too many bottles of sparkly nail polish in boxes.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Mercury's Tears nail polish is certified MASCS data approved. I need to get a better photo tomorrow, with a printed version of these color composites.

Four views of the planet Mercury in false color on a computer screen with fingernails painted in the front of the screen

A set of nail polish, with a blue one called Mercury's Tears and a clear sparkly one called Moondust

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Lucho!!! My poor dog did not appreciate my excitement.

Wolverine lying in bed staring at a framed picture. In the bottom part you can see that the picture is Lucho Diaz in FC Bayern uniform.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My first non rectangular crochet project (and one where I just made it up while I went along) is complete. When the apocalypse comes, I can supply custom niche hot water bottle covers.

A crocheted black water bottle cover with a large red star topped by two yellow stars

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

How am I going to focus on proposal revisions when I now have this to read??

A hand with a pinkish purple sleeve holds a book with a black and white image of a young man with penetrating eyes and wind-blown hair, clad in black with a white knit scarf, sitting on a dock. Above it, the words 'Tim Curry' and 'Vagabond'

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Most things are pretty shite right now, but I found my first raspberry in my garden box today. That makes me happy.

A lone raspberry sitting on a wooden table.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hang in there, sweet baby. Maybe there is too much evil and hate in the world right now for a soul this beautiful.

A black cat lying on a couch with his head on his paws

A black cat with a small white patch on his chest laying on a couch

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sweet Kai is having a rough time right now. I'm hoping we don't have to say goodbye. This year can fuck right off.

A black cat looks at the camera, while a black and tan Shiba Inu dog leans against him, looking out of a bay window.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u... '...you can't take the sky from me' Thank you, Firefly and Blue Ghost for this image.

Image of the Earth and Sun during a lunar eclipse, taken by the Blue Ghost lander from the lunar surface. Most of the image is black, and the Earth blocks all but a beautiful ring of the Sun's light.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Almost done! Cenobites, come on in...you probably won't make things worse at this point.

3d printed and painted tissue box cover modeled after the Hellraiser lament box

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Finally getting to paint again. Still a work in progress--the left side needs cleaning up and the sides you can't see in the picture are unfinished. But it's a nice way to lose myself a bit right now. If you recognize the design, let me know in the comments 😊

Hand turned, natural edge wooden bowl next to a decorated tissue box.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It was another 'beauty of the Moon will take your breath away' night tonight. Though, the dark, starry sky, now that it is mostly set, is following with a gorgeous encore. Thank you, nature. I needed that.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Nothing like the sky on cold winter nights

Top of a house with the crescent Moon and Venus shining through the trees behind it

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I'm making the biggest gothiest baby blanket ever. 25 skeins of bulky red and black yarn...

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I'm not sure I ordered enough yarn...

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Work and stress detox continues. Today A and I made a pound cake. Waiting for them to return from D&D to glaze it and see how it turned out. It looks like I may have leveled up in life skills, though!

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Sometimes it's hard not to be stopped in your tracks by the beauty of the Moon. My phone camera can't do it justice, unfortunately.

Photo of the Moon through the trees at night

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The 8th Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium today discussing technical and geopolitical challenges of the return to the Moon. It's inspiring to see so many people committed to returning humans to the Moon in collaboration, rather than competition, with one another. Lots to work out, though.

Audience watching as Romanian Cosmonaut Dorin Prunario introduces a panel at the Moon Village Association workshop.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

First time at a Moxy. It's really cute--reminds me of the vibe at the youth hostel in Lake Louise but with private comfortable rooms. And I guess I won't have to wash my dishes. I do feel a little old and frumpy for it, but maybe I'm just exhausted from traveling. Tomorrow - Moon Village Workshop!

Picture of a social space at Moxy Luxembourg. Christmas tree and decorations and a view of a foggy airport tarmac through the window.

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Dumped a box that has moved offices with me out because I needed it, so I'm trying to clean up and sort the treasures from junk. Came across the first draft of my first paper to even be published. Carle's (my PhD advisor, for those who don't know me) note meant a lot. I hope I manage to be like her

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Rachel Klima @pyroxena.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I had the privilege of attending the National Space Council meeting today. Life takes a lot of weird turns. I am sure high school me would never have expected this.

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