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Robert Tompkins

@r4tompkins.bsky.social
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Board game night is fun! I love Spock, Sam Vimes, public servants, libraries, my wife and kids (not in that order). #LFGM

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 19/08/2026
LETTERMAN: Lars Nootbaar. Paul, you heard about this guy? SHAFFER: Nootbaar! LETTERMAN: Please, my father was Mr. Nootbaar, call me Lars. SHAFFER: Nootbaar!
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Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Heroic rock legacy band replaces their late heroic rock legacy drummer with a slightly built younger German woman, Anika Niles. These are choices that men can and should make. Bravo to RUSH for not taking the predictable route.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is such a cool and trippy composite image of multiple pictures of crescent mars taken by psyche during its flyby
A composite image of a series of images of the crescent Mars against the darkness of space. The crescents are nested within each other, showing the planet growing larger in the view over time. In the largest, closest views, clouds can be seen above the planet's surface.
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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Seen in an old cookbook, a recipe that resonates with me today.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It’s my 28th ancient relic from each country in the #WorldCup. It’s NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 The oldest planetarium in the world was built in Friesland from 1774 to 1781 by Eise Eisinga, a wool carder & amateur astronomer. It was built into the roof of the living room of his canal house.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 20/06/2026
Left: the Moon backlit by the Sun, from the Artemis II mission (2026) Right: Pluto backlit by the Sun, from the New Horizons mission (2015)
The Moon, almost entirely dark but for a small portion at upper left illuminated by Earthshine, backlit by the Sun's corona and the zodiacal dust.The thin, blue ring of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere, backlit by the Sun. The planet itself is entirely in shadow.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 13/06/2026
A Butlerian jihad could also be cost-effective by the early 2030s. If we’re both in the business of writing science fiction
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Saved the grand slam AND the food I love baseball
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Robert Tompkins @r4tompkins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
WHAT’S YOUR CALL SIGN PILOT? It’s um… (Say something! Come on) Pirog. Pirog One. PIROG ONE?!?THERE IS NO PIROG ONE!! (Well, there is now!)
A pirogue fresh out of the oven
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Robert Tompkins @r4tompkins.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Colorado Rockies were the worst team in MLB in 2025 with a historically bad 43-119 record. Just about as bad as the 1962 New York Mets (40-120 record). The 2026 Rockies just swept the Mets. In New York. WTF
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/04/2026
Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/
3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/04/2026
(sort of scrolling past this a little too fast) go mets
post from Szabolcs Panyi with an electoral map of hungary but tbh it’s kind of shaped like queens and its blue and orange
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026
Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Who else is still feeling the joy this morning? 🙋‍♀️🚀🧑‍🚀 THIS is what science can do!!
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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 11/04/2026
Shoutout to the Mets for this 📸 @mets.com
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Matt 🇨🇦 @mattpark10.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Today is the Blue Jays home opener and as good a time as any to share this truly wonderful baseball (and indeed life) advice from former Jay Mookie Wilson. Believe in yourselves folks.
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Thad @tyranicus.net · 17/02/2026
Tig Notaro is a treasure, and by extension, so is Jet Reno.
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a woman in a space suit is asking did you bring any snacks ?
Alt: GIF from Star Trek Discovery showing Tig Notaro as Jet Reno saying "Did you bring any snacks?"
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Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Current Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) is running for re-election. Please support her campaign! We need strong and vital voices in Virginia. Follow her on Instagram @ RepMcClellan - and tell her the Admiral sent you! 🫡🖖🏻🍀
Current photo of Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan of Virginia
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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 30/01/2026
Dad: What are the lion and witch doing in your wardrobe? Son: It's Narnia business.
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Robert Tompkins @r4tompkins.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Kid: Dad, I’m going to have this big apple for dessert. Me: Oh, in honor of Mayor Mamdani? Kid: … Kid: yeah! Sure! — Happy New Year!
A big apple.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025
Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
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A. Faë @anaisfae.art · 01/12/2025
Happy decembirb #ArtAdventCalendar
watercolor painting of a crow perched on a branch, looking up at a purple starry sky.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 27/11/2025
Io beauty shot. Taken by the Juno spacecraft on 3 February 2024. The right-hand hemisphere is illuminated by the Sun. On the left, the night side isn't totally dark because of Jupitershine. Image credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS
Against a black background, Jupiter's volcanic moon Io shines in sunlight, its right-hand side an orange–yellow colour, the surface pockmarked with detail of volcanic and tectonic landforms. The left-hand side is barely visible, illuminated by reflected sunlight from Jupiter.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/11/2025
This is one of my favourite space photos. It's Pluto, backlit by the Sun, imaged by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Look carefully and you can see the planet's irregular topography and the layering in its atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI
A thin, blue-white circle against the black of space.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It was great being back in Norfolk to help get out the vote for @abigailspanberger.com for Governor. Virginia – Abigail Spanberger cares about your freedoms, she will fight for your rights, and she will work every day to make your life a little bit better.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
Death Star
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Esme Weatherwax 📚🧶🦉🌳🔬📸 🌈 ally @esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
BILL, BILL, BILL, BILL, BILL!!!
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dadvans | the winnipeg jorts @dadvans.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system
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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Star Trek IV, the One with the Whales scene. Kirk is pictured in his Sydney Opera House undershirt/Red jacket uniform and standing on a Klingon ship. Background is dingy and greenish with red lights on instrument panes. Kirk's expression is like that thing when you eat way too much pasta and cheese and bread and then just want to lay down and sleep for a week. Closed caption reads, "This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture."
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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
guess I’m just posting our state flag on the daily now huh
the state flag of Virginia, showing Virtue triumphant over Tyranny and the motto “sic semper tyrannis”
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Keep the two distinct in your head.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Please no, not New Horizons.
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Evan Wilson @evanwilson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Patrick O'Brian's Stephen Maturin is an unbelievable character, in the most literal sense. Yet he compels us to suspend our disbelief, and he sticks in our mind long after we're finished with the series. A post from my dad: evanmwilson.substack.com/p/really #navalhistory
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The Unbelievable Stephen Maturin
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hanovervadems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This is worth reading/watching:
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Video: Speaking to a Packed, Fired-Up House at the Opening Night of the 2025 VA Women’s Summit, Sen. Tim Kaine Rips Youngkin – “If you won’t stand up for [UVA], will you stand up for ANYTHING?!?”
Sen. Tim Kaine was *really* on fire tonight, speaking to HUNDREDS of pumped-up people at the 2025 Women's Summit opening night. See below for video and highlights...including Sen. Kaine telling a VERY
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#PPOD: NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona 🧪 🔭
A black and white photo taken from space, looking down at the dusty surface of Mars. Between two buttes on the left and bottom right, a long, dark trail leads from the upper right to a dark speck near the middle of the bottom. The dark speck is the Curiosity rover, and the trail is its tracks.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I am obsessed with the penguin Gadsden flag
The Don't Tread on Me Gadsden flag with a penguin
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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 12/03/2025
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
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Robert Tompkins @r4tompkins.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of many creative protest signs at a Tesla dealership protest today!
A protest sign that declares “DEPORT ELON”. There’s an arrow reminiscent of a rocket flight trajectory, from Earth to Mars.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Mars, Castor and Pollux triangle. 28 February 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Orangey red planet Mars below right of centre. Star Pollux left of centre. Star Castor above centre. Numerous other star dots on a dark background.
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Robert Tompkins @r4tompkins.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“…we will not remain silent in the face of such widespread injustice. We will not turn a blind eye to the unmerciful treatment of our neighbors (as a centibillionaire gleefully dances with a chainsaw, celebrating these firings).” vaumc.org/bishop-apppo...
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Bishop, Appointive Cabinet share Pastoral Letter to Federal Workers | VAUMC
February 24, 2025 View Letter as PDF A Pastoral Letter to Federal Workers Summarily Dismissed from their Jobs To our fellow Americans who find themselves unemployed and concerned for their [...]
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 13/02/2025
Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do… We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
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Gulf Map Generator - MapQuest
Explore and customize your own Gulf region map with our interactive map tool.
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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 23/01/2025
It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶 #bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
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