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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious

@rachellense.bsky.social
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Science communicator, writer, artist | She/They 🏳️‍🌈 | Views = mine 📃 Online Portfolio (rachellense.com)

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
god if I ever got given the reigns of trek I would write a series following a troupe of Klingon bards, a concept that doesn't really *formally* exist but we've seen the edges of -- they love opera, they love tales of great deeds, there's gotta be a class of dudes who make it a living off it
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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Hearse
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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Katie Porter’s White Board @ohdangitevie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This poor cat has been fated to answer phones in a call center for life.
White cat with black markings that look like a call center headset
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'd murder a burrito
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jester 🃏 #Art by Michele Melcher
Jester skully with tri-cornered hat
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Look at this sweet old man with his little pink nose. 17 years young and still loves to cuddle and pose for the camera.
A closeup shot of a gray and white kitty with dark yellow eyes and a light pink nose. His eyes are half open with a relaxed gaze, his head resting on its side with his hind paw curled up to meet it. The fur is clumped in places, an indication of age and limited flexibility, but he still appears healthy and soft.
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More Raven photos😀 I took this yesterday afternoon as the Ravens were sat relaxing in the sunshine. They were hot so were opening their beaks to cool down. I think it is interesting to see inside a Ravens mouth! 😅
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2020 v 2026
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⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆spookiki ⋆⁺₊🧿.˚⊹ @yourmotherxo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To be an artist. Make some art > does it look terrible? > yes / no > you are an artist > make more art
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@dennisgoris.bsky.social
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a perfect summation of the tech broligarchy
“These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🧪 Link to paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Screenshot of the linked paper abstract that reads: 
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning loses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning loss.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I feel attacked #booksky
You’re doing a lot of scrolling for someone who has a book to read
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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is how Stella looks at you when she loves you. My 26 yr old son is her favorite human. She adores him. This pic is her looking at him. Don't ever tell me animals are incapable of love.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/07/2026
🎬 That's a wrap on our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest retrospective! This supercut stitches together highlights from this year's entries, showing how filmmakers transformed #publicdomain films, books, cartoons, music, and more from 1930 into something new. ▶️ archive.org/details/2026...
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
For those newly (or renewly) interested in antiquity and the Classics: welcome! If you are at all curious to learn more about the history of ancient Greece and its literature, I implore you to listen to one Doug Metzger's Literature and History podcast: literatureandhistory.com/episode-012-...
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Homer's Odyssey, Books 1-8
Adventure, monsters, temptresses, and a whole lot of wine-dark Aegean. Learn all about the world of Homer’s Odyssey.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I love baikal seals. what if there was a real animal that looked like an alien dog that's constantly on the verge of tears
Niko the seal, dark and fat, opening his mouth to say something, presumably "ough". his eyes appear to be filled with tears a baikal seal holding onto a toy love heart. its eyes are HUGE, uncannily huge, and reflecting distant lightsa baby baikal seal. imagine a grey alien except filled his mischief, like that movie Paul, but fluffy. a baikal seal perks up, presumably having seen a fish or perhaps a friend. its eyes are, say it louder for everybody in the back, uncannily fucking huge and shiny, like boba the size of grapefruit
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. The title above the comic reads, "The organs are a team."
The first panel shows a drawing of a stomach. The stomach says, "I digest food so it can become energy."
The second panel shows a drawing of a heart. The heart says, "I use energy to pump blood."
The third panel shows a drawing of a liver. The liver says, "I take that blood and filter it."
The fourth panel shows a drawing of a brain. The brain says, "I will actively sabotage all of you."
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Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Razem Zduńska Wola
@RazemJmperium
* Parody account
his children's love
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FAREEDA KIRI
Name one thing that Elon musk can't buy
@Faridatu001.3d
1:17 AM • 6/17/26 • 3.3M Views
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I saw The Odyssey this weekend (it was incredible; I've never felt so emotionally connected to the story) and came away with many thoughts. One of them: Antinous is my favorite Robert Pattinson role--I love it even more than his character in The Lighthouse. So delightfully weaselly. 10/10, no notes
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mixed breed?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/07/2026
My brain 100% insists this is bad PhotoShop. So, yeah, the sun is resting on my brain. Wow.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sweet.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It never gets old.
Two fluffy paws can be seen floating behind a pile of blankets in a darkened room, the rest of the dog obscured but assuredly there, deep in the throes of blissful sleep.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Let it be known that this is what I wake up to every morning.
A sleeping monster ostensibly made entirely of paws and fluff overwhelm the viewer The monster, viewed from a different angle. No sense can be made of what is seen as the viewer is once again overwhelmed by paws and fluff.
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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Seems like a good time to remind people the USWNT has won 4 World Cups! ⚽️
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“He’s behind me, isn’t he.” “Yep.” “Is he making that stupid face?” “Yep.”
A kitten, looking forlorn as another one stands on hind legs behind them, front paws up, teeth bared.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Did I commission a watercolor painting of the algae-filled reflecting pool from the incomparable @artologica.net? Yes. Yes, I did. It is just as amazing as you'd expect. Now to build a frame for it.
Reflecting pool watercolor painting.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hear ye, hear ye! I have obtained gainful employment of the utmost import: From August through October of this year, I shall be aiding patrons who wish to procure costumes of the finest nature at the Maryland Renaissance Festival! Huzzah!! 🎉
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Over a year after trying to buy InfoWars, The Onion hasn't given up despite legal setbacks I caught up with @bencollins.bsky.social on why it launched a parody anyway, what it's borrowing from the Alex Jones playbook, and plans for "total world domination" www.status.news/p/infowars-t...
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Winning The InfoWars
The Onion chief Ben Collins spoke to Status about its InfoWars takeover, reaction from Alex Jones’ followers, and plans for “total world domination.”
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just learned that diners were designed and named after the dining car on trains and this never occurred to me despite some of them literally being train cars and being named “this is a pretend train you are eating in”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And the same for authors and books
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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My heavenly vessel.
A three-panel comic.

In the first panel, a person lies on a rug next to a cat. Text reads: "i love my body".

In the second panel, the person strikes a pose, smiling and bending one knee. Text reads: "it's kind of weird but".

In the third panel, the person blasts off from Earth into space, surrounded by glittering stars. Text reads: "it gets me where i'm going". An elephant down on Earth watches.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@startorialist.com - Space Pride on display in my living room 🌌🌈🌌
A colorful living room features two large fluffy dogs and the Space Pride flag hanging on the wall above the couch
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.
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The Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families
The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
still thinking about the time my brother made my food-allergic nephew a birthday dino-cake out of watermelon. 10/10 no notes.
Homemade dinosaur birthday cake made from carved watermelon, decorated with pineapple spikes, blueberries and strawberries. Created by a dad for his food-allergic son.
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