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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 09/01/2026

On this day in 2020, Harry Styles hits #1 on the Billboard Album Chart with his second album 'Fine Line'. A pop milestone that delivers style, swagger, and the Grammy-winning hit "Watermelon Sugar".

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Talking on the phone is my least favorite.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Today I thought "who does anyone talk to on the phone before 10:00am?" Like there are other people in the world willing to talk on the phone before 10:00am? Someone better be calling me to inform me they're on life support if they're calling me before 10:00

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/09/2025

Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Though that's nothing compared to watching a video on full volume without headphones.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I read this two hours ago and I'm still cackling

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

They'll probably impeach him for a third time but still not remove him from office.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 30/08/2025

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

People really just talk on the phone in public. Amazing.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Nothing says "I don't care about cardio" more than wearing Birkenstocks to the gym.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As my late, sainted mother used to say (yell), "it's the long skinny pedal on the right"

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Denver has to be the only city in the WORLD where people BREAK WHEN THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

When the Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft gave us our first good view of the Orientale basin it was revelatory. Not only was this giant multi ringed impact basin first revealed in its general form, other such basins were recognized across the Lunar near side. Oil paints on canvas panel.

This is an oil painting done on a 3 foot wide canvas panel. The view is dominated by the Orientale Basin, a vast sprawling depression with three concentric mountain rings surrounding a dark lava plain covering the lowest central region. The upper portions of this view are visible from Earth, with the higher lighter cratered highlands contrasting with the dark Maria plains filling the lowlands.

This oil painting was done about 1970, referring to numerous original prints of this giant impact basin. It took over a month, starting from a perspective drawing that I scaled up to the panel size. The large dark region near the middle is Mare Orientale, the 'Sea of the East', named by German astronomer Julius Franz in 1906 back when Lunar East and West were 'flipped', used in reference to the Terrestrial viewer rather than the Lunar globe. In the mid 20th century Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore made observations and described this Maria 'lake'. which is at the very edge, or limb', of the Moon as seen from Earth. At the most favorable orientation, or libration, of the Moon the far 'shore' of this large lave lake can barely be seen. In 1962 Arizona's Lunar and Planetary laboratory, under the great planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, produced a Lunar atlas showing overhead views of the regions of the moon visible from Earth. This was accomplished by taking the best full disk lunar photos and projecting them with a narrow angle lens onto a white hemisphere at the end of a long hall. On the photos showing the Western limb the new view looking 'down' on the feature suddenly revealed the concentric mountain rings for the first time. William Hartmann, planetary scientist and artist, was first to realize the significance of this feature and soon found similar and more degraded or lava buried examples across the Lunar near side. Orientale was recognized, particularly with the aid of the Lunar Orbiter photos, as the youngest and best preserved of the giant Lunar impact basins.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Oh you picked a great one to start with! The second is (in my opinion) even better.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Truly the one silver lining in all of this is that most of these idiots have the attention span of a gold fish.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful,” Musk said. “But I don’t know if it could be both.” It really doesn't get much worse than this. Except from the cheeto himself!!!

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This weekend at the Denver Botanic Gardens!

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I'm glad they didn't give him that attention. But those guys are intimidating.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Feels like a missed opportunity for the Vatican not to have placed a Swiss Guard right next to 47.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

All I really want is for people to stop wearing sandals in the winter.

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My painting WISCONSIN FARM

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Good Food Kitchen @goodfood.kitchen · 20/03/2025

Happy Spring Equinox, everyone. Longer days, a change in the air, and the first magnolias opening—spring is here. #SpringEquinox

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today has been weird but I did get to see some Keith Haring in person and it was really cool.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Adulthood is relatively exhausting but then I remember that sometimes it looks like this and I feel okay again.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Even the fallen petals were beautiful.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Actually, if we're being real, J. Cole is the right answer.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

For the record though, Kendrick is the right answer.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sometimes I listen to Kendrick and Drake on the same day just to keep things interesting.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Higher education, hopes and dreams? In this economy?

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I have no idea what possessed me to pursue an MBA.

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I was just screaming about this the other day! They knew! And no one listened!!!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I just want a music streaming platform with a good algorithm.

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abel @abelwithatable.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I cancelled my subscription two weeks ago and still don't regret it. But glad they kind of finally got it?

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Northern Vortex of Terror, Jupiter. Juno Perijove 15.

A jagged and dark cyclone.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It wears me out that these are the battles these people are picking. "Master bedroom" and capitalizing Black is going to be the hill they decide to die on!

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

‘Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.’ — James Baldwin

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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm almost willing to pay more just so the 70 million who voted for this, suffer.

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