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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

do NOT take an iced coffee to a job interview!!! qualified candidates bring a cooler of gatorade to dump on the interviewer

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

HiPOD: Rhythmic Layering in Arabia Terra These deposits are undergoing erosion, which has produced crenulations, pits, and jagged edges. Darker wind-blown ripples and debris has more recently covered and infilled portions of the layered deposit. uahirise.org/ESP_092890_1825

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@ryannorth.ca I am so jealous of your new couch, but also every time I notice it in the remaining episodes I'm going to be so happy to know it lives with you now

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is adorable; highly recommend if your day could use a little cheer.

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Jason Perry @volcanopele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ontario Lacus is a hydrocarbon lake near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. Measuring 235 kilometers long by 75 kilometers across, Ontario Lacus is slightly smaller than its terrestrial counterpart, Lake Ontario. Lakes on Titan are named after lakes on Earth that are roughly the same size.

RADAR SAR image of Ontario Lacus. Ontario is a dark, footprint-shaped feature in the middle of the frame. Hills surround Ontario Lacus to the north, marked by bright, rough terrain in this SAR image.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dealing with a frustrating equipment situation in one of my part time science jobs but at least the user manual has got jokes

Page 2 of the user manual has only one line of text, in the center: “This page is unintentionally left blank”, in reference to text in many manuals, standardized exams, etc. stating the opposite

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I aggressively embrace an "if you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts / just repeat to yourself 'it's just a show, I should really just relax'" ethos with fiction, so it was a new and weird experience having something really test my limits tonight (my usually-beloved* SNW).

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Mateus [ Thian & Zarvin ] @mateusboga.itch.io · 12/09/2025

Wind Farm at Night #art

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one

Instagram screenshot of Cookie Monster trying to eat the NBA championship trophy

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Wildly overselling their class's benefits may be my favorite Stock Teacher Joke. In a class for UH-60L pilots to learn to fly UH-60Ms: Instructor, after hearing my fulltime job: So are you gonna be an astronaut? Me: Applied, no luck so far. Instructor: Well when they find out you're 60M QUALIFIED…!!

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I try to be a rational person, but shout-out to the "you will get wonderful news on Saturday" fortune cookie I got a few days ago, which is singlecookiedly carrying me through a week of waiting to find out about two opportunities I would really, really love to get (a science job and a short course).

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Went into my grad school office boxes in the basement looking for my handout binder from Instrumental Analysis. Didn't find it, but did find one solitary Mineralogy lab report from my first year--doing thin section sketches every week was such a pleasure but also always felt like it took FOREVER

Colored pencil sketch of a hornblende schist thin section under cross-polarized light

Colored pencil sketch of a sillimanite-garnet gneiss thin section under cross-polarized light

Colored pencil sketch of a glaucophane schist thin section under cross-polarized light

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Keyboard shortcuts to change text color without lifting my fingers from the keyboard. Red for placeholder text, green for things I need to fact-check, blue for wording that sucks, black for final-ish text. Somehow color-coding a first draft makes it easier for me to let a sentence be bad & move on.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

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Save NASA Science Action Hub

Updates and actions on the proposed cuts to NASA science in FY 2027.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 02/04/2026

There’s a 10-day livestream with just external camera images from Artemis II with no commentary www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

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NASA's Artemis II Live Views from Orion

YouTube video by NASA

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barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

YouTube video by NASA

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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Took today off to prep for a con I'm going to w/friends who are visiting. Big thing I have left to do is debug the Arduino controller software, which is not a great vacation from debugging my GCM setup, but my warmup task was getting the BD unit's head LEDs working and I am _so_ thrilled with them.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

From NASA Now give that a quick stir 🥣 Landsat 8 caught a swirl of sediment – known as "glacial flour" – flowing in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system. Glacial flour is rock that has been pulverized by a glacier. It's a critical source of nutrient for phytoplankton webs.go.nasa.gov/47fZBlD

A blue-green fjord seen from above. At the top of the frame, a bright glacier is flowing into the water. Glacial flour material is flowing from the glacier into a swirling pattern in the water.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Oh hey, going through old voicemails just reminded me that I missed my ten-year defense anniversary the week before last! Using this as an excuse to show off the beautiful Dorsa Argentea Formation cake Lauren Jozwiak made for me at the time.

A round cake with chocolate frosting all over and the geological units of the Dorsa Argentea Formation in turquoise, yellow, orange, and white buttercream.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Cú Chulainn gets called everything from Coca-Cola to Choo-Choo Train by his friends and caretakers, but we got a new one from the vet's office today: Garth. Mail merge error, I assume, but considering we already occasionally call him Andraste's Mabari (iykyk) I'm adding Garth to the nickname list.

A medium-sized brindle dog with black ears and muzzle (Cú Chulainn, or maybe Garth) is disappointed in me.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

LRT: I try to keep the shitposting to a minimum here, but so help me God, if a semi-topical Wraith Squadron reference crosses my skyline in 2026 it's getting reposted

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy Year of the Horse everyone.

Hohass Ekwesh, the X-wing horse pilot from the Expanded Universe.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is a Must Read.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

5 classes you took in college [my ~top 5] - Climate Dynamics (as @climatebook.bsky.social was finalizing the Climate Book) - Evol. Hist. of Terrestr. Ecosys. (pterosaur term paper!) - Electronics (8h lab/wk, 💙d all 8) - E&M II (finally felt like I "got" physics) - Natural Hist. of N American Deserts

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Carved out some time to hit up the Brett Allen Johnson show on its last day at the Maxwell Alexander Gallery, hands down one of my favourite working artists:

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LeCaffeinated @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

That S3 will continue next year is *really* helpful to know. Still unsure whether Congress approving a larger budget would actually mean more funding, how best to avoid playing myself with the year-between-resubmissions rule in the current environment, etc. but at least that's one question answered.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15/12/2025

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

The cockpit of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Two bare-bones chairs, a lot of 70s/80s monitors with system indications, and even more analog switches and readouts.

The bridge of the Star Cruiser Halcyon, late of Star Wars / Walt Disney World. Several huge viewports overlooking a blue planet, a blue central table, and a dozen or two consoles with assorted toggles/switches. The ship's atrium is visible through a large pill-shaped window opposite the forward viewports.

The Command Information Center of the Normandy SR-2 from Mass Effect, with a large holographic galaxy map at the center.

Several consoles from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise as seen in Strange New Worlds, with monitors showing displays of ship systems in orange and white edge lighting on almost every surface.

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/10/2025

"To call her death merely a suicide misses the larger truth—no suicide happens in a vacuum. Policies designed to make life unlivable for transgender people bear responsibility too; every trans suicide is a murder by those in power." www.erininthemorning.com/p/every-tran...

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Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power

News came this week that transgender athlete and student Lia Smith took her life at just 21 years of age.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Submitted my first ever faculty application! It would obviously be incredibly exciting if I get an interview, but I'm also just really glad to have gone through the process of assembling a teaching statement, etc. for the first time.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Off the top of my head, the cover of Sleep All Summer by the National and St. Vincent... this probably also doubles as a response to that "what is your most Millennial opinion" meme that was going around again a week or two ago.

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The National and St. Vincent - Sleep All Summer (Crooked Fingers Cover)

YouTube video by deedu

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Sean David @vaccinium-sultan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Makapuʻu-Stage #Koʻolau Basalt has the most radiogenic Sr87/86 of #Hawaiʻi #lavas, low εNd, Hf176/177, and Pb206/204, and high La/Nb and Sr/Nb indicating a filament of recycled material (secondary garnet #pyroxenite via #eclogite) of the Hawaiian ULVZ associated with the Pacific LLSVP. #geology

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I met the world's cutest integrating sphere at NIST this week.

A blue on the outside, white on the inside integrating sphere (object that scatters light that enters through one of its apertures around its inside surface to homogenize it before it enters a detector). The position of one of the bottom holes makes one of the top holes look like a big, cute cartoon eye.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This passage nearly broke me.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson

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