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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

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Man, standing on a cliff in front of a lighthouse: I am a lighthouse keeper
man scrubbing wall of lighthouse: I keep her bricks nice and clean
Man turning off the power to the lighthouse at night: I turn her light off at night so she can sleep
Man cleaning up shipwrecked bodies off the shore in front of lighthouse: I clean her Beach every morning

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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My god... the coffee scale is screaming

My right hand pressing into a small coffee scale on a wooden cutting board. The scale's display shows "EEEE"

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Shawn Wildermuth @wildermuth.com · 14h

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the 1990s, a Japanese diver saved an injured fish 56 feet underwater, and ever since, the fish has swum to meet him on every single dive for over 25 years. Original post

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Allison Marsh @mamafoo2000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Beautiful! @seamus.bsky.social inspired my bagel-making since I live in FL and can't find a decent bagel that's not just a 'bagel looking bread product.' I combined parts of the Montreal bagel basic recipe, with his old-world polish recipe & PROCESS. Best bagels. Ever.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was such a treat to find these gorgeous little green cup mushrooms in the forest this morning. Usually all I can ever find is the bright turquoise mycelia in the rotting wood. Finding the thumbnail size fruiting bodies is pretty rare for me. Their colour is unreal. 🍄🌿

Bright turquoise green little fingernail shaped mushrooms, growing out of a rotting log

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Matthew @ironmaus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (a legal entity representing the Cowlitz people) has started a beaver kit cam to watch some young beavers get reared before relocation by wildlife services. It's pretty calming at times. Dose yourself appropriately. www.youtube.com/live/hy765ud...

A beaver kit lays against the side of its mother, who has her back to the camera, in a pile of beavers. They are atop straw and sticks inside of a fenced enclosure with a time and date stamp in the upper left.

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OpenAI ‘agents’ that hacked an Australian government website were part of a broader spate of AI bots targeting websites to gather data for training exercises, which could still be going on, according to a new report. as.ft.com/r/c02927f6-d...

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Steve Lukather fucking rules. That’s it. I say it once a decade.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Steve Lukather fucking rules. That’s it. I say it once a decade.

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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thousands of years ago, two great powers chose diplomacy over destruction. A surviving fragment of the world’s oldest known peace treaty offers a remarkable glimpse into ancient Egypt and the Hittite Empire, and a reminder that humanity’s search for peace is ancient. 🏺🕊️

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Archaeologists Find a Lost Piece of the World’s Oldest Known Peace Treaty Signed More Than 3,000 Years Ago

The 3,200-year-old fragment spells out protections for people who fled across borders.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/09/2026

I am dying of the cuteness.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no greater joy than being seen by your peers as being, on occasion, not entirely incompetent.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no greater joy than being seen by your peers as being, on occasion, not entirely incompetent.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Went to visit my old friends, who I hear in my thoughts constantly, who are responsible for all that I have and all I have done, but who I never met. But I hear them clearly in all I do. (Sorry George for cursing you so much in grad school.)

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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a sanity check, let's make sure in our cases where nonrelativistic math is good enough (low speeds compared to light speed) our new measure reduces to the nonrelativistic one we were using earlier.

$The nonrelativistic limit is one where p is very small compared to m. If we were to explicitly add the speed of light back into the formula for energy we have $E_p = \sqrt{\vec{p}^2c^2 + m^2c^4}$. So we can say\\ $$E_p = \sqrt{m^2c^4 \left( \frac{p^2}{m^2c^2} + 1\right)} = mc^2 \sqrt{1 + \frac{p^2}{m^2c^2}}$$ We can now approximate $E_p$ using the binomial approximation $(1 + x)^n \approx 1 + nx$\\ $$E_p \approx mc^2\left(1 + \frac{1}{2}\frac{p^2}{m^2c^2}\right) = mc^2 + \frac{p^2}{2m}$$ Now imagine a particle moving super slowly compared to the speed of light ($v << c$). The momentum which is mass times velocity will also be tiny, and so the term $\vec{p}^2/2m$ becomes negligible compared to the other term $mc^2$.\\ If we set c=1 we simply get:\\ $$E_p \approx m$$ So then in our nonrelativistic case even using our new measure, we get $\int \frac{d^3p}{E_p} \approx \frac{1}{m}\int d^3p$ which lines up with our nonrelativistic measure earlier! It reduces to that at low speeds (using a normalization constant factor of 1/m).\\$

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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

QFT Thread 1: "Why single-particle relativistic quantum mechanics is not possible" From my notes on my graduate quantum field theory class, and notes I took from Susskind's QM, Special Relativity & Classical Field Theory lectures. I'll get to the Lorentz algebra tomorrow.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fermentation Tourism, Seamus style. The business of umami.

Wooden barrels fermenting soy sauce in Kyoto, Japan

Shoyu fermenting in a handmade wooden barrel.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Because in all my days on the internet, more than I care to admit, I have never been able to come across something like this, which just appeared in my discover feed. And i'm so glad it did.

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PRINCE GANONDORF HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY THE DEMON QUEEN ZELDAGA ASCEND THE TOWER OF ZELDAGA TO SAVE HIM, BUT BE WARNED EVERY ROOM HOLDS A SECRET! OUT NOW legitimatebusiness.biz/tower/