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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 2h

sorry i guess i didn’t realize doing a bunch of ketamine and emailing the pope was a valid avenue of research

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

friends of the internet and foes of the blogosphere ✨ the time has come 🛸 now YOU can register to learn the super duper secret answer* to the Drake Equation 👽 * subject to outlandish error bars

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

✨ coming to Spotify/Apple/+ October 5! 🌎 open.spotify.com/show/5UdzJ90...

title card for shaping science with nick dirks

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ok now the M train has become a J train terminating at a non-J-train station

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i’m ok! i’m just 45 minutes late for class now 💀 no exam today i guess

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

electric chair for whoever pulled the emergency stop on an L train halfway out of my station during rush hour

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HELLO WORLD 🌎🌍🌏 STARSHIPS IS NOW OUT ON 12.5% OF SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETS

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new publicity photos for a new era ⭐️ 📸 Gabi Coronel 📍 @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social

me in a criterion closet type vibe bookstore corner

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

like i think he was using his macbook as a tray for his boba tea and nothing else

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the rabbit actually belongs to the man holding a macbook on his lap, who later exited the train holding both without a bag for the laptop

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i’m not mad a guy’s taking up a seat with his rabbit on the train at rush hour but i am mad he’s standing in front of it so i can’t see it bro let me see your rabbit LET ME SEE YOUR RABBIT

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

read the book that cats nationwide are calling “flat,” “highly sittable,” and “unlikely to be pushed into the litter box”: bookshop.org/p/books/clou...

a black cat sitting on a copy of my book looking VERY polite

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

forgot my book AND my headphones this morning on my commute now it’s just me in my mind palace

spongebob at the bus stop in rock bottom

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

vietnam era jump boots for $12 at the thrift today 😎

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“i drank a red bull and immediately fell asleep:” the neurodivergent story

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

when you ask me to commute from bushwick to long island city to teach physics this is who you’re asking btw

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ever wonder: 🛸 are aliens real? ☀️ is our solar system unique? 🌍 how can we tell if there’s life on another planet? 📈 should we destroy capitalism? 🧑‍🔬 how could i become an astrobiologist? CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS has the answer! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...

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Cloudy with a Chance of Starships: How the Drake Equation Reveals the Odds of Life in the Cosmos

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i didn’t buy it! i just saw it at the bodega 😅 figured there was a good chance it the can design was slop

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

for only $5.99 you can see the face of god in your local bodega

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last night was a dream come true! Went on the roof and saw a supernova for the first time! That's galaxy NGC 7331, which is 45 million light years away. It was a Type Ia supernova: a thieving white dwarf steals so much material from a companion that it collapses under its own mass! 🤩🔭

A photo of a little spiral galaxy with red lines pointing to a blueish dot right off the galactic center

A photo of a little spiral galaxy with red lines pointing to a blueish dot right off the galactic center - similar to the other one but zommed in

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new hole in the wall burger joint on my street has an off-the-charts amazing smashburger. talked to the chef and found out he’s actually anthony bourdain’s protege 🤯 like no wonder i just tasted pure love in burger form

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

he just really loves finnigans wake apparently (and then he asked me on a date 😒)

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

HE WAS OVER HALFWAY THROUGH i was so shocked i actually asked him about it

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the 7th edition! and the FOURTH appearance of East of Eden on the train 🤯

Red Rising - Pierce Brown
Ulysses - James Joyce
Theo the Golden - Allen Levi
Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki
Murakami
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book — Denys
Watkins-Pitchford
The Deer Park - Norman Mailer
Trauma - Michael Palmer
A Dance with Dragons - George RR Martin
One Piece — Eiichiro Oda
Deep Cuts — Holly Brickley
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett Divide And Conquer - Carrie Ryan
A Court of Thorns and Roses — Sarah J Maas
Baby Love - Rebecca Walker
The House of Cross - James Patterson
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman
Salt - Mark Kurlansky
A Storm of Swords — George RR Martin
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
All Carry — Gene Wojciechowski

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you haven't read the short story "Crown Shyness" by C.M. Fields / @toomanyspectra.bsky.social in our 🌟August 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! Find it here: havenspec.com/fiction/crow...

Teaser image of the short story "Crown Shyness" by C.M. Fields in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, published August 2026. The text in the image is an excerpt of the piece below the cover image, titled "Quietness in Amber" and made by Caroline Jamhour. The image features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

guy busking at grand central has a pile of resumes out front featuring his MS degree 😐

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

happy pon farr day to all who celebrate 🖖

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

STOP asking AI for wrong answers. ask me instead. mine are much funnier.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

does anyone have advice for joining an RPG game that doesn’t end in a lesbian divorce

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday #GW150914! 11 years ago today, we caught our first gravitational wave, and founded a new type of astronomy A decade later, we now have hundreds of observations! 🔭🧪🎂

Classic plot showing GW150914. Filtered data from LIGO Livingston and LIGO Hanford are shown, both show the characteristic signal of a binary black hole. Crucially, data from the two observatories agree, indicating a real signal.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 13/09/2026

Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier’s Mothers of Invention gives the nine Greek muses new voices – and lets them loose on creativity. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan enjoys a fun, if acerbic, new history

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Can the Greek muses of ancient myth explain modern society? | New Scientist

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

12 hours of blender-wrangling later… halo vs disk star kinematics 🥳✨🌌

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

an animal becomes a mushroom when it is massive enough to ignite hydrogen fusion in its core

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

much in the same vein that planets are failed stars animals are failed mushrooms

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

like surely this violates /some/ law ?? lawyers of bluesky ??

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

someone in my building is getting sued but rather than serving them whoever’s suing just taped the document straight to the door for everyone entering the building to see

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