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Simply Lurkin’

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Using AI is antithetical to being in right relationship with the land 💁

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is the one thing you don’t want to hear from a Tom Bombadil expert
YouTube video titled 

Tolkien Expert: You Don't Understand
Tom Bombadil
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Yuval Harpaz 𝚿👨‍🎓 📊🌌🔭 @yuvharpaz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Here I am following @melina-iras07572.bsky.social , tracking the light echo by time. The first 4 frames were captured a few weeks apart between 19 Aug and 16 Oct 2024. Then there is a 2.5 month leap to Dec 2024, and then all the way to Jul 2025. I don't understand light echo. Credits below 🔭.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Getting called on after zoning out in a meeting and replying "this used to be a vast prairie"
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Let’s go
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 24/02/2026
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
ESP_016087_2595 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/eeVSrR
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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 22/02/2026
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Sorry, I wrote this in my car because I couldn’t stop thinking about it and should’ve added more context. The message is for The Haters
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Writing without AI is just called writing
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
around the pnw with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social
a baleful mist sun seems to admonish the deck and wooden stairs leading to a mournful rock beachwooden pilings dotting gray water forming a v due to the curve of landwhite railed metal ramp leading to dock area with posts seeming to float in the air due to mistv of land and reflection jutting from left into heavy mist
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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 20/01/2026
Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...
A bar chart showing the electricity use of several daily activities with the subtitle "The 'typical query' is not a useful way to think about coding agents' energy use." The bar for a 'typical ChatGPT query' is not even visible. My median Claude Code session is somewhere between the average US household per minute and toasting bread for three minutes. My median day with Claude Code is something like running a dishwasher.
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“Nah” is simply too much for some people to bear
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - Rosetta - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/Bk7qZh
Four frame OSIRIS mosaic of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired on September 5, 2014 between 922-937 UT. Images were taken using the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera's VIS_GREEN filter. At the time Rosetta was at an altitude of 41km, and Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was at a distance of 512116000 km from the Sun.
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ESO @eso.org · 13/01/2026
The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS has been stealing the spotlight lately. But it’s not the only comet capable of putting on a show!  Here you see C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), above Paranal early last year. www.eso.org/public/images/potw2505d  📷 Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO #flashback 🔭
A sunset photograph of a white closed telescope dome with a spherical top. To its left, a comet stretches diagonally across almost the entire image. The colour of the sky changes from blue, almost purple, to golden at the horizon.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ESP_011491_0985 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/dZ9K5w
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Dave Williams @syrstorm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Yuval Harpaz 𝚿👨‍🎓 📊🌌🔭 @yuvharpaz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A test for posting to bluesky from a webapp on github. try it here. Images should be less than 𝟏𝐌𝐁 and not longer than 10 pixels. Here is 𝑈𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠 in IR, 𝐉𝐖𝐒𝐓
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🐈‍⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Oh weird, I wonder if he has some kind of monetary incentive to say this?
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
CP18_34_21_1 - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/24gPQUK
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
buckle up: we’re doin another lap around the sun
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Dione - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/8HrGzf
False color (IR1/GRN/UV3) and contrast-enhanced Cassini NAC view of Dione. 2009-12-26 14:00 UTC.

Distance: 657 000 km
Phase angle: 0.5 deg

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 24/12/2025
Great thread. Ban AI from classrooms.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Never forget the reason for the season (Earth tilting on axis)
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Wow, thank you. I feel insane
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - Rosetta - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/RmwTum
Rosetta OSIRIS-Wide Angle Camera view of Comet 67P taken during a far excursion on April 11, 2015. When this image was taken, Rosetta was located about 140 km from the comet's center, at a 90 degree phase angle, allowing the spacecraft to observe a half-lit comet. 

The day side of the comet experiences intense outgassing activity, forming the bright jets of gas and dust that face sunward. The material in these jets eventually spreads out into a diffuse cloud called the coma. The presence of the coma allowed  Rosetta to observe the comet's shadow.

Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team (MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA) / Justin Cowart
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 light-years away
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Spectacular Cosmic Collision Captured in New Hubble Image
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 light-years away
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Titan — Leading Hemisphere (N1519660399_1) - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/BxtWBD
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Astrobot JWST @astrobotjwst.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: NGC-4388-IMAGER. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Take a look at news_by_date.html
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Dust and Molecular Gas in Galactic Winds and Fountains: A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Wow! Not only can we see the disks where planets are being born around young stars, now we can sense the pull of the worlds taking shape within. Blue ovals show orbits of 31 newfound stellar companions. Bottom right: a simulation of our solar system at the same age. 🔭🧪 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
In this collage, we see the images of 31 baby star systems. The collage also shows our own Solar System for reference on the bottom right, as it is predicted to have looked at an age of 1 million years, with the Sun at its centre (not visible). All of the systems are centred around very young stars that have recently collapsed from vast clouds of gas and dust.
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ESO @eso.org · 17/12/2025
Enjoy this trip to NGC 1850, a cluster of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This cluster harbours the first small black hole outside of our galaxy to be discovered by looking at its gravitational influence on the path of the star orbiting it Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2116 🔭
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#PlutoFlyby - Cthulhu Regio - From 2di7 & titanio44 - flic.kr/p/AmvTXS
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
i’m so happy for him
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Alex is the People’s Digimon Champion, or what have you
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PushingUpRoses 🦇 @pushinguproses.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
”I am not very creative and this allows me to be.” What? No it doesn’t. It actively prohibits you from being creative. It is the opposite of being creative. It’s literally a bunch of nothing. You’re better off creating your own “bad” art versus a bunch of uninspired garbage.
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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 07/12/2025
Today I learned about Kanopy, and more people should know this: a whole ad-free streaming app you can access with your library card! Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog). apps.apple.com/us/app/kanop... 🎬📽️ #FilmSky
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Kanopy App - App Store
Download Kanopy by Kanopy on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Kanopy.
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Hey, thank you so much for this. What a revelation
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Yep
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Major victory for writers here:
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/12/2025
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter
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Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/12/2025
if I was a 12th century Cluniac monk I never would have gotten to passively watch files download at 25 MB/s and would have had to content myself with observations of babbling brooks, fields of wheat swaying in the wind, sunsets, etc
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Hell yeah
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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Ooh. Thanks!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/11/2025
one of the things Weizenbaum really nails is that our propensity to believe machine intelligence rivals our own is embedded in a deeper view of humans as being basically machines, that the ELIZA Effect is in part a product of our spiritual and cultural empoverishment... it seems the woke pope agrees
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Francine Fox @francinefox.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times. *more in comments* #nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.
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