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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this week's episode of @itsgotstartrek.bsky.social @dang-bitz.bsky.social melted my brain by making what must (MUST) be the first ever reference to DS9's episode Allamaraine as the positive side of a comparison (around 52 minutes, "At least in Allamaraine...") 🤯🖖💀

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somehow this has become my most ever viewed photo on Flickr (I feel certain that they'll realize they've made a mistake and will remove my photo). Just gonna put it here that I simply pointed my shitty-ass cell phone camera at mother nature. She did all the heavy lifting. flic.kr/p/2smhBoe

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More from the caribou herd

A great way to start our day on the Dalton Highway

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Awwwwe! I remember a time when the National Weather Service had sufficient staffing to predict things like rain.

Raindrops caught on a screen window. Too bad nothing about this rain was predicted in the forecast or even shown as currently happening on the weather app.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

School is back in session and we're back in person at the "reference desk." I was delighted to see this wee accoutrement that I'd forgotten I'd put at the desk months ago. 🖖🏻

Mouse pad with text "Zefram Cochrane Memorial Library - Starfleet Academy - San Francisco, Earth" sits with a computer mouse and keyboard partially covering it.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I love it! And yet I think perhaps there are more people who would love this book so I'm sharing again. I both do, and do not want October to arrive already 😅

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm more of a borrow from the library first then if I love it, buy it kind of person. But in this case, I'm all in on the pre-order! Join us!

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm very, very late to the mountain discourse. But I have to say, the Rocky Mountains feeeed my soul. You can have your mountains that eat yours.

Rusted rock in the foreground, pointy Canadian Rockies in the background.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am ready to see all y'alls #STLV posts and I shall not be in the least bit jealous that y'all planned better than I did and are actually attending for the 60th anniversary😂🖖

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There were a lot of things I didn't photograph on my trip through the Sacramento River Delta today. This is just one I couldn't resist posting from Locke.

Some sort of old timey machine that says Hot Peanuts. I can't really imagine, let alone describe how I think all the drawers and pipes would lead to such a thing.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I finally finished up a last bit of chair work from that policy committee. AND I dodged being chair of another committee. What a wonderful day 🎉🙌

Seals chilling on some ice floating in the most beautiful, calm waters of Prince William Sound.

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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A crow organizing their collection of crinkled gum wrappers. #grickledoodle #crow #gum

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gates of the Arctic National Park, you are breathtaking 💙⛰️

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just chilling in the Arctic enjoying the wildlife. Lol, chilling as in relaxing, it's like 60-something out there.

Two adult musk ox (oxen?) nosh on grass with two babies nearby.

Attic swans out hanging about in the water with some ducks.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Bsky ate my post so have this one shot of a raft of sea otters living their best otter lives in Prince William Sound - now with a glacier in the background!

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 13/06/2026

who in Toronto wants 8000 pounds of free Star Trek rocks because TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY readysetrecycle.net/advert/free-...

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I'd consider it a miracle if I finished even one book on this, my latest physical TBR pile 😅📚

From top to bottom, these are the books in the pile in the photo:
[A tan book] Space in Medieval Painting and the Forerunners of Perspective
[A purple book] Pronoun Trouble
[A teal book] Useless Etymology
[A red book] To Shape a Dragon's Breath
[A pink book] Knight of a Trillion Stars
[A blue-green book] The Unicorn Quest
[An orange spine of a white book] Stony the Road

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I keep looking for mitigating factors, or ways the impact of these new policies (which are already being applied, at least in part, per recent anecdotes/reporting) might have been overstated. And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I just happen to be reading a 1994 Anne Stuart romance where I'm seeing mentions of internet, satellite radio, and Taylor Swift. I don't know why I'm so shocked anybody would take the time to update a category romance which - trust me - is still mired in all its 1990s-ness even with the tweaks.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There was very little there there but at least Grogu and the wee alien peeps were cute and funny as ever. Heartfelt awwes all around!

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Hmmm, my now that my worst committee commitment has concluded, I'm pondering DragonCon again. I'm just gonna post this photo to inspire me into some action soon (this is the awesome shit that DragonCon delivers).

2019 DragonCon panel hosted by Garret Wang featuring Mary Chieffo, Shazad Latif, and Ethan Peck.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I love that a local brewery whipped up a few special beers to help the local food bank celebrate its 50th anniversary. Lol, too bad I wasn't bike enough to ask for a can to take home to add to my collection 😁🍺

Two beer cans with light blue labels with text reading
Urban Roots
50 Years
Nourish 916
West Coast IPA

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Perhaps the first time in my life (ever!) that I'm aware of all the parties involved. Which, really is why I'm so unwilling to fully engage in fandom (people are exhausting!) Nonetheless, not as exhausting as Star Trek writers who can't/don't/won't take the time to understand their source material.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I held out as long as I could, but today I succumbed to the library-ness* of it all and bought what is, to me, the sole piece of awesome official Starfleet Academy merch. *Some of the exterior shots of Starfleet Academy from 2009's Star Trek were taken in front of the library at CSU Northridge

Image of a sticker with text that says Zefram Chochrane Memorial Library Starfleet Academy San Francisco, Earth. On top of the text is the image of a library that has a passing resemblance to the front of the CSU Northridge Library with the Golden Gate Bridge lurking in the background beneath a red sky filled with stars.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Went to the sci-fi panel at the Sacramento Book Festival today. Best answer to worst question about where authors see their writing in five years: wants there to be a time when he tells people he's an author and they don't respond with "Have you written anything I've heard of?" 🤣📚

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#Artemis II 🚀 Two more images released today by NASA Pic 1 - A closer shot of the lunar surface showing finer detail of the crater damage on the moon Pic 2 - Artemis II pilot Victor Glover taking in the view of the moons surface during the lunar flyby

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Image Description: A closer shot of the lunar surface showing finer detail of the crater damage on the moon

Image Credit: NASA

Image Description: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover taking in the view of the moons surface during the lunar flyby

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Not gonna lie, I may have chuckled just a wee bit when I saw the weather forecast calls for a change in route. Maybe because it takes me back to my youth when train chasing took a bit of effort. I salute those who will take the time and effort to photograph Big Boy on its alternate route tomorrow.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#Artemis II 🚀 Mission Commander Reid Wiseman after being collected from the Orion Spacecraft “On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles”

Photo Credit: Reid Wiseman

Photo Description: On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

Photo Description Credit: Reid Wiseman

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It was a real clouducopia out there today - and I didn't take a single photo 😆☁️

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#Artemis II - Mission Control flip their mission patches to the return side as instructed by Orion crew “Integrity we are earth bound and ready to bring you home” We now see the crescent of the earth as Orion’s signal beams back, which marks the beginning of their journey back to Earth 🚀🌕🌍

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I have room in my heart for all four 😍🌑🌏

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I have never heard that much laughter (I don't want to presume, but I think I can say so much women's laughter 😍) for a podcast covering the Hobbit trilogy. To which I can only express so much LOOOOVE! I adore both the laughter and insightful points made 🤓 🧙‍♀️ hatelovepodcast.com/477-the-hobb...

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I Hate It But I Love It: 477: The Hobbit (with Kyah Green & Stephanie Malek)

This week, we're covering a series of films that has made everyone go, "What? Why?" It's The Hobbit trilogy, and joining us are LOTR superfans and hosts of The Fandom Show, Steph Malek and Kyah Green!...

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#Artemis II - NASA Briefing They've kicked off today's briefing by sharing one of the amazing photos taken by mission commander Reid Wiseman, this one shows the terminator line, which marks where day is turning into night. 🚀🌕

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Jeff Foust @jfoust.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Good: getting some external images from Orion. Bad: the crew is troubleshooting the toilet.

External view showing part of Orion and the Earth.

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Tetraethyl @tetraethyl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

What a fucking shot holy shit

Screenshot from the NASA Artemis II launch livestream showing the core stage separation from a camera on the rocket.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very emotional to watch Artemis II liftoff successfully. My lil heart was very nervous for the whole thing (I was watching in 4th grade when the Challenger came to its terrible end) and I couldn't look away until the solar array was deployed ok.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm amused at how young they all look 😅😂 I'm making my plans to catch it when it/they are in my neck of the woods. (LOL, I read too many railroad photography books last year and I need to keep my expectations of my photography skills in check 😆).

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Got my #StarfleetAcademy themed San Francisco Public Library card today. It was a beautiful day in the city 🤓🖖🏻📚

Library card with a Star Fleet chevron with Golden Gate Bridge, tall buildings, and the Athena set inside.

Rear of library card with Library info and text saying Star Trek Starfleet Academy P+ Original. This card design was created in partnership with Paramount+ for the new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, now streaming on Paramount+. With a mini keychain card covering the barcode.

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Giggling with delight seeing both a new Spider Man AND a new Dune movie trailer. Let's just say I've been weeping for something enticing in this general genre for me to see on the big screen (my very low expectations for Project Hail Mary haven't been cutting it). m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9v...

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Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser Trailer

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I don't know if this is better or worse than the basketball type (it's worse, so much worse).

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sparklebeam.bsky.social @sparklebeam.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Taking a break from all things modern to re-watch The Sting. It kinda melts my mind that I hadn't ever heard of The Sting before my dad had it on when I visited him a few months ago. Here in the now, I can't even begin to tell you how awesome the Scott Joplin rags sound via my sound bar.

Still shot from the movie The Sting. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are grifters dressed up in tuxedos with a very fancy bar seen behind them.

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