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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the single most exciting thing in tech I’ve seen all year. I *need* this desktop

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This was such a roller coaster because I’m like nah this thing isn’t fast and then it showed me up

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond paired with Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari It was an absolutely perfect combo earlier this summer

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I’m about to turn 23 so this is terrible news before my birthday

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This is the kind of quality content that keeps me hopelessly addicted to youtube youtu.be/A3Lcf1vQFEY?...

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Can I Build an Elevator With a $1 Motor?

YouTube video by Current Concept

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I adore this! Slartibartfast may just need a new character sheet

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Beam. He may be half a letter off but still vibes with all his bean friends and they except him just the way he his

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

He’s been working there for a few years but hasn’t hosted until this week. He killed it all three nights though

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Josh Johnson has been single-handedly getting me through 2025 with his weekly standup and he rocked the Daily Show this week 🙌

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Imagine explaining the current world situation to someone from 2015 and then adding “but I can remotely operate my 3D printer from my backyard so it’s not *all* bad”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

After many many years of holding out I finally bought a 3D printer and man having something to look forward to is such a game changer

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

git commit, git push, git out

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It’s #EngineersWeek and I’m flattered to have my photography work featured by @olincollege.bsky.social 👀 www.olin.edu/articles/sto...

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STORY: Designing the Future with Photography

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

*This* is what the internet is for

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“There is yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Reminds me of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/th...

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The Last Question

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This sounds like old Hank at a retirement home waiting for someone to say “that’s nice, dear” and give him some apple juice

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I was googling a frog from the late Cretaceous period when Google AI helpfully informed me that its “conservation status” is extinct. Hate to crush anyone’s dreams of starting a breeding program, but the giant dinosaur-eating frog Beelzebufo went extinct 65 million years ago.

Beelzebufo (the ‘devil frog’) grew over a foot long and weighed about 10 pounds

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So some degree of ignorance is required to make the world go ‘round. How do we develop systems with this in mind? How do we accredit real experts? How can we develop education that teaches the next generation to think critically? This is a big, tough problem but I don’t think it’s unsolvable.

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I think it’s important not to let the chaos overshadow the beauty, though. Through specialization we’ve developed such a detailed understanding of science. Because we can have people who spend their entire career within a hyper-specific field we unlock innovations like the mrna vaccine

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

On one hand it’s absolutely amazing. We’ve built so many things that no one person can understand fully. On the other hand it can be so chaotic that it becomes dysfunctional, even within a single institution. As a group we become more powerful than one, but that’s not at all a linear relationship

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When I said “this can’t get any worse” I was not, in fact, asking the universe for an additional two weeks of Covid. That was not a dare, and I’d appreciate if the genie terribly misinterpreting my wishes could please stop

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social once said during the pandemic “The only way out is through and the only way through is together” That’s one of those things that’s stayed with me. It’s still true. It always will be.

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’d make the argument it’s actually very Sci and not very Fi for the fish

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’m always entertained by the flow of “oh, my bad! I was so wrong, and I see that now. How silly of me! Anyway here’s another blatantly wrong answer I’m going to deliver just as confidently”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Disney really did us dirty making us think there was quicksand around every corner

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I had a dream where as a society we collectively started sending all emails with the introduction: Hello, I hope you’re doing well amongst the chaos of our contemporary hellscape.

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I feel like I got a messed up genie wish

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

When I said I couldn’t wait to get some rest over the break I did not mean a week in bed with Covid :/

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This feels like one of those things people would use as an exaggerated example of something boring but I would actually be totally be interested in

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

We’re half way through the darkness 😌

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Let the world's largest iceberg inspire you: Even after spending months spinning in the same spot, you too can become unstuck.

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of my special talents is google slides

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It was a blast from the balcony!

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This has been Kat Canavan bringing you hot takes so incredibly cold that they could chill the next generation of quantum computers

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Non-navigable rivers deserve their own Wikipedia page

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Says the guy who wrote multiple books about how it’s aliens

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I will personally give you a tour

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hank while you're in the area you *have* to check out Olin. You'd be facinated by it

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I imagine a conversation that was something along the lines of Person 1: “I don’t know, I guess I’m just feeling…whelmed.” Person 2: “Oh, whelmed? Must be nice. I’m OVERwhelmed.” Person 1: “Okay, but it’s not a competition.” Person 2: “Tell that to my to-do list. It’s winning.”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Like if someone asked me how I was and I said “pretty whelmed” am I not saying I’m on the brink of drowning?

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently and “whelmed” actually feels a whole like what we use “overwhelmed” for

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ah, yes, finals season. When I and kindred spirits have far too much work to do in so little time and ask ourselves in agony, “Why, pray tell, did we decide to do so many things this semester?”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My goal in life for the past 10 years or so has been to do something interesting enough for @hankgreen.bsky.social to notice

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It’s getting me through finals season

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I was recently at Barnes and Noble and, yeah, I share your feels. I so badly wanted to find a cozy spot and sit there like it was a library all day. I’m always enamored by the pop science section. Maybe I just haven’t been to many bookstores since the pandemic

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

They’d never do this but it would be so interesting to see a monthly breakdown of how the algorithm profiled you each month. The algorithm influences what I watch which influences what I like which influences what I watch etc

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

That being said I think if I saw the number of hours I’ve spent on YouTube in a year I would question my entire life

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