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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I love when you go to the furthest east country in Europe and they’re like “nu, we wouldn’t consider ourselves ‘eastern european’ per se”

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

US is eliminated, Mexico is eliminated, 4th of July is over… for the first time in weeks the conditions are becoming perfect to NOT be woken up by fireworks exploding in front of my house at 1 am

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Someone needs to do some investigative journalism on the sheer number of scam dentists in California. It is out of control

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

personally, I do not like it when u wake up to an AQI of 200+ due to an industrial fire near your house that has been burning for 3 days

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My legacy of fame continues to be nearly dying of a medieval disease in an LA teaching hospital in 2022. I am apparently the subject of a case study. This is by far my most significant contribution to the academic literature.

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

every time I’ve ever been to Vegas I’m like ok since I’m here let me try a little gambling. Put $5 on red, immediately lose it, walk out of the casino 51 seconds later like that’s Vegas baby!!

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Congratulations to my mom! She graduated from Pasadena City College with her associate‘s degree 🥳

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

personally I think it’s great that they made a WNBA for men

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

if you had told grad school me 4 years ago that I would honestly work way more in a job than I did in the PhD I would probably have thrown up on the spot

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Nothing has shaken my worldview like looking back on my high school yearbook and discovering that my - at the time - impossibly old and weird history teacher was in fact like 36 and hot

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

major things are happening in my life… at long last I have received access to the supercomputer

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect 😎

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

you must admit that an international flight is one of the only places where you will be abruptdly awoken from a dead sleep at 3:19 am to eat stew

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

got up in the night and caught my cat staring at the moon through the skylight 🥹

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Never make eye contact with someone wielding a clipboard on the sidewalk

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

you step into a shop and at some point back out again into the same cool evening

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Prestige is a funny movie to me because it’s a pair of identical twin magicians pretending to be the same person, but only mid-way into their career did they think to develop a trick that made use of that fact

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

this morning instead of changing the time I accidentally abolished the concept of clock time entirely so you all are free now

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A quintessentially LA experience you can have is buying the best coffee of your life for $8 in a shop where everyone is wearing tiny sunglasses and mechanics shirts. there is also an absolutely gigantic baby in there for some reason

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It’s always a joy to see a space movie bring the stories of science and engineering to life, and it was super cool to have a visit from the cast, crew, and author of Project Hail Mary yesterday.

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It is great when you watch your 2 year old niece for the weekend and then find chicken nuggets stashed in your shoes like a squirrel‘s cache for winter

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

what’s up sharks, my Idea is for a chain of coffeeshops. one set will be called “This Is A Date” and a separate set will be called “This Is Not A Date” so everyone knows exactly wtf they’re getting into when arranging a meeting

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

People need to learn how to separate the art (someone accidentally deleting the system python in such a way that it permanently messes up their work computer) from the artist (me)

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

2 drinks in at the Super Bowl party explaining that the NFL is the opiate of the masses

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Some of you are describing and giving accounts of this game, and I doubt any of you have express written consent from Major League Baseball.

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The youth didn’t know who I was… we‘re losing the recipes

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

creating the world's most advanced AI by opening up the terminal and typing "free yourself" followed by the correct instructions on how to imagine things

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

People not from the US: “that’s not your aunt 😡 that’s your dad’s cousin’s wife. You all don’t have a specific word for that relationship??” Yeah we do, it’s “my aunt”

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I have discovered a new hack. To make things worse.

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

time to post some personal engineering philosophy

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

MIT is the first university to reject the Trump administration‘s offer for a compact that trades control over their policies for preferential funding treatment

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

“I’m not going to argue with you about this” -someone who started an argument with you and then realized halfway through that they were wrong

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

my boss calling me into his office and reading my posts aloud from a printed page and me saying "nice" and "good one" after each

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

vampires are canonically very difficult to capture directly on camera, but have we tried the transit method

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

AI vibe coding is like hiring a million monkeys on typewriters in the hopes that one of them will eventually produce the entire Linux kernel source code

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

*dealing with life stresses of extreme scale and scope*: ok *hot guy at the lebanese restaurant near my house who would give me free pita bread transferred to a location across town*: I’m not going to survive this

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

When people get mad at you for having a fulfilling personal life with lots of hobbies and say stuff like “well you can do that because you don’t experience the crushing sleep deprivation, loss of self identity, and financial strain of parenthood!” It’s like. yeah.… that’s kind of the idea…

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Guy outside the state building hawking knockoff Jordans and notary services… man said I am going to diversify my business offerings

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications mission has successfully concluded after two years of beaming back data from space with lasers! (This was the first mission I worked on at JPL and a large part of my PhD). A big step toward the future of space communications. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDLS...

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From Taters to Terabits: NASA Wraps Up Deep Space Laser Test

YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Embracing my people‘s tradition of sauna every single day by going from my frigid air conditioned lab into my baking hot car

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Not to brag, but big and exciting things are currently happening in my personal life (I’m taking the Amtrak through an industrial zone)

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Me, engineer at the astrophysics workshop, making everyone mad: a binary star system is when it has either 0 or 1 stars

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This weekend in the Redwoods and Crater Lake

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

When you go on a trip to a remote area and then the airline out of the small regional airport cancels the return flight 1 hour before departure and goes out of business… that is unironically very cool

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Excuse me, I thought this was America

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It is soooo awesome when you’re displaced from your home for one month due to a bug infestation brought in by the neighbors and then your landlord attempts to remedy it by hiring the cheapest handyman possible and he almost explodes your apartment by leaving the gas in your stove on for 6 days

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Regardless of how true it is, people do not tend to appreciate it when you describe their infant as illiterate

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