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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 9d

Sending big Diwali blessings to everyone who celebrates!!

🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟

a happy diwali greeting card with a lit candle and flowers

Alt: a happy diwali greeting card with a lit candle and flowers

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · 14d

I am in the same position

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16d

#Landback today, and every day.

fun fact: columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade and genocide

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Sep 29

Mantises in your plantises?
...I'll see myself out

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Sep 20

Sending this to a friend 💜

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Sep 19

Those are super cute!!

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Aug 26

Mathematician Katherine Johnson was born #OTD in 1918.

Her orbital mechanics computations played a vital role in many early NASA missions. Astronaut John Glenn trusted her calculations more than those of his onboard flight computer. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Image: NASA

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson sitting at her desk. She is wearing glasses and white or light dress with short sleeves and a collar. Johnson is looking to the right of the photographer. An analog adding machine sits on the desk in front of her, along with several papers and a translucent globe with multiple axes used for orbital calculations. She is holding a pen or pencil in her right hand, and wearing a bracelet or watch on her left wrist.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · Jul 30

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hello, I'm a programmer in a film. I work in a dark room surrounded by monitors that reflect off my glasses. I type without stopping, and when I finally hit "enter" a whole series of programs run flawlessly on the first try.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jul 29

Hello, I'm an author in a film. I will be seen doing anything but writing a book, because typing is boring. Then I will have a 30-second montage of clicking away at a keyboard, I will hand a ream of paper to my editor who will declare it to be genius and a week later I will be atop the NYT list.

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hello, I'm an attorney in a film. I have a pure and perfect knowledge of every area of practice in every jurisdiction. Nevertheless, I will be corrected by a plucky law school grad who just passed the bar. After some stubborn resistance, I will silently nod and take her under my wing.

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Jul 24

I go to the library for a meeting, telling myself firmly that I won't get anything because I already have several at home plus another hold on the way.
But we all know that was a lie.

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Jul 24

I second this!

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Jul 10

Close-up of a gray cat paw, against an armrest that has clearly been clawed by said cat

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Jun 27

My office assistant

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · Jun 25

Perhaps for no particular reason you might be interested in long-term access to a handy guide to US vaccine guidelines as they stood at the end of 2024: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jun 24

This looks nice but I’m worried it might cost me an arm

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jun 23

The Virgo Cluster is about 55 million light-years away from Earth, and is the nearest large collection of galaxies to our own Milky Way.🔭🧪

Rubin captured this stunning image in "survey mode" using the 3200-megapixel LSST Camera.

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies is scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center left lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. At center top, another smooth elliptical galaxy is oriented horizontally, with a wispy tail extending right. At right, a group of interacting galaxies is connected by delicate streams of stars like spider silk.

All throughout the image, millions of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jun 23

A new view of two old friends 🤩

Feast your eyes upon NSF–DOE Rubin's view of the Trifid & Lagoon Nebulae!

This image shows what makes Rubin unique: its wide field of view, & speed that allows it to take lots of big images quickly. 🔭🧪

rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/trifid-lagoon

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Jun 15

🔭 Two Worlds, One Sun

Left Image Credit & Copyright: Damia Bouic; Right Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS; Digital processing: Damia Bouic

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061...

Two images are shown side by side. On the left is a sunset seen from Earth, while on the right is a sunset seen from Mars. The Earth sunset is quite orange, while the Mars sunset is quite blue. The Sun appears angularly smaller from Mars than from the Earth. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Jun 14

Happy No Kings Day!

I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest today, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.

No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...

13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting

Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is

www.qasimrashid.com

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · May 29

I had exactly this problem with algebra. I couldn't understand *why* certain actions had to be taken before others (PEMDAS). It wasn't until years later that I realized PEMDAS is basically just grammar for math, and has no mago-mystical origin.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · May 26

Physicist and astronaut Sally Ride was born #OTD in 1951. She was the first American woman and the youngest American in space.

After NASA she worked on arms control and physics, investigated the Columbia and Challenger disasters, and promoted STEM through Sally Ride Science. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 🚀

Image: NASA

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · May 24

So glad to see all the recommendations for Crimson Peak! It exudes Gothic. Decaying ancestral manor! Brooding Byronic antihero! Wretched ghosts and red mud seeping through the building! Costumes to DIE for! Set 1910's-ish, so a bit post-Dracula for the design.

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Kristin Dormuth @kdormuth.bsky.social · May 2

Have you been to Blobfest?
thecolonialtheatre.com/blobfest/

Blobfest » The Colonial Theatre

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · May 2

I mean, I credit Pratchett with teaching me that one could expect the worst and the best of humanity (but often the worst) and yet never lose hope or stop trying to make the world a fairer place.
Kind of "pragmatic pessimism"

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · May 2

👇
(I'm reminded of Terry Pratchett's "if you nail a sign that says 'absolutely do not open this door, the end of the world will follow', there will be people who'll open it just to see what the fuss is all about")
(Paraphrased, don't have the book at hand)

Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · May 2

We're in the Radium Vitalizer stage of learning to live with LLM technology.

It's all fun and games until your bones start to glow.

www.orau.org/health-physi...

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