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Experimental public programs in sci + art + tech, extronomer, nerd doctor of black holes & neutron stars, Michigoose, toddler mom, neurospicy, sober, pro-trans, she/her #BiinSci #WomenInSTEM #UglyDogs

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi there #Newskies! I'm Abbie, a museum person and former astronomer. I skeet about #altAc, science literacy, #sciComm, astro/physics, #academicMom / #Momademia, #AcademicMentalHealth, Michigan #MIpol, science shitposting (shitskeeting?), gardening, knitting, and whatever the fuck else I want!

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 19h

I love this 😂

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Amber J. Hu (they/them) @amberjhu.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm, Abbie is the right amount of silly

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1d

It's unclear to me if adults (specifically, ladies like me in their mid to late 30s) are less serious now than they were when I was a teenager, or if I am just a fundamentally less serious person than my peers.

(I'm not unserious, just less serious. Appropriately serious but also a silly goose.)

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · May 23

*becoming a completely unserious person just to fit in

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Based on every conversation @matthewhughes.bsky.social and I have had and our research it genuinely seems there’s that Abilene - if it ever gets built - may not have much more than 50% power until 2027 at the earliest, if not longer, and they’re going to rely on an expensive fracked gas generator

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever posted

You people don’t deserve me

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, 7ft shirtless bronze man will be a colleague. Quiet, but popular.

Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1d

You say this, but I've only ever been on smaller instances (scholar.social, scicomm.xyz, cooler.mom, and mastodon.lol [rip]), and still encounter too many Reply Guys. I think it's literally just the type of people most likely to find Mastodon enjoyable.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 14

if I quit social media, I will train birds to fly to each of you with bespoke shitposts, I promise

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 14

I will go outside and yell my thoughts at random birds before I go to mastodon

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Dec 14

Do not. I'll start a goddamned wordpress before I go back to that shithole platform.

My mentions are still a radioactive cesspit YEARS after I told them all about the fuckin whiteness of their social media ecosystem.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3d

they’re banning all the funny people on bluesky; don’t worry, you should be safe at least 🥹

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 3d

It's very full of Reply Guys. Many people on there use linux and unfortunately, a decent number of those people have Linux User Personality.

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 3d

the democratic party hiring a “Toot Consultant” to post resist memes on mastodon

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d

just feel like he's been banned from more than nightclub for trying to pleasure himself by rubbing his cloaca on the velvet ropes

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d

sad story, actually. they said he was too short to ride Snoopy's Tenderpaw roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm and so he had no choice but to become a nazi 😢

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d

absolutely stephen (steven??) miller is the type of guy who, if poked with the right stick, would begin leaking a viscous black goo

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 3d

But no matter how you slice it, it's bad that Jay's name is on this list of CEOs, all the rest of whom have kissed the ring the US.

clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

clayhiggins.house.gov

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 3d

Shit!! 😭

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 10d

If any of you fine folks are planetarians in (or want to be in) mid-Michigan, the Abrams Planetarium is hiring a full-time-staff position for the first time in 11 years!! Come work with the astro, scicomm, and informal ed folks at MSU!! 🔭 🧪 (reskeets welcome) careers.msu.edu/jobs/educati...

Educational Program Coordinator II - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The program coordinator will maintain the planetarium, present live shows, and create new planetarium visualizations. In addition, this position will assist customers, assist in educa...

careers.msu.edu

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 3d

Husband was reading some wiki-esque page with Nobel possibilities, and though much of it was legit enough, it clearly allowed for self-submissions 😂

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 3d

because i do not work in academia i am free to say i'm an avi loeb hater, his non-crank work is wholly unimpressive and he is defined by his corpus as a stupid asshole

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Lansing Facts @lansingmifacts.com · 3d

Downtown, Old Town, REO Town

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 3d

If anyone from the UN wants to talk, here’s a nice summary. The astronomy community does NOT endorse this proposal, just take it from one of THE EXPERTS on ISOs with Rubin. Meg (and many others) has helped the community plan for +10yrs for these kinds of studies.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 3d

I'll for global coordination for ISO follow-up, but it's telling that no one who's actually coordinating follow-up was actually asked to participate in this proposal or thought of to be even suggested as names on committees in this proposal

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