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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics)
@chrisbecke.bsky.social
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Trying to take better photos. Astro, landscape, nature.
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Saw this Great Blue Heron today out by Jamestown Island.

#Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm

@everyheron.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
My latest pet peeve is the “Skip Intro” button on streaming services, where it skips MOST of the intro, but forces you to have to see the egotistical director’s name.
February 12, 2026 at 1:12 AM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
My IALAC* sign expanded today.

*I Am Loveable And Capable
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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jennbinis.bsky.social
Adding radium to the analogy list - alongside lead and asbestosis.
nick-pettigrew.bsky.social Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 9d
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 9d
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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beckyhammer.bsky.social
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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katz.theracket.news
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
That was awesome
#BadBunny #NFL
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
I’ve been streaming Bad Bunny all day. Looking forward to halftime!
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
22° halo selfie!
February 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Good morning!
Morning sunshine hitting foothills, alternating light and shadow. Photo framed through double six-paneled windows in foreground.
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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My other curling 🥌 accomplishment. IYKYK
February 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Strands #706
“Boo-o-o-o-ring”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
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Connections
Puzzle #972
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,694 3/6

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February 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
My only sports accomplishment was being awarded "Rookie of the Year" at Broomstones Curling Club in 1986-87. Another member of Broomstones at the time was Keith Dropkin. His son, Korey Dropkin is currently on a winning streak in the Mixed Doubles Olympic Curling.

So that's my "six degrees" story.
Curling trophy showing "Rookie of the Year, Chris Becke, 1986-87"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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lizrummy.bsky.social
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Corona (?) around the moon this morning
February 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Happy to see Curling featured in today's Google Doodle
Google doodle with the "oo" in Google replaced by a curler delivering a stone
February 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Note that this "Leader of Antifa" was interviewed in @thisamericanlife.org episode 877.

Spoiler: He's not the leader of Antifa.

www.thisamericanlife.org/877/the-maki...
Zoe Chace: Initially, when Velly Ray came around, Chandler would do the thing that he does. He talked to him, speechifying about political corruption and capitalism, unbidden. And Chandler says, at some point, Velly just started calling him the leader of Antifa. Chandler Patey He started it. And then other people started repeating it because it got them clicks, right? And then as that kept happening, and then they found out that I live right here in the so-called Antifa safe house, and then they came up with all sorts of weird fan fiction stories that got more clicks, if you just say "leader of Antifa" in them. So it didn't matter that it was me. They just wanted that word. Zoe Chace Well, you're a main character. They needed-- you are a main character in the story of the protest. Chandler Patey That is true. It is easier to give a face to something to get more clicks, right? Yeah. Zoe Chace This is going to sound facetious, but it's not. Was there anything actually flattering about that? Chandler Patey A little bit. It was like a joke that my friends and I-- we all thought it was hilarious at first, and then we realized that, oh, that's actually not funny anymore. And so now I actually get mad at my friends or other protesters in general if they even joke about it anymore, because it's like, stop saying that. That's really, really annoying. It makes me look super conceited if
February 3, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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jodiegriffin.bsky.social
And a term I just learned tonight (thank you, @chrisbecke.bsky.social) SOOC (straight out of camera)....
The moon, yellow with branches in front of it in a black sky, using a 300mm lens. No edits or fliters or crops.
February 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Tonight’s full moon.

#Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm
Full moon nearly fills frame
February 2, 2026 at 1:17 AM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
This pretty much sums up the past year
At the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia a worker using a roller to cover a "Core Values" word cloud on a hallway wall with Interior Haze Gray paint. The words being obscured in the shot notably include "diversity," "compassion," "fairness," and "respect."
January 31, 2026 at 2:16 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Strong lunar halo again tonight as the snow storm approaches. And a bit of a solar halo earlier today.

Williamsburg VA

#Fujifilm X-T4. XF 8-16mm
Lunar halo in hazy sky above bare trees in the foreground Closer view of Lunar halo in hazy sky above bare trees in the foreground Hazy daytime sky. Slight solar halo with colors at peak. Sun blocked by trees.
January 30, 2026 at 11:45 PM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Stunning lunar halo just now over Williamsburg VA. Not unexpected with the approaching storm.

That’s Jupiter within the halo to the left.

#Fujifilm X-T4, XF8-16mm
January 30, 2026 at 3:25 AM
chrisbecke.bsky.social
Despite my experience with Excel since it's early days as Lotus 1-2-3 (kidding), it was only today that I learned you can do 3-D formulas, easily doing calculations across multiple sheets.

=SUM('Sheet 1:Sheet 7'!B4)
January 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM