Claire Oliphant
@claireoliphant.com
I weave my fascination with #science and #mathematics into my #stainedglass art.
web: claireoliphant.com
IG: glassoliphant
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IG: glassoliphant
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My local newspaper has run two OpEds in the past week that advocate extreme economic inequality and praise billionaires.
I am not interested in reading those.
What I would be interested in is reporting on where these apologia are coming from.
I am not interested in reading those.
What I would be interested in is reporting on where these apologia are coming from.
December 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My local newspaper has run two OpEds in the past week that advocate extreme economic inequality and praise billionaires.
I am not interested in reading those.
What I would be interested in is reporting on where these apologia are coming from.
I am not interested in reading those.
What I would be interested in is reporting on where these apologia are coming from.
They've just discovered the telephone... Yup. Yup... yupyupyup
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
They've just discovered the telephone... Yup. Yup... yupyupyup
I was thinking moth myself... look at those antennae! Gorgeous whatever you think it looks like!
#PPOD: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the diameter of our solar system. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from Earth, the dark, dusty disk resembles a hamburger. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I was thinking moth myself... look at those antennae! Gorgeous whatever you think it looks like!
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🌟 Merry Christmas from a newborn star. Earlier this year the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope took this stunning image of HH30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc. 🧪🔭
🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc
🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc
December 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🌟 Merry Christmas from a newborn star. Earlier this year the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope took this stunning image of HH30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc. 🧪🔭
🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc
🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc
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December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The Sun deserves more hype videos. Here’s a preview into the more cinematic Sun content I’ve been posting to Insta/TikTok/YouTube recently!
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Sun deserves more hype videos. Here’s a preview into the more cinematic Sun content I’ve been posting to Insta/TikTok/YouTube recently!
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
Science is nifty ♥️
One year since NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-setting closest approach to the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, coming within 3.8M miles of the solar surface. Designed, built, and operated by APL, the spacecraft continues delivering groundbreaking results. https://jhuapl.link/089
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever...
jhuapl.link
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Science is nifty ♥️
I love this story. More consequences please, top to bottom.
Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I love this story. More consequences please, top to bottom.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
OMG this is so cool!
This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
OMG this is so cool!
This is so luscious. I'm super delighted that the spike backfired so profoundly
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is so luscious. I'm super delighted that the spike backfired so profoundly
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And the 'significant impact' is reduced water need, less fossil fuels needed, and nearly the same food (or in some really hot areas, more) food production.
#solar #agrivoltaics
#solar #agrivoltaics
Scientists make groundbreaking discovery about crops grown near solar panels: 'A significant impact'
One of the key challenges of agrivoltaic projects has been limiting the impact of shade on crops grown near solar panels.
www.thecooldown.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
And the 'significant impact' is reduced water need, less fossil fuels needed, and nearly the same food (or in some really hot areas, more) food production.
#solar #agrivoltaics
#solar #agrivoltaics
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:o A fool, speaking foolishly.
December 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
:o A fool, speaking foolishly.
LMFAO
December 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
LMFAO
I'm not generally a violent person... There is something so incredibly satisfying about seeing this dipshit get shellacked.
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I'm not generally a violent person... There is something so incredibly satisfying about seeing this dipshit get shellacked.
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With ICE on our streets, many of our Latino small businesses are seeing noticeably less foot traffic this holiday season.
If you can, show up for our neighbors by shopping local at places like Mercado Central - home to dozens of vibrant mom and pop shops.
If you can, show up for our neighbors by shopping local at places like Mercado Central - home to dozens of vibrant mom and pop shops.
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
With ICE on our streets, many of our Latino small businesses are seeing noticeably less foot traffic this holiday season.
If you can, show up for our neighbors by shopping local at places like Mercado Central - home to dozens of vibrant mom and pop shops.
If you can, show up for our neighbors by shopping local at places like Mercado Central - home to dozens of vibrant mom and pop shops.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
THIS!!!
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
THIS!!!
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Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
These are so cool!
Late-year academic push nearly over, so ready to get back to making these guys 🛠️
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
These are so cool!
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I was poking around my newsletter looking for a link, and stumbled on this piece of microfiction I wrote. I'm really proud of it, and it'll take you less than two minuets to read.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-87-per...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-87-per...
BAN #87: Perspective
February 11, 2019 Issue #87
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I was poking around my newsletter looking for a link, and stumbled on this piece of microfiction I wrote. I'm really proud of it, and it'll take you less than two minuets to read.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-87-per...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-87-per...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.