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@lhs3020b.bsky.social
Ex-astronomer, tea enthusiast, Twitter escapee. Fan of old video games, reader of books. Sometimes goes outside. Not really a high-volume feed.
My artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/lhs3020b
My artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/lhs3020b
I've been having a weird day today - after lunch I felt incredibly cold for no obvious reason. It lasted a couple of hours, but seems to have thankfully gone away now. If anything I actually now feel slightly too warm.
December 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I've been having a weird day today - after lunch I felt incredibly cold for no obvious reason. It lasted a couple of hours, but seems to have thankfully gone away now. If anything I actually now feel slightly too warm.
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Europe's nighttime glow from space 🌍
This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
December 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Europe's nighttime glow from space 🌍
This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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Webb has identified a Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting a pulsar with a helium- and carbon-rich atmosphere, presenting a composition and formation history unlike any previously observed. doi.org/hbft6d
Webb observes pulsar-orbiting planet whose composition defies explanation
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed.
phys.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Webb has identified a Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting a pulsar with a helium- and carbon-rich atmosphere, presenting a composition and formation history unlike any previously observed. doi.org/hbft6d
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
My immediate reaction here was "... shouldn't that be a Stingray?" 😆 : www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/co...
From the Fallout community on Reddit: USAF F-15 fighter with Enclave nose art
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December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My immediate reaction here was "... shouldn't that be a Stingray?" 😆 : www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/co...
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
There's a flat I keep getting emails about (I'm still on some places' mailing lists), a bit down the hill from where I am now. It's had three price reductions, and never seems to move. I'm getting morbidly-curious about what specifically is wrong with it...
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
There's a flat I keep getting emails about (I'm still on some places' mailing lists), a bit down the hill from where I am now. It's had three price reductions, and never seems to move. I'm getting morbidly-curious about what specifically is wrong with it...
This article is interesting, though as usual the overly-journalistic science writing manages to elide some key details. It would have made a bit more sense if it had mentioned the specific object's spectral type, rather than implicitly lumping all brown dwarfs together: phys.org/news/2025-12...
Do super-Jupiters look like Jupiter? Not necessarily, study shows
Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev has discovered new answers to explain how some brown dwarfs form giant dust...
phys.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This article is interesting, though as usual the overly-journalistic science writing manages to elide some key details. It would have made a bit more sense if it had mentioned the specific object's spectral type, rather than implicitly lumping all brown dwarfs together: phys.org/news/2025-12...
On the one hand, I suppose the presence of water-formed minerals on Mars is no longer entirely-surprising - it's pretty clear now it was wet at one point. On the other hand, still interesting though: phys.org/news/2025-12...
Evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater
Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and he...
phys.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
On the one hand, I suppose the presence of water-formed minerals on Mars is no longer entirely-surprising - it's pretty clear now it was wet at one point. On the other hand, still interesting though: phys.org/news/2025-12...
Tree 🎄
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tree 🎄
This week's best bit of news was that my tea order arrived - after a gap of several years, I finally have some Ceylon again!
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This week's best bit of news was that my tea order arrived - after a gap of several years, I finally have some Ceylon again!
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1/n 🧵
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
1/n 🧵
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
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I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
People should stop climbing mt everest
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
I fell down an internet rabbit-hole about K2 today. Dear goodness, that mountain is *scary*.
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I fell down an internet rabbit-hole about K2 today. Dear goodness, that mountain is *scary*.
You know, I'm actually starting to half-want tomorrow's Budget to be a Truss or Omnishambles-style meltdown, because the sooner Starmer is out of office, the better. He continues to somehow be worse than even I - even I! - thought he would be!
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
You know, I'm actually starting to half-want tomorrow's Budget to be a Truss or Omnishambles-style meltdown, because the sooner Starmer is out of office, the better. He continues to somehow be worse than even I - even I! - thought he would be!
Good lord, the Starmer government is going after *trial by jury* now? WTF is wrong with these people?
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Good lord, the Starmer government is going after *trial by jury* now? WTF is wrong with these people?
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Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
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They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
A small new home milestone: I just did the first full change-of-sheets on the new(ish) bed 😆
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A small new home milestone: I just did the first full change-of-sheets on the new(ish) bed 😆
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November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Missing alt text: a pastel drawing of the moon, that is so good it looks like a modern photograph
1797, that's astounding
1797, that's astounding
'Face of the Moon.' (1797) John Russell was the finest British pastel artist of his time. One of his sitters, the astronomer William Herschel encouraged him to buy a telescope, and with this he produced a number of remarkable pastel drawings of the moon.
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Missing alt text: a pastel drawing of the moon, that is so good it looks like a modern photograph
1797, that's astounding
1797, that's astounding
Well, THAT hasn't happened for a while; an LED bulb just went pop. I was genuinely surprised and confused for a bit, as this is so rare now - quite the change from the old days of Tesco Value plug-and-plink!
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Well, THAT hasn't happened for a while; an LED bulb just went pop. I was genuinely surprised and confused for a bit, as this is so rare now - quite the change from the old days of Tesco Value plug-and-plink!
So apparently today is going to be another day of "moral horror at the sick state of the Labour Party", then. One thing I - slightly - miss from the Coalition days was that at least we usually got weekends off (usually!), but this lot seem to be emitting evil 24/7, 365 days a year 🙃
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
So apparently today is going to be another day of "moral horror at the sick state of the Labour Party", then. One thing I - slightly - miss from the Coalition days was that at least we usually got weekends off (usually!), but this lot seem to be emitting evil 24/7, 365 days a year 🙃
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!