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Paul Cornish
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Science communicator, writer, village scallywag, blackguard of the neighbourhood. he/him
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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · Nov 1
Three months ago I bought an old Superman comic and found an oddly familiar looking space telescope inside. Today, I've just had an article about it published by Scientific American!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How Superman Helped Launch the Hubble Space Telescope
Long before it orbited Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope starred in a famous Superman comic
www.scientificamerican.com
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thelouvreof.bsky.social
the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqramp... • 8h my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them ••• Lord Ravenloft @deathmetalmaster.bsky.social Do you ever worry about Japan's long standing xenophobia, toxic patriarchal masculinity, and fascism problems when supporting their ethnic cuisines? I do. A lot. Nov 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqramp... • 3h I'm literally Japanese. you are literally saying this to a Japanese person.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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madeley.bsky.social
While I think referring to generative AI work as "slop" is fine and correct, like @paulgcornish.bsky.social has said before it's pretty offensive using it for "film I happen to not like" because you're literally calling people who do like it pigs snorting around in squalor.
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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kothscreens.bsky.social
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 8, Episode 5
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
"Remember, Caesar, thou art hilarious lmfao"
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
I was one of the sci-comm folk interviewed for this research and I've been looking forward to the results.
hanachronism.bsky.social Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 2d
A couple of years ago, as part of a @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project, I interviewed some sci comm folk about storytelling strategies we know cause humans to pay attention to some stories more than others.

Illustration by @jordancollver.bsky.social
A woman looks at a news paper stand where hands are grabbing headlines with negative connotations: "new pandemic" and "asteroid to hit earth" and no one is taking the headline which says that a speciers has been saved from extinction. Illustration by Jordan Collver
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
I feel like a big part of how we got to where we are, with people like Musk & Trump in the US & Johnson & Farage in the UK having so much influence, is that we've all been brought up on movies & TV about oafish, vulgar, & plain-talking outsiders showing the establishment where they've gone wrong...
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
I'll play whatever you want me to play. Or I won't play at all if you don't want me to play. Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it, Charlie Brown
llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 2d
We cannot be other than what we are, and this our greatest sin, Charlie Brown.
paulgcornish.bsky.social Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 2d
We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, Charlie Brown
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d
We Thought You Was a Toad, Charlie Brown
erikburnham.bsky.social Erik Burnham 💬 @erikburnham.bsky.social · 2d
Is it safe, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of GoldenEye (1995)
One of the best Bond movies. Like it's leading man, it hits just the right balance of daft humour & cold-bloodednes. When Pierce Brosnan straightens his ties as the theme music plays over a tank chase...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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oldsixie.bsky.social
Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
On Doctor Who Day, let's have your favourite Earth 2 Doctor(s).
John Lennon filming Magical Mystery Tour in a pinstripe blazer with badges, a scarf and a hat with feathers in it. Paul McCartney in black suit with big white buttons in front of black and white spiral umbrellas - a promotional picture for the 'Who Cares' video. Ringo Starr in a Tommy Nutter check suit. George Harrison in a William Morris floral print jacket.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
🎵You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin',
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin...🎵
The Pope at the mic looking like he's singing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
In honour of Doctor Who Day, here's me hamming it up in the Planetarium for my work's TikTok account.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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A ★★★★ review of For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Received wisdom: For Your Eyes Only saw a return to a more serious, grounded approach after the excess of Moonraker. Sir Roger: *immediately drops Blofeld down a chimney* Evil henchmen: *attack Sir Ro...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
Green Arrow's chilli was a great success! Food photos on the Internet usually look bad, so trust me when I say it tasted great. Thank you to Oliver Queen & @scottmccullar.bsky.social.
Chilli on a jacket potato.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
Today, @jennylmorris.bsly.social is making Green Arrow's chilli (recipe by @scottmccullar.bsky.social). She's following the updated recipe from Scott's blog, with a few minor substitutions for ingredients not easily available in the UK.
www.scottmccullar.com/2019/10/upda...
Comic page: "Ollie's Stupendous Chilli Recipe." Beneath the chilli recipe, Green Arrow is dishing out the chilli while the Justice League are depicted struggling to handle the heat of the chilli, except for Batman. Updated recipe available at the link in the post.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Just when I think I know everything there is to know about Superman, I learn that Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem about him in 1942 that got rejected by the New Yorker.
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...
The Man of To-morrow's Lament I have to wear these glasses - otherwise, when I caress her with my super-eyes, her lungs and liver are too plainly seen throbbing, like deep-sea creatures, in between dim bones. Oh, I am sick of loitering here, a banished trunk (like my namesake in «Lear»), but when I switch to tights, still less I prize my splendid torso, my tremendous thighs, the dark-blue forelock on my narrow brow, the heavy jaw; for I shall tell you now my fatal limitation ... not the pact between the worlds of Fantasy and Fact which makes me shun such an attractive spot as Berchtesgaden, say; and also not that little business of my draft; but worse: a tragic misadjustment and a curse. I'm young and bursting with prodigious sap, — and I'm in love like any healthy chap - and I must throttle my dynamic heart for marriage would be murder on my part, an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights a woman's life, some palmtrees, all the lights, the big hotel, a smaller one next door and half a dozen army trucks — or more. But even if that blast of love should spare her fragile frame - what children would she bear? What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down, would waddle out into the awestruck town? When two years old he'd break the strongest chairs, fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs; at four, he'd dive into a well; at five, explore a roaring furnace - and survive; at eight, he'd ruin the longest railway line by playing trains with real ones; and at nine, release all my old enemies from jail, and then I'd try to break his head — and fail. So this is why, no matter where I fly, red-cloaked, blue-hosed, across the yellow sky, I feel no thrill in chasing thugs and thieves - and gloomily broad-shouldered Kent retrieves his coat and trousers from the garbage can and tucks away the cloak of Superman; and when she sighs - somewhere in Central Park where my immense bronze statue looms - «Oh, Clark ... Isn't he wonderful!?!», I stare ahead and long to be a normal guy instead.
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
paulgcornish.bsky.social
Just when I think I know everything there is to know about Superman, I learn that Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem about him in 1942 that got rejected by the New Yorker.
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...
The Man of To-morrow's Lament I have to wear these glasses - otherwise, when I caress her with my super-eyes, her lungs and liver are too plainly seen throbbing, like deep-sea creatures, in between dim bones. Oh, I am sick of loitering here, a banished trunk (like my namesake in «Lear»), but when I switch to tights, still less I prize my splendid torso, my tremendous thighs, the dark-blue forelock on my narrow brow, the heavy jaw; for I shall tell you now my fatal limitation ... not the pact between the worlds of Fantasy and Fact which makes me shun such an attractive spot as Berchtesgaden, say; and also not that little business of my draft; but worse: a tragic misadjustment and a curse. I'm young and bursting with prodigious sap, — and I'm in love like any healthy chap - and I must throttle my dynamic heart for marriage would be murder on my part, an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights a woman's life, some palmtrees, all the lights, the big hotel, a smaller one next door and half a dozen army trucks — or more. But even if that blast of love should spare her fragile frame - what children would she bear? What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down, would waddle out into the awestruck town? When two years old he'd break the strongest chairs, fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs; at four, he'd dive into a well; at five, explore a roaring furnace - and survive; at eight, he'd ruin the longest railway line by playing trains with real ones; and at nine, release all my old enemies from jail, and then I'd try to break his head — and fail. So this is why, no matter where I fly, red-cloaked, blue-hosed, across the yellow sky, I feel no thrill in chasing thugs and thieves - and gloomily broad-shouldered Kent retrieves his coat and trousers from the garbage can and tucks away the cloak of Superman; and when she sighs - somewhere in Central Park where my immense bronze statue looms - «Oh, Clark ... Isn't he wonderful!?!», I stare ahead and long to be a normal guy instead.
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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gwenynen.bsky.social
Cymru: "daliwch ein cwrw!"
Chairing of the bard in an Eisteddfod. Druids, robes, a throne and a massive sword.
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
jamesdaustin.bsky.social James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6d
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.

Get fucked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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joshcrewsreally.bsky.social
Golden Age Sandman by Alex Toth.
#comics #art
lovely black and white drawing with a lot of black and some negative space used just right.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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genejm1017.bsky.social
...and for the "NASA is hiding the #3IATLAS images because the comet is an alien spaceship." crowd, here's the link to the photo repository NASA has on the object and can now release because the US Govt is no longer shut down. science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
Comet 3I/ATLAS Image Gallery
A gallery of images from NASA missions observing the rare, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
science.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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astrokatie.com
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
alexwitze.bsky.social Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 6d
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
A blurry white fuzz in the center of a black frame.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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jonathanserrie.bsky.social
SPOILER ALERT: NOT AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT! NASA emerges from government shutdown to address 3I/ATLAS. It’s a comet that came from outside the solar system and its path poses no threat to Earth. (But you already knew that because you hang out with the smart kids on Bluesky.) | Image credit: NASA
This October 2 image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. At this phase, ATLAS looks like a fuzzy white ball as it sheds a trail of dust and ice on its approach to the Sun.
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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astrokatie.com
Starting in one minute! Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS images to be shared by NASA. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55S...
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM