Spacenerd19
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Spacenerd19
@spacenerd19.bsky.social
Space, plants, plants in space, history, social sciences etc etc. #lifelonglearner super married to @megcooper.com he/him/y’all
Fucking LLM can’t even do straight multiplication.
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I'm just a g̶i̶r̶l̶ "Space Artist" standing in front of a "Bluesky" asking them to love my JWST ornament.

🔗 sciencesocks.co/collections/...
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Went full southern today. Leftover Smoked ham went into a big ol pot of beans. Whole house will be gassy AF tonight .
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think this is the last day for a while I can justify eating pie for breakfast.
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The great and mighty Worf has assumed his rightful place of honor on my Christmas tree again this year.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Did you know that scientist don’t really use the Richter scale anymore? The most common magnitude scale used these days is called the “Moment Magnitude” scale. Here’s more info 🧪
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The wife @megcooper.com is an AVID reader. She is constantly rotating between fantasy, sci-fi, and smut so dirty it would make a porn Star blush. Let me tell you I ALWAYS know when she’s reading the later.
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
lol. I bought myself a new bike for winter exercise. There was an option for “ professional assembly”. The thought of putting together a 24 speed bike sounded awful so I paid for it. Bike arrived with just the front wheel, handles and foot pedals not attached. I put it together. 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s chilly this morning, but we sit worked the garden. Harvested some cabbages, lettuce, and arugula. Laid out the organic fertilizer (corn gluten) , planted some thornless blackberries at the old folks home. 🌱
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My boomer parents have a strong belief in wind chimes.
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This some black mirror shit right here.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hmmmmm.....

Dark Matter folks .... thoughts on this?!

The paper says the DM annihilation idea remains 'feasible', but I have also seen quotes in general audience articles saying something like: this signal closely matches the expected DM properties (which seems more firm to me) ....

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20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for dark matter annihilation
Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Gamma-ray maps within the regio...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Seeds to donate to Los Angeles fire victims? 🌱 We are distributing thru Seed Libraries and fire-affected schools in Altadena, as well as Pacific Palisades. Native/noninvasive seeds going to the Seed Bomb Project, who has already donated 4,000 ❣️seed bombs since June. Ship-To Address to in comments.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Any idea why this Common Gallinule kept putting its head down sideways toward on the duckweed-covered water? I don't know much about their behavior in general-- could it be looking into the water below? It did it multiple times while I watched.
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Two views of Orion from last Saturday morning.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Golden thread
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Don't get me wrong, I really do appreciate the affordability and that the cost hasn't inflated, but I wish Aldi didn't make you buy a 25¢ cart every single time, I am running out of garage and bakyard space
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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…it’s so very lonely, you’re 5,000 light years from home…

The Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443 of Sh2-248). A galactic supernova remnant maybe ≈35,000 years old.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
They’re currently dealing out cards against humanity. This should be loud and hilarious.
Yall think good thoughts for me. We’re about to have at least a dozen teens in the house. Not sure if you’re aware, but teens are loud.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lmao at the categories that grace our streaming channels.
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Today in the dumbest reality
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ohhhh. The pomegranate leaves turn a lovely shade of golden yellow for the fall. This is their first winter at my house anyway. Hoping they come back. 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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On this week in 2019 I was capturing the Great Orion Nebula. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Highly recommend this video about Lawrence Krauss and Jeffrey Epstein from Rebecca Watson (@skepchick.org)

CW discussion of sexual assault

youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18?...
So I'm in the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM