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James Alexander Clark

@spacepig.bsky.social

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Motorcycling, mountain biking gravitational wave computational scientist, guinea pig fancier, rabbit-herd and robo-shepherd. LIGO Caltech (ATL FOB).

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h

how the hell did these hackers get in? they must be good...

Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 7h

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 20h

We would like to speak to your manager #guineapig

Shadow pig looking alarmed at Earl's demands to speak to the manager

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck. Now I want a fish supper. But I'm in ATL so that's not happening for less than like 30+$ and it'll be gastropub style with fancy ass duck fat fries and whatnot.

James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 2d

🫡 Welcome to the corp (about to turn 42 but it's bluesky so canonically 38). And super happy for your outlook!

James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! Just wanted to double check - I get the newsletters, have a couple of really great pet paintings and buy the soap when I can.

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 2d

Like, i feel like you could *maybe* (misguidedly) make this argument about low Earth orbit if you ignore the physics and cost of putting stuff there but... where does she think the moon *is*?

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 2d

Howdy, I saw an entirely unrelated post about subsistence farming that reminded me I hadn't found Jenna on here since leaving the other place. Do you know if she's around on here?

James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 2d

Does.. does she think <no surely not>.. that if you drop something on the moon it falls to Earth?

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 2d

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Sexy Monsters @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

this is, I think, the best tweet

beetlejess @thejessness.bsky.social · 6d

just shared this in a group and realised it’s the anniversary of this absolute s tier tweet by @jon-snow-420.bsky.social

@jon_snow_420
god: i have made Mankind angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

18:54 • 28 Oct 15

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

thinking about potato house this halloween

a post showing a bowl of candy with a single potato in the center with the text:

Tonight kids chose potato more than 25 times, each time triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, "I GOT A POTATO!"
One kid shouted, "A potato, just like last year!" and another group said, "Oh, youre the potato house? You're legends!"

This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are given the free choice and over and over again they choose Potato. My friends, every day you are given a choice. I encourage you: choose potato

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 3d

Wild. A particularly striking thing about the post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland pictured in THREADS (1984) is how restrained the authorities are, under accurately described contingency orders of the day, compared to now.

James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 3d

I've been so dismayed to see the same in our field of late. It's not great.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3d

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 3d

More I think on it, that was a sensational waste of time, ridiculously lazy on specific details, and i was mostly interested because DoD were annoyed at the exposure of an obviously flawed system. THREADS is infinitely more interesting, realistic, still relevant and just *better*.

James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 3d

Just threw on A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. Moderately interesting having recently sat through an APS seminar on the "golden dome" (lol, good luck with that in the face of MRVs) but there's only one way to end that kind of movie youtu.be/s4VlruVG81w?...

Dr. Strangelove - Ending

YouTube video by Laurenan69

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 4d

feel like @tomdissonance.com would appreciate this

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 4d

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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grimm 🍂 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 4d

Stop what you're doing and watch this little guy lol

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 4d

1. Russia has a slightly bigger stockpile than the U.S.
2. No one has tested nukes aboveground since 1980.
3. Since 1998 only N. Korea has tested nukes (underground).
4. Obama launched the renovation of the U.S. stockpile. It's not complete; timeline stretches into the 2040s ($ is headed for $2T).

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 6d

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Susan Walker @susanwrotethis.bsky.social · 7d

OMP

jess 🦩 @simvalley.bsky.social · 7d

the most important post I’ll ever make

this DIVA💜

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Masuke🐶+rocogirl👩 @rocogirl.bsky.social · 8d

散歩する犬🐶

Good morning! The rain has stopped in Tokyo this morning, so I was able to go for a walk. Masuke is doing well. The osmanthus is in full bloom.

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James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 8d

Stuck on the Devil Rides Out (1968) and think we found a Christopher Lee fan in the ~25 year old Rheda who basically ran over to watch.

Rheda the ancient and wise gecko checking out a young Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee in the classic Hammer horror Devil Rides Out

James Alexander Clark @spacepig.bsky.social · 9d

She from the OP has an admirer, enough to pause snacking :)