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Dr. Timothy Pickering
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astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 1d
after 5 years in baltimore/DC nothing can really faze us when it comes to traffic…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 1d
Yf thou see thys, quote wyth a vampyre that ys not Dracula
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 2d
drowning sorrows of being back in the us by driving in seattle traffic and then drinking some bodhizafa ipa to unwind…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 5d
too much garlic is only marginally sufficient. it is known.
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 8d
this is very timely. thank you!!!
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 10d
the bench on the front porch of our b’more house developed a layer of orange sheddings over time. i had assumed it was our neighbor’s large orange cat. however, i peeked out early one morning and saw that it was not, in fact, a cat… 🦊
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 13d
yikes! we've put the clothes we were wearing thru the wash 3 times now and i think bonfire will be the ultimate solution...
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
hell yeah! good enough with easy future improvements is a great position to be in. i’ve been pleasantly surprised how future-proof the AMD system i built 5 years ago has been.
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
should be ryzen 9 for all that cooling capacity, but looks amazing…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
OSC CMOS FTW
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
well, they were hit, too, but they’re also amazing…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
oh yeah, jack russell is in a whole different risk category than a 50+ kg great pyr mix…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
it was bad. fortunately our friends were stocked with skunk-off shampoo that made a huge difference.
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
yeah, direct blast in the face will def mess them up, at least. fortunately this was thru a fence so no direct spray, but all of us within 3 meters got a pretty good dose…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 14d
TIL: if you’re really close to a skunk spraying, it does not smell like normal skunk aroma. it is so very much worse…
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 23d
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 22d
i was happy paul molitor got a ring, but still bitter it wasn’t as a brewer…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 22d
i'm old enough to remember the blue jays winning the world series...
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 22d
everything bagel, tillamook chive & onion cream cheese, sprinkled with powdered biltong
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 23d
oh wow! lowell’s loss will be your next gig’s massive gain…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 27d
say you’re in 🇨🇦 without saying you’re in 🇨🇦
caesar sunday in smithers, bc
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · 28d
in iceland you can watch northen lights while soaking in hot springs. so there's that...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Oct 2
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Oct 2
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · Sep 30
got some proper aurorae in skagway tonite…
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Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.net · Sep 29
the building rotates faster as you near zenith and you could see the colors change and text get fuzzy in real time. some monitors were more sensitive to it than others. the observer's monitor for a while was super sensitive and the degauss button was well-worn...
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