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Experimental public programs in sci + art + tech, extronomer, nerd doctor of black holes & neutron stars, Michigoose, toddler mom, neurospicy, sober, pro-trans, she/her #BiinSci #WomenInSTEM #UglyDogs

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi there #Newskies! I'm Abbie, a museum person and former astronomer. I skeet about #altAc, science literacy, #sciComm, astro/physics, #academicMom / #Momademia, #AcademicMentalHealth, Michigan #MIpol, science shitposting (shitskeeting?), gardening, knitting, and whatever the fuck else I want!

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 28m

Yes, 7ft shirtless bronze man will be a colleague. Quiet, but popular.

Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 32m

You say this, but I've only ever been on smaller instances (scholar.social, scicomm.xyz, cooler.mom, and mastodon.lol [rip]), and still encounter too many Reply Guys. I think it's literally just the type of people most likely to find Mastodon enjoyable.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 14

if I quit social media, I will train birds to fly to each of you with bespoke shitposts, I promise

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 14

I will go outside and yell my thoughts at random birds before I go to mastodon

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Dec 14

Do not. I'll start a goddamned wordpress before I go back to that shithole platform.

My mentions are still a radioactive cesspit YEARS after I told them all about the fuckin whiteness of their social media ecosystem.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2d

they’re banning all the funny people on bluesky; don’t worry, you should be safe at least 🥹

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1d

It's very full of Reply Guys. Many people on there use linux and unfortunately, a decent number of those people have Linux User Personality.

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 1d

the democratic party hiring a “Toot Consultant” to post resist memes on mastodon

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

just feel like he's been banned from more than nightclub for trying to pleasure himself by rubbing his cloaca on the velvet ropes

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

sad story, actually. they said he was too short to ride Snoopy's Tenderpaw roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm and so he had no choice but to become a nazi 😢

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely stephen (steven??) miller is the type of guy who, if poked with the right stick, would begin leaking a viscous black goo

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

But no matter how you slice it, it's bad that Jay's name is on this list of CEOs, all the rest of whom have kissed the ring the US.

clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

clayhiggins.house.gov

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1d

Shit!! 😭

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 8d

If any of you fine folks are planetarians in (or want to be in) mid-Michigan, the Abrams Planetarium is hiring a full-time-staff position for the first time in 11 years!! Come work with the astro, scicomm, and informal ed folks at MSU!! 🔭 🧪 (reskeets welcome) careers.msu.edu/jobs/educati...

Educational Program Coordinator II - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The program coordinator will maintain the planetarium, present live shows, and create new planetarium visualizations. In addition, this position will assist customers, assist in educa...

careers.msu.edu

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1d

Husband was reading some wiki-esque page with Nobel possibilities, and though much of it was legit enough, it clearly allowed for self-submissions 😂

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1d

because i do not work in academia i am free to say i'm an avi loeb hater, his non-crank work is wholly unimpressive and he is defined by his corpus as a stupid asshole

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Lansing Facts @lansingmifacts.com · 1d

Downtown, Old Town, REO Town

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 1d

If anyone from the UN wants to talk, here’s a nice summary. The astronomy community does NOT endorse this proposal, just take it from one of THE EXPERTS on ISOs with Rubin. Meg (and many others) has helped the community plan for +10yrs for these kinds of studies.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 2d

I'll for global coordination for ISO follow-up, but it's telling that no one who's actually coordinating follow-up was actually asked to participate in this proposal or thought of to be even suggested as names on committees in this proposal

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 2d

Physics Nobel announcement tomorrow.

If you know and dislike a famous physicist, this is the day of the year to call them up in the middle of the night, wait 10 seconds, and then do you best Swedish Chef impression...

a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom

ALT: a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 2d

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 2d

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

arxiv.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm not talking about US politicians I'm talking about normal people.

I see people fighting back and organizing every fucking day. ICE hasn't met their recruitment goals. They haven't met their kidnapping goals. That's WHY they keep escalating.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 2d

It will be ok!

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DSL fish @guarder.bsky.social · 3d

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