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Stephanie 🎀
@beamsandbows.bsky.social
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Particle accelerator fan, ace-aro artist, millennial, ribbons and bows, BS ‘23 Physics
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#Bloomscrolling #RoseWednesday #FlowerReport

I took this picture 16 years ago with a digital camera. I’m quite proud of how it turned out. It looks like the rose blooms out of the shadows, creating its own sunshine.
An orange and yellow rose with a ray of sunshine on it. The surrounding leaves are in shadow.
January 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Sometimes I cuss at the sun when it shines directly in my face while I’m driving, but then it does things like this. #Aurora
Gentle shades of pink and green across the sky. The green forms a line near the bottom of the frame.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Thank you for sharing this 💝💝💝 as an autistic person, I want to implode into a black hole of fear and anger when people fearmonger about autism. This is incredibly important!
Peach color irises in a garden, May 2024
January 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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I have a rose blooming in January 😵‍💫🌹❄️

#FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling
A red rosebud opening up in the sunshine. The flower is surrounded by the rosebush’s bare, thorny branches. It’s the middle of winter.
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Quick little art portfolio:
Drawing of me standing in front of an angry looking nuclear hurricane 1,001 origami cranes hanging in front of a painting of the roller coaster Xcelerator at Knott’s Berry Farm. A lattice of origami cubes progressively getting bigger A guy flying on an AR-15 like a broomstick and bouncing off the belly of a giant Portland Frog standing in half-melted ice. The frog is wearing a backpack that says “2.2 million scoville fuel or higher”.
January 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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These little flowers are growing nearby this winter. #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling
A small bush with tiny white bell shaped flowers on them
January 9, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Lol bye, trash year
A clipart cartoon dog with his leg raised. I added a pee stream flowing onto the year 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Bow Tie is checking in! 🐾
Black and white dog lying on the floor looking at the camera. His ears are sticking up.
December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Cute doggy! Here’s our professional photobomber, Loki.
A tricolor beagle with light colored eyes looks up at the camera
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Lily, the personification of the Canadian Light Source’s new linac, was born the day the linac had first beam: October 22, 2024. Here she is, cozy and cute with a bow 🎀
A drawing of a little girl in thick winter wear and a bow headband. She’s sitting on the floor next to a present.
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I am not a toy.

I am not a Christmas present.

I am a 10^87 year commitment.
Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole, as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. The accretion disk is visible as an orange ring in this image.
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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My origami Peta Cube! It took three months of folding and 5,046 pieces of paper to build 😍
Various construction phases of the Peta Cube origami project, a crystalline cubic structure made of smaller cubes. Each stage shows a different size of crystal cube.
December 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A mallard duck in the middle of a quack
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Pansies are definitely central to my childhood. They were my favorite flower as a kid. I have a tattoo of one on my arm. My favorite was the large white ones with a purple center.
A large cluster of white and purple pansies
December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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One of my own creations, this cubic origami structure. While the diagrams for the pieces appear in a book, I came up with a mathematical formula to count the pieces of paper for this design when assembled into a large cube.

This took 5,046 pieces.
A large rainbow origami cube made of many smaller origami cubes
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I do the occasional political cartoon, so my villains are actual members of the current administration’s cabinet. So, yeah. Quite evil.
A Haitian woman with her well cared for and loved pets surrounding her. She’s giving an insulted look at RFK Jr, who’s approaching her and offering her pet stew. He’s belching, wearing a dirty apron that says “the cook stinks”, and has a worm sticking out of his forehead.
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Looks like the accelerator ops @cern.bsky.social are getting festive!
Large Hadron Collider status screen showing beam intensity and energy graphs plus instantaneous luminosity graphs. Status is ion physics, stable beams. Comment section says “stable beams, all IPs on target”. There is a Christmas tree made from color-blocked text near the comments in this section. Proton Synchrotron status screen showing magnet cycle and beam intensity graphs, plus a list of users, particle type, intensities, and destinations. The comments section has color-blocked text art in the shape of a Christmas tree. Proton Synchrotron Booster status screen showing the users of each magnet cycle, beam intensity, and which of the accelerator’s four beam pipes contain beam at injection and acceleration. The comment section is text art of a house and a tree on a snowy day.
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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I saw some of these types of butterflies being released back in 2019 💝🦋
A bunch of monarch butterflies tagged on their wings and contained in a box made of netting.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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This is immunity cat. Immunity cat protects from the “if you don’t repost she will kill you” posts. Now that you have seen immunity cat, he is forever with you, protecting you from the supernatural. You will no longer have to fear the husky or Bloody Mary or anything else. Because immunity cat is always with you. Always.
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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If you see this, qtp with a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health
Cartoon drawing by Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal) of a guy getting mauled by a bear while a bystander calmly advises, “I try not to stress about the things I can’t control.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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When Mario gets launched to the moon in TTYD (both GameCube and Switch versions), the range stated by the bob-ombs operating the cannon is an actual possible distance between Earth and the Moon in kilometers (this figure can fall between 360,000 and 400,000 km)
Screenshot from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on Nintendo Switch. It shows an operational screen for the cannon and a dialogue box that says “Direction: 75.38, Elevation: 54.66, Range 389603”
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Pictured: me as a child.
Me at Disneyland when I was 15. I’m wearing a pink outfit and golden Mickey ears.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Have a pumpkin blossom in return 😊
Large yellow flower with five-fold symmetry
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Evanescence- The Open Door. The album art depicts the lead singer Amy Lee in a flowing white dress walking through an open door.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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My Hawaiian-English dictionary and the origami instruction book that shows how to make the pieces to the big cube project I just made.
“New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary” by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert; “Multidimensional Transformations: Unit Origami” by Tomoko Fuse
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM