Luke
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Annual reminder: The holidays are really fucking hard for a lot of people. Do not assume joy and plenty, especially this year.
If you are struggling, you are not alone. All I can offer is knowledge that each day from now until summer comes with a little bit more lite.
If you are struggling, you are not alone. All I can offer is knowledge that each day from now until summer comes with a little bit more lite.
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Annual reminder: The holidays are really fucking hard for a lot of people. Do not assume joy and plenty, especially this year.
If you are struggling, you are not alone. All I can offer is knowledge that each day from now until summer comes with a little bit more lite.
If you are struggling, you are not alone. All I can offer is knowledge that each day from now until summer comes with a little bit more lite.
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Mindscape Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University. After a tough year for higher education, I give a pitch for the most idealistic, aspirational conception of the value of a liberal-arts education. #MindscapePodcast
Happy Holidays all!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Happy Holidays all!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Mindscape Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University. After a tough year for higher education, I give a pitch for the most idealistic, aspirational conception of the value of a liberal-arts education. #MindscapePodcast
Happy Holidays all!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Happy Holidays all!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
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On days I don’t stream I wear green. But sometimes telecoms put me in front of the green screen anyways… And then I make everyone suffer with looking at my green screen.
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On days I don’t stream I wear green. But sometimes telecoms put me in front of the green screen anyways… And then I make everyone suffer with looking at my green screen.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.
Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.
Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
@internetarchive
archive.org/donate
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.
Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
@internetarchive
archive.org/donate
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
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This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
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A #CosmicVision mission, #ESALISA will be first gravitational wave detector in space.
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A #CosmicVision mission, #ESALISA will be first gravitational wave detector in space.
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything | November 2025. We dive into wealth inequality, superintelligent AI risks, how to judge nonsense, quantum entanglement, and more. Patreon supporters get a picture of Caliban and a skeleton. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | November 2025. We dive into wealth inequality, superintelligent AI risks, how to judge nonsense, quantum entanglement, and more. Patreon supporters get a picture of Caliban and a skeleton. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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HiPOD: Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
HiPOD: Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
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Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. - #CLNolan #ClocksGoBack
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. - #CLNolan #ClocksGoBack
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Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
September 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
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We're setting up on Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX and YouTube to talk Xenomythology with Jason D Batt. Came join us!
www.youtube.com/live/c_dcLtE...
www.youtube.com/live/c_dcLtE...
Xenomythology with Jason Batt
YouTube video by CosmoQuest
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September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We're setting up on Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX and YouTube to talk Xenomythology with Jason D Batt. Came join us!
www.youtube.com/live/c_dcLtE...
www.youtube.com/live/c_dcLtE...
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ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU
WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files
ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul—
WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files
ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul—
WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU
WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files
ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul—
WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files
ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul—
WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
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Had a very good time with this one william-rous.itch.io/type-help
Text adventure murder mystery, plenty of logic required, took me a day end to end
Text adventure murder mystery, plenty of logic required, took me a day end to end
Type Help by William Rous
The Unsolvable Mystery
william-rous.itch.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Had a very good time with this one william-rous.itch.io/type-help
Text adventure murder mystery, plenty of logic required, took me a day end to end
Text adventure murder mystery, plenty of logic required, took me a day end to end
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An Enormous Plasma Wall Captured on the Sun.
August 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
An Enormous Plasma Wall Captured on the Sun.
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Es ist unsere demokratische Pflicht, alle rechtsstaatlichen Mittel zu nutzen gegen eine Partei, die die Demokratie abschaffen will. Wir können nicht warten, sondern müssen handeln. Der Weg für ein Verbotsverfahren muss jetzt beschritten werden. 1. Schritt: Eine Bund-Länder-AG.
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Es ist unsere demokratische Pflicht, alle rechtsstaatlichen Mittel zu nutzen gegen eine Partei, die die Demokratie abschaffen will. Wir können nicht warten, sondern müssen handeln. Der Weg für ein Verbotsverfahren muss jetzt beschritten werden. 1. Schritt: Eine Bund-Länder-AG.
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Mindscape 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe. Our cosmos was once simple, and someday will be simple again. We currently live in the complicated, exciting era of universal history! Enjoy it while it lasts. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
June 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mindscape 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe. Our cosmos was once simple, and someday will be simple again. We currently live in the complicated, exciting era of universal history! Enjoy it while it lasts. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Movie you've seen more than six times with a gif. "Extremely HARD mode" No Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, or Domestic(US) mainstream films.
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Movie you've seen more than six times with a gif. "Extremely HARD mode" No Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, or Domestic(US) mainstream films.
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Sieht so Aufklärung aus? Nein! Das Gesundheitsministerium hat viele Stellen im vorgelegten Bericht zur Maskenaffäre geschwärzt. Das behindert Aufklärung & schwächt das Vertrauen in demokratische Abläufe. Deshalb: Volle Transparenz & Aufklärung zu den #Maskendeals von Jens #Spahn.
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sieht so Aufklärung aus? Nein! Das Gesundheitsministerium hat viele Stellen im vorgelegten Bericht zur Maskenaffäre geschwärzt. Das behindert Aufklärung & schwächt das Vertrauen in demokratische Abläufe. Deshalb: Volle Transparenz & Aufklärung zu den #Maskendeals von Jens #Spahn.
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Es dreht sich doch um fossile Brennstoffe. Das ist kein Spiel und daher kann ich nur empfehlen: Macht nicht mehr mit. Das viele Geld für Rohöl und Erdgas finanziert die Konflikte. Warum sollen wir das tun? Es ist für uns nicht sinnvoll - wir müssen raus aus dieser Falle.
June 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Es dreht sich doch um fossile Brennstoffe. Das ist kein Spiel und daher kann ich nur empfehlen: Macht nicht mehr mit. Das viele Geld für Rohöl und Erdgas finanziert die Konflikte. Warum sollen wir das tun? Es ist für uns nicht sinnvoll - wir müssen raus aus dieser Falle.
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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
May 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape.
Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
May 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape.
Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
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We have advance copies!
The actual book will be hardcover of course, and it will also have quite a few fixed typos 😎
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...
The actual book will be hardcover of course, and it will also have quite a few fixed typos 😎
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...
May 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We have advance copies!
The actual book will be hardcover of course, and it will also have quite a few fixed typos 😎
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...
The actual book will be hardcover of course, and it will also have quite a few fixed typos 😎
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...
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This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carl Sagan, Contact
May 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carl Sagan, Contact
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
April 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.