MixBluets🌈🗽🌻🍁🌿
@mixbluets.bsky.social
Nerdily lurking for the most part. Binational Earthling 🇺🇸/🇳🇿 Nonbinary she/her or zie/zir. Central TX
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Stones and a shadow.
The stones are on Mars.
The shadow is from a nuclear-battery-powered robot.
Taken earlier today.
The stones are on Mars.
The shadow is from a nuclear-battery-powered robot.
Taken earlier today.
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Stones and a shadow.
The stones are on Mars.
The shadow is from a nuclear-battery-powered robot.
Taken earlier today.
The stones are on Mars.
The shadow is from a nuclear-battery-powered robot.
Taken earlier today.
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#PPOD: How do planetary systems like our own take shape? Data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope is offering a rare look inside the dusty birthplaces of stars and planets.
This collage shows 31 young star systems, observed in orange and purple by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). 🧪 🔭
This collage shows 31 young star systems, observed in orange and purple by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). 🧪 🔭
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#PPOD: How do planetary systems like our own take shape? Data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope is offering a rare look inside the dusty birthplaces of stars and planets.
This collage shows 31 young star systems, observed in orange and purple by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). 🧪 🔭
This collage shows 31 young star systems, observed in orange and purple by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). 🧪 🔭
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"The product of writing isn't words" is a phase that is going to stay with me when studying LLMs with anyone.
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
December 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"The product of writing isn't words" is a phase that is going to stay with me when studying LLMs with anyone.
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Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.
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Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
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📸 NASA.
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📸 NASA.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
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📸 NASA.
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📸 NASA.
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The #Apollo11 #bootprint hoodies are 80% funded! Almost there! 🤩
I'm so grateful to everyone who has grabbed one or reposted and liked them 💙
Please keep sharing for a final push so I can put this first run into production 🙏
Pre-order them here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...
🐡🧪🎨
I'm so grateful to everyone who has grabbed one or reposted and liked them 💙
Please keep sharing for a final push so I can put this first run into production 🙏
Pre-order them here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...
🐡🧪🎨
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The #Apollo11 #bootprint hoodies are 80% funded! Almost there! 🤩
I'm so grateful to everyone who has grabbed one or reposted and liked them 💙
Please keep sharing for a final push so I can put this first run into production 🙏
Pre-order them here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...
🐡🧪🎨
I'm so grateful to everyone who has grabbed one or reposted and liked them 💙
Please keep sharing for a final push so I can put this first run into production 🙏
Pre-order them here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...
🐡🧪🎨
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Houston, the Apollo 11 bootprint hoodies
have landed 🧑🚀
I'm over the moon to finally have these available in my shop. They turned out so cool 🤩😭
Grab yours below and please spread the word 🙏
bit.ly/bootprint-hoodie
🔭🐡🧪🎨
have landed 🧑🚀
I'm over the moon to finally have these available in my shop. They turned out so cool 🤩😭
Grab yours below and please spread the word 🙏
bit.ly/bootprint-hoodie
🔭🐡🧪🎨
Apollo 11 Bootprint Hoodie
Inspired by the iconic Apollo 11 bootprint on the Moon, we set out to get as close to the real thing as possible. This was no small step, but we did it. Meet our lunar bootprint hoodie with a true 3D imprint you can both see and feel.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Houston, the Apollo 11 bootprint hoodies
have landed 🧑🚀
I'm over the moon to finally have these available in my shop. They turned out so cool 🤩😭
Grab yours below and please spread the word 🙏
bit.ly/bootprint-hoodie
🔭🐡🧪🎨
have landed 🧑🚀
I'm over the moon to finally have these available in my shop. They turned out so cool 🤩😭
Grab yours below and please spread the word 🙏
bit.ly/bootprint-hoodie
🔭🐡🧪🎨
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Apollo 11 moon bootprint hoodies launching tomorrow 👀
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Apollo 11 moon bootprint hoodies launching tomorrow 👀
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Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I hope this reaches you.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I hope this reaches you.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Download Privacy Badger to block spying ads and invisible trackers. www.eff.org/privacybadger
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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Cool vista of Mars, taken Tuesday, 11 November 2025 by the Perseverance rover.
Colour-corrected and brightness adjusted to better match human vision.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne
Colour-corrected and brightness adjusted to better match human vision.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Cool vista of Mars, taken Tuesday, 11 November 2025 by the Perseverance rover.
Colour-corrected and brightness adjusted to better match human vision.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne
Colour-corrected and brightness adjusted to better match human vision.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne
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didn’t know this!
US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
didn’t know this!
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Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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It's important to understand why there's never been a Republican healthcare plan:
Obamacare IS the Republican plan.
When Obama began to work on a way to expand healthcare coverage and eliminate the devastation caused by lack of coverage or coverage denied because of...
Obamacare IS the Republican plan.
When Obama began to work on a way to expand healthcare coverage and eliminate the devastation caused by lack of coverage or coverage denied because of...
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's important to understand why there's never been a Republican healthcare plan:
Obamacare IS the Republican plan.
When Obama began to work on a way to expand healthcare coverage and eliminate the devastation caused by lack of coverage or coverage denied because of...
Obamacare IS the Republican plan.
When Obama began to work on a way to expand healthcare coverage and eliminate the devastation caused by lack of coverage or coverage denied because of...
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
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Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
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What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
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