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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz
@notnotrocketscience.com
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Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
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every organizer in chicago rn
a meme of ben affleck, a white man wearing a blue sweater and jeans, smoking a cigarette and looking exasperated and exhausted, while multiple notifications from the Signal app partly cover the screen
September 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Hey @socialismconference.org attendees! I have two sessions on the schedule tomorrow (Fri), come say hi!
✨12pm Make a Community Constellation: Quilting Workshop
✨5pm (w/ @chanda.bsky.social): Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination
a hand holding a mini zine title Community Constellations, which accompanies the 12pm workshop a flyer for the 5pm session, Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination
July 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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i'm not signing up for the NYT, show me your Letterboxd favorites
a list of four movie covers: The American Astronaut, Parasite, No Country For Old Men, and The Shining
June 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Here's what I sent-- feel free to alter this and use as a template (I used someone else's template to write it!). Replace the middle paragraph with anything that shames them, eg some of the cosponsors are members of the Chicago Progressive Reform Caucus & are being hypocrites
I am disappointed by your support for the Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 4-4, which will install more surveillance cameras at sites where Chicagoans are preventing ICE from kidnapping our neighbors. This amendment puts protesters, journalists, and legal observers at increased risk of arrest and detainment. Considering the prominent use of a slogan originating with the Defund CPD campaign, "We Keep Us Safe", on your website, you should be aware that increasing surveillance facilitates increased violence from ICE and CPD. Voting for this amendment will hurt many people in our ward. I urge you to rescind your support for this amendment when it comes before the City Council.
June 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Note that I no longer use Substack, I use Buttondown-- you can find me here: buttondown.com/notnotrocket...
a quote from the last paragraph of the article linked in the previous post: Space has always been a proxy for our dreams about the future. It represents possibilities, though what those possibilities look like in detail is inevitably shaped by the worldview of whoever is doing the dreaming (be they aspiring space barons, or real estate salesmen who have moved on to national politics). Much like Mars colonization to shore up humanity in case of global catastrophe (a catastrophe always conjured in the form of an asteroid strike, or really any disaster that doesn’t come with human responsibility the way that climate change does), or satellite constellations (brought to us by unilateral actions whose urgency pivots on a murky understanding of what communities without internet access may or may not want or need), these feints to the “greater good” distract us from the bigger blow: they are arguing for their greater good, not good for the greatest number of the rest of us. You cannot save humanity by relocating a small sampling of us to Mars for the same reason that you can’t avert a pandemic by hiring 100,000 new workers to labor in a warehouse where they, too, may get sick. None of us is expendable. We are the greater good.
June 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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an extremely niche meme for every Rubin Observatory person who loves Vera Rubin and knows who Charles Simonyi is
Goya's painting of Saturn Eating His Son, with Saturn labeled Vera Rubin and the his son labeled Charles Simonyi
June 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Join me in 45 min (4pm CT) for Beautiful Trouble Story Time! Live on IG here: www.instagram.com/sucasall?igs...
a yellow graphic of joyous protestors that says beautiful trouble story time
June 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Chicago! ICE is kidnapping people out of their immigration hearings daily-- start your day by showing up for our communities! ICE watch starts daily at 8am outside 55 E Monroe and 50 E Adams
a graphic that invites people to join autonomous chicagoans outside immigration court to interrupt ICE kidnappings of people from their immigration hearings. Show up daily from 8am on at 50 E Adams and 55 East Monroe
June 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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CHAM! the band from Satoshi Kon’s anime “Perfect Blue”
August 1, 2023 at 5:32 AM
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Today I wrote about Nauru, the island that Gabe Bankman-Fried wanted to buy to build and apocalypse bunker for "effective altruists" https://www.patreon.com/posts/nauru-and-of-86457999
A long exposure photo of the strip mined fields of Nauru, with stars and the milky way hanging over ghostly rocks.
July 21, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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A poster from the 1995 drama Powder, showing a very white bald person running through a field with their shirt open as lightning rages in the sky behind them. I don’t remember the plot of the actual movie, but I assume this is what it will look like when Shaun King comes to save this app
July 14, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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I was just wondering if you’d made it over to Bluesky! Welcome and here’s a comic I made about you a while back
A comic in two columns with three rows. Upper left panel: Alternatives to Steve Albini, for when he’s busy or you’re allergic or something. Comic by Lucianne Walkowicz, quotes by Steve Albini. Panel 1: Steve Linguini: a drawing of Steve Albini in a bag of dry pasta noodles with the quote “ I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm. ' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.” Panel 2: Steve Tankini. A drawing of Steve Albini in a tankini withthe quote “I think fashion is repulsive. I would like the fashion industry to collapse” Panel 3: Steve Sardini. A picture of Steve Albini in a can of sardines with the quote “Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything” Panel 4: Steve Scallopini. A picture of Steve Albini as a veal Scallopini with the quote “buy groceries and feed yourself even on t
July 8, 2023 at 1:15 AM
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Pleased to report that Stella, yeeter of cat fetuses, has returned from the vet with a clean bill of health and a future of zero fetus-yeeting
Stella, a tan and black tabby cat with green-amber eyes, relaxes on a gray towel. Her head is resting in Lulu’s hand.
July 5, 2023 at 10:18 PM
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Proof of summer
Point of view: you are Lulu, sitting in the grass near a silver bike with blue handlebars. Lulus legs are in the foreground, and so is the ice coffee they’re drinking. It’s a sunny day and the grass is very brilliant green
July 3, 2023 at 9:27 PM
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6000 TWEET BURGERS, 600 UNVERIFIED FRIES, 300 NEW UNVERIFIED TACOS, 55 PIES, 55 COKES, 100 TATER TOTS, 100 PIZZAS, 100 TENDERS, 100 MEATBALLS, 100 COFFEES, 55 WINGS, 55 SHAKES, 55 PANCAKES, 55 PASTAS, 55 PEPPERS AND 155 TATERS
Elon Musk throwing his arms open and yelling something with his stupid face
July 1, 2023 at 9:04 PM
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Sitting with the news. Thought the skyline could use a cute pic of Stella the matryoshka kitten aka fetus-yeeter (who is feeling better)
Stella, a brown tabby kitten, is sitting on a table covered with a blanket and towel. She’s sticking her tongue out to lick her nose and her amber green eyes give her a brash, unapologetic look
June 30, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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In the meantime we’re home and Stella is eating/drinking fine, seems to be feeling ok etc! Here she is looking confused as to why I am upset
Stella, a brown tabby kitten, is sitting on the exam table at the vet, looking very relaxed and cute
June 28, 2023 at 12:27 AM
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Good afternoon from the veterinary ER because two mystery objects came out of the stray kitten and who adopted me last week
Kitten is considerably less stressed out than I am
Downward view of lulus cat hair covered shirt and their arm and hand around a tabby cat, who is sitting on an exam table and craning their head back for scritches
June 27, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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She longth
A top down picture of my cat, a lynx point tabby, stretched out along my legs asleep
June 23, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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An image with a picture of an original Nintendo DS and a Nintendog with a gray alien face, with the caption RIP to the Nintendogs that ain’t been fed since 2007
June 23, 2023 at 2:57 AM
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I knocked out the last two of those today— I only meant to do the gardening, but a cat adopted me
Stella the tabby cat is staring into the camera with her green eyes, sitting in a garden next to some night sky petunias
June 21, 2023 at 4:21 AM
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I received a delivery from the Cat Distribution System today 😸
A tabby cat sitting on a tree stump, meowing!
June 21, 2023 at 1:30 AM
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I’ll post a string of professional things (bc I’m freelance and desperately in need of work) and then worry I’m not enough of a horny shitposter to be on here— so here’s my personal philosophy in bathroom graffiti form
A bathroom door upon which “juicy ass terrorism” has been scrawled in large black letters
June 17, 2023 at 11:29 PM
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Hey you hot weirdos: I’d love to work with you! Just this past year, I’ve helped over a hundred people navigate career change, shine in big presentations, explore their values, speak truth to power, & express themselves authentically. Let’s do something cool https://notnotrocketscience.com/workshops
Lulu, a white non-binary person with a purple French bob, is smiling and laughing at right. They’re wearing a jean jacket. To the left is their business name, Not Not Rocket Science, and the words “work with me” A golden yellow slide that has a list of thing Lulu can help with: creative coaching, speaker training, career transitions, education consulting, goals and accountability, writing support, and EFL tutoring
June 17, 2023 at 12:37 AM