Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok
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Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
· Nov 15
‘A blur of legs, arms and adrenaline’: the astonishing history of two-tone
As a new exhibition documents the UK ska-pop sound, stars including the Specials, Elvis Costello and Pauline Black recall how it opened up music, fashion and racial understanding
www.theguardian.com
I love this: “I thought it was my job to learn everything I could about the band before some more technically capable producer fucked it all up and took the fun and danger out of it” (Elvis Costello on producing The Specials)
www.theguardian.com/music/2021/a...
www.theguardian.com/music/2021/a...
That “profanity accountant” is a bot, no? Why on earth are you guys pandering to it?
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
That “profanity accountant” is a bot, no? Why on earth are you guys pandering to it?
Asian rhino
Whales
Sea turtles
Wild boar
Japanese macaque
Whales
Sea turtles
Wild boar
Japanese macaque
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild*:
Coyote
Road runner
Javelina
Harris's hawk
Gray fox
Coyote
Road runner
Javelina
Harris's hawk
Gray fox
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Asian rhino
Whales
Sea turtles
Wild boar
Japanese macaque
Whales
Sea turtles
Wild boar
Japanese macaque
Seriously, how much physics do really need to know to realize how dumb this question is?
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November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Seriously, how much physics do really need to know to realize how dumb this question is?
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You guys know that if you post something *entirely* without context, we have no clue what you’re on about, right?
We don’t know what’s going on in your head, or what headline you’re looking at, or what we’re supposed to be outraged at.
ffs 🙄
We don’t know what’s going on in your head, or what headline you’re looking at, or what we’re supposed to be outraged at.
ffs 🙄
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
You guys know that if you post something *entirely* without context, we have no clue what you’re on about, right?
We don’t know what’s going on in your head, or what headline you’re looking at, or what we’re supposed to be outraged at.
ffs 🙄
We don’t know what’s going on in your head, or what headline you’re looking at, or what we’re supposed to be outraged at.
ffs 🙄
I can’t be bothered to read the article, but I’m pretty sure it’s the latter:
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I can’t be bothered to read the article, but I’m pretty sure it’s the latter:
Forget grandiloquence, “hiraeth” is a word we all need. It’s a feeling I have often: mainly for the distant land that is my youth.
Hiraeth (HEE-reyeth)
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Forget grandiloquence, “hiraeth” is a word we all need. It’s a feeling I have often: mainly for the distant land that is my youth.
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Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in a little less than a year!
Mark your calendars, if you haven't already: November 15, 2026
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#Voyager1
#NASA
#SpaceExploration
#Spacecraft
Mark your calendars, if you haven't already: November 15, 2026
🧪🔭📡🛰️
#Voyager1
#NASA
#SpaceExploration
#Spacecraft
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth
The intrepid spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026.
www.popsci.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in a little less than a year!
Mark your calendars, if you haven't already: November 15, 2026
🧪🔭📡🛰️
#Voyager1
#NASA
#SpaceExploration
#Spacecraft
Mark your calendars, if you haven't already: November 15, 2026
🧪🔭📡🛰️
#Voyager1
#NASA
#SpaceExploration
#Spacecraft
Kerry’s empathy and humor are unbounded: buy this book!
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Kerry’s empathy and humor are unbounded: buy this book!
All too often, in fact
“Every normal man [person] must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series, c. 1919
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series, c. 1919
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
All too often, in fact
Note to @support.bsky.team: isn’t it about damn time y’all fixed this chronic bug in your iOS app?
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Note to @support.bsky.team: isn’t it about damn time y’all fixed this chronic bug in your iOS app?
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![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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In 1874, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity. This unorthodox discovery kicked off descriptive set theory, a field that works to organize and define abstract collections of mathematical objects. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In 1874, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity. This unorthodox discovery kicked off descriptive set theory, a field that works to organize and define abstract collections of mathematical objects. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
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Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).
How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
And we wonder why one half of Americans think the other half is crazy
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons
In Initiative, a group of young people in the early 2000s finds themselves via the role-playing game, the latest example of its undying popularity
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And we wonder why one half of Americans think the other half is crazy
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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This could have happened to @nunesalt.bsky.social and me.
It still could.
Or to anyone of you.
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
It still could.
Or to anyone of you.
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
Opinion | He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all.
Daniel Burnett: A 61-year-old Tennessee man was arrested for sharing a meme during the moral panic following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This could have happened to @nunesalt.bsky.social and me.
It still could.
Or to anyone of you.
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
It still could.
Or to anyone of you.
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
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#art #photo #photography #statue #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
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#art #photo #photography #statue #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
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November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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#art #photo #photography #statue #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
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#art #photo #photography #statue #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
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Attention, wavelet transform fans
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#CNRSnews 🗞️ The CNRS mathematician and computer scientist Stéphane Mallat receives the CNRS 2025 Gold Medal for his achievements in applied maths and signal processing, including the JPEG 2000 image compression standard and mathematical foundations of AI.
Stéphane Mallat, a pioneer bridging mathematics and computer science
news.cnrs.fr
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Attention, wavelet transform fans
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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As someone who works inside the Fed (BLM) all the data- all the access- all the information- already sold or sellable to anyone. It's dismantled & weakened our government in ways that can never be repaired.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As someone who works inside the Fed (BLM) all the data- all the access- all the information- already sold or sellable to anyone. It's dismantled & weakened our government in ways that can never be repaired.
Holy moly. That’s THREE great Predator films in a row! How on (alien) Earth has this franchise become sooo good?
“Predator: Badlands” is masterful sci-fi movie making.
“Predator: Badlands” is masterful sci-fi movie making.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Holy moly. That’s THREE great Predator films in a row! How on (alien) Earth has this franchise become sooo good?
“Predator: Badlands” is masterful sci-fi movie making.
“Predator: Badlands” is masterful sci-fi movie making.
This hits HARD
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This hits HARD
It’s not as if they started on a high
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It’s not as if they started on a high