Paul Cornish
@paulgcornish.bsky.social
Science communicator, writer, village scallywag, blackguard of the neighbourhood. he/him
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How Superman Helped Launch the Hubble Space Telescope
Long before it orbited Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope starred in a famous Superman comic
www.scientificamerican.com
Three months ago I bought an old Superman comic and found an oddly familiar looking space telescope inside. Today, I've just had an article about it published by Scientific American!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
May I present the Traditional Festive Macca of 2025!
It's Wings Macca - complete with mullet and wintery jumper! An image captured by Michael Putland in 1973.
It's Wings Macca - complete with mullet and wintery jumper! An image captured by Michael Putland in 1973.
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
May I present the Traditional Festive Macca of 2025!
It's Wings Macca - complete with mullet and wintery jumper! An image captured by Michael Putland in 1973.
It's Wings Macca - complete with mullet and wintery jumper! An image captured by Michael Putland in 1973.
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Hope it's baby butcher Macca en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterd...
Yesterday and Today - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hope it's baby butcher Macca en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterd...
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The truest spirit of Christmas.
The Christmas Tree is going up today so, it's almost time for the unveiling of this year's traditional festive Macca!
So far we've had Rooftop Concert Macca, Give My Regards to Broad Street Macca, Harpers Bazaar Astronaut Macca, & Got Back Tour Macca.
Which Macca will appear on the tree this year?
So far we've had Rooftop Concert Macca, Give My Regards to Broad Street Macca, Harpers Bazaar Astronaut Macca, & Got Back Tour Macca.
Which Macca will appear on the tree this year?
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The truest spirit of Christmas.
The Christmas Tree is going up today so, it's almost time for the unveiling of this year's traditional festive Macca!
So far we've had Rooftop Concert Macca, Give My Regards to Broad Street Macca, Harpers Bazaar Astronaut Macca, & Got Back Tour Macca.
Which Macca will appear on the tree this year?
So far we've had Rooftop Concert Macca, Give My Regards to Broad Street Macca, Harpers Bazaar Astronaut Macca, & Got Back Tour Macca.
Which Macca will appear on the tree this year?
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Christmas Tree is going up today so, it's almost time for the unveiling of this year's traditional festive Macca!
So far we've had Rooftop Concert Macca, Give My Regards to Broad Street Macca, Harpers Bazaar Astronaut Macca, & Got Back Tour Macca.
Which Macca will appear on the tree this year?
So far we've had Rooftop Concert Macca, Give My Regards to Broad Street Macca, Harpers Bazaar Astronaut Macca, & Got Back Tour Macca.
Which Macca will appear on the tree this year?
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It grinds my gears a bit that as someone who's always been very left wing and who disliked Corbyn from the get-go, for reasons that were wholly accurate and obvious and not "centrist smears", to see everyone *now* decide it's fine to give him a deserved kicking.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It grinds my gears a bit that as someone who's always been very left wing and who disliked Corbyn from the get-go, for reasons that were wholly accurate and obvious and not "centrist smears", to see everyone *now* decide it's fine to give him a deserved kicking.
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1/n 🧵
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
1/n 🧵
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪
This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!
Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY
Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
Today, the Death of Superman is remembered for the sales figures & the over-hyped comic-book events it inspired. It's easy to forget how moving & beautiful it was. I wonder if a story like this - with its focus on the feelings & small actions of the people in Superman's orbit - could be told today.
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today, the Death of Superman is remembered for the sales figures & the over-hyped comic-book events it inspired. It's easy to forget how moving & beautiful it was. I wonder if a story like this - with its focus on the feelings & small actions of the people in Superman's orbit - could be told today.
I don't understand why the American media continues to talk about Louis CK like his big mistake was accidentally saying 'bum' on Blue Peter or something.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I don't understand why the American media continues to talk about Louis CK like his big mistake was accidentally saying 'bum' on Blue Peter or something.
There's a guy on Reddit who keeps posting huge threads listing all the "hidden clues" in Watchmen that point to stuff like the first Silk Spectre's husband is Hooded Justice & the two kids who bullied young Rorschach grow up to be the detectives investigating the Comedian's death...1/
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There's a guy on Reddit who keeps posting huge threads listing all the "hidden clues" in Watchmen that point to stuff like the first Silk Spectre's husband is Hooded Justice & the two kids who bullied young Rorschach grow up to be the detectives investigating the Comedian's death...1/
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when i witness someone singing Safety Dance
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
when i witness someone singing Safety Dance
Just saw some people on Reddit saying how Spotify has started suggesting AI songs in their "DIscover weekly" feature and I have never before felt so validated for having already cancelled a service.
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Just saw some people on Reddit saying how Spotify has started suggesting AI songs in their "DIscover weekly" feature and I have never before felt so validated for having already cancelled a service.
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I just saw Wake Up Dead Man & I can't imagine I'll see a better film before January, so here are the Top Ten best movies that I watched for the first time in 2025. No prizes for guessing what's first.
boxd.it/QmkVu
boxd.it/QmkVu
Top Ten Movies Watched in 2025
My top ten movies that I watched for the first time this year.
boxd.it
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I just saw Wake Up Dead Man & I can't imagine I'll see a better film before January, so here are the Top Ten best movies that I watched for the first time in 2025. No prizes for guessing what's first.
boxd.it/QmkVu
boxd.it/QmkVu
Robert Eggers after building a 70 foot lighthouse in a remote part of Nova Scotia and then filming two intense actors under grueling conditions only to see me put Dirty Work higher on my list than The Lighthouse:
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Robert Eggers after building a 70 foot lighthouse in a remote part of Nova Scotia and then filming two intense actors under grueling conditions only to see me put Dirty Work higher on my list than The Lighthouse:
I just saw Wake Up Dead Man & I can't imagine I'll see a better film before January, so here are the Top Ten best movies that I watched for the first time in 2025. No prizes for guessing what's first.
boxd.it/QmkVu
boxd.it/QmkVu
Top Ten Movies Watched in 2025
My top ten movies that I watched for the first time this year.
boxd.it
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I just saw Wake Up Dead Man & I can't imagine I'll see a better film before January, so here are the Top Ten best movies that I watched for the first time in 2025. No prizes for guessing what's first.
boxd.it/QmkVu
boxd.it/QmkVu
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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While I think referring to generative AI work as "slop" is fine and correct, like @paulgcornish.bsky.social has said before it's pretty offensive using it for "film I happen to not like" because you're literally calling people who do like it pigs snorting around in squalor.
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
While I think referring to generative AI work as "slop" is fine and correct, like @paulgcornish.bsky.social has said before it's pretty offensive using it for "film I happen to not like" because you're literally calling people who do like it pigs snorting around in squalor.
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"Remember, Caesar, thou art hilarious lmfao"
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Remember, Caesar, thou art hilarious lmfao"
I was one of the sci-comm folk interviewed for this research and I've been looking forward to the results.
A couple of years ago, as part of a @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project, I interviewed some sci comm folk about storytelling strategies we know cause humans to pay attention to some stories more than others.
Illustration by @jordancollver.bsky.social
Illustration by @jordancollver.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I was one of the sci-comm folk interviewed for this research and I've been looking forward to the results.
I feel like a big part of how we got to where we are, with people like Musk & Trump in the US & Johnson & Farage in the UK having so much influence, is that we've all been brought up on movies & TV about oafish, vulgar, & plain-talking outsiders showing the establishment where they've gone wrong...
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I feel like a big part of how we got to where we are, with people like Musk & Trump in the US & Johnson & Farage in the UK having so much influence, is that we've all been brought up on movies & TV about oafish, vulgar, & plain-talking outsiders showing the establishment where they've gone wrong...
I'll play whatever you want me to play. Or I won't play at all if you don't want me to play. Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it, Charlie Brown
We cannot be other than what we are, and this our greatest sin, Charlie Brown.
We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'll play whatever you want me to play. Or I won't play at all if you don't want me to play. Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it, Charlie Brown
We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, Charlie Brown
We Thought You Was a Toad, Charlie Brown
Is it safe, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, Charlie Brown
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Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷