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This is a great review of a very interesting book. For me, the best aspect was getting a bit more depth of just how alien the t'au psyche is, instead of "human, but technofuturistic" that they can be in many sources. #40k
May 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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No AI, this is a real photo taken by Percy’s engineering cameras of astronomical twilight on #Mars! You can see Deimos in the sky too.

I worked pretty hard to plan, execute, and analyze this image, and it came out beautifully! A bit noisy, but it was very dark out after all.

#astro #planetary
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Here's Imotekh in all his rainbow glory.

I'm tentatively planning a new project, which I will do despite my stomach. And to cheer me up, yep, it's going to be rainbows. 😁
May 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"Only Nigel Farage’s Reform look truly happy, despite being one of the smallest parties, with just five MPs — six if you include the prime minister." @roberthutton.co.uk 🔥
The odd couple | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch both entered the House of Commons to greetings that can only be called “lacklustre”. The chamber felt dead. It was far from empty, but also not really packed.
thecritic.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Eyes are on the Vatican this week for the selection of a new Pope 💭

Specific recipes are used for the black and white smoke released to indicate the result of conclave voting – here's a look at the chemicals involved: wp.me/p4aPLT-8St

#ChemSky 🧪
May 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The emus are performing arcane summoning rituals in the backyard again.

(This seems particularly appropriate to share today, in response to @tkingfisher.com's recent D&D emu adventures)
May 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Extract 5/18
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Mini of the month - march near Macragge - entry 2 by @lonelyashtree.bsky.social

A Hunting We Shall Go

#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
April 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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at rest, the noble bunny maintains the highest state of alertness in case of dangers on the veldt (rug)
March 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.
March 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A quick #FlyDay dip for this Robin!

📷 @kiransimpson.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Sometimes, the most amazing photos from space are of objects close to home.

Or even *of* our home.

This is a lunar eclipse as seen from the Moon. That black disk? That's Earth. And the ring around it? Why, that's the magic.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/incredible...

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INCREDIBLE SPACE PHOTO: The lunar eclipse seen from the Moon!
Also, come see me at GalaxyCon in Richmond, Virginia, March 27-29!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The most extraordinary thing about James Harrison, who donated his rare plasma every 2 weeks for over 60 years and saved the lives of an estimated 2.4 million babies, is that he had to overcome a FEAR OF NEEDLES.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
James Harrison, whose rare blood helped save millions of babies, dies at 88
By donating blood over 1,100 times, James Harrison helped develop Anti-D, a life-saving treatment for newborns at risk of Rhesus disease
www.independent.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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1/n 🧵

Just released: Phobos and Deimos crossing paths

Full size: flic.kr/p/2pgqKkU
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

(Potato1 & Potato2)

@esa.int Mars Express HRSC 30/8/2024
Latest data release available from today on: psa.esa.int
March 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes.

If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.

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Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution
Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...
www.scientificamerican.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As it's Wednesday, my two current projects! I'm about halfway through the Boarding Action terrain and I'm really happy with the Avatar's magma effect. #WarhammerCommunity #WIPWednesday
February 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This week on the blog: Impossible Logistics! Absurd Plans! *Terrible* Lighting!

That's right, we're back to Rings of Power, season 2 to begin our look at the ten layers of hot nonsense that was the Siege of Eregion, starting with - of course - Logistics!
acoup.blog/2025/02/21/c...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part I: What Logistics?
This is the first part of our [I don’t know; a few?] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion sequence from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power and what we can learn by poin…
acoup.blog
February 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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February 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I'm loving this whole thread but I've definitely had dates like this 😂
So small. So loud.
February 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
When boarding action goes Really Well TM for the space marines. Great fun though! #WarhammerCommunity #BoardingAction
February 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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concentrating hard because he is trying to remember how to eat hay
February 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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When your lack of previous sheepdog experience is cruelly exposed on your first day at work.
February 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A nice, balanced look at recent cable faults in the Baltic in a historical context #SubseaCables blog.telegeography.com/is-it-sabota...
Is It Sabotage? Unraveling the Mystery of Undersea Cable Breaks
Nowadays, any cable fault in the Baltic or off the coast of Taiwan is guaranteed to result in a flurry of headlines like “Another Undersea Cable Attacked in the Baltic Sea.”
blog.telegeography.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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We’d have a livestream of a lettuce actually…
February 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Yessss, I need it!
Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

“I had just taken poison when the king arrived to inform me that he had killed his wife.”

- Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher, coming in…August? I think?
Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

"Dying is easy. Grieving is hard."

-Ghost Money
February 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM