@rachellense.bsky.social This is literally the first opportunity I have had to do some sidewalk astronomy since I received the stickers. It is never this cloudy and rainy in North Texas. Climate change is even out to get the astronomers.

@emilytaylorscience.com I'm in north central Texas and was out running on the city's main trail, listening to a podcast or audiobook, when suddenly this bad boy was in front of me... The photo doesn't give you a sense of scale, but it was a chunky boy, and I'm guessing it was around 3 feet long.

@rachellense.bsky.social The stickers arrived. I realized after I put it on that when it was at an angle, it wasn't as visible... but I do have 29 of them.

Why don't they ever pick out prominent scientists in the crowd?

Today I learned that the genes that suppress the immune system of the mother, to stop her body automatically rejecting the growing child as an alien presence were inserted into our genome by a virus some random ancient primate was infected with approximately 45 million years ago. I love #evolution!

Just finished my first read of the #TheDarkTower in 20 years. Still the best ending to anything I have ever read/watched/listened to. It's just so brutal and sad and amazing and awesome and the best last sentence to anything ever! 11/10 will re-read again in 20 years.... hopefully.

ChatGPT is down... How am I supposed to get quick answers to my questions about hydrogen spectra now?

I finally figured out how to make every video default play at 2x speed. Then when I tried to slow one thing down for reasons everything is slow again even thought the Chrome extension settings say the default is 2x..... sigh. I may have to reboot, sigh...

How did it take me to the first episode of Season 2 of Arcane to realize that the Roman numeral VI on Vi's face was literally her name.. and only because that other office explicitly said it?

My first ever attempt to take a photo of Saturn and using Siril to stack some photos. I was actually surprised at how well it turned out. #astrophotography