Water world but we are the wet.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Anyway, here is some actually incredible news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this archetype remains undefeated

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

Arxiv link to the paper referenced in the article arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Yogurt soju bottle.

In other news, we are very very small, and our universe is full of mysteries. www.livescience.com/space/astron...

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it. This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

A neat thing about getting older is there's a point where people you love start dying and then it never stops until you do.

I wish them more success than they even dream. Also some feelings about the article not using 'okina and saying sorry, technical difficulties. A single quote not more acceptable than this? That's a whole ass letter being dropped from the alphabet.

Japan once again wins the IG Nobel Prize, this year for research showing that painting a cow to look like a zebra decreases bug bites by close to 50% www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

This is an absolutely inspiring and exciting bit of technology, one of the best nerdy and useful bits of code I’ve seen in a long time, made as a labor of love by a truly great hacker, not as a commercial project but just to make it easier for everyone to work with files. youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

little blueband hermit crab all dressed up :)

"you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink" you ever see a documentary on foie gras

Depression is both mental and physical. It literally zaps the energy and will you had to do even the most basic things...

We could stop the “culture war” tomorrow if every time an experienced Black woman opened her mouth 5011 folks didn’t “uhm actually..” her if we stopped making trans women pay for the mediocrity of cis women Why is “the class war” dependent on only certain silences

Culture is the adaptation of people to their environment. To deny culture and its importance is to tell people to ignore the reality around them.

Those That Inherit the Earth Vol. 1 is live on Kickstarter! If an episodic tale of an opossum and an astronaut living in a sword and sci-fi world sounds like your thing, this book is for you

oye and her oyes

inside you, there are two wolves. they're a mating pair and have no natural predators. your internal ecosystem is about to collapse.

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

Art.

I have missed this so much.

HAB C? No, Get FED

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

*someone upends my browser profile* my tabbages!

Denmark is on track to wipe out the most dangerous strains of HPV. New data shows the vaccine has all but wiped out HPV16 and HPV18. It's a powerful proof point for what widespread, equitable vaccine coverage can do. buff.ly/3do5Sfo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Someone's death does not in fact change their life.

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

A Student's Vocabulary of Akkadian in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions –– coming to you in October through Eisenbrauns! Very stoked.

Listening to Sydette whenever she speaks is something I highly recommend because when shit started happening to me a major reason I could see it as part of something larger was because of Sydette and her writing on how black feminists were being targeted on twitter by the same people

#Knowledge was an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill.

Should be noted this isn't just about legal consequences. An associate was just let go for a post that was just enough fuel for another coworker who didn't like them to go to HR.

A little birdie told me that native image resolution was increased here. As I test that theory, please enjoy - I hope - this graphic of the world’s alphabets and runes

All done! Anyway -

highly recommend doing this right now

It wasn't even the dumbest thing that happened this week but I'm still not over the Department of Energy not knowing that batteries exist.

Just love the concept of posets (partial ordered sets), a math concept that seems to parallel everyday life Between two interconnected entities, not every component has to completely relate, that some aspects can remain incomparable. Not better, not worse, not rankable.

a love unconditional sees not borders, not limits, and not me, in the place that I am.

time for a tech debt jubilee: delete prod

the phone thins like a knife and you never notice the cut because you always held it when it hurt anyway.

like we all know persephone herself wrote this paragraph right

unwell, but in the way that would be written about like "he went to the summer cottage to convalesce and there passed nine seasons after"

every time