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I love these little green guys!

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I don't really know anything about it other than the title, but check out this Kickstarter for a board game: A Place for All My Books A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them. www.kickstarter.com/projects/smi...

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Getting in a morning walk before rain makes the trails muddy. Johnson Ranch, near San Luis Obispo CA.

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Guess what, Tantie Merle fans? There's a sequel coming soon!! Logic(s) Magazine commissioned LINCOLN & THE HARVESTER C100 in which Lincoln must outwit another bot to save Tantie's garden! Watch this space for the pub date & read the original until then! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...

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Fog in the distance on my morning walk

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Let’s not go back to the time before vaccines.

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Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks. Credits Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live Anemone: Cathy Lewis Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Finding out where critters left sunflower seeds last summer…

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Recently read: Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan This is a fun story with some serious things to say about food. I like seeing people just being really good at something, and there's some top-notch cooking in this book. whatever.scalzi.com/2024/11/07/t...

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Circle In and Out of a Polygon 2 by Robert Mangold, 1973 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137905

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Dropped off my ballot today. My original ballot got lost in the mail, so I had to pick up a replacement, but that let me get one of the kid-designed stickers instead of the plain default ones.

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You know how I love weird treaty consequences? The IANA bases TLDs off ISO3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, IN THEORY they follow suit and kill the TLD. Officially this was 'British Indian Ocean Territory'. That's the .io domain everyone loves so much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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WOW! Researchers at ETH Zurich have effectively suppressed the growth of Glioblastoma, the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer, in BOTH ex vivo human tissue samples AND in preclinical trials with Vortioxetine- an FDA APPROVED serotonin modulator. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 153 days ago • 29 comments

The Iris Nebula (left) and the Ghost Nebula (right). #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Vaccines are wonderful. #GetYourShots www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/h...

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A morning walk, with a sand dune and a deer. After getting over the dune the first time to see the ocean, I was not entirely happy about climbing it again. In the end I think I managed to leave most of the sand at the park rather than bringing it home with me. Montaña de Oro

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Exciting news this morning: Romancing the Vote was chosen as a Democracy Hero alongside some EXTRAORDINARY organizations doing incredible work. THANK YOU ALL! We did this together! www.msnbc.com/know-y...

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Whaaat? You can get the Kindle version of my novel The Terraformers for just $2.99 from now until 10/9! Can you really afford to miss this opportunity to learn about moose romance, cat journalism, and a civilization of nonbinary people who live under a volcano? www.amazon.com/Terraformers...

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Sept 22 is Hobbit Day, as it’s the shared birthday of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. If Tolkien’s work has ever brought you courage, peace, or cheer, I encourage you to revisit it. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” All art below is by Tolkien. 💙📚

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Partial lunar eclipse. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Hey y'all. A friend of mine actually made it out of Afghanistan, which is great. His wife and family have their visas but he needs help with airfare and deposit + first months rent for an apt. www.gofundme.com/f/help-zikri...

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Recently finished Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, which is great. A quote: "We are not ignoring the problem, the city insists; we are intentionally and mindfully waiting for the problem to go away on its own." bookshop.org/p/books/rake...

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As I'd hoped, I had another almost eight hours to work on NGC 7479, the Propeller Galaxy. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Had no idea my morning walk would include a filming site. The point to the left apparently played Maine in the Disney film Pete’s Dragon. (This is near Point Buchon in California)

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I have the book-buying habits of a much faster reader

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Happy #Squidtember 🦑 For #BestSquid I am repping Octopoteuthis deletron. A squid that not only drops its arm tips like a lizard, but is also a bisexual icon, having documented to mate with both genders. Personally I think that’s a pretty good choice for Best Squid🦑

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The following thread is a work of fiction. It was originally published on Twitter/X in July of 2021. In 2022, it was one of the finalists for a Hugo award in the "Best Short Story" category. The story is image-based; alt-text for each image is provided.

submitted 186 days ago • 59 comments

Some days you just need to bake chocolate chip cookies.

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My best political button is the one I sent off for from the back of a cereal box. “Yes, let the rabbit eat Trix!”

submitted 187 days ago • 1 comment

Fluorosphere Starter Pack. If you are on it and don't want to be, or if I forgot you and you want to be on it, please let me know and I'll fix such problems forthwith! go.bsky.app/B7EFWPS

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7 is making some #InvertArt today - he tells me that the small squid is graduating college and the big one, his teacher (Squidfessor if you will), is handing him his diploma #InverteFest #InverteFest2024 #SquidArt

submitted 188 days ago • 4 comments

my aunt died and left me a large amount of money on the condition that I stopped painting, but I refused because I believe in composition over inheritance.

submitted 192 days ago • 4 comments

(Re)reading this now myself, after first reading it based on the rec.arts.sf.written recs when it came out, and loving it.

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A very active sun today. The larger of these sunspots are two, three, even four times the area of the Earth. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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