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Mike Lewinski

This is the nicest shot of the night, via two different cameras that captured the same meteor.

Crestone, Colorado USA November 12, 2025 at 2:36am MST

#astronomy #astrophotography #meteor #aurora

A meteor streaks diagonally on the top right side of the frame, with a couple pulses of brighter light. The meteor is above a red/yellow/green aurora borealis. The scene is moonlit and chamisa and cottonwood trees are visible in the foreground, along with a house. The Rocky Mountains are in the background. The sky is full of stars.

A meteor streaks diagonally in the center of the frame, with a couple pulses of brighter light. The meteor is above a red/yellow/green aurora borealis. The scene is moonlit and chamisa and cottonwood trees are visible in the foreground, along with a house. The Rocky Mountains are in the background. The sky is full of stars. There are some moonlit streaks of cloud on the right side, and some puffier clouds low on the left.

November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

it would only be appropriate for aliens to do the equivalent of this to us all. or at least the people who are okay with this kind of thing

Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 4d

In my part, I make reference to photos of a nuclear test in which birds can be seen igniting in the air as a result of the thermal pulse — this is what I was referencing. From Science, vol 138, no. 3539 (October 26, 1962), which included an article on the brightness of an atomic bomb.

Photographs of an "atomic fireball," with small black clouds visible in the foreground.

"An interesting effect of the light from an atomic fireball is shown in the series of prints (cover photo) which were taken from motion picture ifim made during one of the Eniwetok tests in the Pacific. The device was detonated at night when the birds of the island were roosting in the trees and bushes located between the camera and the point of detonation. With the appearance of the light from the fireball, which at this distance was many times that of the noon day sun, the birds were suddenly awakened and took to the air. Because they were between the camera and the fireball, their silhouettes showed clearly on the film. The time required for them to fly above the tree tops was about the -same as the time- for the maximum delivery of the therhial radiation pulse. At this time, the intensity of thermal radiation was sufficient to

ignite the tail and wing feathers of the black birds. As their feathers burned, they could no longer remain airborne; their trails were marked by curving puffs of smoke as they fell to the ground. These trails are visible in the last two prints of the series. In the motion pictures, it is possible to detect a few birds which remained airborne and continued on their way. These are the white-feathered ones. The difference" (continued next)

..."in the thermal effects on these two classes of birds is due to the differences in the absorption of thermal radiation. As with sunlight, dark and especially black objects are heated more than white ones, and in this case the energy levels were just sufficient to ignite the feathers of the black terns and not the white ones."

Graph showing the "luminous efficiency of a nuclear fireball in air" with "some other familiar light sources shown for comparison." The fireball is briefly brighter than the Sun.

November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

if computers are going to try to talk to me, they need to be able to react appropriately when i respond like this

November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

do you think the author came up for the topic of this article, "Why your booze-free drink costs just as much as the alcoholic kind", before or after finding this guy www.cbc.ca/radio/costof...

November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

story in the internal university magazine thing bragging about every grad student in an AI lab getting some sort of funding pissed me off so bad lol

November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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Willem Dafriend

@depanneur.bsky.social

i apologise in advance for reskeeting this ad nauseam in the foreseeable future.

i have needed help for awhile now.

the white executives @ my FN org have been illegally withholding my pay for 18 months so far.

check replies for (paul harvey voice) "the REST, of the story"

ko-fi.com/depanneur

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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

imagine something even worse: they stopped making it 20 or 30 years ago yet people still wouldn't shut the fuck up about it

November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

just remembered competing over who was better at stopping their stopwatch at exactly 1.00 seconds as a kid. it really was a different world before phones

November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

got shown dodgers reddit and now i want them to lose almost as much as i want the jays to win. highly doubt any of these people watched a game before 2024

October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

#tbt

October 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

Wow that's incredible, they're making so much progress using AI to develop AI that they need 600 fewer people involved

Reuters @reuters.com · 25d

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports

Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday.

reut.rs

October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

people say "enshittification" too much when they just mean everything is cheap (not inexpensive or affordable) now. getting nickel and dimed for every component of a plane ticket? cheap. colour banding in the sky on a photo i uploaded to social media? cheap as fuck

October 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

Hesiod (/ˈhiːsiəd/ HEE-see-əd or /ˈhɛsiəd/ HEH-see-əd;[3] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an Ancient Greek incel generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.[1][2]

Wikipedia screenshot. "Hesiod elaborates (590–93):

For from her is the race of women and female kind: of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.[6]

Hesiod goes on to lament that men who try to avoid the evil of women by avoiding marriage will fare no better (604–7):

[He] reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years, and though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives, yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them.[7]

Hesiod concedes that occasionally a man finds a good wife, but still (609) "evil contends with good." "

October 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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Jake 🕊️

@moviefan69.bsky.social

All the stops on the bus are pointless except for the one I’m getting off at

October 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

whenever I break off some chocolate and it goes beyond the line I'm like hehe yay extra chocolate. but then when I go to break the next bit off I'm like aw I wanted more chocolate. and somehow the government is still silent on this

August 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

if i cant reply to your post im not gonna fav it #IfICantReplyToYourPostImNotGonnaFavIt

August 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

@cheatlines.co has anyone done something along the lines of Otto Billet (auto belay)

August 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM

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nathan

@wiseposter.bsky.social

GOOD NEWS: Just found a QC PASSED sticker stuck to me. I've been waiting for this moment.

August 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

lol they cut the funding of one of the greatest living mathematicians. but also mr. tao with that reputation i think you could probably stick your neck out further than saying "one can debate whether these grounds were justified"

August 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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BoneQuest

@bonequest.com

"HEAD ACHE" https://bonequest.com/9635

pants: I HAVE A HEADACHE SO EVERYBODY NEEDS TO USE DARK MODE AND TALK IN LOWERCASE PLEASE

August 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM

llama

@alffansofficial.bsky.social

fixed a 3d printer at work that had seized by just... pushing on the seized part until it started moving again, then relubricating it all. had already filed a support ticket and the response when i told them what i did was basically "that's fucked up but ok i guess?"