Gluon Spring
@gluonspring.bsky.social
Duck Duck Goose gold medalist; salt hobbyist; genome scientist by trade.
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CA (Forged in TX)
Patriotic, as it turns out 🇺🇸
Erdős number: 2
CA (Forged in TX)
Patriotic, as it turns out 🇺🇸
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Gluon Spring
@gluonspring.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hydrogen bomb test Hardtack I Poplar: Detonated July 12, 1958, from a barge off of Namu island in the Bikini Atoll. 9.3 megatons yield. Aircraft in video: Martin RB-57D.
The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.
The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.
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This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
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everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors
December 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors
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The story, time and again, is that gains are broad and small and losses are localized and deep.
There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
i don't know, maybe you have to have lived somewhere with a manufacturing or coal economy that has gone into decline to see it. the impact on the area is *not good*. i do understand that the broader economy gets better, but it also seems to get sharper and more regional
December 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The story, time and again, is that gains are broad and small and losses are localized and deep.
There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
Wearing a cowboy hat is a fairly reliable marker that you are an asshole. There are notable exceptions, but that’s the main signal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Wearing a cowboy hat is a fairly reliable marker that you are an asshole. There are notable exceptions, but that’s the main signal.
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A Galactic Embrace
A Galactic Embrace - NASA
www.nasa.gov
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A Galactic Embrace
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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I sound like a crank when I say the right wants to eliminate government by forcing women to do that work for free, but then he literally goes and advocates just that.
December 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I sound like a crank when I say the right wants to eliminate government by forcing women to do that work for free, but then he literally goes and advocates just that.
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This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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Its fashionable to say rich people have never faced consequences, and they've always had privilege, they did used to face more consequence! Big finance guys went to jail in the 1980s S&L and junk bond scandals. Sadly, was as much Clinton and Obama as Rs who backed off of that
Some non-rich people would’ve been economically harmed if SVB went under due to its bad investments rather than get a govt bailout, yes.
That’s not a convincing case for a system where anytime rich people’s bad bets economically harm others the govt gives tons of money to those same rich people.
That’s not a convincing case for a system where anytime rich people’s bad bets economically harm others the govt gives tons of money to those same rich people.
December 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Its fashionable to say rich people have never faced consequences, and they've always had privilege, they did used to face more consequence! Big finance guys went to jail in the 1980s S&L and junk bond scandals. Sadly, was as much Clinton and Obama as Rs who backed off of that
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The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
On Facebook I shared a Noahpinion post titled “They need you to hate some group” and the point of the post was “don’t demonize people as a group”. Earnest “Christian’s” came into my replies to argue “What if some groups are literal demons, though?”
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On Facebook I shared a Noahpinion post titled “They need you to hate some group” and the point of the post was “don’t demonize people as a group”. Earnest “Christian’s” came into my replies to argue “What if some groups are literal demons, though?”
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NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
This huge ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy.
This huge ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
This huge ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy.
This huge ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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So a comedy writer anticipated Trump's next move and bought up some domains....
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So a comedy writer anticipated Trump's next move and bought up some domains....
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
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I've been posting at least since 2019, maybe 2016 (old twitter search sucks) that "it would be better for our politics and our society if more business and political elites went to prison. Not fines, prison"
December 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I've been posting at least since 2019, maybe 2016 (old twitter search sucks) that "it would be better for our politics and our society if more business and political elites went to prison. Not fines, prison"
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Very cool. Great work America.
Possible measles exposure at two major US airports: Boston and Denver. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... via @nbcnews.com
Possible measles exposure at two major US airports
Warnings tonight about exposure to the measles for travelers going through Boston and Denver. It comes as cases rise in South Carolina and all at a time when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is mak...
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Very cool. Great work America.
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Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool.
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
Many Trump supporters are people who don’t believe they are rich simply because they have to go to work every day
This might seem funny until you realize how many professionals - including engineers, doctors, etc - supported Trump.
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool.
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
Haven’t listened to this in awhile. The lyrics resonate a bit more now for me.
The Police - Spirits In The Material World (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO
youtu.be
December 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Haven’t listened to this in awhile. The lyrics resonate a bit more now for me.
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At the gender reveal party and the flames aren't pink or blue, but a flaming eye screaming in Black Speech
December 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
At the gender reveal party and the flames aren't pink or blue, but a flaming eye screaming in Black Speech
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Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars.
More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157...
#Astronomy
More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157...
#Astronomy
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Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, ejected by and racing...
fosstodon.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars.
More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157...
#Astronomy
More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157...
#Astronomy
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This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
a close up of a green and white sponge with purple spots
Alt: A green and white sea sheep grazes on a green lawn of algae on a surface underwater.
media.tenor.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!
Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
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I’m curious where this kind of overconfidence comes from.
To me, most likely case is still that Republicans hold the senate, the MAGAfication of the judiciary continues, and threats to the rule of law escalate.
To me, most likely case is still that Republicans hold the senate, the MAGAfication of the judiciary continues, and threats to the rule of law escalate.
December 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’m curious where this kind of overconfidence comes from.
To me, most likely case is still that Republicans hold the senate, the MAGAfication of the judiciary continues, and threats to the rule of law escalate.
To me, most likely case is still that Republicans hold the senate, the MAGAfication of the judiciary continues, and threats to the rule of law escalate.
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*staring into the vastness of creation* you got any games on this?
December 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
*staring into the vastness of creation* you got any games on this?