barbylon
@barbylon.bsky.social
Category 1 mind, Category 4 attitude. 🧪🔭🚀
I was out with the LDB challenge on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but it's taken THIS LONG to get to my 80's Heart of Christmas
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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas Time? With Artist's Names
YouTube video by Greg J.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I was out with the LDB challenge on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but it's taken THIS LONG to get to my 80's Heart of Christmas
youtu.be/SetcTxRRycc?...
youtu.be/SetcTxRRycc?...
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Am I above pointing out that I have music on Bandcamp on this, Bandcamp Friday? No I am not. Here's a link to the page I have with the Gedankenband. 1/
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Am I above pointing out that I have music on Bandcamp on this, Bandcamp Friday? No I am not. Here's a link to the page I have with the Gedankenband. 1/
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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Look at all of those white people standing there laughing it up. The MSM won't bat an eye and neither will most white people in this country. Again, this is an ANTIBLACK country to its core.
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Look at all of those white people standing there laughing it up. The MSM won't bat an eye and neither will most white people in this country. Again, this is an ANTIBLACK country to its core.
Here's a liveskeet 🧵 of the Isaacman hearing. Thanks @genejm1017.bsky.social
For those looking for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing today at 10:00 AM EST (12/3/2025) for NASA ADMIN nominee Jared Issacman: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/11/chai...
Chairman Cruz Announces Nominations Hearing for NASA and Commerce Nominees
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing to consider the nominations for the National Aeronautics and Space Ad...
www.commerce.senate.gov
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here's a liveskeet 🧵 of the Isaacman hearing. Thanks @genejm1017.bsky.social
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In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile.
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile.
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
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Another major scientific discovery from asteroid Bennu samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission published today in Nature Geoscience. And this one is particularly sweet!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu - Nature Geoscience
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according to a geochemical...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Another major scientific discovery from asteroid Bennu samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission published today in Nature Geoscience. And this one is particularly sweet!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy Antarctica Day! Honor that amazing place by taking a moment to breathe with my favorite Weddell seal. He wants you to feel good this week.
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy Antarctica Day! Honor that amazing place by taking a moment to breathe with my favorite Weddell seal. He wants you to feel good this week.
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot during the holiday weekend over their support for Trump's authoritarian policies.
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot during the holiday weekend over their support for Trump's authoritarian policies.
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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A tiny crack in a spacecraft window triggered China’s first-ever emergency launch to Tiangong space station. A CCTV article reveals what happened over 20 intense days, and why a piece of space debris smaller than 1 mm forced the emergency response.
Shenzhou-22 docks at Tiangong space station, resolving human spaceflight emergency
China’s uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has arrived at the Tiangong space station, reestablishing a lifeboat for the crew and ending the orbital outpost’s first operational emergency.
China’s uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has arrived at the Tiangong space station, reestablishing a lifeboat for the crew and ending the orbital outpost’s first operational emergency.
Shenzhou-22 docks at Tiangong space station, resolving human spaceflight emergency
China’s uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has arrived at the Tiangong space station, reestablishing a lifeboat for the crew and ending the orbital outpost’s first operational emergency.
spacenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A tiny crack in a spacecraft window triggered China’s first-ever emergency launch to Tiangong space station. A CCTV article reveals what happened over 20 intense days, and why a piece of space debris smaller than 1 mm forced the emergency response.
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Great thread on the Shenzhou crisis by @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social
Nov 5, 2025: During routine pre-return checks, the Shenzhou-20 crew spots an abnormal mark on the return capsule portview window. Images from inside and via the space station’s robotic arm are sent to Earth for assessment. content-static.cctvnews.cctv.com/snow-book/in...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Great thread on the Shenzhou crisis by @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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It’s infuriating. And still today, in a lot of places, restrictions on toilet use for trans folks are making it hard for them to participate in all kinds of public life.
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It’s infuriating. And still today, in a lot of places, restrictions on toilet use for trans folks are making it hard for them to participate in all kinds of public life.
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Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪
![The arrangement was difficult for Meitner at first. Women were not yet admitted to universities in the German state of the Kingdom of Prussia, which included Berlin. Meitner was allowed to work in the wood shop, which had its own external entrance, but she could not enter the rest of the institute, including Hahn's laboratory space upstairs. If she wanted to go to the toilet, she had to use one at the restaurant down the street. The following year, women were admitted to Prussian universities, and Fischer lifted the restrictions, and had women's toilets installed in the building. Not all the chemists were happy about this.[27] The Institute of Physics was more accepting, and she became friends with the physicists there,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d33ov6qj5n2yhs27nyvpkpt2/bafkreid7qqgtnz4icdy5gotc6xac4z6cy734fpp6lcw2c7dxqewt6g4p2q@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪
Aw crud, my research has come to naught. theonion.com/researchers-...
Researchers Determine Moon Serves No Purpose But Alerting Raccoons It Safe To Come Out
PASADENA, CA—Dispelling numerous widespread beliefs about the role the celestial body plays in life on Earth, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology published a paper in the Proceedings...
theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Aw crud, my research has come to naught. theonion.com/researchers-...
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Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
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A gift that keeps on giving! One step closer to understanding how the chemical building blocks of life were formed in space. Congratulations to Angel Mojarro and the entire OSIRIS-REx team for making this discovery possible! www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/s...
Scientists find evidence that an asteroid contains tryptophan | CNN
An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A gift that keeps on giving! One step closer to understanding how the chemical building blocks of life were formed in space. Congratulations to Angel Mojarro and the entire OSIRIS-REx team for making this discovery possible! www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/s...
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
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*Holds envelope to forehead* "My entire life in a four-point list."
What are you up to?
1. pretending to write
2. rolling weird dice
3. contemplating the cosmos
4. managing cats & ennui
1. pretending to write
2. rolling weird dice
3. contemplating the cosmos
4. managing cats & ennui
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
*Holds envelope to forehead* "My entire life in a four-point list."
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Starbucks workers are still out on ULP strike! Support us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere until the strike is resolved!! We’re fighting for fair union contracts with better pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting - learn more at the link in our bio! #tobeapartner
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Starbucks workers are still out on ULP strike! Support us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere until the strike is resolved!! We’re fighting for fair union contracts with better pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting - learn more at the link in our bio! #tobeapartner