Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok
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Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
· Nov 15
‘A blur of legs, arms and adrenaline’: the astonishing history of two-tone
As a new exhibition documents the UK ska-pop sound, stars including the Specials, Elvis Costello and Pauline Black recall how it opened up music, fashion and racial understanding
www.theguardian.com
I love this: “I thought it was my job to learn everything I could about the band before some more technically capable producer fucked it all up and took the fun and danger out of it” (Elvis Costello on producing The Specials)
www.theguardian.com/music/2021/a...
www.theguardian.com/music/2021/a...
Eight US senators be like
a woman wearing a mask stands on a red carpet in front of a street
ALT: a woman wearing a mask stands on a red carpet in front of a street
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Eight US senators be like
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I hope this clears up any remaining confusion.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I hope this clears up any remaining confusion.
My newsfeed loves ironic juxtaposition
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My newsfeed loves ironic juxtaposition
I was once invited to a geoscience workshop in Saudi Arabia. By a female colleague organizer in the US no less. The cluelessness shocked me (and no, I didn’t go).
officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...
officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...
My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival
I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...
officialdavidcross.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I was once invited to a geoscience workshop in Saudi Arabia. By a female colleague organizer in the US no less. The cluelessness shocked me (and no, I didn’t go).
officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...
officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...
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It's time for Chuck Schumer to go. Tried to call my Senators, but no answer & voicemail boxes are all full. But you can still send email. Here's the easiest way.
If your Senators were not in the 8 who voted with GOP, don't forget to thank them!
act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
If your Senators were not in the 8 who voted with GOP, don't forget to thank them!
act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
On November 9, Chuck Schumer surrendered in the fight for affordable healthcare, supplying Republicans the votes necessary to advance a budget that will cause premiums to double and triple for million...
act.indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's time for Chuck Schumer to go. Tried to call my Senators, but no answer & voicemail boxes are all full. But you can still send email. Here's the easiest way.
If your Senators were not in the 8 who voted with GOP, don't forget to thank them!
act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
If your Senators were not in the 8 who voted with GOP, don't forget to thank them!
act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
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![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What Seth said
Until the media, judicial system, and Democratic Party understand this, we're headed for hellfire
Your reelection doesn't matter, your approval rating doesn't matter, your sense of being a bigwig in your professional circle doesn't matter, what matters is saving the fucking United States of America
Your reelection doesn't matter, your approval rating doesn't matter, your sense of being a bigwig in your professional circle doesn't matter, what matters is saving the fucking United States of America
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
What Seth said
Three things in life are inevitable: death, taxes, and the spinelessness of Democrats
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Three things in life are inevitable: death, taxes, and the spinelessness of Democrats
⚒️🧪
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
⚒️🧪
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Had my second ink day, made a good selection, filmed some video, took some pictures. Worked a bit in the shop and looking to go live with it tomorrow!
This monthly’s print will be available soon. Also join my patreon for mail updates
patreon.com/cw/Cristian_uy
#art #illustration #print #linocut
This monthly’s print will be available soon. Also join my patreon for mail updates
patreon.com/cw/Cristian_uy
#art #illustration #print #linocut
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Had my second ink day, made a good selection, filmed some video, took some pictures. Worked a bit in the shop and looking to go live with it tomorrow!
This monthly’s print will be available soon. Also join my patreon for mail updates
patreon.com/cw/Cristian_uy
#art #illustration #print #linocut
This monthly’s print will be available soon. Also join my patreon for mail updates
patreon.com/cw/Cristian_uy
#art #illustration #print #linocut
Wise words about art and AI and more from @kyliu99.bsky.social in this interview. Highly recommend.
www.scmp.com/news/china/p...
www.scmp.com/news/china/p...
Open Questions | Silkpunk creator Ken Liu takes on AI, modernity and what it means to be American
The sci-fi sensation compares the new technology to the early days of the camera and predicts a long period of transition for the new medium.
www.scmp.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Wise words about art and AI and more from @kyliu99.bsky.social in this interview. Highly recommend.
www.scmp.com/news/china/p...
www.scmp.com/news/china/p...
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Apparently there were Ten Democratic Senators who in High School were voted most likely to concede.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Apparently there were Ten Democratic Senators who in High School were voted most likely to concede.
It’s the Democrats, yet again, isn’t it?
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It’s the Democrats, yet again, isn’t it?
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The video here of Xpeng’s nubile(!) robot getting its leg cut open is worth watching if only for the interpreters’ jarring accent changes
mashable.com/article/xpen...
mashable.com/article/xpen...
Xpeng debuts creepy humanoid robot Iron at AI Day event
Chinese EV maker Xpeng debuted its walking humanoid robot Iron at the AI Day event. It's so lifelike, they had to cut it open on stage.
mashable.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The video here of Xpeng’s nubile(!) robot getting its leg cut open is worth watching if only for the interpreters’ jarring accent changes
mashable.com/article/xpen...
mashable.com/article/xpen...
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The Double Helix shenanigans are getting a lot of discussion following Watson's death. This article is DJing the rounds. It's a really interesting read. But I'm interested in people's take on it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The Double Helix shenanigans are getting a lot of discussion following Watson's death. This article is DJing the rounds. It's a really interesting read. But I'm interested in people's take on it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If hurricane and typhoon incidence is not anthropogenically influenced, why do we keep blaming Katrina and her ilk?
Yes, I’m in a silly mood.
Yes, I’m in a silly mood.
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If hurricane and typhoon incidence is not anthropogenically influenced, why do we keep blaming Katrina and her ilk?
Yes, I’m in a silly mood.
Yes, I’m in a silly mood.
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If YouTube didn’t run 30 second ads before showing “Heimlich Maneuver” I’m sure my date tonight would’ve asked me out again.
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
If YouTube didn’t run 30 second ads before showing “Heimlich Maneuver” I’m sure my date tonight would’ve asked me out again.
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A weird thing about James Watson is that he auctioned off his Nobel Prize and then pivoted to extreme science denial and racial essentialism and became a darling of Gamergate and then we learned that one of the currently sanctioned Russian oligarchs bought it for millions and then gave it back.
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A weird thing about James Watson is that he auctioned off his Nobel Prize and then pivoted to extreme science denial and racial essentialism and became a darling of Gamergate and then we learned that one of the currently sanctioned Russian oligarchs bought it for millions and then gave it back.
Excellent thread on good driving practice. Especially the bits about cybertrucks.
Tips for driving around a city during high traffic times, from a person who drives for work, in multiple posts.
1) If you can avoid it, do so.
2) Seriously. That's the easiest way.
Continued...
1) If you can avoid it, do so.
2) Seriously. That's the easiest way.
Continued...
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Excellent thread on good driving practice. Especially the bits about cybertrucks.
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Empires don’t fall when they run out of money. They fall when they run out of mercy.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Empires don’t fall when they run out of money. They fall when they run out of mercy.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The coward Jeffries wants everyone to forget that New York City exists
THE. NAME. IS. MAMDANI.
Say his name, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social !
Say his name, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social !
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The coward Jeffries wants everyone to forget that New York City exists