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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦
@dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free […]

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@evanurquhart.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Thank you for clarifying that my snack didn't expire in 2026 BCE. I was worried.
Photo of the expiration date on a prepackaged snack, saying “best before Jul 15 2026 CE”
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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[US Pol: death watch]

@drahardja @futurebird
Coffee mug with a an image of a tired-looking Victorian woman with the text, “Is he dead yet?”
August 31, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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@sundogplanets Junk mail I got from him this very morning, completely unsolicited. Pretty soon his ego is going to reach the Chandrasekhar limit. Maybe they don't pay tenured professors enough at Harvard.
Hi Friend, I'm Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard and head of the Galileo Project. I'm delighted to welcome you to our community of explorers, people who, like me, believe that the greatest discoveries begin with a simple question: What if? My own journey started on a small farm in Israel. Here, I spent my childhood reading philosophy books under a sky filled with endless stars. Reflecting on those nights, I know it taught me that the universe is not just something to look at, it's something to wonder about. What secrets are out there? That same sense of wonder guides the Galileo Project today. We are searching the skies with new eyes, building instruments to capture what has never been seen before, and studying interstellar visitors that may carry secrets from faraway worlds. Every fragment we recover, every anomaly we measure, brings us a step closer to answering one of humanity's oldest questions: Are we alone? As part of this journey, I'll share with you glimpses of our work—our expeditions, our observatories, and the moments when the universe surprises us. I hope each update sparks your own curiosity and sense of awe. Thank you for joining us as we reach beyond what is known, into the vast mystery that lies above. Keep looking up, Avi Professor Avi Loeb Head of the Galileo Project
August 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Today is #ShowYourStripesDay. Silicon Valley, via https://showyourstripes.info/
Bar chart of temperature change in San Jose, California from 1850-2024.
June 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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@erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @katelynburns.com
I wanted to draw your attention to this poll I conducted on Mastodon on the off chance you're interested in conducting your own (actual) research. This poll means nothing, but these results […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
June 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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So, this is going about as well as you'd expect.
A middle-aged man with a mustache stands in his seat in an airliner cabin, with his hand raised, saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Many other hands in the cabin are raised.
April 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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OMG, this week's New Yorker cover…
If you don't get the reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2Wkr5YI
The cover of the April 7, 2025 New Yorker magazine. It is a cartoon takeoff on the scene from “Dr. Strangelove” where Major Kong rides a nuclear weapon down to its detonation, whooping like a cowboy and waving his hat. In this version, the scene has an endless line of Trump administration functionaries riding the bomb, with Pete Hegseth and J.D. Vance first. All of them are waving smartphones instead of cowboy hats.
March 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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@volts.wtf
Three pane meme. First pane: Woman in lab coat peering into microscope Second pane: Red blood cells Third pane: Zoom in, tiny violin and bow about the same size as a red blood cell
March 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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@pmonks
February 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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We're all finding out what happens when this idiot actually does get to fly the plane.
New Yorker cartoon of the interior of an airliner in flight. A balding middle-aged man stands up in his seat, hand raised, and is saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Many other passengers have their hands raised in response.
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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@erininthemorning.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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@volts.wtf
Electron photomicrograph of a tardigrade playing a violin, with a length scale shown as 100 micrometers.
January 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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@finestructure
January 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Me watching Canadians on Bluesky talk about banning all US social media from Canada. On Bluesky.
January 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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At least Nausicaa and my Studio Ghibli calendar are ready for 2025. I wish I was.
Photo of the 2025 Studio Ghibli art frame calendar, showing January and with a still from “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.” (風の谷のナウシカ) Nausicaa is standing in the cockpit of her country’s gunship in flight.
January 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Welcome to the family's new arrival!

#plushtodon
Mastodon plushie in an armchair.
December 28, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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Everyone ready for the next four years?
Cartoon of an airliner cabin with a middle-aged man standing up from his seat with his hand raised, saying "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?" Many other hands in the cabin are raised.
December 19, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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The facts are so simple. How is it journalism if it ignores the facts?

#protecttranskids #moralpanic
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December 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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@katelynburns.com One of my favorite cartoons from @monsterologist.bsky.social
Two side-by-side illustrations. Left title: “How TERFs, evangelicals, and the far right see me.” A woman dressed in leather hot pants and fishnets, holding a massive sci-fi gun of some kind, with a cyborg arm and bones as hair sticks, holding two eldritch beasts on a leash, surrounded by quotes: “Demonic gender ideology”, “Their ultimate goal is the destruction or elimination of the traditional family”, “They’re basically trying to use social engineering to create a new species… I think human and part machine” “Herods that destroy, that plot designs of death, that disfigure the face of man and woman, destroying creation” “The death of god” Footnote: “Actual quotes” Right title: “How anyone who actually knows me sees me” Woman wearing sneakers and overalls with a She/Her button, over a t-shirt with a dinosaur patch on the sleeve, and a messenger bag with a plush dinosaur peeking out and a D&D badge, holding a Natural History Museum of Utah ticket, and saying “Oh gosh! I think I left my keys by the duck!” Footnote: “Also, sadly, an actual quote”
December 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Still not tempted by Bluesky. I don't want to get into an "us vs. them" thing, because there's lots of great people who prefer Bluesky to the Fediverse, and who have things to say I want to hear. I try to convince them to enable the Fediverse bridge, but […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Two dogs watching their dinner being served into a dog dish. One says to the other, “Oh boy!… It’s dog food AGAIN!”
December 16, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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@futurebird
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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@transscribe.bsky.social Age yourself with your first computer
Photo of an IBM 1130 computer, with an 80-column card punch to the right and a card reader to the left.
November 19, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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@gleick @trumpet It helps a little to set your notifications to filter some. Here's mine:
Mastodon web interface for managing notifications, showing that new accounts, unsolicited private mentions, and moderated accounts are filtered.
November 5, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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@dangillmor
October 31, 2024 at 4:31 AM