Dr Alfredo Carpineti
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti
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Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | He/him | opinions are my own
The exception confirming the rule 😬
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I always thought that would be a cuter experience
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
😱😱😱
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Aww thank you so much! I should be coming to Bournemouth and did send a few pitches for talks so 🤞
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I got it, don't you worry! 😉
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Luckily, it takes forever to convince you to hike so you’re not the easiest prey.

A fae with a bookshop & bakery located conveniently near a tube stop, would be the perfect trap 😘
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Me left unsupervised in the woods with an oval basin: "Will you look into the mirror?"

[in a squekier voice]: "what will I see?"

"Even the wisest cannot tell. For the mirror… shows many things… things that were… things that are… and some things… that have not yet come to pass!"
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I know but I can’t help feel bad about it 😞

What’s the line? The road to hell is paved with good deeds? 😬
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I literally gasped 🙃
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Dr Alfredo Carpineti
In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."

Yes, really.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I think it’s easier to get rid of radioactive fallout than glitter
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It is actually not super cold here…. But also I wouldn’t question the gifts from the gods 🤭
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Reposted by Dr Alfredo Carpineti
"How many trans people have you seen on the BBC in the last 5 years?"

"How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?"

"Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete"

Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM