semi-regular reminder to gaze upon Bob Peck's thighs in JURASSIC PARK

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LOOK AT THEM

Feel like spending lunchtime at the seaside? I just fixed a couple of local stations in this, so pick your destination, click the radio, and enjoy the sandwich & flask of tea vole.wtf/british-seas...

In Batumi, they put Bidzina Ivanishvili’s coffin on fire. Believe me, it takes rage for Georgians to do this. And Ivanishvili is absolutely paranoid about anything in any form resembling cursing or witchcraft. #GeorgiaProtests

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

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Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

My older work showing Pluto how it would probably look to human eyes.

I strongly recommend to look at the full image (38 Mpx) on the Flickr page.

Image is color composite from MVIC camera onboard New Horizons spacecraft (more details in the Flickr link).

www.flickr.com/photos/10958...

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.

Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.

🧪 #photography

Since Nancy Mace is in the news, I'll post the one thing that was enjoyable about my time on Twitter:

New users: blocking *works* here. You can just block the person and they vanish.

Subscribe to a modlist, click click and everyone else subscribed to the modlist can have that person simply vanish for them too.

You do *not* need to quote dunk them, or screencap them.

Let them literally vanish.

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

What's the roundest human-made object ever made? One of Einstein's most bizarre predictions led to a pretty dang spherical ball bearing because of course it did.

[also, more on kicking Elon's Nazi bar to the curb]

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-th...

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For those of you who are fans of BBC science, here's a list of science presenters on BlueSky now:

Alice Roberts
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social

Kevin Fong
@drkevinfong.bsky.social

Chris Lintott
@chrislintott.bsky.social

Jim Al-Khalili
@jimalkhalili.bsky.social

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Today's XKCD concerns the successfully deployment of Europa Clipper's creme brulee spoon en route to Jupiter's icy moons. xkcd.com/3011 Which reminds me of a story 🛰️🔭🧪 🧵 (1/n)

Coffee and fun

🧵 For some reason, in July 1985 the Daily Mirror's pseudo-saucy comic strip Jane ran a series of comics centred on - oh yes - Jane and boyfriend Chris hanging out with Sir Clive Sinclair. Very strange stuff, as you can see in this very thread. [CW Saucy bits censored, but 80s attidudes not) 1/7.

#AlienRomulus  gives me the excuse I never need to resurrect my proudest, grisliest creation (the most horrifying part of which is that orange curtain, which at least lends it an authentic 70s vibe).