Lance
@lancenichols.bsky.social
IT profesional, poly, Star Trek geek, 4x4 enthusiast, dad of two and fur dad of two GSDs
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The novel I'm working on right now has a main character that I've been vaguely describing as 'Martin Freeman with anxiety so severe it's visible around his head in stink lines' but now I'm like "Am I just describing Bilbo Baggins"
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The novel I'm working on right now has a main character that I've been vaguely describing as 'Martin Freeman with anxiety so severe it's visible around his head in stink lines' but now I'm like "Am I just describing Bilbo Baggins"
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The loss of an elimination status means that measles will once again be considered endemic to the US, an embarrassing public health backslide for a vaccine-preventable disease.
CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status
Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The loss of an elimination status means that measles will once again be considered endemic to the US, an embarrassing public health backslide for a vaccine-preventable disease.
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I was in a relationship for a time with a professor I had in undergraduate who was 37 when he came on to me at 19.
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
Sometimes I think about the time that I ran into a senior physicist on the street with a woman who was much younger than him and who I learned later had been an undergraduate in his department just the year before and was, at the time, a grad student at his university
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I was in a relationship for a time with a professor I had in undergraduate who was 37 when he came on to me at 19.
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
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Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.
Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
www.cjr.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
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Very cool story. More deep sea beauties uncovered!
Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents - bioGraphic
In the darkness of the deep sea, animals flourish on hydrothermal vents that have gone cold.
www.biographic.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Very cool story. More deep sea beauties uncovered!
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Here's an important article about Canada's measles problem
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...
#abpoli #ableg #Cdnpoli
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...
#abpoli #ableg #Cdnpoli
How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak | The Walrus
A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn
thewalrus.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Here's an important article about Canada's measles problem
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...
#abpoli #ableg #Cdnpoli
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...
#abpoli #ableg #Cdnpoli
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If you need a break from Earthly bullshit may I present to you some cosmic gloriousness? I suspect it may help.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
NGC 3370: Stepladder to the Universe
Also, it’s a very pretty spiral galaxy
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you need a break from Earthly bullshit may I present to you some cosmic gloriousness? I suspect it may help.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳
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“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
The infrastructure of meaninglessness
Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.
Let me try to break down this theory, which...
collectivefutures.blog
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
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15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
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getting unbearably close to this last stretch goal, hot damn, get your books, spread the word!! zoop.gg/c/irovedouti...
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
getting unbearably close to this last stretch goal, hot damn, get your books, spread the word!! zoop.gg/c/irovedouti...
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Time to cancel yet another subscription, eh?
Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.
Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule
Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.
www.vulture.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Time to cancel yet another subscription, eh?
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Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
September 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
oooh!!!
yeah, a little saddlestitch 32-page thing! Monthly superhero comic style
Oh wow, you mean like… printed tome 4 preview?
September 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
oooh!!!
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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Rare view, captured early this morning by Perseverance, when the rim of Jezero Crater projects its shadows on the outer plains to the west...
▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/al8Rb
#Mars Sep. 12, 2025 - Sol 1622
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/al8Rb
#Mars Sep. 12, 2025 - Sol 1622
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Rare view, captured early this morning by Perseverance, when the rim of Jezero Crater projects its shadows on the outer plains to the west...
▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/al8Rb
#Mars Sep. 12, 2025 - Sol 1622
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/al8Rb
#Mars Sep. 12, 2025 - Sol 1622
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
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Despite losing customers, VMware is still driving revenue for Broadcom, thanks to the company’s new focus on subscriptions, bundles, and higher prices.
35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028
“We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change.”…
arstechnica.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Despite losing customers, VMware is still driving revenue for Broadcom, thanks to the company’s new focus on subscriptions, bundles, and higher prices.
I've been waiting for these - I backed all three tomes.
the I Roved Out print edition campaign is live!! Publishing Tome 3 for the first time, reprinting Tome 1 & 2 with new covers! Tell your friends, check it out!! 🍃🍑🔪🔥🌙❄️☠️🧝♀️💦 zoop.gg/c/irovedoutinsearchoftruthandlove
September 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I've been waiting for these - I backed all three tomes.
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the I Roved Out print edition campaign is live!! Publishing Tome 3 for the first time, reprinting Tome 1 & 2 with new covers! Tell your friends, check it out!! 🍃🍑🔪🔥🌙❄️☠️🧝♀️💦 zoop.gg/c/irovedoutinsearchoftruthandlove
September 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
the I Roved Out print edition campaign is live!! Publishing Tome 3 for the first time, reprinting Tome 1 & 2 with new covers! Tell your friends, check it out!! 🍃🍑🔪🔥🌙❄️☠️🧝♀️💦 zoop.gg/c/irovedoutinsearchoftruthandlove