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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
@rachellense.bsky.social
Science communicator, artist | She/They 🏳️‍🌈 | Views = mine

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The spouse captured this photo of Bubby and me the other day. Easily one of my new favorite photos, double chin and all. #catnap
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#Inktober entry number two: #weave!
October 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A day late for the start of #inktober, but here's my inky #moustache for those observing. Decided to use my glass pen for this.
October 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today is my birthday. Two years ago, I launched my dream job at NASA. Now, I face my last day of employment there. My position, along with thousands of others, evaporated at the whim of a wannabe dictator and his self-serving lackeys. I'm thankful for the time I had, but sad it's ending like this.
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I really hate this timeline.
September 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hooray for 300 days of mental health and emotion management!
September 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Practicing my still life sketching. (Err... stilled life? Still death? Still something, anyway.) Thinking about adding some flowers into the sketch. What do you think? Thistles, sagebrush, and wheat grass perhaps?
#art #sketch #skull
August 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
IT'S NOT FAIR HOW FLUFFY THEY ARE

The nerve they have to exist as intelligent beings with the right to bodily autonomy. How am I expected to NOT bury my face in their floof 24/7? Hmm??

Pls send help
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
June 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
200 days of #Finch! 🥳
That's 200 days of self-care, mood tracking, reflections, goal setting, and--perhaps most importantly--interior decorating and outfit creating. I have never stuck with anything good for me like this for this long. So thankful to the creators and all my birb friends. 💜
June 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Looks like the Sun is leaning into his evil clown phase. The wisps of his fiery wig flap and twist as he spins his head to face us, while the solar wind streams from his gaping, lipsticked maw.

In other words:
Solar maximum == Bozo maximum 🤡 #heliophysics #clowningaround
June 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
She certainly is! We got her as a pup, but when she was about 6 months old, we realized she needed a friend, so we rescued another one from a farm. Meet Zelda and Jasmine. (Zelda, on the left here, is the one on the couch in the last image.)
June 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I love how much this woman thought about the way time changes someone. This is her poem, Leaves, from 2018. (I believe she died shortly afterward.)
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
One of the many nicknames we have for her is Woolly Bear 🤎
June 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A friend of mine often used to say, "Wow, isn't this the most glorious fucking day god ever made?" Can't argue with that shit. Today is INCREDIBLE because you and I exist together. 💖

🎨: @falseknees.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I've never kept a mood journal before, but now that I'm using #Finch, apparently I do. (It asks how you're feeling every time you open the app.) Boy, howdy, how my moods have changed over the months... What started at the end of January and has gotten increasingly worse since? 🙄
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
STAY TUNED FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
My li'l Prince Bubster has adorably pink nose that fills me with joy. May it also bring happiness to you and yours today. 🩷
May 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Kids these days.
May 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
LOVE a good color chart! Actually referenced mine yesterday when deciding which colors to use on this hydrangea piece for Mother's Day (no, it's not great; yes, I'm still learning)
May 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Realized you can save outfits and furniture collections in #Finch. There goes my evening 🫠
(Also: be my birb friend! 9Y176YFQTH)
April 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
How is this level of cute even possible? HOW?!
April 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
When shit hits the fan, where do you turn? For me, as shit slowly crescendos to firehose pressure washing the fan, I've been turning more and more to #poetry.

Here's the poem that spoke to me today:
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
by Gwendolyn Brooks
April 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wendell Berry's famous poem feels so timely right now
March 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Do we have the same glasses??
March 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy happy Mario Day! May your day be sproingy, bright, and fun! #mar10day
March 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM