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Alessondra Springmann, PhD
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Cat herding, hiking, sewing, planetary science. Currently: Boulder, CO. formerly Tucson, AZ; Arecibo, PR; and a few other places. Asteroid radarist & healthcare advocate. she/they http://sonoranspace.org

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Brandywine crabapple trees in bloom.
brandywine crabapple trees with burgeoning pink blooms in a park with green mowed grass. in the foreground is a bit of sidewalk with chalk letters spelling "SPRING!" with an arrow pointing at the closest blooming tree.
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Baby bunny in the rabbit brush.
A small brown bunny in the late afternoon sun under a green sprig of rabbit brush
May 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Violet o’clock!
A small cluster of purple violets with green leaves forth from dirt covered with dry leaves
March 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Spiritual ancestor of my mom’s retired barn cat, the instigator for her buying her first-ever trash can with a cover.
A white and gray tabby cat is caught in the act of climbing a screen door, and reverse course to blur Lee return to a deck. Random art supplies and stacks of CDs are to the right of the door
March 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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second celebration entails seeing the Devo documentary tonight at the local film festival, dressed as extras from one of their 1970’s videos, since N95s are part of the costume. Mark Mothersbaugh will be there!
A white man in his 20s or 30s where is a white suit and a blue shirt, while wearing 3-D glasses, a bowtie, and brown hair, and orange gloves, he squints at the camera. He is surrounded by four sitting people wearing blue surgical caps, 3-D glasses, and white shell style N95 masks.
March 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Day 11 since surgery. Appreciating the cabinetry in the ADU I rent.
Japanese-style drawers in a built-in cabinet progress upward from left to right under what is presumably a staircase. A stuffed Totoro and a hygrometer/thermometer sit on one shelf.
March 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Partner and I got blue surgical caps and shell-style N95 masks to dress up as Jocko Homo extras to see the Devo documentary at the local film festival later this month. “Are we not men?” youtu.be/Zk1DNzg0LWs?...
A white person wears a light blue surgical cap, eclipse glasses, and a white shell-shaped N95 mask. They look up at the camera, have long brown hair, and wear a long-sleeved shirt.
March 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Greetings from having my foot elevated above my heart for the next few weeks for ankle surgery recovery. From those of us not doing much physical standing, thank you to everyone who can @standupforscience.bsky.social and advocate for our federal bureaucracy & science infrastructure.
a splinted ankle wrapped in white & beige ace bandages rests on a black metal table outside, photographed from the viewpoint of the human the ankle is attached to. on a sunny day, a locust tree and assorted shrubs and trees in winter cast shadows on dry grass in the background.
March 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Icicles
Icicles on a spruce or a fir tree in the snow, with warm beige cones with long spines
February 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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We’ll catch up to Louisiana any day now!
Sun shines, casting tree shadows over a yard covered in snow, with a set of three black metal chairs and a table, all under snow
January 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Tiny rock garden under the branches of a tree at the doctor’s office.
A sand garden, approximately 4’ x 5‘, with a variety of rocks and a small stone lantern, is framed with green painted wooden boards atop a box made of red stained wooden boards, under the branches of what appears to be a Douglas fir tree
December 12, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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My dad has been meeting the neighbors.
A very fluffy orange tabby cat lays on his side on the roof of a car outside
December 10, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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@mlandis.bsky.social's cat Frankie discovers that the snuggle is real.
a cat, grey tabby with a white belly, paws, and face, is held in the arms of a white person wearing a black N95 facemask and black t-shirt. the cat has a spray of whiskers and looks very content as he is held on his back like a baby. the cat has a pink nose.
December 6, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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Yesterday afternoon’s sunset.
The sun sets low behind pine trees dusted with snow at the edge of a snowy meadow with a snow-covered picnic table shelter to the right.
November 29, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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This afternoon’s sunset.
A street scene with trees and ground and mountains covered with fresh white snow, all back lit by the setting sun behind the mountains.
November 28, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Best week of my life. I have never laughed so much over such a protracted period. When you work with professionals it hardly feels like work.
a view of someone in a beige flightsuit wearing heavy-duty boots from their boot soles to their butt as they lay on their back on the ceiling of a small business jet. photo is slightly blurry, and is taken looking from the cockpit of a small business jet to the aft end. two people sit in chairs further aft.
November 26, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Landlord: "I trust you to debug this because you work with hardware at your job."
Me filming colleagues while we "work with hardware":
November 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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And it is _definitely_ not a good idea replace this vintage 70’s relay with a $15 solid-state single-pole normally open relay because apparently those catch fire and get stuck in the closed position. So now I’m looking up modern $80 relays with heat syncs.
A hella vintage single-pole normally open relay from the 1970s with a small transformer on top mounted on a black wall next to a water heater with instructions written on its side in english. Several copper pipes, gas lines, power cables, and conduits run through the frame.
November 26, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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In other “fun” news, the radiant heat in my unit stopped being reliable the day my duplexmates/landlords who built the system went out of town for 2.5 weeks. I’m learning so much about relays, overflow preventers, and more! Rebooting the relay daily seems to help.
A tangle of copper pipes and conduits connect a gas hot water heater, a propane tank, a relay, and a series of hoses running down out of the frame inside a broom closet.
November 26, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Continuing posting things that aren’t endless screaming: A gaggle of long-necked butternut squash at the farmers market Saturday. Anyone know the variety name?
A tangle of butternut squash with absurdly long necks are all curled together on a table at a farmers market.
November 25, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Today has been a day for screaming inside my heart. Here’s a spectacular sunset from a few nights back.
A red orange sunset of a very well formed cloud bank, possibly something remaining from a thunderstorm with different layers of clouds, reflects light onto the roofs of houses below. To the right, the sky is a dusky blue.
November 25, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social Frankie door-dashed on his human earlier this week, but when asked said he didn’t commit any crimes. How do you find him?
A gray tabby with a white chest and paws sits with his front legs draped over the arm of a white person wearing a cyan blue puffer jacket. The cat looks up into the left above the camera. In the background is a refrigerator cluttered with magnets and postcards, and framed art in the background A gray tabby cat with a white chest and white paws sits with his front legs draped over the shoulder of a white person wearing a cyan blue puffer jacket. The cat has a very skeptical look on his face. In the background is a refrigerator cluttered with magnets and Postcards, with a white wall behind with framed artwork
November 15, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Made this quilt for a friend after they came out as non-binary to their Chinese family, and received a new Chinese name (“Bright Flow”).

The center is laser-cut reverse appliqué made of fabric from their baby blanket, with trapunto underneath.
A quilt held by someone wearing bright green shoes. The center of the quilt has Chinese characters for “bright flow” and the family name “Chua”. It’s surrounded by successively darker borders.
November 2, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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Found a skeleton with hEDS.
A 12 foot tall skeleton stands in a yard with fir trees. Its right elbow is bent past 180°.
October 28, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Neighborhood leaves
An abundance of red leaves on the ground, lit from behind and to the right. The perspective is from leaf height looking toward the edge of a yard with a fence.
October 21, 2024 at 5:59 PM