Flaring Gently
@theexactmoment.bsky.social
In groups create out groups. Culture is wonderful but countries are stupid.
Spend more time thinking about the starry nights.
Spend more time thinking about the starry nights.
#cassiopeia and the #moon the night before last
May 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
#cassiopeia and the #moon the night before last
May 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Wouldn't it be great if the world truly understood the science described here, and everyone behaved accordingly?
Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean?
In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.
www.bbc.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Wouldn't it be great if the world truly understood the science described here, and everyone behaved accordingly?
Wordle 1,402 2/6
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So close to my 'Wordle starter word day'.
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So close to my 'Wordle starter word day'.
April 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Wordle 1,402 2/6
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
So close to my 'Wordle starter word day'.
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So close to my 'Wordle starter word day'.
Nobody gonna take a shy at this? Maybe you're waiting for Monday for it to make sense.
A seasonal cryptic that probably won't unduly trouble @pauleggleston.bsky.social or @coot.bsky.social
Post-weekend feeling from, for example, force on axis! (4)
Post-weekend feeling from, for example, force on axis! (4)
April 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Nobody gonna take a shy at this? Maybe you're waiting for Monday for it to make sense.
Flirting with the #paternosters #jerseyci
April 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Flirting with the #paternosters #jerseyci
A seasonal cryptic that probably won't unduly trouble @pauleggleston.bsky.social or @coot.bsky.social
Post-weekend feeling from, for example, force on axis! (4)
Post-weekend feeling from, for example, force on axis! (4)
April 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A seasonal cryptic that probably won't unduly trouble @pauleggleston.bsky.social or @coot.bsky.social
Post-weekend feeling from, for example, force on axis! (4)
Post-weekend feeling from, for example, force on axis! (4)
Easter confusion
Will they come? Nobody knows!
Tell me, when is bins?
Will they come? Nobody knows!
Tell me, when is bins?
April 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Easter confusion
Will they come? Nobody knows!
Tell me, when is bins?
Will they come? Nobody knows!
Tell me, when is bins?
When is bins?
(It's an important philosophical question at this juncture)
(It's an important philosophical question at this juncture)
April 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
When is bins?
(It's an important philosophical question at this juncture)
(It's an important philosophical question at this juncture)
This is a brilliantly strange perspective.
Apparently some people can lie on their backs, outside, at night and watch the stars and feel the rotation of the earth
Woulda saved some time in the middle ages dropping the heliocentric model if those people had been believed a bit sooner!
Apparently some people can lie on their backs, outside, at night and watch the stars and feel the rotation of the earth
Woulda saved some time in the middle ages dropping the heliocentric model if those people had been believed a bit sooner!
🧵
Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.
He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...
🔭 🧪 #galactic
Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.
He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...
🔭 🧪 #galactic
April 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is a brilliantly strange perspective.
Apparently some people can lie on their backs, outside, at night and watch the stars and feel the rotation of the earth
Woulda saved some time in the middle ages dropping the heliocentric model if those people had been believed a bit sooner!
Apparently some people can lie on their backs, outside, at night and watch the stars and feel the rotation of the earth
Woulda saved some time in the middle ages dropping the heliocentric model if those people had been believed a bit sooner!
April 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
April 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Moon rise a coupla days back
April 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Moon rise a coupla days back
Green lizard #stouen #jersey
Jersey is the only place in the British Isles where these little beauties are native.
www.nationaltrust.je/our-work/nat...
Jersey is the only place in the British Isles where these little beauties are native.
www.nationaltrust.je/our-work/nat...
April 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Green lizard #stouen #jersey
Jersey is the only place in the British Isles where these little beauties are native.
www.nationaltrust.je/our-work/nat...
Jersey is the only place in the British Isles where these little beauties are native.
www.nationaltrust.je/our-work/nat...
Arum lily with stamen detail
April 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Arum lily with stamen detail
This @newyorker.com article is what I was talking about:
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
We mustn't be distracted
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
We mustn't be distracted
April 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This @newyorker.com article is what I was talking about:
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
We mustn't be distracted
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
We mustn't be distracted
April 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#auroraborealis aka merry dancers, somewhere over Canada, Jan 2023
April 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
#auroraborealis aka merry dancers, somewhere over Canada, Jan 2023
This is important.
AGI is coming, and faster than you think.
It's unregulated.
It's unprotected.
It will upend all our lives before the end of the decade.
All the current noise is a meaningless distraction.
Don't be distracted.
Prepare now.
ai-2027.com
AGI is coming, and faster than you think.
It's unregulated.
It's unprotected.
It will upend all our lives before the end of the decade.
All the current noise is a meaningless distraction.
Don't be distracted.
Prepare now.
ai-2027.com
AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
ai-2027.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is important.
AGI is coming, and faster than you think.
It's unregulated.
It's unprotected.
It will upend all our lives before the end of the decade.
All the current noise is a meaningless distraction.
Don't be distracted.
Prepare now.
ai-2027.com
AGI is coming, and faster than you think.
It's unregulated.
It's unprotected.
It will upend all our lives before the end of the decade.
All the current noise is a meaningless distraction.
Don't be distracted.
Prepare now.
ai-2027.com
If you're outraged at the weak punnery, or anything else in this news, be sure to let #PaulWeiss know how you feel.
About this pro Bono stuff...
I've always been a U2 fan but actions like this tip me over the Edge.
I've always been a U2 fan but actions like this tip me over the Edge.
March 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you're outraged at the weak punnery, or anything else in this news, be sure to let #PaulWeiss know how you feel.
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
