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grb090423

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Interests: cosmology, astronomy, the sciences in general, wildlife.
Rusty polyglot. Slowly learning Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).
I informally tweet ESA news when I can.
GRB090423 was the furthest Gamma Ray Burst known to us back when I started on social media.
Both avatar and header images were taken by me.
I rarely boost images that don't have Alt Text.
I boost The Vagina Museum posts; please don't be offended... it's good to learn.
I always check your TL - If no posts, I don't follow back.

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sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

That is asking a bit much of you.

RickiTarr, to random
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Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

grb090423,
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@RickiTarr

This is so lovely.

elizabethtasker, (edited ) to random
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I’m listening to “Wideacre”; historical fiction by Philippa Gregory.

The protagonist is evil. An utter psychopath. Admittedly, life for a woman in the 18th century is rough, and the opportunities Beatrice’s skills warrant are passed to incompetent men. But the body count is unpleasant!

It’s a very long book and a stressful read. Frankly, I want to stop but I also want to know the outcome and I’m not sure a synopsis will be satisfactory.

In short, I’m in a hostage situation with an audiobook.

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker

Eeek!

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker

Totally understand that.

I have to say well done for getting through it! It's more than I could have done 😄

As I've got older, I'm more inclined to think "nope, not enjoying or learning from this" and I'll pick up the next book in my queue.

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker

Oh my word! What a story!

😅

sundogplanets, to random
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Story time!

One thing I absolutely love about living here is the way that neighbours helping neighbours is deeply ingrained in the culture of rural farms here.

Last night, just as I was about to go to bed, our neighbour called: "You guys have a tiny horse, right? Is your tiny horse in with my cows?"

OH NO. My tiny horses are ancient and not very ambitious, but maybe something scary happened and part of a fence fell down? We walked quickly through our neighbour's cow pasture to see.

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

A nice, heartwarming thread. Just reading it made me smile 🙂👍

vicgrinberg, to random
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New glasses!

grb090423,
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@vicgrinberg

Ooh! I like them! 👍👍👍

vicgrinberg, to random
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My nice neighbors are moving to a bigger place and my landlord does definitely not want to sell our house - which is a bummer, because I/we would loved to buy it (at some point in future). Overall a lot of news that make me feel really shitty today :\

grb090423,
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@vicgrinberg

That's such a rotten situation to be in! 😖

I know others who would love to buy the property they're renting (and are able to, financially) but it seems landlords love to landlord!

🙄🤦‍♀️

grb090423,
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@vicgrinberg

It's good of you to be understanding 👍🙂

18+ sundogplanets, to random
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I'm trying to make the laziest possible mozzarella (the game here is: how many steps of the instructions can I skip and still have something that resembles mozzarella? Today I'm going to try skipping the heating-in-warm-whey step and see if it's still approximately the same substance)

Today is supposed to be a day for me to catch up on farm stuff, but I also had an idea for a paper with a new way to show how dangerous and stupid Starlink is, so we'll see...

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

Excellent news!

newstephie, to random
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The rapper Lowkey explains the deep & chilling connections between the UK government & Israel.

video/mp4

grb090423,
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@newstephie

Farridge and all the rest of them must be making a pretty penny out of the Israeli govt.

jdavidnet, to Marvel
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@MarvelStudios will we see Kahhori again? I just leaned of her character in What If…? And loved her character so much.

“what would happen if the Tesseract fell to Earth & landed in the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy before the colonization of America … leading Kahhori, a young Mohawk woman, on a quest to discover her power.”




https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/what-if-kahhori-new-super-hero

grb090423,
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@jdavidnet @MarvelStudios

Yeah, I saw that 😐

I only have access to Netflix 🙄

I can hope though 🤞

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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Happy birthday to Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut. She was born on the 30th May 1963.

✨🚀✨🛰️✨

(📷 Lincolnshire Post)

grb090423,
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@enigma

Indeed! 🙂

I hope she had a great birthday ✨✨✨

EricIndiana, to animals
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Joey and Sheena #CatsOfMastodon #cats #catlife

on a cat shelf high on a wall, a white cat lays staring at us from on the top of a wooden cubby, a black cat peers at us from inside the cubby. Close up.

grb090423,
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@EricIndiana

Cats just love high up places 🙂

You have created something beautiful for your friends 💕

stux, to random
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Cheerleaders are not only for cheering!

In a basketball game the net of a goal is tangled and they don’t get it untangled until the cheer squad comes by and lift a girl up in the air! She untangles the net and poof!

grb090423,
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@stux

I really expected a huge cheer once they'd fixed it 🤔

grb090423, to lsf
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Ariane 6 launches SIDLOC: opening up tools for safer space.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_SIDLOC_opening_up_tools_for_safer_space

grb090423,
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@tobozo

It seems so.

raghnallborders, to politics
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Here's a song for those considering voting #labour in the forthcoming #GeneralElection for the parliament in England.

https://youtu.be/TxbIU0X-lCI?si=XyNFiwaaMIRDSsPY

#youyesyet #WhyNotScotland #YesScots #politics #generalelection2024 #DelAmitri #JustinCurrie #NothingEverHappens

grb090423,
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@raghnallborders

Since seeing this when I woke this morning, this has been my earworm for the day. I still love this song.

Just found the ukulele chords for it 🙂

Thanks for the reminder of it 👍

JohnDal, to nature
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A simple floodplain meadow near Rothbury, Northumberland, nothing special botanically, just Pignut and Meadow Buttercups adding the colour. But a joy to see!
#Nature #Photography #Landscape #Meadow

grb090423,
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@JohnDal

Imagine how much wildlife is in there.

<3

ricardojmv, to random Portuguese
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🎶 I'm so happy, cause today i do not work 🎶

Bom dia!

grb090423,
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@ricardojmv

✨👏🙂👏✨☕🌞

grb090423, to random
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Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission.
(Launching this October)
#ESA #HeraMission #PlanetaryDefence

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Virtual_flying_lessons_for_Hera_asteroid_mission

grb090423, to random
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New milestone for the Gateway: life inside Lunar I-Hab.
#ESA #Gateway #LunarIHab #Artemis
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/New_milestone_for_the_Gateway_life_inside_Lunar_I-Hab

grb090423, to space
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Webb finds most distant known galaxy.

#ESA #NASA #CSA #JWST

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/05/Webb_finds_most_distant_known_galaxy

grb090423, to random
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YPSat checked in for Ariane 6 flight.

#ESA #Ariane6 #YPSat

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/05/YPSat_checked_in_for_Ariane_6_flight

grb090423, to random
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Thoroughly enjoyed this tour. Looking forward to the next.

Fly across Nili Fossae with ESA’s Mars Express.

#ESA #MarsExpress

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/05/Fly_across_Nili_Fossae_with_ESA_s_Mars_Express

grb090423, to random
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EarthCARE launched to study role of clouds and aerosols in Earth's climate.

#ESA #EarthCARE

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/EarthCARE/EarthCARE_launched_to_study_role_of_clouds_and_aerosols_in_Earth_s_climate

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