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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.
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I boost The Vagina Museum posts; please don't be offended... it's good to learn.
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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!)

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@sundogplanets

Absolutely!

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@sundogplanets @markmccaughrean

Indeed!

vicgrinberg, to random
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I love book recommendation lists but they often tend to upset me. My favorite kinds of lists are either international lit (where I am usually upset that there are not enough women represented) or books by non-male folks (where I am upset that it's often mostly English-writing folks).

So - here is a list of my personal recommendations of books by women in (English) translation. One book for every day of June. Feel free to join - does not have to be every day!

0/30

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@vicgrinberg

Thank you for posting this recommendation.

This is now on my To Read list.

grb090423,
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@vicgrinberg

I think I will, going by the write-up 👍

sundogplanets, to random
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It's perhaps the ugliest haircut ever, but I managed to shear my llama over the weekend!

At first I tried to get him into a small pen, but he knew it was a trap. So I just started cutting (with hand shears). He tolerated it for about a minute at a time, then he'd walk away, and I'd give him a little break, then start cutting again.

I got close to 10 pounds of (really dirty) wool, and now he looks like he's carved out of mattress foam. So weird. Hopefully he'll be cooler for the summer now!

A bunch of dirty brownish wool in a clear plastic bag, with my foot for scale. The bag is maybe 4 feet tall by 1 foot across. It's sitting on straw.
The llama standing out in a grassy pasture, surrounded by eating goats. He's still got a lot of long, fluffy fur on his neck, but his sides are MUCH less poofy than they used to be, with very roughly cut wool all along his sides.

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

That's a good cut! Especially considering he kept walking off every now and again!

JorisBohnsonPM, to uk
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“Tories pledge new GP surgeries in community care boost”

…The tories think this and others are great ideas.

So come they haven’t done this over the last 14 years ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2289vk0n1o

grb090423,
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@JorisBohnsonPM

Yep.

Believe this when you see it.

And it's not just GP surgeries that are sorely needed, it's fully trained medical staff and also local infrastructure.

astro_jcm, (edited ) to Astronomy
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1/4 "All those protoplanetary discs will be lost, like tears in a rain of ultraviolet photons."

Ok, it doesn't sound as cool as the actual quote, but still 😉

This tear-shaped object is a protoplanetary disc –the birthplace of planets around another star– observed with ESO's Very Large Telescope. Material from the disc is being stripped away by a bright star beyond the upper-right corner, outside of the field of view, hence this cometary shape.

📷 ESO/M. L. Aru et al.

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@astro_jcm

This is amazing!

SusiArnott, to BBC
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If yr in the UK, here's a chance to ask to acknowledge in election coverage! Hurrah for https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pp596y2q1o

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@SusiArnott

So important.

Thank you for sharing this.

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

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

Lol, it happens rarely (thankfully) but I detest it when I pick up something like that and I just have to know what happens at the end, even though I AM TOTALLY NOT enjoying the book! 😆

What are you reading/listening to next? 🙂

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@elizabethtasker

Sounds like my cup of tea! 😂😄

Enjoy 👍🙂

qurlyjoe, to random
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grb090423,
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@qurlyjoe

I like this, a lot.

drandrewv2, to random
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Oh holy fuck THIS IS ME 👀

It’s exhausting: the process of realisation that you’re #actuallyAutistic and unpicking 40yrs of fudges and workarounds so entrenched that you forget you’re going against your own nature, but it’s been costing you in energy, identity and self-esteem the whole time.

And I know the office tea-round seems like a fucking PATHETIC thing to lose sleep over, but imagine what it does to your confidence to feel incompetent about something so trivial. 😳

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/i-was-terrified-of-the-tea-round-the-small-changes-that-can-help-neurodivergent-people-thrive-at-work

grb090423,
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@drandrewv2

A really worthwhile read.

What the MP said just screams even more to me that we need UBI so much. It would help so many; literally change our lives for the better.

#UBI
#UniversalBasicIncome

ricardojmv, to random Portuguese
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Bom dia a todos e, parabéns a mim! Faço anos!

grb090423,
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@ricardojmv

Parabens 🙂✨✨✨

grb090423, to random
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First metal 3D printing on Space Station.
#ESA #Metal3DPrinting #ISS

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/06/First_metal_3D_printing_on_Space_Station

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