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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!)

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@mdione @sundogplanets

Yep. It's a mixture of those two words 👍🙂 Used here in UK too.

grb090423, (edited )
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@sundogplanets

Totally understand your feelings on this.

(My horrible Conservative MP also claims additional expenses from the taxpayer for responding each time anyone emails to ask them a question! 😖)

grb090423,
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@mdione @sundogplanets

Lol.

My OH uses it, usually describing me just before lunch time 😁

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

Eeeeeeek! 😯😖😂

vantablack, to random
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had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe

grb090423,
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@vantablack

Thank goodness for ublock origin 👍👍👍

benschwarz, to random
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💁‍♂️ instead of whitelist/blacklist, use allow list & block list.

I’m still seeing the former in plenty of tech content, it’s almost like y’all aren’t even trying to evolve

grb090423,
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@benschwarz

Well said.

grb090423, to random
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Last look at EarthCARE.

#ESA #EarthCARE

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

grb090423, to movies
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Learning about others' cultures is good for us all, so I strongly recommend a film I was surprised is showing on Netflix. It's called Stolen.

It's about a Sami girl/woman trying to right a wrong. It's apparently based on true events and going by how we see indigenous folk treated, could well be close to the truth.

Excellent film.

sundogplanets, to random
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There were a whole lot of things I was supposed to do today with both farm things and space junk things. But instead, we got a new livestock guardian puppy.

She's already getting along really well with our other LGD, though all the goat mamas seem pretty convinced she is a small bear and will need some time to come to trust her...

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

Two lovely doggies 💕🤗

mfeilner, to random German
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945
Computer says so.

grb090423,
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@mfeilner

Mask up!

markmccaughrean, to photography
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I don’t know who’s more stressed out this morning, me or 😱🙀

People coming & going, endlessly rushing around, packing & moving the final boxes, with a million other activities building to a crescendo.

And amid all that, this little fellow somehow made its way into the kitchen, as if to show us that there’s perhaps a far easier way to move house 🐌🙂

🚛
📷

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

Wishing you all well in the move 🙂🤞

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

I fully understand that 😖

I'm not looking forward to (one day) having to move from where I am now having been here almost 20 years. Like you, it's the longest I've lived in one place. (Which is bizarre considering it's chock-full of christian RW Tories!)

Poor Tigger must be at his wits end with all the kerfuffle around him.

ricardojmv, to random Portuguese
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Bom dia! 🌞

grb090423,
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@ricardojmv

🌞☕🙂

vicgrinberg, to random
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Fuuuuck... Not unexpected by now, but fuck:

[German] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/entsetzen-ueber-schuesse-auf-juedische-grundschule-in-toronto-19744287.html

[English] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-suspects-gunfire-jewish-girls-school-1.7215118

grb090423,
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@vicgrinberg

😢 😖

Trilobyter, to Portugal
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The Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones) in Évora, #Portugal. The words over the chapel entrance say "We bones that are here await yours." It is indeed a place for solemn contemplation of our mortality and the transient nature of existence. But I also found the place to be quite humerus.

#SilentSunday #bones #photography #travelphotography

grb090423,
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@Trilobyter

🤦‍♀️😁

markmccaughrean, (edited ) to Netherlands
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The end is nigh & I’m not sure whether to be happy or annoyed that my final few rides here in NL are proving quite lovely 🤨

62km around the Vlietland at sunset & a picture of #TheTreeAtGelderswoude – what could be more traditional? 🤷‍♂️🙂

#CyclingLife 🚴‍♂️
#Netherlands 🇳🇱
#Photography 📷

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

I'm going to miss the photos of this lovely tree.

markmccaughrean, to zerowaste
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Even at perhaps the toughest moment of his life, Henry manages to keep on smiling 😭

#Wassenaar #Recycling #TimeToMove #Anthropomorphism

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

Goodness knows what you're feeling right now with moving away from your home in the Netherlands and having moved on in your career too.

A very big year so far for you.

Chin up.

As others like to say: You Got This.
(You may well have this but I do feel for you and Tigger.)

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

Lots of changes happening 😐

Hopefully you'll find new cycleways in Heidelberg.

Keeping digits crossed for you.

You're staying on the Fediverse though, aren't you?

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

Yes. That must loom quite large in your quieter moments. I know it would me.

You worked at ESA forever! A wonderful career you had there. 👍👏

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

That's all good to hear (read) 🙂👍

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean

That would be good.

Fingers crossed for that 🤞🤞🤞🤗

rlpastore, to Birds
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Fledgling Mockingbird (yeah)

A closer view of the fledgling mockingbird

grb090423,
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@rlpastore

💕

NunavutBirder, to random
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So a favourite story about the crack in Victor Bay pictured with the ATV. A few years back no crack formed there, it happens some times. We went out to Qikiqtalik Nuvua on the Canada long weekend to camp, and to hunt on Admiralty Inlet.

We returned and there was still no crack. We had been using my BIL’s snowmobile and left it on the ice by the beach.

About a week later the ice came free of the shore prior to break up. I went down to get the snowmobile.

1/

grb090423,
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@NunavutBirder

😯😯😯

marybethR, to random
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I realize this won't be a completely random sample. I need to hear from those of you living outside the region of New England, USA. I'm teaching a #stats class and we are doing Chi-Square between two populations. New Englanders vs non- New Englanders (and the rest of the world). Please reply with answers to these 3 questions:

  1. Do you like broccoli?
  2. Have you visited a country outside your own continent?
  3. Do you currently own more than 5 pairs of "jeans"?
    "yes" or "no" #Caturday #survey
grb090423,
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@marybethR

  1. yes
  2. yes
  3. no

I'm in the UK.

sinituulia, to random
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I finished and ironed the Cat Quilt several days ago but cannot bring myself to try to take photos of it. But! I just made a little cat bag to put the quilt in for transit to my mom, from leftovers. I assume she can use it for shopping etc. if she so desires.
Just a basic fabric bag, I tried to be clever with the patch pocket placement for easy reach!

Close up of the nicely finished handle. The opening of the bag has been faced with a pieced together strip of light beige fabric, the handle has had its raw end encased under it. The handle has then been flipped over and stitched down.
A close up shot of the edge of one of the patch pockets. The top stitching going in two rows is quite neat and satisfying. It has reinforcement to hopefully make it pretty durable. The cartoon cats in the light fabric are in yellow, blue, turquoise and brown. They're rather cute. The big cat image is very stylish.

grb090423,
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@sinituulia

This is so lovely!

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