araina.bsky.social

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PhD chemist, powered by tea. Likes cats and radiation, but maybe not at the same time.

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"We were the first companion," the dog said, "the first ally and friend." "Well done you," the cat said. "After us, the humans befriended cows, sheep, goats, and pigs." "Humans domesticated so many animals." "And you." "Us?" the cat said. "We only domesticated one. Humans." #MicroFiction

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SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)

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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.

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The Crows Who Watch the Dawn by the Stones Happy solstice everyone!! Go make friends with your nearest crow 🐦‍⬛

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Tea hermit. 🫖🦀 #bskyart #art

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Stop, drop and meow

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Henson's Creature Shop knocked it out of the park with this one.

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For International Tea Day, my Green Tea Chemistry print. 🧪🐡This linocut illustrates a tea pot, 2 cups of tea and a tea plant (Camellia sinensis) on a tray, and in the steam, you can see some of the organic chemicals found in green tea. Up to 27% of the composition of green tea can be a member of 🧵1/

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The cat design was created by Vera Zvereva, art director at Depot, using her own cat Brunhilde as inspiration. Milgrad Milk, Bryansk Dairy

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Tolkien: but when i say everyone's favorite fantasy writer Tolkien: i mean terry practchett GRR Martin: oh yeah that's fair CS Lewis: yeah fair Peter S Beagle: fair Hans Christian Andersen: yes yes of course L Frank Baum: that's fair

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The black hole has a blep

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"Faster than light?" "Anything can be achieved," the alien's translation device said, "by balancing the four fundamental chkoi." "You mean gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear forces?" "No, the fundamental chkoi." "What are they?" "Spite, tiredness, hope, and 'fuck it'." #MicroFiction

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HALP!! Im being squashed/sat on - Goblin It’s kitten Season! We have an excessive number at www.whiskerstailsandferals.org You want one?? Applications at the website, adoption events every Saturday, I can deliver it in a SF Bay Area! @funranium.bsky.social

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GAME ON... soon. April 27th! I'm going to spend a weekend playing random games as chosen by the Wheel of Morality to help raise money for @translifeline.bsky.social and bring a little chaos on Twitch. Check out my "about" tab on Twitch for more: www.twitch.tv/blarkytopia/...

Twitchwww.twitch.tv Twitch is the world

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Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904

On the last day of my lab’s internal audit (in preparation for the external one) and I feel this so much.

(Also by the time you're in that part of your career you have developed at least one vicious disagreement with the certification agency about the interpretation of at least one particular standard because those fuckers can't read plain language, of COURSE that means X)

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Privatizing 💃🏼 science 💃🏼 is not cheaper 💃🏼 and does not 💃🏼 make us safer 💃🏼

the odysseus moon lander's mission will be cut short. it landed sideways because the company operating it skipped, on purpose, an expensive preflight check on the pad

Moon lander Odysseus mission to be cut short after sideways touchdownwww.reuters.com Engineers on Earth expect to lose radio contact with the private U.S. moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, effectively cutting short the mission five days after its sideways touchdown, the company behind the spacecraft, Intuitive Machines , said on Monday.

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Love today and every day from the Valentine's Vulture!

I’m looking at getting a compact Bluetooth keyboard. Anyone have thoughts about the Apple magic keyboard or one made my Logitech (k380 or pebble)?

bsky’s open, quote one picture of your cat(s) to promote your cat(s)

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constantly pull the tails of the proud and powerful

Be the crow you want to see in the world.

Hey @punkey.bsky.social how did your swimsuit portion go?

So many people focus on the swinsuit portion of the bar, that they forget to prepare a talent selection as well. Law schools need to do better in preparing students!

Hello from Gadget, who like to know where the treats are. Cc @nikkilynn.bsky.social

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do i know anyone in the bay area who would like to adopt a cat? he is 3 years old, very friendly and cuddly, fixed, can live happily with other cats. he is being abandoned (happy to share more privately) and i would really like to help this guy find a safe place to land!

The new year Lego set is complete, undergoing a car scan. Cc @funranium.bsky.social