Pablo Rodríguez

@pabrod.bsky.social

Functional nerd. Physicist and Applied Mathematician. Science storyteller. Spanish-Dutch (not necessarily 50-50 😉). May contain posts in 🇪🇸, 🇬🇧 & 🇳🇱 Formerly known as @DonMostrenco 🔗 https://pabrod.github.io

Wait, I have an idea. That prompt you wrote for the AI? Forget the AI, and keep the prompt. Can you tell the story with just the prompt? Then NOW you are a writer. I'm not even joking.

12 August: for over one minute, day turns to night 🌑 thanks to a total solar eclipse. But will it be visible from your place? Check out these maps to find out. If you're close to the path of totality, but not within it, it is totally worth the travel! 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

Map of Earth shown as a globe, with the focus on its northern hemisphere. A red, C-shaped arc marked 'total eclipse' reaches from northeast Russia, past the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland and the Iberian Peninsula. An orange oval surrounds this arc, marked 'partial eclipse', covering most of Europe, Canada and parts of the USA, the western edge of Africa and the northeastern corner of Russia.Spain and Canary Islands map showing total solar eclipse path on 12 Aug 2026 with totality band and darkness contours

Dato curioso: La razón por la que si haces click en España en Google maps no resalta su forma (como sí sucede, por ejemplo, con Francia) es que considera que tenemos fronteras en disputa. Sí, la cosa va de Ceuta y Melilla. No, ya estaba así de antes.

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A ver si lo he entendido. La derecha española está segura de que va a arrasar en las próximas elecciones... ... pero sólo por si acaso, va a aliarse con los que quieren entregar territorio español a Marruecos.

WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.