Starship Troopers (1997): Arachnid Warrior Bug, animatronics testing by Amalgamated Dynamics
Steve-o Stonebraker
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Your basic child of the 80s nerd. I love #Transformers and #ITeachPhysics in Massachusetts. Posts prior to July 2023 were imported from Twitter using BlueArk's service. Mastodon: https://retro.pizza/@sstoneb
Time to offer this seminar again I see.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
#iTeachPhysics: Nice new video from Minute Physics
The Bizarre Way Strings Actually Vibrate
YouTube video by minutephysics
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Scientists do love turning accidents into discovery! Wed 5th Aug 06:34UTC: 4 tonnes of Space-X debris will crash into the moon 😮 This sim shows what will happen, if we understand the moon as well as we think we do. If we see something different, we learn something new! 👏 🧪🔭🛰️ 🎥 William Jo/UT Austin
Following my moonset photograph earlier, this was sunrise from the opposite side of St Michael's tower. I went up one side of the hill and down the other side to get the two images.
"The parking lot is now deserted but it would make for a great spot in any Andor’s episode." 💯 and it's the aesthetic of my childhood (on French planet Ghorman).
Umeshu Lovers@umeshulovers.bsky.social · 2w agoToday we are launching a new blog post series, entitled "Umeshu Inner Worlds", in which we discuss what inspires us as artists. Hopefully, sometimes you will discover something you'd never heard of before! 📖 Read here: umeshulovers.substack.com/p/umeshu-inn...
From the Quanta Magazine profile on Fields Medalist Yu Deng: www.quantamagazine.org/yu-deng-wins...
👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 2w agoyu deng, the winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, the "nobel prize for mathematics", cites yuri manga in particular as helping ground and comfort him during his work
I put a Spotify code on my rear window. Today, at a red light, I saw someone take a photo of it and proceed to laugh their a** off. This is what the code plays. 🦭
"A group of on-set VFX professionals on titles including the recently released film The Mandalorian and Grogu, the upcoming season of the series Ahsoka and the film Starfighter will join IATSE after they demonstrated what the union called “overwhelming” support for joining the labor organization." 💪
‘Star Wars’ On-Set Visual Effects Workers Unionize
Staffers on ‘Ahsoka’ and ‘Starfighter’ are joining IATSE after demonstrating "overwhelming” support for the union.
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I want to see Luke opening package after package of blind-boxed kyber crystals until he gets a green one.
Today is ADA day — on July 26, 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. The ADA would not have happened without Representative Major Owens, a Black man. Which has something to do with why his vital contributions to the ADA are routinely ignored. www.ncd.gov/2013/10/23/n...
National Council on Disability | NCD Honors the Life and Legacy of Major Owens
Oct. 23, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC – Former Brooklyn Representative Major Owens, who considered his role in helping pass the Americans with Disabilities Act as one of the finest accomplishments of his 24 y...
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Poinpy, the critically acclaimed Netflix exclusive mobile game which was delisted last year, is now back as an entirely free game. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/deliste...
Delisted critically acclaimed mobile game Poinpy is back, and is completely free | VGC
The Netflix exclusive was removed from stores last year…
videogameschronicle.com
Whoof, new Google Classroom design fills the top 1.5 screens with garbage I'll never look at including a bunch of fresh "please shirk on your job by having Gemini make slop" boxes. Looking forward to figuring out how to hide all that stuff. workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/07/rede...
Google Workspace Updates: Redesigned Google Classroom homepage with tailored views based on user’s role
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) put out a little infographic for International Moon Day. It compares the diameter of Australia to the diameter of the Moon. This always throws me because in my mind, the Moon is actually bigger!
If you're looking for new ways to get into VGM, I highly recommend the Tasty Bits channel. Rudy, a former French journalist based in Tokyo, gives a voice to those we don't usually hear in the media. nowplaying.cool/tasty-bits-g...
Tasty Bits gives a voice to VGM artists we all too rarely hear
Tasty Bits is the best video game podcast you're not listening to—yet.
nowplaying.cool
AOC on a movie that made her cry PabloReports: When’s the last time a piece of art—film, music, whatever—made you cry? AOC: Okay, let me go with the worst time one made me cry. I was on an airplane watching… what is that movie? The one about aliens with a linguist? Arrival. With Amy Adams.
Yesterday I reluctantly switched to "new" #reddit interface (from 2018?) because I needed to include an image in a comment, a task that's impossible in the classic editor for no apparent reason. Today, I realized that a link in that comment was broken, *but only when read in the normal/old view*!
Very proud of my student Collin Cherubim for his discovery of an atmosphere on the habitable-zone exoplanet LHS 1140 b! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/s...
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.
nytimes.com
Hundreds of people gathered at Boston's City Hall Plaza Thursday night to celebrate the life and legacy of Louisa Gag, a transportation department employee and safe streets advocate who was killed while riding her bike last week.
Transit advocates mourn Boston transportation planner who was killed while biking, demand the city take action
Hundreds of people gathered at Boston's City Hall Plaza Thursday night to celebrate the life and legacy of Louisa Gag, a transportation department employee and safe streets advocate who was killed while riding her bike last week.
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Being spaghettified by a black hole must feel so good for a brief moment
The submerged-and-sucking sprinkler brain teaser (it goes backward but slower) now has a more detailed explanation. Really pretty visualizations in the article (gift link). #ITeachPhysics www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/s...
Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem That Stumped Feynman (Gift Article)
Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.
nytimes.com
the real story behind this viral photo is even more heartbreaking than the one the public created.
The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.
America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.
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A funny way of looking at the situation for trans people is that the culture considered the possibility of just accepting a harmless minority without having decades of drama first and then went "Nah, we'll do the drama."
"verify your age" I remember the improvement in download speed when my favorite BBS added the zmodem protocol as an option over xmodem and kermit.
▲ndrusi@andrusi.bsky.social · 3w ago"verify your age" my favorite ride at Disney World used to be Horizons
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock
