The most unrealistic part of the #Xfiles isn’t the monsters or aliens. It’s someone being both an expert in medicine and theoretical physics, at least on Scully’s level

The X-Files 720p Cinema@xfiles720pcinema.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" (1996.11.17) S04|E07|4X07 Director: James Wong Writer: Glen Morgan Director of Photography: Jon Joffin Art Director: Gary P. Allen Production Designer: Graeme Murray #XFiles #TheXFiles

I just want to see what the engagement I would get for traditional pen and ink. These things can take over 20 hours and up to 60 hours.This is city scape I did 5 years ago (2021). #art #traditionalart #inkart #cityscape

Day 4: Tandem The meeting of two braves often forms a unique ecosystem. Ideas and materials are exchanged, memories shared. The bloom can be so significant that it may spread to nearby planets and asteroids. The evolution may play out over centuries until the ships depart. #sst26 #spaceshiptember

an unusual planet populated entirely by a single species of autotrophic coral-like life #art

Alaska just got a lot smaller and more remote. OK, it didn't really, but AK "benefited" more than any other state from the Mercator projection. Below is the Equal Earth map just adopted by the UN, against US objection (of course).

Tried to make this argument more explicit, in case you don’t understand my problem sunjestermusings.blogspot.com/2026/09/stop...

Stop proving uncountability by contradiction, please

If you've seen any amount of pop-math content, you've probably seen a theorem along the lines of the following: Theorem  (Cantor): There ar...

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Please, for the love of god, stop proving the uncountability of the reals by contradiction, you're just making it more confusing #mathsky #math #mathematics #maths #sciencecommunication

My designs for interplanetary spaceships based on the symbol of their destination: Mars ♂, Mercury ☿, Venus ♀, the sun ☉

Don’t forget, the Thursday after next Thursday (17/9) will be 200 years after the birth of Bernhard Riemann! #MathSky #200YearsRiemann #HistSky

Woke up to find 57 submissions to the journal overnight. I haven’t looked, but I expect approx. 56 will be AI-written slop. To put these numbers in perspective, we publish 40 papers per year. The volume of garbage is getting unmanageable. #MathSky

“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true

lott@lott24m.bsky.social · 3d ago

What happens a lot on social media is when someone (Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman now Ed Brubaker) has allegations thrown at them people tend to leap out the woodwork saying "their work was never good." That helps no one as it's irrelevant. What matters is their actions and what they did.

the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

Should young children learn ring theory before integers? Furthermore, should that come before or after point-set topology? #mathsky #matheducation

Just got outta the TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY 35th anniversary rerelease and Jesus Christ, man. What a movie. They had to do all that shit for real. They had to fly that helicopter under an overpass. They had to blow up that building. They had to find an actor who could turn into liquid metal.

The rings of... Jupiter! This spectacular JWST image reveals them in the infrared: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Day 2: Racing #SST26 #spaceshiptember

Star Trek Enterprise dock. Modelled in #Lightwave3d by me The Station design is based on Franz Joseph's Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual (1975).

American Abyss is now live on @kickstarter.com! A new multi-media internet horror project featuring the art of @slimyswampghost.bsky.social @valdevia.art @nicboone.bsky.social @leslekieuart.bsky.social and a dozen other incredible artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pac...

Actually good #mathnews? A proof that there are infinitely many pairs of consecutive primes whose difference is at most 240 No, I don’t understand the proof, but I can appreciate the result #MathSky #SciSky

Bounded gaps between primes

Polymath8b proved that $H_1 = \liminf (p_{n+1}-p_n) \leq 246$. In this paper we show how the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem can be combined with newer equidistribution estimates for smooth moduli to obta...

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It’s a crime that divisibility is denoted by | #MathSky

Knight’s Distance Function (how many knight moves a square is from another)

The Lake Ontario thing is like a teeny tiny taste of what Europe did to like every already named lake on Earth over the last few hundred years

stuff this month #今月描いた絵を晒そう #art #artpost #digitalart #scifiart #artsky

Alien of the Day This GORGEOUS portrait of a bolt-tongue by Wayne Barlowe, from his famous book 'Expedition'. Superior use of textures; something very difficult to master in my experience!

You think the secret to happines is to be good person or to acquire as much wealth as possible?

Most math jokes are just stupid puns, sometimes with quite elaborate setups, that don’t refer to the actual object at all. Here is a faithful representation: “What’s purple and commutes? An abelian grape.” Just awful. Surely I’m not disconnected from the center of the group here #MathSky

Another #poem I wrote. ~Rauchabzug~ #poetry, #writing #WritingCommunity