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  Mouse living in a tennis ball. https://x.com/domdyer70/status/2078388977787089039

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  Interesting that the Beta Pictoris system is sending a dust stream our way. #space #astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris#Dust_stream

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  New mile world record set in London: 3:42.66 https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cx2jl1wge2po

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  Orion Artemis I/II heat shield comparison. #space #NASA RT https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2078665527166455875

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  RT https://x.com/CatsGiant/status/2078918531987431627

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  The 40000 M_sun intermediate mass black hole postulated to exist in the Omega Centauri globular cluster is large enough that a human being can get to the event horizon without being pulled apart, although they *would* feel the tidal forces (comparable to +/-1g over your height). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri#Evidence_of_a_central_black_hole #space #physics #astronomy

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  Spent a while trying to find a bug in a complicated routine, only to discover it was a bug in a much simpler routine that I'd *assumed* was correct because it was simpler. This happened twice. #programming

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  My tree hollyhock is flowering, it has grown quite tall.

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  I can't believe England beat France 6-7

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_KzwZDchG4

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  @catsalad@infosec.exchange (looks suspiciously at the cat-coloured blanket in the background)

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  Another reason I may have had ants in my recycling bin is I put it on top of an ant nest when I put it out last week.

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  Bug spray in my mailbox so the ants don't try and put their eggs in there like they did on several previous years.

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  16 Polands. RT https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/2047279507732877474

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  Found out today if you set marker fill colour to 95% transparent in #Excel you can make it shade the density of points if you have too many to plot (like 10^5 green ones here).

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  The deuterium-hydrogen ratio in comet 3I/ATLAS suggests it formed under different conditions to our own solar system. #space #astronomy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02850-5

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  Higher-res images from the lunar flyby. #space #NASA #Moon #ArtemisII https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv183v02j3o

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  They got quite a lot further out in their orbit last night. Trans-Lunar injection burn is this evening. #space #NASA #Moon #ArtemisII

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  #ArtemisII is now over 1 light-second away from Earth. #NASA #space #Moon

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  #ArtemisII is 182000km from Earth, meaning that the round-trip time for signals at the speed of light is about 1.2 seconds. #physics #space #Moon #NASA

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  I asked for a $326.81 tax refund and they gave me $327, who says they aren't generous?

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  The spider crickets in my bathroom have a life cycle. There are a couple of mini-hoppers right now.

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  "Microsoft Outlook doesn't work on the Moon"? It doesn't work on Earth

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  Some of my pistachio nuts wouldn't come out of their shells. I give these to the squirrels.