Book cover art by Vincent Di Fate

Dune: Messiah (1969) by Frank Herbert

#booksky #scifisky #ScienceFiction

Grendels - Prologue The beginning...

The serialization of my sci-fi novel Grendels on Substack is complete.
Michelle Shank enrolls her autistic brother Adam in a new school, entangling them in a secret genetic engineering project and the emergence of a new intelligent species.
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A microscopic tardigrade, also known as a water bear, walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, it can survive decades without food or water and are the only known animal that can survive in direct exposure in space. [🔬 Tobin Sparling]

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Nearing the bottom? Though, our capacity for disappointment seems infinite these days.

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Cover art by Peter Jones

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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Why so angry? Yes, YAP has a little insight.

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Close up photo of a clay octopus, depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus, scientifically known as Octopus briareus.

🐙✨ Caribbean Reef Octopus 🎨 Sculpture, Clay & Paint

#ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #Cephalopods #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife 🦑🐡

Tylenol and Autism again Another strike against a MAHA grift

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Photo: a diamond squid glows in the dark ocean.

Dearly beloved,
in the name of King Neptune,
I now pronounce you married.
Go forth to populate this kingdom
with hundreds of little diamond squid.
You may now kiss the bride - very carefully.

📸 Denis Corpuz

Funk me up, funk me up....

I try really hard to always be courteous to my fellow internet denizens but apparently a quick way to get on my bad side is to be misleading and/or inaccessible with space/science things. Science should be for everyone and misinformation about it undermines the whole point of scicomm.

We're going to find out soon.

Bad faith vs. the Art of Rhetoric What's the way forward?

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What comes next Revisions, a sequel, and who knows what else

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NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Chapters 59 and 60 Michelle's new life; Surt leads the younglings to freedom.

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Disease of the Month: Hemophilus influenza type B (Hib) An oldie and baddie poised to make a comeback

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Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace

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Just wait until he starts in on what a uberCatholic he is now. #PhoniesAndGrifters

Chapter 58 Sheriff Spaulding tries to make sense of events as he recovers.

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No April Fool's A little bit of hope and a little bit of dark humor

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Absolutely. There's no going back to life before. The amount of wealth destruction underway is going to shock those not paying attention.

What a talented, beautiful child.

Chapter 57 Michelle escapes with Trey Isaac, he explains the emergence of the groupmind, and she must make a choice.

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We Pointed an AI at Raw Binary Files From 1986. What This Means for Software

We Pointed an AI at Raw Binary Files From 1986. by @marcokotrotsos medium.com/p/we-pointed...

Well, this is interesting....

#CDs4Evah

A real public health approach to "meeting people where they are." This is going to be far, far harder than just being nice.

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A fish eater: Erenna is a genus of deep-sea siphonophores; these deep-sea hunters are pescatarians and eat only fish. They rely on bioluminescence to mimic the behavior of tiny copepods, luring fish into range for stinging and snacking.
Filmed at 918 m during the 2024 #SEPacificSeamounts expedition.

Chapter 56 Everything that converges must collide.

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It all comes together.

"Have you ever SEEN such cruelty?"