Battle Of The Cubes My Epic Saga Will Be Nearly 30 Novels

Read 8 now. Planning to write 3 more in 2026, live on Substack. #youngadult #sciencefiction #booksky #books
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For a bit of bright colour on a grey morning how about a Turquoise-fronted Amazon in Brazil. #birding #birdsoftheworld

This movie shows lysosomes (orange) and keratin (gray) in a cultured cell over 10 minutes.

Hey folks! Won’t be streaming this week, got an exam tomorrow morning so have been busy studying for that. As a peace offering, here is a picture of long cat

A hawk with brown patterned back and wings and a graying tail with darker stripes. It is perched on a railing and facing left. It has yellow eyes and a sharp raptor's beak.

Sharpie hanging out, trying to look casual, at the bird feeders today. 🪶

Sharp-shinned Hawk, PA

This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪

The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing

“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov

tonight we went for a walk and the little cat outside followed us. as long as we were walking, he walked with us. as soon as we stopped to beckon him, he feared us. so we had a nice little walk, together, apart

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

#corgicrew
Henry is extra snuggly when he knows I’m missing Ellie. Some days are ok, but I still have a “crying time” just about every day. So grateful for this boy’s love.

Stealworkers

Killer whales and dolphins may be helping each other hunt off B.C. coast: new report Scientists have found evidence that two unlikely collaborators — killer whales and dolphins — may be helping each other find and feast on salmon off the coast of British Columbia.

cheknews.ca/killer-whale...

Winter beach. My happy place.

#CapeCod

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

‘Many talked of the effect of the 2023 cyberattack on their workload: for a long time, they were required to handle paper forms and sift through offline spreadsheets. Some online services still haven’t been restored.’

Anna Aslanyan on the strike at the British Library.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

For the love of God
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

going through a medical scare for my dog rn, please be nice to me

Photo of Oregon coast, ocean and grass with gray clouds. A little blue sky showing through, with dramatic sunlight from the left.

wild skies and surf on the north Oregon coast, for you
🤍🕊️
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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #womensartbluesky #photography #photographersonbluesky #oregoncoast #ocean #clouds #oregon

Green algal colony that is vaguely tree shaped and is red and green colored.

Happy Holidays from a very festive algal microcolony.

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026. Here’s what that means | CNN Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳
Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.

Think winter walks are miserable? They’re actually saving my sanity. Fresh air, filtered light, and unexpected fungi are keeping me going. Watch the video and tell me what keeps you grounded this time of year.

just said goodbye to this guy

I always know when my cat has been watching snowflakes with her forelegs propped against the window-glass because when she's done she invariably comes straight to me acting all affectionate-like and sticks her ice-cold paws directly on my face.

Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France The 120 metre wall was either a fish-trap or a dyke for protection against rising sea-levels, archeologists believe.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Andromeda galaxy at centre. Galaxy M110 above. Many star dots.

The Andromeda Galaxy from last night. 11 December 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

That's me in every significant astronomical event! I even brought clouds with me to UT. And a tornado that hit SLC.

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:

tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...” ME: “Yes” GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...” ME: “YES” GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online” ME: “I’m out”

i stand by this statement every year

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher

#MediaInvitation: journalists are invited to an information session after the ESA Council meeting on 18 December. The briefing starts at 13:00 GMT/14:00 CET.

Details and registration 👇
esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_information_session_following_the_342nd_ESA_Council

Okay, what are your YouTube channels, and what sections does your publication have, anyway? This video describes them right now. I might add others as I go along.

open.substack.com/pub/toomanyc... #writing #AI #Roblox #movingabroad #pets #cats #backyardwildlife #languages #familyhistory #churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints