Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫
@vogonpoetry
myopic, literally and figuratively. recovering lawyer. astronomer. rock chalk. views/opinions are my own. she/her
Reason 5,846,111 why I hate car culture. www.worseonpurpose.com/p/the-car-go...
I got this email today. It makes me so sad. I've seen one basketball hoop up, in a common are but also out of the way. Cars may have poor visibility, but if people would adhere to the 5 mph speed limit - or show any caution at all - the risk would be limited. 1/
This R2R training is starting to ask for some significant mileage.
Oh my god, look at what I'm getting in the mail today. Couldn't even use the correct honorific. Try Dr. next time, Erika. Also, what the fuck did I do to get on this mailing list?
This is an attempt at dark sky photography. It's a 20 second exposure of the Orion constellation at the Grafton Lake star party during dark sky week. Is it bad? Yes. Is it my very first attempt ever? Also yes, so I'm not mad about it.
Look at this incredible button I made! That's my cat! Who wants a button celebrating a cloudy sky?
I need to fire up the old Cricut and make more moon stickers.
I have a million things to do in the next month, but #darkskyweek starts for me in 9 days so I need to get a head start on the buttons. 🔭
I decided to make Nimbus, who died several years ago, the spokes-kitty of Dark Sky Week.
My thumb has mostly stopped bleeding, at least enough for me to bandage it up. I've decided to not grade today, though. I'm on the injured list. Please support me at this time while I heal.
I don’t usually participate in things like this, but *waves at everything* Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
I'm working on putting together a dark sky week program for April. There's still a lot to do but at least the button design is sorted.
The first product of my button maker is...a SPACE CAT MAGNET
Thanks, Siena, for putting in absolutely no effort. Rising to expectations, as always.
These are my favorite photos from my first batch of photos from my Pentax 17. @beigewight.bsky.social needs to write a book because I accidentally took an amazing author photo 😂
There's a book I was looking up and the purchase options were paperback, epub, and cloth. Cloth?
I won an old SDSS plate at #aas247 today. The problem: AAS is in Phoenix. I live in New York 🙃
I have no idea how Chris managed to get me an @amyraehill.bsky.social ceramic cup. When he wants to do something, he does it.
Oh my god...my undergrad computational physics teacher was cleaning out here inbox (since this is a decade old, it's about time) and found one of my first intro assignments. We were supposed to print a sentence to the screen, but I...did not do that.
I can't be allowed to talk to my coworkers because then I spend a half hour doing this. It's not even good but I couldn't do anything else until it was out of my head.
I don’t have a very artistic eye. I’ve always had trouble framing photos. I’m trying to take more time to look at different angles and zooms so can snap a photo I’d like to look at. Here are some recent efforts.
My video doesn’t do it justice. There were thousands at #NoKings in Albany today.
I didn’t get a chance to make a sign before the march but I made due with what we had in the car.
I walked right up to this bird and took a picture. Didn't move a muscle. 10/10