Sphynn 🏳️🌈
Math geek, physics geek, comp geek, SF geek, astro geek, etymology geek, misc geek
No racists, sexists, xenophobes, NRA, anti-vaxxers, or TERFs. GTFO!
He/him. LGBTQ+ ally
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Snowy Lump #oldknees
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈you know that thing where you intend to answer one email and then 45 minutes later you realize you're meticulously organizing photos of various family cats?
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Made to sworder
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈USPS blue mailboxes are stamped with year of manufacture. This is one of the oldest ones I've seen in a while. I am lots of fun at parties.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈LGBTQIA+ store has cool treats. Ready? You're ready. Meg's stars. $12 www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈it's bandcamp friday which means i should plug the SLARPG ost for anyone who recently picked up the game from the steam sale :-) beatrixquinn.bandcamp.com/album/super-...
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈I feel like the problem of "ppl w/o visual artistic talent need to quickly & cheaply decorate flyers" was solved by punk bands with access to copy machines 50 years ago.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Adora and Glimmer reimagined for a friend...Adorado and Glimmarsupial! If you play Animal Crossing, a dorado is a mahi mahi. For www.tumblr.com/rarijackisth... #she_ra #furryart #glimmer_she_ra #adora_she_ra #princesses_of_power #anthro #furry
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Writing this story made me happy in a dark time. I talked to half a dozen people who started queer bookstores in their communities, and what I heard gave me hope. These aren't just bookstores — they're a lifeline for people who have no place else to go.
- Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈I’m such a sucker for pop art crochet patterns www.etsy.com/listing/4369...
- Celebrating today in the way of my people. youtu.be/cFx7dMitW6I
- BSKY>baloons.exe ERROR: BALLOONS not found in BSKY BSKY>sudo give_me_baloons.exe WARNING: stop that, you! BSKY>play baloons.mp3 KERNEL PANIC! AAAAAH!
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈What's it about? A young librarian finds out she's adopted, a prince falls in love with her, she falls in love with the princess he's supposed to marry, and then a witch who looks like she stacks used husbands like cordwood sends them off on a quest. sidequested.com
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈this barrier cannot stop me
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈A gravelly voice spoke from under the mayor's bed. "I hear you need a monster hunter." The mayor sat up. "What? Who?" "I'm a monster. I hunt. What do you need hunted?" "Beklo the Ogre, but..." "I'll bring you its head." "How..." "I am a monster under the bed. If it sleeps, I can find it."
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈the dodge
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈And there is something about singing songs I wrote in my 20s, in my late 40s. Like I wrote them at peak emotional intensity, but I sing them now as someone who understands what those feelings actually were.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Ingredients
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Daily bunny no.3220 always sticks the landing
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈The trick to almost anything in physics, but specifically thermodynamics, is "Where did you define the boundaries of your box for Inside and Outside of your system?" And remembering that the universe is not obligated to obey your boundary. Also, you almost certainly forgot some externality.
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- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Bro is built like a baby #animation
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- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way The metaverse: VRChat NFTs: adoptable fursonas Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Far out
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- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈What games do you play with friends?
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈kind of obsessed with this student creation on display at school, made from bullet casings “Strength can exist without aggression,” says the artist. “Resilience and gentleness can coexist”
- Late pizza delivery mentioned; time to read "Snow Crash" again. (Picture is mostly unrelated but adorable.)
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Today is World Read Aloud Day, so I decided to give you a preview of my upcoming book, Unicorn Secrets! Enjoy, and look for Unicorn Secrets at your favorite bookstore on February 10. youtu.be/K7lpOZGMdhU
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Lunch time.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Listen, if I didn’t have maladaptive coping mechanisms, I wouldn’t have any coping mechanisms at all.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.) We have been the sole owners for all that time...
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Can someone point me to an octopod expert on BlueSky please? I have a question about cirroteuthids.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Robin - Gator Days
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈"I was told you're a monster," the hero said. "So they say," said the monster. "But you're beautiful!" "Thank you." "Have you always been a monster?" "Heh. I was a young maiden. But I did something forbidden." "And became a monster?" "Got named a monster." "What did you do?" "I hit back."
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈D... D... Dr. Dr I- Dr I am- Dr I am sad... Dr I am sad. Aid me? Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" That clown...is me! - The Pagliacci Sequence
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Racists are garbage.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Eh?
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈"How about I kidnap the dragon," the knight said, "and you come to rescue them?" "It's still the same story," the princess said. "No! We're all subverting-" "I am tired of being in stories," the dragon said. "What?" "If you're not in a story, what even are you?" "I'd like to find out."
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈Book birthday! STEAM, written by me and adorably drawn by Emily Holden, is out today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Steam/...
- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose
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- Reposted by Sphynn 🏳️🌈GIRLS TRIP!
