Zach Weinersmith

Book cover of "UP" with butterflies, glowworms, bats, condors, a hot air balloon, an aircraft, a kite, stars, clouds and other things that are above us.

I am very excited to report that my book is now available for pre-order!!

If you like things that fly – be it aircraft, bugs or birds, then this book is for you!

I am also so delighted with the beautiful cover art by @Rachelhillustrates.bsky.social :)

www.penguin.co.uk/books/461507...

Edinburgh Book Festival Day 2: a joy to host
@weinersmith.bsky.social for her Royal Society Prize event!

Will we settle space? Should we? How will it actually work?

To find out, read A City on Mars, by Kelly &
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social ! One of the most fun & original pop science books.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social @litterboxcomics.com Science Experiment 3: Gummi bear sandwich.

For the 1st twenty seconds it tasted like *extremely* chewy plain bread. After the bread was gone it tasted like a mouthful of gummy bears.

Next up, Pancake/Ketchup/Sprinkles. (🤢)

The main problem with the Erotic Ballet is that it's hard to politely clap with only one hand.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Right there Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Right there

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Max Born, writing in 1945

Bingo

Vitis rotundifolia - Wikipedia

Muscadines are literally the most under-rated fruit. They are grapes FOR ADULTS. Chew, sour skin, juicy sweet/floral interior. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_r...

Some modern cultivars are as big as a plum.

Helix Learns to Fold Laundry Helix Learns to Fold Laundry

Still quite limited, and no price stated, but this is the best every laundry-folding AI I've seen? www.figure.ai/news/helix-l...

If it fold and stack any type of clothes at about this speed how much would you pay for it?

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Right there Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Right there

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As a degree-carrying Literature Guy, the kind of story dissection that geeks do for Star Wars was basically all I talked about for years in high school and college. But I think a certain type of geek will only do it for Star Wars because they NEED to know why it feels so different from the good ones

Like, people who would never pick up a book about the theory of screenplay and story craft will watch hours of debate on a single prequel. Whereas there's no interest in analyzing why the Doom movie wasn't so good.

Have you noticed this funny thing where nerds in general disdain literary theory EXCEPT when it comes to Star Wars, and in particular understanding why the newer ones were less good? It's like engineers not carrying about ethics until the atomic bomb forces them to reckon with it.

US Core CPI Picks Up to Fastest Pace Since January on Services Underlying US inflation accelerated in July to the strongest pace since the start of the year, though a tepid rise in goods prices tempered concerns about tariff-driven price pressures.

Frankly shocked that raising tariffs while hounding immigrants out of the country isn't reducing inflation. Hopefully we can fire these people and put in someone who will produce numbers we like. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A new episode is up!

Daniel and Kelly uncover the real science behind some flashy recent pop sci and talk about how to be an informed information consumer.

Kelly Weinersmith: To Boldly Go? From Tue 12 Aug - Hear Weinersmith chat with us about this hilarious, wise, deeply-researched project that makes us glad to still live on our third rock from the sun. Plus, find out which books made 2...

Come see @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and I TODAY at the @edbookfest.bsky.social!

We'll be talking about A City on Mars, and the @royalsociety.org is going to announce their 2025 Book Prize short-list during the session!

Tickets available here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History is Weird Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History is Weird

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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social called it years ago

3-panel SMBC comic update where a pregnancy test reveals to a couple that they await the arrival of a mathematician by replacing the usual "+" symbol with a real-valued function that's continuous everywhere but differential nowhere.

You can tell if it'll be a cartoonist by seeing if it cries whenever anyone comes in its room and/or turns on the lights.

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While you are, of course, technically correct, I would posit that true ass kicking cannot be accomplished in the absence of gum.

Without gum, it is merely the joyless repetition of a foot being pressed against an ass. A hollow simulacrum. Empty, and devoid of spiritual profundity.

Kelly Weinersmith: To Boldly Go? From Tue 12 Aug - Hear Weinersmith chat with us about this hilarious, wise, deeply-researched project that makes us glad to still live on our third rock from the sun. Plus, find out which books made 2...

The @edbookfest.bsky.social is on!

And if you're in Edinburgh tomorrow (Tues Aug 12), join me as I host @weinersmith.bsky.social , winner of the Royal Society Book Prize, to talk about her masterpiece of pop science, A City on Mars.

Tickets available: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Ah, but xor compels ass kicking if gum is lacking

I came here to kick ass AND chew bubble gum

And I’m all out of gum

Therefore it is impossible to kick ass AND chew bubble gum

I should have come to kick ass XOR chew bubble gum

Careful. You don't want to develop... *the taste*

Interestingly, I was recently browsing a reddit women-oriented prepper forum and it was the first time I ever saw preppers discussing a plan for childcare. Makes you think.

Have conspiracy theories gotten less gendered? I feel like girls used to be into nutritional supplements and anti-vax and boys used to be into reptilian overlords and keeping a year worth of beans in the basement. Now, everyone believes everything. Thanks, youtube?

Personally, I say throw me out the airlock on the off chance that some bacterium in my guts has the right set of characteristics to survive and dominate the planet, turning it into a macrocosm of my colon.

That said, we DO have what is to my knowledge the only treatment ever of legal questions pertaining to eating astronauts for survival!

There isn't much written on this topic, but if you're being coldly rational yeah, probably recycle them in a bioreactor. That said, if you really do have a million people, a rough calculations says you've got 50,000 tons dry weight of poop per year. Bodies don't contribute much.