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A Sith woman with golden eyes and purple facial scarring looks aristocratic next to a standup of Dr. Mae, a Black magical girl scientist in a lavender lab coat.

Sith Alchemy is a thing, so Sith DIY Science Zone should be canon too. #DIYSciZone #geekgirlcon

Me with curly brown hair, in a white t-shirt, blue cargo pants, and black ammo harness holding a NERF pulse rifle. My attitude conveys “don’t even try.”

A smiling masked selfie, where a straw cyclohexane model serves as a crown.

Doing some science and hunting some bugs! Crown made at the encouragement of some delightfully engaged students. #geekgirlcon

A simplified, stylized periodic table of elements where large groups of elements are color-coded. Hydrogen (H) is isolated. Group 1 (alkali metals) is labeled "BOOM!". Group 2 (alkaline earth metals) is "rocks & sand & glass & stuff". The transition metals are split into sections: "the foundations of human civilization," "catalysts & superalloys," "ooh, shiny!," "expensive," and "heavy metal poisoning." Technetium (Tc) is boxed separately. The p-block is also grouped: "chips (not tasty kind)," "organic chemistry," and "useful for poisoning your husband." The noble gases are labeled "n o p e." The heaviest elements in the s-block and p-block are labeled "cancer 2" and "cancer alley," with the exception of Bismuth. The transactinides are labeled "more physics than chemistry." The bottom f-block (lanthanides and actinides) is also labeled. The lanthanides are "except for Pm these are all basically the same element," with Promethium (Pm) boxed. The actinides are labeled "rxtors & bombs" and "you probably work at Los Alamos."

please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"

⚗️🧪 #chemsky

I made a cowboy hat to celebrate a tarantula’s 10th birthday, how is your day going?
#geekgirlcon #DIYSciZone @geekgirlcon.bsky.social

Tear gas in use during a strike in the 1930s

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.

Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

New York. The Big Bodega. Whatta town!

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Hey y'all. If you are voting in Washington, just a reminder that if you haven't dropped your ballot yet, please use a drop box if you can! Because of cutbacks and changes in USPS service, there are concerns about ballots getting the appropriate postmark. Find your closest dropbox!

I have done four onerous tasks today as well as the epic photos and I am about to collapse onto the couch and relax with a vengeance.
Or start sobbing, one of the two.

Person biking in the sun and fall leaves

Weather apps have rain alert features, but what we really need in the PNW is a “sun break” push notification ☁️🌤️☁️

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Oh, I like this. I like this a lot.

A Dropbox screenshot showing a robed Jedi master standing atop a concrete wall, large polygonal structures behind her. Her robes, skirt, tunic, tabards, and hair are whipping in the wind as she holds her drawn saber in a two handed guard.

See? We suffered a tiny bit but my gosh was it worth it.

A Dropbox screenshot showing a robed Jedi master standing atop a concrete wall, large polygonal structures behind her. Her robes, skirt, tunic, tabards, and hair are whipping in the wind as she holds her drawn saber in a two handed guard.

See? We suffered a tiny bit but my gosh was it worth it.

Got some truly amazing Jedi Master photos today in which the wind was a paid actor.

Couldn't find the original meme so I had to bake up a new version from scratch

i love game development

A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪

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seen quite a few REPOST OR YOU'LL HAVE A BAD TIME things going round later which I know can be tough for some so here is FOREVER IMMUNITY DOG for you all

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

“If I sign up to teach at 8 in the morning, I’ll have all afternoon to write” was a plan that did unfortunately fail to account for several obligatory hours of post-teaching-sitting-in-the-driveway-and-dissociating.

Erika Ishii, dressed as her character in Ghost of Yotei, Atsu, stands at a podium featured in the Dropout show Game Changer. HEADLINE: Ghost of Yōtei DLC to Have Atsu Compete in Only Game Show Where the Game Changes Every Show

In Ghost of Yōtei: Gēmuchenjā, Atsu finds herself on a hellish gameshow where the only way to learn is by playing, the only way to win is by learning, and the only way to begin is by beginning.
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A digital painting of the droid K2SO from the show Andor. He has a humanoid design and just his head and shoulders are seen. His head is a largely blank cranium shaped dome with two smallish round white eyes with some panels and droid-ish details below that. He’s an all over drab greenish gray. Background details indicate he’s seated in the cockpit of a ship of some sort. To the left of his head is a floating block of text written in the Star Wars alphabet Aurebesh which reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’. Enjoy, nerds.

Excuse you, what do you mean thirty years? I remember that going in when I was a kid. Clearly that wasn't thirty years ago. (shhh don't look at the calendar)

A first look at our first threads 🔍

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it was the strike DragonCon so we couldn't talk about any struck work; but luckily tea is not covered by SAG-AFTRA.