Jimijamflimflam

@Jimijamflimflam@mstdn.social
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I’m Jimi.

I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.

#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.

Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.

We call them gym shoes round here.

HumanNot Immortal. Really.
LocationIn far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that.
Banner ImageFall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky.
TootsToots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least.
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KayJanes4h ago
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Carolannie10h ago
#SilentSunday #Photography
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Antoinne Sterk9h ago

Bumblebee II

#BloomScrolling #Insects #Nature #Photography

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil7h ago
It isn't a coincidence. Both Mar-a-Lago face and drag are about constructing very specific and exaggerated representations of femininity that subvert traditional notions of the "natural" feminine. The motivations are diametrically opposite, but the method is the same.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jgzuu2mbsuwxzlf53esvdctn/post/3ltualg53r22i
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops7h ago

Spouse just asked me add toothpicks to the shopping list and that reminded me of a quick tip that could help you out of a jam one day

If you've got a wood screw that's stripped out its hole and won't tighten up anymore, you can put some wood glue on a toothpick, jam that in and trim off the end and you'll have a reinvigorated hole that the screw can bite into again

This is an old pinball repair trick that carries over into non-pinball life. One time I had a couple mates over and we were gonna watch a spooky movie, we put the kiddo to bed and as I was closing her bedroom door it just, fell off the top hinge in my hands haha

Stood there holding the door on one hinge all 🦝 honey can you go grab me a couple things lol

Didn't let it hold up our plans, just pulled the door, stuffed the holes full of toothpicks and wood glue, screwed it all back up and went on with the evening, took maybe five minutes and years later it's still holding just fine

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bythehandofbob8h ago
A drawing from yesterday and friday. In my #sketchbook.
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Show threadmyrmepropagandist20h ago

@waldoj

In related news I got a new scam call this weekend "This is Walmart and we want to verify a $1400 charge." At first I was like "that's not a real charge" then she starts asking my name and other info so I say "I will call the bank back about this."

"Please stay on the line."

Calling back to verify the source is good practice the real deal would not object.

Hung up so damn fast.

There was no charge of course, but I was traveling and it scared me into almost answering the questions.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD11h ago

New edition of fireflies coming soon!

This #linocut block print shows 3 fireflies (Photinus pyralis, the common eastern firefly or big dipper firefly) in a field against the night sky. These bioluminescent insects are the most common firefly in N America, & they use the light organ on their abdomen to signal potential mates leaving their tell-tale trail of a j-shaped flash pattern. Hence the common name “big dipper firefly”.

#printmaking #insect #bioluminescence #firefly #sciart #mastoArt

Show threadJimijamflimflam6h ago

Bring your cameras!

@generalx

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Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦7h ago

Quality of scientific papers questioned

Yes, we have a quality control assessment problem and the system is under enormous strain due to publishing volume increases and predatory practices…
1/4
#Science #AcademicPublishing #Academia #HigherEd
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/13/quality-of-scientific-papers-questioned-as-academics-overwhelmed-by-the-millions-published

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

The Guardian
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Show threadgrobi6d ago

2017 May 28

Collapse in Hebes Chasma on Mars
* Image Credit & License: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
http://www.esa.int/
http://www.dlr.de/pf/
http://www.fu-berlin.de/
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/People/Man_with_a_plan_An_interview_with_Gerhard_Neukum

Explanation:
What's happened in Hebes Chasma on Mars? Hebes Chasma is a depression just north of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon. Since the depression is unconnected to other surface features, it is unclear where the internal material went. Inside Hebes Chasma is Hebes Mensa, a 5 kilometer high mesa that appears to have undergone an unusual partial collapse -- a collapse that might be providing clues. The featured image, taken by ESA's robotic Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars, shows great details of the chasm and the unusual horseshoe shaped indentation in the central mesa. Material from the mesa appears to have flowed onto the floor of the chasm, while a possible dark layer appears to have pooled like ink on a downslope landing. A recent hypothesis holds that salty rock composes some lower layers in Hebes Chasma, with the salt dissolving in melted ice flows that drained through holes into an underground aquifer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebes_Chasma
!>>http://geomorphology.sese.asu.edu/Papers/Adams_etal_hebes_chasma_salt_tectonics_geol.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170528.html

#space #mars #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #geology #topography #nature #NASA

Show threadgrobi6d ago

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hebes Chasma

is an isolated chasma just north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. It is centered at 1 degree southern latitude and 76 degrees western longitude, just between the Martian equator and the Valles Marineris system, just east of the Tharsis region.

Hebes Chasma is a completely closed depression in the surface of Mars, with no outflows to the nearby Echus Chasma to the west, Perrotin Crater to the southwest, or Valles Marineris to the south. Its maximum extents are approximately 320 km east to west, 130 km north to south, and 5 to 6 km in depth. At the center of the depression is Hebes Mensa, a large mesa rising some 5 km off the valley floor, nearly as high as the surrounding terrain. This central plateau makes Hebes Chasma a unique valley in Martian geography.

The word Hebes comes from Hebe, the goddess of youth, who was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the wife of Hercules.

The walls of Hebes Chasma weather differently than the slopes on the mesa on its floor. Also, studies of the thermal inertia suggest that the mesa and the walls of the canyon are made of different substances. Thermal inertia is how long the surface holds heat. For example, rocky areas will stay warmer than dust at night. One popular idea that explains the difference between the depression's walls and the mesa slopes is that the mesa was formed from material that accumulated in a lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebes_Chasma

#space #mars #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #geology #topography #nature #NASA

Show threadgrobi6d ago

2014 May 11

Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
* Image Credit: Viking Project, USGS, NASA
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html
https://www.usgs.gov/
http://www.nasa.gov/

Explanation:
The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth's Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, 30 kilometers across, and 1.8 kilometers deep. The origin of the Valles Marineris remains unknown, although a leading hypothesis holds that it started as a crack billions of years ago as the planet cooled. Several geologic processes have been identified in the canyon. This mosaic was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris
https://www.windows2universe.org/mars/interior/Valles_Marineris.html
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/facts/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140511.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140511.html

#space #mars #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #geology #topography #nature #NASA

Show threadgrobi2d ago

2021 June 5

The Shining Clouds of Mars
* Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.msss.com/

Explanation:
The weathered and layered face of Mount Mercou looms in the foreground of this mosaic from the Curiosity Mars rover's Mast Camera. Made up of 21 individual images the scene was recorded just after sunset on March 19, the 3,063rd martian day of Curiosity's on going exploration of the Red Planet. In the martian twilight high altitude clouds still shine above, reflecting the light from the Sun below the local horizon like the noctilucent clouds of planet Earth. Though water ice clouds drift through the thin martian atmosphere, these wispy clouds are also at extreme altitudes and could be composed of frozen carbon dioxide, crystals of dry ice. Curiosity's Mast Cam has also imaged iridescent or mother of pearl clouds adding subtle colors to the martian sky.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210605.html

#space #earth #atmosphere #noctilucent #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #physics #nature #NASA #education