Judy Schmidt

Yeah, I think it is some kind of moth. I've never seen one before in my house. It carries its "house" / cocoon with it as it wriggles around.

@nephelomancer.bsky.social they found you. gonna have to find a new hiding spot.

I saw something on my ceiling that looked like a piece of dust bunny, but it was wiggling? I have retrieved some kind of cocoon and a small worm with a dark head emerges when left alone. It has already hung itself back up near the top of the container. I suppose it'll pupate. Seems out of place, tho

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why do people leave the big poles attached to trees which clearly do not need them. i mean i know why, but why. trees do not need to eat plastic

white rocks in a bag hmmm we have a lot of those in california but from the house down the road instead of space

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hmm there seem to be some bean-shaped perturbations

nooo I want more last year's summer

i did it again. poured myself a bowl of cereal to eat before heading out to the grocery store . . . because we're out of milk

ok maybe not a pile, maybe just one rock or two, on a very specific trajectory

I mean, if it could hit a very specific part of Earth...

these are my sticky friens

I have kinda trained myself to be very zen when driving, but this lady really made me want to ram her. I shoulda honked. For some reason I never honk.

like, I can't even imagine people like that actually existing. the only time I ever legit road raged was when I waited 15 minutes in a split to go south but the left side was totally empty, and some woman zoomed up and cut right in front of me to avoid waiting. she got flipped double birds 😭

it doesn't make sense, does it? Pat and I pretty much just say "meth" whenever we see something like this

we all kinda cut loose when we came to bluesky even before this shitty shit

just an ordinary saturday morning in the world of head ass

oh chicken too! ugh!

I told her kids not to worry, I'm working on radicalizing their mom. 😂 (Which I hope they understood was a joke.)

does this mean a greater chance for hail or lower chance? asking for a 5 year-old

Gus says, chicken flavored chicken PLEASE (no turkey)

If the Sun should choose to smite us, however... I couldn't blame it

Maybe I went too far too fast by immediately trying to examine that idea and who may be pushing it and why. I may have tried to explain "Great Replacement Theory" to her. I recognize that my efforts are futile. 😂

I'm kind of astonished that she could simultaneously seem to agree the government itself is currently being racist, but also decide that "almost everyone is actually just centrist and just wants to get along." Mind-boggling. This whole convo happened because she thinks we need more babies.

trying to convince my neighbor that racism is a big thing and happens a lot and I may has well been trying to tell her the sky was polka dot green... gave her "basically the whole government" as example of who's racist when she asked, and it was like the answer didn't even count 🤷‍♀️

that’s just sad.

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Composite image of NGC 1068 based on Hubble Space Telescope images from our project, created by Judy Schmidt. The heart of a spiral galaxy is centered in the frame with brown winding dust lanes sprinkled with blue regions of recent star formation. Some small red galaxies are visible in the background.

Composite image of NGC 4303 based on Hubble Space Telescope images from our project, created by Judy Schmidt. A spiral galaxy is centered in the frame with bright blue spiral arms highlighting regions of recent star formation while brown winding dust lanes meander throughout.

New paper day! In an effort led by PhD student Madison Markham, we determined the first accurate and precise distances to two famous AGN host galaxies: NGC 1068 and NGC 4303. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we identified Cepheid pulsating stars and measured their pulsation periods and mags 🔭🧪(1/2)

you're welcome!