Mike Lund

@lowbacca.bsky.social

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Astro Applications Developer and Acta Prima Aprilia editor

Package of Nestle Butterfinger BB's
Two posts from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (cpsc.gov). The first says "Sparklers burn at around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Never let kids play with sparklers" and has a video showing sparklers burning down toward a gloved hand and a caption repeating the text. The second says "That's 1093.333 Celsius for you Celsius types."
Slide reading: Engagement is the rigorous choice - contribute real astronomy workflow - demand calibrated uncertainty, not just accuracy - build prospective blind prediction challenges on Rubin alerts If astronomers don't define good AI for astronomy, the leaderboard will
A Tetris arcade machine
Lego minifig of Isaac Newton
Movie theater screen with "the mandalorian and grogu" projected on it
A hard rock band standing in front of one of those things at carnivals and stuff that has a painting of people on the front of it and 4 cutouts where you can put your face when standing behind it
A picture of all the Daves that Bruce McCulloch knows, including Dave Capisano, Dave Foley, and Dave from Boise (left), all standing in an alley way behind Bruce
A picture of all the Daves that Bruce McCulloch knows, including Dave Capisano, Dave Foley, and Dave from Boise (left), all standing in an alley way behind Bruce
Screenshot from Pepsiman video game, showing Pepsiman in blue and silver running down the street around barriers and along a line of floating Pepsi cans
Blue turf of Boise State's football stadium
Cyndi Lauper playing a recorder while wearing a large black headdress thing
New resort on the Las Vegas strip being built blocking Trump's from being seen on the strip
Polling data visualized for the following: If the price of an item drops from $600 to $10, is that a... (All adults 4287 US adults - April 23, 2026) 600% reduction in price - 9% 98.33% reduction in price - 64% Something else - 12% Don't know - 15% YouGov | What the world thinks
black and white image from the Battleship Potemkin featuring the now-called Potemkin Stairs in Odesa, Ukraine
Notebook cover featuringThe Garyosaurus, a bipedal dinosaur with glasses and a mustache
Action figure of Chewbacca's wife Malla
Left-side of image is a large radio telescope at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex pointing upwards, while the bottom right contains 2-3 kangaroos (or possibly wallabies?) grazing on the grass
Lisa Simpson holding a rock in her left hand that keeps tigers away
Bayouside view of a pirates of the Caribbean boat starting to pass by through the water and surrounded by swamp vegetation under a similar dark sky
Dialogue from American Dad Stan: Fine, then I'll call a friend. I'll just open up my address book [moth exits book] Roger: [Laughter] Oh my God! Stan has no friends, and he didn't even realize. He's like America, the guy. Stan: What are you talking about? Of course I have friends.
A set of maps showing a ship approaching the strait of hormuz on the left and a ship in the Atlantic Ocean on the right. A pair of portals are next to the ships
Your delta Eok JND 0.0087 Better than most. You can see differences that half the population would swear don't exist. Your opinions about colour palettes are now legally binding.
Black James Webb space telescope bomber jacket with gold logo flat on a bed with a boxed VirtualBoy accessory for the Nintendo switch on top of it
Two light curve plots, the top covers 1900 to 2015 and shows one dip around 1945 and another dip in the 2010s, while the bottom light shows 2007 to 2015 and a ~3 year drop spanning 2012, 2013, and 2014, with the tail end of 2011 showing the start of dimming
Simpsons clip with one side of hockey rink chanting "KILL bart" and the other side chanting "kill BART"
Roman pinball machine labeled as coronagraph instrument
Diagram of solar system showing NEO Surveyor's position at L1 and how it will be looking towards L4 and L5 to discover new NEOs
Prediction from 9 years ago showing cumulative planets and prediction of 25000 planets
Video game console style after an Atari 2600 but labeled Roman, hooked up to a TV displaying a screen about the wide field instrument
Images of two gas stations, one with bright lights creating high contrast and the other with better lighting that shows more detail
Topographical map of Mount Wilson showing how fires have burned the surrounding forest over the last twenty years
Poster advertising "Finding & Cultivating Neurodivergent Potential" as a workshop for fostering neuroinclusion in astronomy departments as a AAS pre-conference workshop, Saturday January 3rd, 10am-4pm The backdrop of the image appears to be an astronaut on a rocky surface
Movie poster for "Marley & Marley & Me", based on the Marley & Me poster with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston on the left side wrapped up in a leash and Statler and Waldorf on the other end of the leash wearing the chains they forged in life as the Marleys from a Muppet Christmas Carol
Blue block letters "C", "B", and "S", followed by a closed eye in the same shade of blue.
Harvey Korman as Krelman from the Star Wars Holiday special on the left and Patton Oswalt as Doug from Star Trek on the right
Movie poster showing eh title Felidae and an animated cat walking across the poster and looking over his shoulder with perhaps a setting sun behind him
Movie poster for Warning From Space, with the title above a giant star with an eye in the center
Simpsons meme reading "Excuse me, but pervasive and multi-modal -- aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important?"
IGN graphic saying "Harvard astrophysicist says a Manhattan-sized object in our solar system could be an alien spacecraft" superimposed over an image of a giant spacecraft hovering over Manhattan
crate with Aurabesh writing that translates to "Dead Inside. Do Not Disturb. From Dathomir", and contains a seal with untranslated script
Map of firefighting agencies outside LA/OC that sent support to fight the Jan 2025 fires in Los Angeles. Points in Canada and Mexico, as well as CA, OR, WA, ID, NV, NM, AZ, CO, WY, MT, TX, MN, SD and AK, with most being in CA, CO, WA, OR, and TX
Map of firefighting agencies that have sent personnel and/or equipment to assist in the 2025 fires around Los Angeles, California (mapping is incomplete, but has over 200 agencies)