Dr. Lucian Walkowicz

@notnotrocketscience.com

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Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem notnotrocketscience.com

a meme of ben affleck, a white man wearing a blue sweater and jeans, smoking a cigarette and looking exasperated and exhausted, while multiple notifications from the Signal app partly cover the screen
a hand holding a mini zine title Community Constellations, which accompanies the 12pm workshop
a list of four movie covers: The American Astronaut, Parasite, No Country For Old Men, and The Shining
I am disappointed by your support for the Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 4-4, which will install more surveillance cameras at sites where Chicagoans are preventing ICE from kidnapping our neighbors. This amendment puts protesters, journalists, and legal observers at increased risk of arrest and detainment. Considering the prominent use of a slogan originating with the Defund CPD campaign, "We Keep Us Safe", on your website, you should be aware that increasing surveillance facilitates increased violence from ICE and CPD. Voting for this amendment will hurt many people in our ward. I urge you to rescind your support for this amendment when it comes before the City Council.
a quote from the last paragraph of the article linked in the previous post: Space has always been a proxy for our dreams about the future. It represents possibilities, though what those possibilities look like in detail is inevitably shaped by the worldview of whoever is doing the dreaming (be they aspiring space barons, or real estate salesmen who have moved on to national politics). Much like Mars colonization to shore up humanity in case of global catastrophe (a catastrophe always conjured in the form of an asteroid strike, or really any disaster that doesn’t come with human responsibility the way that climate change does), or satellite constellations (brought to us by unilateral actions whose urgency pivots on a murky understanding of what communities without internet access may or may not want or need), these feints to the “greater good” distract us from the bigger blow: they are arguing for their greater good, not good for the greatest number of the rest of us. You cannot save humanity by relocating a small sampling of us to Mars for the same reason that you can’t avert a pandemic by hiring 100,000 new workers to labor in a warehouse where they, too, may get sick. None of us is expendable. We are the greater good.
Goya's painting of Saturn Eating His Son, with Saturn labeled Vera Rubin and the his son labeled Charles Simonyi
a yellow graphic of joyous protestors that says beautiful trouble story time
a graphic that invites people to join autonomous chicagoans outside immigration court to interrupt ICE kidnappings of people from their immigration hearings. Show up daily from 8am on at 50 E Adams and 55 East Monroe
CHAM! the band from Satoshi Kon’s anime “Perfect Blue”
A long exposure photo of the strip mined fields of Nauru, with stars and the milky way hanging over ghostly rocks.
A poster from the 1995 drama Powder, showing a very white bald person running through a field with their shirt open as lightning rages in the sky behind them. I don’t remember the plot of the actual movie, but I assume this is what it will look like when Shaun King comes to save this app
A comic in two columns with three rows. Upper left panel: Alternatives to Steve Albini, for when he’s busy or you’re allergic or something. Comic by Lucianne Walkowicz, quotes by Steve Albini. Panel 1: Steve Linguini: a drawing of Steve Albini in a bag of dry pasta noodles with the quote “ I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm. ' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.” Panel 2: Steve Tankini. A drawing of Steve Albini in a tankini withthe quote “I think fashion is repulsive. I would like the fashion industry to collapse” Panel 3: Steve Sardini. A picture of Steve Albini in a can of sardines with the quote “Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything” Panel 4: Steve Scallopini. A picture of Steve Albini as a veal Scallopini with the quote “buy groceries and feed yourself even on t
Stella, a tan and black tabby cat with green-amber eyes, relaxes on a gray towel. Her head is resting in Lulu’s hand.
Point of view: you are Lulu, sitting in the grass near a silver bike with blue handlebars. Lulus legs are in the foreground, and so is the ice coffee they’re drinking. It’s a sunny day and the grass is very brilliant green
Elon Musk throwing his arms open and yelling something with his stupid face
Stella, a brown tabby kitten, is sitting on a table covered with a blanket and towel. She’s sticking her tongue out to lick her nose and her amber green eyes give her a brash, unapologetic look
Stella, a brown tabby kitten, is sitting on the exam table at the vet, looking very relaxed and cute
Downward view of lulus cat hair covered shirt and their arm and hand around a tabby cat, who is sitting on an exam table and craning their head back for scritches
A top down picture of my cat, a lynx point tabby, stretched out along my legs asleep
An image with a picture of an original Nintendo DS and a Nintendog with a gray alien face, with the caption RIP to the Nintendogs that ain’t been fed since 2007
Stella the tabby cat is staring into the camera with her green eyes, sitting in a garden next to some night sky petunias
A tabby cat sitting on a tree stump, meowing!
A bathroom door upon which “juicy ass terrorism” has been scrawled in large black letters
Lulu, a white non-binary person with a purple French bob, is smiling and laughing at right. They’re wearing a jean jacket. To the left is their business name, Not Not Rocket Science, and the words “work with me”
O-Ren, a gray tabby cat, looks pensively into the distance from her cat bed
O-Ren, a gray tabby cat, is sitting primly in her homemade cat bed with all her feets tucked under her. She has cast aside her toy pickle, which lies next to the cat bed on the ground. Not such a big dill now, are you, pickle?
Lulu’s hand holding an “orca” card, the transit pass for Seattle’s light rail system
The grim reaper using a claw machine game, saying “Pat Robertson? Is Henry Kissinger even in this thing?”
A progress flag that says “happy pride” with PRIDE spelling out “pat robertson is dead everybody!”
Lulu’s hand holding a car key with two keychains: a small canister of pepper spray, and a large plastic glittery keychain that says “Ask Me About My Gay Agenda”
A black and white photo of Lulu, an aerial hoop performer, crouching in a hoop suspended in the air. Their arms are entwined with the top of the hoop and they are perched on the balls of their feet. They are looking up and to the left, into a beam of light.
A cream and brown tabby cat sleeps curled up in a bed made of chunky blue and purple yarn in a cardboard box. Next to her is a green fuzzy pickle toy that says “I’m a big dill” on it, and behind her is a shelf full of books.
A thumbnail of Biden from Japan’s G7 poster where he looks exactly like the ludicrous “Karl Havoc” character from I Think You Should Leave
A deep burgundy flower, with cream colored speckles that make it look like an image of a starry patch of sky
A cartoon character experiencing an earthquake attempts to climb a wall for safety
A bud on a giant onion plant, about to open and show off a purple flower
Lulu is smiling and wearing a russet colored rubbed tank top and necklace that looks like a vertical magic wand of crystals
An orange and saffron yellow graphic with the words MAKE IT REAL in bold, blocky font, and the URL https://notnotrocketscience.com/workshops
A picture of an older person walking away from the camera, wearing a jacket embroidered with the words “Do Leg” and no other context
A picture of ALF, but drawn shirtless and disturbingly muscular
Lulu is hanging from the ceiling in a fast moving blur as an aerial hoop whirls around them at high speed. Behind them is the stained glass window of the repurposed church they train in.
Lulu’s right inner calf, displaying a tattoo of red and orange maple leaves next to yellow and green ginkgo leaves
A screenshot that shows I have 69 followers and the brain of an 8 year old boy
Lulu, a non-binary athletic white person, is suspended in mid air by holding onto a cord in the crook of their elbow and below that, an aerial hoop between their ankles. They turned in profile to the camera, and are wearing a bronze performance costume and gesturing to the sky very dramatically.