Maria Varmazis

@varmaz.is

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🎙️ Host @ N2K CyberWire (T-Minus Space-Cyber Briefing, Hacking Humans) ✨️ new pod: Hot Soup Cosmic Microwave ✨️ 🖌️ Cartoonist & painter 🚴🏻‍♀️ Cycling, astronomy, gardening, gaming 🪐 #NASAsocial alum 📍Massachusetts 💖 Tell me about the thing you like!

Trees and a very orange sky. No filter was used
My hand holding four very different rocks. One on the far left is very thin and dark and semi-rough, middle bottom is round and very granulated and rough, right most is very heavy and super smooth. Up top there's a bit of volcanic rock from a beach on Santorini.
My tuxie cat Cookie on a box of Georgia peaches
Lowell Spinners baseball cap with a minimal graphic of a mill, smokestack and the Aiken bridge
I am very excited about my Greek jersey
Me wearing a Niners hat and a Horta sweatshirt
LeLacheur park in Lowell
March 2021, Gillette (Boston) Stadium.
Me at around 10 years old in a white sweatshirt, hugging my father Costas in a red and grey plaid flannel. We are at Mack's Apples in Londonderry NH back in the early 1990s.
A political fundraiser email from Pete Buttigieg addressed to my deceased father, Costas (but in my personal inbox), asking to call my dad
My black cat pumpkin sprawled across my sketchbook
My black cat Pumpkin enjoying the morning sun in my art studio. She is lounging under my easel and surrounded by artist mess and old paintings. Next to her is my struggling calthea plant.
Two photos of me on the Pont des Arts. Top photo was 2006, bottom is 2026.
Me smiling while riding my bike. My husband Eric is behind me also on a bike. We are riding next to the Grand Canal at Versailles.
Raising of the dead stained glass from Sainte Chapelle
A fresh tsoureki bread in the pan, red egg in the middle
The start of tsoureki bread in the oven
Me facing the camera with beautiful quilts behind me.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT - by Michael F. Dubois @michaelfdubois My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "we'll open back up once the plows have cleared" it's 'we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
Artemis 2's Earthset
Me showing off my Earthrise earrings and NASA necklace
Hertzsprung crater
moon globe with the actual moon via Artemis 2 video behind it
My Moon globe
Vangelis' Albedo 0.39 album cover art
A closer view to camera of the Apollo 8 silk patch
The Artemis 2 crew show the Apollo 8 patch they are flying back around the moon for the second time!
KEY LUNAR FLYBY TIMES, MILESTONES ALL TIMES EASTERN, SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON REAL-TIME OPERATIONS 1 p.m. NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins 1:56 p.m. Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 2:45 p.m. Lunar flyby begins 7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles) 7:07 p.m. Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles) 8:35 p.m. Orion enters solar eclipse
Cyclist in a red Artemis shirt
A tired woman holds her hand to the light off screen
Monsieur de Jarjayes, Word is spreading among certain circles about potential Royalist sympathizers infiltrating the Guard. Your reputation suggests you might already be aware, but I'm reaching out through discreet channels given the delicate nature of current political tensions. A trusted contact from the Marseille regiment shared troubling intelligence suggesting several junior officers under your command have been making unauthorized communications with radical elements. These whispers hint at potential betrayal that could compromise the entire Royal Guard's integrity - something I'm certain would deeply concern someone of your particular standards. I cannot elaborate further through standard correspondence. Discretion is paramount. The wrong ears could twist such sensitive information into dangerous speculation. Regards, Henri Beaumont
Me pointing to a ThreatLocker logo
Tidus from FFX with the sad piano music in the background, you know the one, saying "listen to my story" but I replaced "story" with "podcast" because in my stupid mind that was funny but probably not to anyone else, I'm really sorry
Two figures reaching out to each other
My minifig from Heroforge arrived!
My messy art desk with various paintings and sketches on the wall
Vangelis’ Albedo spinning
Cover of Vangelis’ Albedo record
Hello, red tailed hawk
Red tailed hawk on our spruce
Me with Artemis 2 just over my shoulder
It’s me in my snow getup
Snow falling against trees