Jo Hunter

OK; probably time for a new intro post. Blue dot in red Texas. Cats. 3D printing. Astrophotography. Aviation photography. Artist. Laser operator. Designer. Code dabbler. Coffee and beer drinker (not in the same glass).

All my plans for this morning have gone to shit. #cats #ohwell #dontcare

26 days to go! Make sure and vote and when you do vote blue down the ballot. We can’t afford the #CostsOfTrumpsCorruption anymore. People need food, shelter and healthcare. Not an Arch dedicated to Trump. ##Momsky#sheshed

After the digital sculpt was complete, I cut it into parts to fit my printers. Done in zbrush. The head was split into 12 main parts, which were bolted together. Gaps between parts filled. The cuts were made to follow the outline of the scales to reduce visibility of the seams.

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This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

Nebula image wins Royal Observatory competition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Texas friends! Gina Hinojosa has a rally at the LBJ Ranch in ten days time: mobilize.us/s/2JJkZ7

🚨 5.4 MILLION views. And counting. Trump doesn’t want you watching this interview. So naturally, we should get it to 10 MILLION. Let’s make sure Trump sees just how many people are watching. 10 million views. One Texas Senate seat. Let's fucking go Texas. Let’s fucking go, Texas.

Tell them to get their bloody mitts off the USPS and let people friggin' VOTE: sign.moveon.org/petitions/vo...?

I have myself a Pixel! #nancygraceroman

Nancy Grace Roman was paid 60% of her male colleague's wages. 'the Nobel prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ... told her: “We don’t discriminate against women. We can just get them for less.”' #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭

Greetings from the Great Lakes Laser Supply booth at Next Level Maker Conference!

✨ quote repost with your art that has stars ✨

I like getting these little alerts. I love knowing it actually got used!

Just throwing this out there, before International Observe the Moon night in September. You know how the full #Moon is so very bright? My cards have a tiny hole in the middle to cut out the glare and allow you to see surface features in greater clarity. Visit shopwavytail.com for yours. #astronomy

Here is a very handsome Greater Arid-Land Katydid that was creeping up the wall of our house this morning. It was HUGE. #insects

The wasps under our house would like to say hello. And then mess you up.

An ocean of stars. This is one of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's ten-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time! The image covers a region of space about 3°, six times the width of a full Moon—only a tiny portion of the gigantic survey Rubin has embarked upon. Open it up!

🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨  New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy. The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital  🔭 🧪 ☄️ #DarkSkies #SatelliteConstellations 1/4

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born #OTD in 1646. He was one of the great polymaths of the age, and is best known for discovering differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton. 🧪 🧮 Image: Wellcome Collection

In today’s episode of “Things I did not know existed”; we have bagpipe blues. It’s cool!

To all farm worker fathers: Thank you for your hard work, sacrifice and love. Your dedication strengthens your families and feeds our nation. ¡Feliz Día del Padre! #FathersDay

I bought a tiny sketchbook. I intend to draw flowers and pretty things in it. But I don’t know where to start. How do you christen a sketchbook?

Being back in Paris meant another chance to visit the Réserves of the @museeartsetmetiers.bsky.social in St Denis. This time I was able to take a microscope to document this astrolabe - thought to be (at least partly) from the workshop of Regiomontanus.

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

It’s #caturday and this one is enjoying the sunny afternoon on her cushion.

Those of you with a Netflix subscription who enjoy #sci-fi should go find the film "Nope". Watched it last night and it was excellently refreshing; quite different from the usual examples of the genre. I spent most of the first half wondering where the heck it was going, and enjoying the ride :-)

#writingcommunity #skyauthor #writersky #amwriting #indieauthor #aspiringwriter

Cat Blossom. 😺🔥♾️

Sci-fi/fantasy fans! Click here; there's a ton of books available free for one day only: www.bookbelow.com/stuff-your-k... #scifi #fantasy #books

This is what greets me every time I come home from my morning walk. I am lucky :-) #cats

I took a five week art class on #botanicaldrawing and made this pencil drawing of an orchid. I think I might do more of this. #botanicalillustration

A tiny green Katydid about half an inch long, inside a purple Iris flower. It’s so small and cute!

You know how supermarket employees wear name tags? I was shopping earlier and an obviously pregnant individual had her own name tag and one lower down for the bump :-) Made me smile.

This photo of the astronauts receiving their hats might be one of my most favorite from the mission. Look at that joy! 🤩

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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OK I should have posted this last night but yay for Artemis 2!

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

FYI, I've donated to the Texas Library Association, which among other things operates the Texans for the Right to Read coalition. Oppose book bans! Vote out politicians and school boards who vote for them! texansfortherighttoread.com

Important info to know about the SAVE America Act. It addresses a problem that is non existent. The only part of this bill I agree with is that you have to show your ID when you vote and as far as I know we all have to do this already. It is voter suppression. bipartisanpolicy.org/article/five...

#NoKings in #KerrvilleTX! The best turnout yet!

The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information. Without them, CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak. bit.ly/4qaDIMi via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Whoever did the titles for “Only Murders in the Building” really likes cats. There’s loads of them in the windows :-)

These cornhole boards were made by my husband and painted by me. And then it took me ages to figure out how to lacquer them and actually do it, but today the legs were fitted back on so now they’re Done! And we will have the best most colorful games of cornhole in existence.

The Moon, Jupiter and Venus all in a line this morning. I overexposed the crap out of the moon (grabbed this shot mid-workout so didn’t have a ton of time to play) but the terminator looks cool today. Look at all those craters!