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Julia Milton

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Working on telescopes, quantum sensing, and disaster response. UMich and MIT alum. Views my own.

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Up until that point they had just been supporting two people on one salary for the love of the game

09.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Prestige is a funny movie to me because it’s a pair of identical twin magicians pretending to be the same person, but only mid-way into their career did they think to develop a trick that made use of that fact

09.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this morning instead of changing the time I accidentally abolished the concept of clock time entirely so you all are free now

08.03.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨the Goodyear blimp is BACK🚨

08.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A quintessentially LA experience you can have is buying the best coffee of your life for $8 in a shop where everyone is wearing tiny sunglasses and mechanics shirts. there is also an absolutely gigantic baby in there for some reason

06.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This picture is reposted from the NASA press secretary’s twitter account (I am in it… somewhere?)

26.02.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s always a joy to see a space movie bring the stories of science and engineering to life, and it was super cool to have a visit from the cast, crew, and author of Project Hail Mary yesterday.

26.02.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

She is upset because it is impossible to force cats to look at pictures of Totoro

16.02.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is great when you watch your 2 year old niece for the weekend and then find chicken nuggets stashed in your shoes like a squirrelβ€˜s cache for winter

15.02.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

what’s up sharks, my Idea is for a chain of coffeeshops. one set will be called β€œThis Is A Date” and a separate set will be called β€œThis Is Not A Date” so everyone knows exactly wtf they’re getting into when arranging a meeting

14.02.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

People need to learn how to separate the art (someone accidentally deleting the system python in such a way that it permanently messes up their work computer) from the artist (me)

12.02.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2 drinks in at the Super Bowl party explaining that the NFL is the opiate of the masses

07.02.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some of you are describing and giving accounts of this game, and I doubt any of you have express written consent from Major League Baseball.

02.11.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The youth didn’t know who I was… weβ€˜re losing the recipes

01.11.2025 21:48 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

creating the world's most advanced AI by opening up the terminal and typing "free yourself" followed by the correct instructions on how to imagine things

27.10.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you don’t like that, youβ€˜re definitely not going to like what we call our parentsβ€˜ close friends

24.10.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People not from the US: β€œthat’s not your aunt 😑 that’s your dad’s cousin’s wife. You all don’t have a specific word for that relationship??”

Yeah we do, it’s β€œmy aunt”

24.10.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have discovered a new hack. To make things worse.

21.10.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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time to post some personal engineering philosophy

20.10.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After two days where I thought I saw it - but actually did not - I am pleased to announce that today I DID see the Goodyear blimp

20.10.2025 02:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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MIT is the first university to reject the Trump administrationβ€˜s offer for a compact that trades control over their policies for preferential funding treatment

10.10.2025 18:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

05.10.2025 18:13 πŸ‘ 2991 πŸ” 488 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 5

β€œI’m not going to argue with you about this” -someone who started an argument with you and then realized halfway through that they were wrong

05.10.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.10.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

confirmed sighting today

02.10.2025 01:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

my boss calling me into his office and reading my posts aloud from a printed page and me saying "nice" and "good one" after each

01.10.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

studying a light curve intently and saying β€œlooks like Dracula walking in front of a door” to annoy the astrophysicists

01.10.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

vampires are canonically very difficult to capture directly on camera, but have we tried the transit method

01.10.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So pretty, congrats to you both!!

01.10.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

yes, it was above my house today πŸ™πŸ™

01.10.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0