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Dr Alfredo Carpineti

@drcarpineti.bsky.social

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Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | He/him | opinions are my own

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · Aug 1

For the last seven months, Chris and I have worked on creating a limited series to tackle the topic of dark skies and light pollution, and why you should care about it.

We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps

www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 3h

👋🏻👋🏻 it will be a brief sojourn but it will be fun!

Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 6h

Off to the Netherlands for a fun sci-com weekend!

(also new haircut)

Me (white male in his 40s) wearing a dinosaur T-shirt and a leather jacket in St Pancras station. I have shirt curly hair

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 8h

Regardless of what one thinks of the Greens and Zack Polanski, there is something refreshing and much needed about seeing a politician name far-right discourse as it is

No more euphemising, no more "populism", "legitimate concerns" etc - accurate & damning depictions instead as needed

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9h

Utterly disgusting, but another sign of the continuing emboldening of hate groups.

Labour should be as quick to act against groups like this, who are actually causing harm and breaking the law, as they declare themselves to be against those opposing genocide.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

This video is AI.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Alejandro Soto @soto.space · 15h

So many great ways to observe the interstellar comet. It's tricky to see in this movie, but it's there. As the comet gets closer to the Sun, PUNCH, a solar corona imager, will make daily observations. As the PUNCH data pipeline gets better (it's a new mission) this data will improve. 🧪 #planetsci

kwalsh4a.bsky.social @kwalsh4a.bsky.social · 1d

While 3I Atlas is getting to harder to see from Earth, heliospheric images in space are still tracking. Here is a movie from PUNCH tracking it yesterday (8-October).

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 1d

Have a look through my website wgsaraband.com and get yourself some handmade, unique art made with all the strengths, faults and emotions of an actual human being.

Added bonus of supporting an independent Portuguese-Scottish artist 😉

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 1d

she wouldn’t be the first nobel peace prize recipient to openly support murder

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

She literally supports trump bombing the boats

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 1d

From Sunday, come watch me dying repeatedly in a classic Tomb Raider game! 🔫🔫

Chris 🎬🎧 @raidercast.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Tomb Raider folks, we're back!

🎬 www.youtube.com/@Raidercast

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 1d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 1d

Best of luck 🫂

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent research here. Though it isn't the focus, what Dr Pagel warns of has occured with frightful efficacy in DSIT, EHRC, and DSHC over trans rights. All three have been targeted by malicious actors seeking trans people's marginalization.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday 🥳

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2d

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

Suuuure it's the "molds" fault. Whats next, a very specific strain of mold that turns children's book authors into raging terfs?

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 2d

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 2d

There is nothing more pathetic than a fascist. They are insecure, sniveling losers, and they show their weakness with every action they take.

Mock them mercilessly. It saps them of what little power they have.

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Kevin (Antifa 414th Moral Support Battalion) @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 2d

this stuff shouldn't scare you. it should embolden you. it exposes their weak spots.

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 2d

incredible investigation by @972mag.com
– and an indictment of western media outlets who have disseminated fictionalized visualizations created by the Israeli army in order to justify the destruction of civilian infrastructure

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