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Matthew Cimone

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Space Science Communicator, Earthling, and Co-Host of the #StarTrek TREKtivism Podcast TREKtivism.org - Let love and wonder be your guide. Be Wonder-Full! Leftist. He/Him

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Dec 3

Your body is literally animated star ashes and I think you're marvelous - you legacy of time and space. Go shine. 🌟

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SyFy Sistas™️ 🎙Director Valerie Weiss on the podcast this week @syfysistas.bsky.social · 17h

"I have been... and always shall be... your friend."

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TREKtivism.org @trektivism.bsky.social · 14h

The whole crew grieves for the @syfysistas.bsky.social today. As Spock said, "There are always possibilities."

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 21h

How many pre-crime indicators do YOU have!? Collect them all!
Original article:
jacobin.com/2025/10/trum...

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 1d

I had a dream last night that was animated. I've never experienced that before. The style was specific as well - similar to the style from Invincible. Anybody recall having a dream with a particular art style? Brains are amazing.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 4d

See you there!

Captains Quadrant @captainsquadrant.bsky.social · 4d

We are back and with special guest @trektivism.bsky.social ‘s Matthew! Going to be a blast talking #startrek #discovery since our show started after the series it’s nice to go back! We will be live tonight at 9pm est!

www.youtube.com/live/k5OY1s-...

Star Trek Discovery: The Sanctuary

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

Or at least responsible!!!!!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Melinda M. Snodgrass @melindas.bsky.social · 5d

I hear Kristie Noem has arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa. Was she in Canada? (Little shout out to Avenue Q but I digress).

Since it was a movement founded in 1920 to combat fascism I rather doubt this claim unless Kristie was using a Ouija Board.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 8d

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 12d

Before my feed becomes all Taylor/SHOWGIRL:

World Space Week starts Saturday & we're celebrating all next week! Join us on Tuesday Oct 7 at noon ET for a live Zoom call on Women in Space: Claiming Power & Creating Equity 💫

Link in next comment - submit your questions by Monday evening!

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 16d

I'm grateful so many world leaders chose to walk out of President Vasil Ghurkos' speech at the United Nations.

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 17d

Had tickets to see #StarWars in concert tonight in Vancouver by the #VSO - ultimately a series of films about fighting oppression. Unions are a great way to do that. So May the Force be with them!

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 21d

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra musicians issue 72-hour strike notice

For the first time in over a century, the musicians of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra have issued a 72-hour strike notice.

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 20d

Assassination is political violence
So too is...
Police violence
Poverty
Ecological destruction
Censorship
Demonization of sexual and gender minorities
State sponsored religion
Anti-intellectualism
Gutting health care
Genocide
This is all political violence

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 25d

See you at ThunderCon this weekend! So excited to be doing another @trektivism.bsky.social panel on Saturday. Also doing a #SciComm panel Sunday about Comet 3I/Atlas and the frenzy of both science and pseudo science surrounding its passage through our solar system.
#space #TREKtivism

TREKtivism.org @trektivism.bsky.social · 25d

Wow, that is a photo of a younger me when ThunderCon was new! Congrats to ThunderCon on 10yrs! We will be back again this year with another #TREKtivism panel. Catch the panel this Saturday at 12:30 in the Paradox Pavilion. I will be joined by @ontarioklingon.bsky.social
- @matthewcimone.bsky.social

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 26d

this is true and i wish there was a good alternative model for digital video that wasn't owned by google

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 26d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28d

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 28d

I'm making plasma - thousands of degrees - in a microwave at @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social. This one of the demos I did for our Cosmic Nights event this past Friday. Going to post a longer explanation but was excited to share a bit of it first!
(Don't try this at home) #space #scicomm

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 28d

lol it was an unfortunate ordering of the images to show the storage room before the actual room - but I felt it a fitting image to describe the general housing situation out here nevertheless

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 28d

#Vancouver

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 28d

New episode up now. The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, with guest David Quantick in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @quantick.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...

248. Th Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm — Backlisted

Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick ( Veep ,  The Thick of It ) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller  The Eye of the Beholder  (1980). David last app...

www.backlisted.fm

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Sep 14

I guess this is why there is a new #Tron movie coming out!

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Sep 12

Remember, it's never aliens until its actually aliens. We need to get those samples back. But we may not be able to. Imagine losing the discovery of life on Mars - when we're potentially this close - due to budget cuts.

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Sep 12

"U.S. President Donald Trump's current budget proposal would cancel NASA's existing Mars Sample Return mission...NASA is examining various ways for potential sample retrieval or even sending equipment to #Mars to do further analysis there."
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.reuters.com/science/nasa...

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Sep 8

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#StarTrekDay

TREKtivism.org @trektivism.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy Star Trek Day! If we're going to get to that Star Trek future, we need to believe that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the 0.1%
#StarTrekDay

On Star Trek day remember: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the 0.1%

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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm at Ottawa Comiccon this weekend Friday through Sunday, EY Center. Come by, say hi, and support the philosophy of pawraxis. #ottawacomiccon #comiccon

An ad for Nathan Nun Art at Comicon. It features one of his art prints of cats in 1930s style propaganda poster.

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