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Joachim Wiegert
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Dust-loving astronomer; researcher @ Uppsala Uni. in circumstellar dust, debris, AGB-stars. A science- and scifi-nerd who writes popular science, loves to ride bikes with extra interest in infrastructure (he/him).
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Flumskolan 💔💔
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🔭 The Surface of Titan from Huygens

Image Credit: ESA, NASA, JPL, U. Arizona, Huygens Lander

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November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Västerbron på 60-talet
Västerbron 2024
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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And just like that, Arctic sea-ice extent is now over 200,000 square kilometers below the previous daily record for November 28th.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Som sagt, när påven kommer från Chicago…
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"Du kan inte ana hur tyst det blivit och vilken sanning som cementerats i väggarna: att 'ingen klickar på klimatet'."

www.journalisten.se/kronikor/inn...
”Inne- och utelistan för svenska medier” - Journalisten
INNELISTAN AI über alles Fråga inte om vi borde – fråga om det går. För nu ska AI användas till allt. Vi har...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Treasure Planet 2 (unproduced): The Centurion, art by Emil Mitev

It's all the more unfortunate that Treasure Planet didn't find its audience, as it was conceived as the beginning of a saga. A sequel was already in pre-production before being canceled a few days after the film's disastrous release.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The irony is rich.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Tidskriften Råd & Rön har publicerat Skamlistan 2024 med värstingföretagen som har många anmälningar hos Konsumentverket. Två av sidorna som tas upp, Bedomahalsa och Halsobedomning, är del av det nätverk som vi skrev om i fjol ihop med våra nordiska kollegor. kallkritikbyran.se/har-ar-manne...
Här är männen bakom "2-minuters hälsokontroller" - Källkritikbyrån
Företag lurar människor i Norden – skickar fakturor på 900 kronor.
kallkritikbyran.se
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Oh really? "they/them" pronouns are woke? Did you know "they/them" comes from Old Norse, whereas "he/she" come from old English? They/them are the pronouns of Vikings.

Would you call Sweyn Forkbeard "woke"? And Eric Bloodaxe? Woke too? And I suppose even Ivar the Boneless was woke. Get real.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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What I don't get about American history is during the Revolutionary War period everyone was named things like "John Adams".

But when the Civil War comes around everyone is named things like "Jedediah Hotchkiss" and "Ambrose Burnside".

Then we just went back to normal names? What was going on??
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Forskningsingenjören och klimataktivisten David Alcer står inför ett utvisningshot sedan gränspolisen pekat ut honom som en allvarlig samhällsrisk. Hans jurister säger att de aldrig varit med om något liknande.
Klimataktivistens advokat: ”Kafka-liknande upplevelse”
Reagerar starkt på att David Alcer hotas av utvisning.
www.etc.se
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Om vi uppnår och håller nettonoll i klimatutsläpp, hur mycket kommer temperaturen stiga därefter innan den stabiliserar sig?
Hur mycket stiger temperaturen efter nettonoll? | Forskning & Framsteg
Svar av: Markku Rummukainen, professor i klimatologi, Lunds universitet Efter nettonoll, det vill säga att människans nettoutsläpp av växthusgaser upphört, beräknas temperaturen förändras ytterligare i …
fof.se
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.

It will end nothing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Ten thousand!
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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OTD in 1944 Red Army completed operation to 'liberate' #Estonia, #Lithuania & #Latvia from Nazis. Who had 'liberated' them from us.
Who had 'liberated' them from themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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OTD in 2015 Turkey shot down a Russian jet in their airspace after we kept violating their border.

Our response was to sanction Turkish tomatoes. So in fact they also shot down our red lines.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Star Trek: First Contact was released 29 years ago today.

We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (2013)

"I think the core idea is this obsession I have with bifurcated societies, wealth inequality, class struggle — probably all coming from growing up in South Africa, I guess. I wanted a sci-fi way to represent wealth and poverty simultaneously, and how those..."
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert was released 29 years ago today. Yes, the same day as Star Trek: First Contact! 🖖

The introduction with Frank Klepacki's Hell March guitar riffs remains incredible.
Red Alert Intro (1996)
YouTube video by Acidhead303
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November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Kanske är detta ett unikt uttalande från Polisen:
Bilister värre än cyklister vad gäller regelöverträdelser www.facebook.com/PolisenHassl...
Polisen Hässleholm, Osby, Östra Göinge
CYKEL & BELYSNING Snön som fallit över Hässleholm med halka som följd inbjuder kanske inte till cykling. Men utöver det så är vi inne i en riktigt mörk period på året och vill därför uppmana till...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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”All mention of fossil fuels, by far the largest contributor to climate change, has been dropped from the draft deal under negotiation as the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal
A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM