Alan Boyle
@b0yle.bsky.social
Science editor / GeekWire / Universe Today / Cosmic Log / Fiction Science podcast / The Case for Pluto
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November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Fantastic work by Ariel Graykowski and our @setiinstitute.bsky.social citizen scientists.
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is breaking apart — and some of you caught it live. After passing 0.3 AU from the Sun, it erupted, and three days later a third appeared.
K1 is now officially in pieces.
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is breaking apart — and some of you caught it live. After passing 0.3 AU from the Sun, it erupted, and three days later a third appeared.
K1 is now officially in pieces.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Fantastic work by Ariel Graykowski and our @setiinstitute.bsky.social citizen scientists.
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is breaking apart — and some of you caught it live. After passing 0.3 AU from the Sun, it erupted, and three days later a third appeared.
K1 is now officially in pieces.
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is breaking apart — and some of you caught it live. After passing 0.3 AU from the Sun, it erupted, and three days later a third appeared.
K1 is now officially in pieces.
In a move that will heighten competition with SpaceX's Starlink network, the Amazon satellite internet project formerly known as Kuiper is shipping hardware to select customers for testing. www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
Amazon Leo starts to roll out its fastest satellite internet service — and reveals just how fast it’ll be
Amazon Leo — the satellite internet service provider once known as Project Kuiper — has started shipping terminals to customers for testing.
www.geekwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In a move that will heighten competition with SpaceX's Starlink network, the Amazon satellite internet project formerly known as Kuiper is shipping hardware to select customers for testing. www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
Not just New Yorkers…
New Yorkers are tired of being asked to believe in a system that has delivered little for them. They want a politics that can see the scale of the crisis, and actually start to tackle it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Not just New Yorkers…
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Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
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Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday
Hardline message over US-Russia plan at volatile meeting in Kyiv sparks alarm among European allies
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November 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
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The confusion around the Ukraine-Russia peace plan illustrates how broken this government is. Rogue actors represent the U.S. govt. abroad. Anyone communicates with anyone. Even our allies were shocked with what’s going on. It’s a kakistrocracy 🤦♂️
apnews.com/article/ukra...
apnews.com/article/ukra...
US senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia's 'wish list'
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv ...
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The confusion around the Ukraine-Russia peace plan illustrates how broken this government is. Rogue actors represent the U.S. govt. abroad. Anyone communicates with anyone. Even our allies were shocked with what’s going on. It’s a kakistrocracy 🤦♂️
apnews.com/article/ukra...
apnews.com/article/ukra...
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Take note. Turns out it can be good for government to do things that make people's lives better.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Take note. Turns out it can be good for government to do things that make people's lives better.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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Lord knows I can't change
Lord, help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
Lord, help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Lord knows I can't change
Lord, help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
Lord, help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
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WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian
Certain phrases in Trump’s proposed deal seem to be using Russian language.
newrepublic.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018
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U.S. lawmakers attempted Saturday to reverse days of confusion around a leaked peace plan for Ukraine, saying Marco Rubio assured them the document does not represent the Trump administration’s position.
Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan - NewsBreak
Members of Congress attending an international security forum said Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them to say the Americans did not instigate the pr
www.newsbreak.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
U.S. lawmakers attempted Saturday to reverse days of confusion around a leaked peace plan for Ukraine, saying Marco Rubio assured them the document does not represent the Trump administration’s position.
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A drone shot over the bow? 🤔
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near air base housing US nuclear weapons:
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near air base housing US nuclear weapons:
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near air base housing US nuclear weapons
The drones were spotted above the Volkel Air Base overnight, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on Nov. 22. The drones flew away after weapons were deployed and an investigation is underway.
kyivindependent.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
A drone shot over the bow? 🤔
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near air base housing US nuclear weapons:
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near air base housing US nuclear weapons:
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Fossil fuel companies have been doing this for years. grist.org/internationa...
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fossil fuel companies have been doing this for years. grist.org/internationa...
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In a stunning development, Pope Leo XIV reveals that he uses a different starting word for Wordle every day.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In a stunning development, Pope Leo XIV reveals that he uses a different starting word for Wordle every day.
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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All of this, but especially the one at 5/7
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
🧵
🧪🔭🛸
(1/7)
🧵
🧪🔭🛸
(1/7)
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
All of this, but especially the one at 5/7
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BREAKING: Meddling foreigner tells Canadians their problems stem entirely from meddling foreigners
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
BREAKING: Meddling foreigner tells Canadians their problems stem entirely from meddling foreigners
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Friday music this week we’re going tracks with a xylophone! Starting with maybe the best ever…
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMJ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMJ...
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
YouTube video by ViolentFemmesVEVO
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Friday music this week we’re going tracks with a xylophone! Starting with maybe the best ever…
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMJ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMJ...
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Mail Carriers finding new ways to be heroes
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Mail Carriers finding new ways to be heroes
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America's loss, Canada's gain.
“I knew that if I stayed at Yale, there would be pressure not to bring the Trump administration’s wrath onto Yale. I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different, and talk about polarization.”
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
America's loss, Canada's gain.
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This weekend we celebrate Christ the King… not a distant ruler on a throne, but the One who breaks chains of oppression and stands in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. His kingdom is justice, mercy, and liberation lived here and now.
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This weekend we celebrate Christ the King… not a distant ruler on a throne, but the One who breaks chains of oppression and stands in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. His kingdom is justice, mercy, and liberation lived here and now.