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Badibulgator

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Sur Cielbleu personne ne sait que je suis un chien. Curious about astronomy, computing, and other nerdy things. Recovering flerf herder.

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · Dec 20

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:

Arthur C. Clarke
Douglas Hofstadter
Jules Verne
Greg Egan
Robert Forward
James P. Hogan
Richard Dawkins

Oops that’s seven. 🤗

Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · Dec 20

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:
Terry Pratchett
Diana Wynne Jones
Brandon Sanderson
Neil Gaiman 💀
Ursula Le Guin

Doesn’t take manga into account for obvious reasons.

Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com · Dec 20

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:
Mick Herron
Ben Aaronovitch
Kevin Hearne
Jodi Taylor
Benedict Jacka

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Vincent Glavieux @vglvx.bsky.social · 1h

Notre nouveau numéro est paru en kiosque, librairie et en version numérique !

Ce trimestre, dans notre dossier d’une cinquantaine de pages, nous vous emmenons au cœur du noyau atomique.

www.larecherche.fr/parution/tri...

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 1h

Nah, surely that’s just a silly off-by-one error. You’ll see, it will happen next month. Or next year. Or next century. No doubt! 😜

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Jérémy Lemaitre @jimmylaglisse.bsky.social · 1h

✨One year ago, on the starry night 🌌 from October 10th to 11th, 2024, we had the chance to contemplate the magic of the Northern Lights from France✨

#nothernlights #aurora #auroraborealis #photography #astrophotography

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@astropierre.com
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Jérémy Lemaitre @jimmylaglisse.bsky.social · 1h

A timelapse of the #NorthernLights that appeared on the night of October 10-11, 2024, visible from France near Lyon 🇫🇷. It's been a year already and it was one of the best nights of my life ✨

@vincentledvina.bsky.social
@thom-astro.bsky.social
@esa.int
@astropierre.com
@ericlagadec.bsky.social

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 1h

"Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!"

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 1h

Wow! 👽

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 2h

Post a film with an excellent soundtrack

#Koyaanisqatsi

youtu.be/nWs3BSCnCog

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12h

One was to imagine that the universe “started” in a low entropy state. That’s actually what we currently think is the right answer! But Boltzmann is writing in a Newtonian world, 20 years before general relativity. He had a chance to basically invent the Big Bang, but never really followed up.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 1d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 15h

Le seul crime qui devrait être passible de la peine de mort, c’est d’être favorable au rétablissement de la peine de mort. 🧐

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Collabblues @collabblues.bsky.social · 18h

Alors, si on remettait cela un poil en perspective, parce qu'il raconte n'importe quoi.

🇺🇸 "LA PEINE DE MORT C'EST BIEN !"
🇫🇷 "Ca a un effet préventif sur la criminalité ?"
🇺🇸 "Euh..."
🇫🇷 "C'est quoi ton taux de criminalité ?"
🇺🇸 "6,8 pour 100K"
🇫🇷 "Et le mien ?"
🇺🇸 "1,2..."

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 17h

Yup yup yup. You’re not alone.

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Elzo @elzoblu.bsky.social · 21h

Curiosidades en las fronteras españolas

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Konrad Cox @konradcox.bsky.social · 20h

Looking through rough, bark binoculars into the autumn forest.
#photography #newforest

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David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 22h

Ce livre regroupe les devinettes, énigmes, problèmes gnomoniques, et tests rapides de la section Jeux et énigmes des 18 premiers numéros du magazine Cadrans solaires pour tous.
Il peut être téléchargé gratuitement depuis bit.ly/48nwqhY
🔭

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 21h

Photos prises avec mon iPhone le soir du 1er avril dernier. Les Pléiades seront plus difficiles à voir cette nuit, avec la lune presque pleine, plus éblouissante qu’un croissant…

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 22h

Avenue de l’opéra ?

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Marcas Tardigrade-17 Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social · 1d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.

B/w photo of Sophie Scholl, a young student in Munich and one of the leaders of the White Rose, a non-violent anti-Nazi resistance group. Guillotined by the Nazis along with her brother and one of their White Rose comrades. Scholl’s boyfriend was also involved (and survived), so the tag line is strictly speaking accurate; but of course Scholl herself was absolutely central to antifa during the period of actual, straight-up Nazi tyranny. But then, ironically underscoring the down-valuing of women’s contributions to the fight against the fash is sort of the point of this meme, I think?

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Panorama & Vertorama @panophotos.bsky.social · 1d

💠 #A2Z-PanoPhotos #week360 for #360°

Thanks, Thomas, for sharing this inverted or vortex perspective in your #tinyPlanet #pano at Dysart Harbour in Fife, Scotland.

It almost looks like the boats are circling down a drain. LOL! 😊

Thomas @thaywoodphoto.bsky.social · 1d

An inverted little planet view of Dysart Harbour, once a thriving port for coal and salt.
Now peaceful and still, its circular world feels almost other-worldly.
What does it make you think of — a tiny planet, a whirlpool, or something else entirely?

✈️ Thomas Haywood
@panophotos.bsky.social

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Risa Koizumi 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @risakoizumi.bsky.social · 1d

@gregmorosoff.bsky.social

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

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Panorama & Vertorama @panophotos.bsky.social · 1d

💠 #A2Z-PanoPhotos #week360 for #360°

Thanks to Paul Bourke @pauldavidbourke.bsky.social for allowing us to share his full 360° vertical #panorama or #vertorama.

Like it? Paul has more at his website: paulbourke.net/panorama/vpa...

📸 The Red Fort (Lal Qila), a historic citadel in Delhi, India

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 1d

Mastodon has it too, to take an example more comparable to Bluesky.

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 1d

Woahhh 80× compression factor!? What’s that?? Do tell!

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 1d

Avez-vous déjà vu... un train de satellites Starlink depuis la Station Spatiale Internationale ?

Maintenant, oui.

© Don Pettit
Source : www.instagram.com/astro_pettit...

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