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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 1d

“I will not bring sheep 🐑 to class” — el Barto

Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 1d

Silver coat 🧥 Ethyl

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 1d

“I will not burry the new kid” — Bart Simpson

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Nintendo of America [UNOFFICIAL] @nintendousa.bsky.social · 1d

Redeem your #MyNintendo Platinum Points to collect custom icons from the Splatoon series, available until Nov 13 at 5pm PT on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Icon elements will be refreshed each week. #NintendoSwitchOnline

Learn more: ninten.do/6012s6D9n

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 2d

“ #JaneGoodall: Ambassador of Hope” — Time
On October 1, 2025 we said goodbye to Dr. Jane Goodall:
primatologist, zoologist, conservationist, winner of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Age: 91

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Milestones: Remembering Jane Goodall and Sanae Takaichi breaking Japan’s glass ceiling — TIME

THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE IN HUMAN history whose last names alone are sufficient to conjure up a sense of kindness, goodness, wisdom, grace—Mandela, Gandhi, King, Lincoln. Add to that list Goodall. The oth...

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 2d

“…I’m about to leave the world with all the mess, whereas young people have to grow up into it. If they succumb to the doom and gloom, that’s the end. If you don’t hope you sink into apathy, hope is a crucial way to get through this…” — Dr. Jane Goodall in an interview with Time 2021

Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 2d

“How is #climatechange impacting #fallfoliage?” — Time
#ClimateCrisis
South of #Chicago the leaves used to turn to a mosaic of red, gold, orange, & brown. Nowadays it seems much more green with an airbrushed yellow & red. The process is more slow & uneven
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How is climate change impacting fall foliage? — TIME

IT’S OFFICIALLY FALL IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, but depending on where you are, it might not look like it....

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 2d

“ #Nobels remind us of the importance of funding basic science” — @cenmag.bsky.social
#Science #ScientificResearch #PureResearch #ScienceFunding #NobelPrize 🧪

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Nobels remind us of the importance of funding basic science

Prize winners in science and economics underscore the delicate art of research funding

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 2d

“One Unexpected #Climate Benefit of Trump’s #Tariffs” — Time

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One Unexpected Climate Benefit of Trump’s Tariffs — TIME

As tariffs raise prices, companies and consumers have embraced waste reduction and reuse to cut costs.

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 2d

“This rare green #comet won’t return for a thousand years. Here’s how to see it this week.” — National Geographic

#Astronomy #StarGaze

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This rare green comet won’t return for a thousand years. Here’s how to see it this week. — National Geographic

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that won’t return until the next millennium.

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 3d

R they berets in that game? That would certainly encompass France 🇫🇷

Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 4d

If it’s a Xenoblade system why is nobody feeling full of beans
Or really feeling it
Or even wanting to teach them a thing or three?

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 4d

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 6d

“He can talk”

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 6d

“ #CoralDie-Off Marks Earth’s First Climate ‘ #TippingPoint’, Scientists Say” — @sciam.bsky.social
#ClimateCrisis
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Coral Die-Off Marks Earth’s First Climate ‘Tipping Point’, Scientists Say — Scientific American

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread coral reef bleaching and death around the world Vast expanses of coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died as a result of extremely high wa...

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 8d

“ #PeriodicGraphics: #Porphyria and the #vampirism myth” — @cenmag.bsky.social

#Chemistry #Biochemistry #SpookySeason #Vampire

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Periodic Graphics: Porphyria and the vampirism myth

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning pokes holes in the idea that the heme-related disorders inspired the concept of vampires.

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 8d

“TIME CO2 Leadership Report” — Time

#ClimateCrisis

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TIME CO2 Leadership Report — TIME

LOOK THROUGH THE NEW FIVE-year outlook from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and you won’t see the U.N. atmospheric-science body use the words emergency or disaster. And yet it would be ha...

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 8d

“Why are ‘100-year storms’ happening so often?” — Time

#ClimateCrisis #SevereWeather #Flood #Fire #Hurricane

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Why are ‘100-year storms’ happening so often? — TIME

CLIMATE CHANGE IS LEADING NOT ONLY TO DROUGHTS, wildfires, and extreme weather. It’s also leading to oxymorons—at least when it comes to what are known as 100-year storms, floods, and other events....

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Brandon Stieve @brandonstieve.bsky.social · 8d

“Can we SAVE the ORBITING TREASURES of the #SPACERACE?” — National Geographic

#Space #History #Archeology

Well if they are small enough & in Earth orbit, I don’t see why we can’t grab them & put them on a returning vessel, if they are in solar orbit, forget about it

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