DarkSapiens
@darksapiens.bsky.social
Astrophysics, science communication, sci-fi, nerdery (he/him)
Astronomer at @cefca-oaj.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/darksapiens
Astronomer at @cefca-oaj.bsky.social
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DarkSapiens
@darksapiens.bsky.social
· Apr 19
#Spacetober2023 1. Rocket
Starting out with an Ariane 6
www.deviantart.com/darksapiens/...
#SpacetoberChallenge 🔭
Starting out with an Ariane 6
www.deviantart.com/darksapiens/...
#SpacetoberChallenge 🔭
Here's the thread of 31 drawings I did for #spacetober last year :) bsky.app/profile/dark...
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Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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The aurora is not JUST green…
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The aurora is not JUST green…
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Todo lo de Hora Punta 4 es de caerse la mandíbula al suelo:
Un director acusado de violación y abuso sexual por 6 personas hará una cuarta parte de Hora Punta porque a Trump le apetece verla y el director de Paramount es su colega. La anterior peli del director es un documental de Melania Trump.
Un director acusado de violación y abuso sexual por 6 personas hará una cuarta parte de Hora Punta porque a Trump le apetece verla y el director de Paramount es su colega. La anterior peli del director es un documental de Melania Trump.
Donald Trump quería 'Hora Punta 4' y Paramount ha decidido concederle el capricho. Pero la cosa huele peor de lo que parece https://www.espinof.com/p/250171
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Todo lo de Hora Punta 4 es de caerse la mandíbula al suelo:
Un director acusado de violación y abuso sexual por 6 personas hará una cuarta parte de Hora Punta porque a Trump le apetece verla y el director de Paramount es su colega. La anterior peli del director es un documental de Melania Trump.
Un director acusado de violación y abuso sexual por 6 personas hará una cuarta parte de Hora Punta porque a Trump le apetece verla y el director de Paramount es su colega. La anterior peli del director es un documental de Melania Trump.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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For those who enjoy ebooks on Kindle, it seems that 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' is *massively* discounted today down to $1.99 in the US and £7.99 in the UK. Which feels like a pretty good deal really.
US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...
US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
For those who enjoy ebooks on Kindle, it seems that 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' is *massively* discounted today down to $1.99 in the US and £7.99 in the UK. Which feels like a pretty good deal really.
US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...
US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...
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HiPOD: Beyond Arakeen
This observation of dunes in the northern polar region of Mars was taken to monitor seasonal changes. The dark spots are the results of sublimating ice that exposes darker material under the top layer.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076500_2545
#Mars #NASA #science
This observation of dunes in the northern polar region of Mars was taken to monitor seasonal changes. The dark spots are the results of sublimating ice that exposes darker material under the top layer.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076500_2545
#Mars #NASA #science
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
HiPOD: Beyond Arakeen
This observation of dunes in the northern polar region of Mars was taken to monitor seasonal changes. The dark spots are the results of sublimating ice that exposes darker material under the top layer.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076500_2545
#Mars #NASA #science
This observation of dunes in the northern polar region of Mars was taken to monitor seasonal changes. The dark spots are the results of sublimating ice that exposes darker material under the top layer.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076500_2545
#Mars #NASA #science
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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He can complain about politicized prosecutions all he wants, but the convictions keep being upheld on exhaustive appeals. He talked about racaille in the banlieue, but his presidency was basically an organized racketeering scheme.
France's top court upholds Sarkozy's conviction for illegal campaign financing in 2012
France’s top court has upheld ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing of his reelection bid in 2012.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
He can complain about politicized prosecutions all he wants, but the convictions keep being upheld on exhaustive appeals. He talked about racaille in the banlieue, but his presidency was basically an organized racketeering scheme.
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I can, unfortunately, confirm.
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I can, unfortunately, confirm.
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A reminder that this gif and a similar one for the transit method are on Wikimedia Commons for anyone to use.
I'm actually putting together a teaching dossier at the moment and I'd love to hear from people if you've used any of my gifs for teaching, outreach, or science stuff!
Links to gifs below:
I'm actually putting together a teaching dossier at the moment and I'd love to hear from people if you've used any of my gifs for teaching, outreach, or science stuff!
Links to gifs below:
Omgomg my gif demonstrating using the doppler/radial velocity method for detecting exoplanets was used in the latest PBS Space Time!!!!! 🤩
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A reminder that this gif and a similar one for the transit method are on Wikimedia Commons for anyone to use.
I'm actually putting together a teaching dossier at the moment and I'd love to hear from people if you've used any of my gifs for teaching, outreach, or science stuff!
Links to gifs below:
I'm actually putting together a teaching dossier at the moment and I'd love to hear from people if you've used any of my gifs for teaching, outreach, or science stuff!
Links to gifs below:
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Immunocompromised people have long known tattoos f w/yr immune system. Now science is catching up:
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Immunocompromised people have long known tattoos f w/yr immune system. Now science is catching up:
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Creo que los tíos hetero están tan acostumbrados a ser los protagonistas que cuando echan en falta alguna narrativa se la exigen al mundo como su tuviera una deuda con ellos en lugar de hacer como las disidencias que escribimos 100k de fanfic.
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Creo que los tíos hetero están tan acostumbrados a ser los protagonistas que cuando echan en falta alguna narrativa se la exigen al mundo como su tuviera una deuda con ellos en lugar de hacer como las disidencias que escribimos 100k de fanfic.
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Among the interesting things: Harris voters seem to be more mutually compatible than Trump voters: Females and males have the same #1 and #2, swapped 3&4, the same #5 and #7, 6&8 swapped, etc. Male and female Trump voter priorities aren't nearly as well correlated--no wonder they can't find love.
Trump voting men rank having children as their highest priority in life, and rank having emotional stability dead last. Those poor children.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Among the interesting things: Harris voters seem to be more mutually compatible than Trump voters: Females and males have the same #1 and #2, swapped 3&4, the same #5 and #7, 6&8 swapped, etc. Male and female Trump voter priorities aren't nearly as well correlated--no wonder they can't find love.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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El incendio del Pamplonetario fue chungo. Pero habiendo voluntad política de arreglarlo tendría remedio. Lo malo es que no la hay. Mientras que sí la ha habido para cargarse el proyecto. Porque el que no quede nadie del equipo original no ha sido un lógico un relevo generacional ni nada parecido :S
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
El incendio del Pamplonetario fue chungo. Pero habiendo voluntad política de arreglarlo tendría remedio. Lo malo es que no la hay. Mientras que sí la ha habido para cargarse el proyecto. Porque el que no quede nadie del equipo original no ha sido un lógico un relevo generacional ni nada parecido :S
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De lo que si deberíamos hablar es de esos alcaldes que no les llega para alquiler social, para guarderías, para limpiar las calles...
Y en Noviembre sacan la chequera y petan de luces la ciudad y compiten en el árbol más grande del país.
Que el problema no son las luces.
Y en Noviembre sacan la chequera y petan de luces la ciudad y compiten en el árbol más grande del país.
Que el problema no son las luces.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
De lo que si deberíamos hablar es de esos alcaldes que no les llega para alquiler social, para guarderías, para limpiar las calles...
Y en Noviembre sacan la chequera y petan de luces la ciudad y compiten en el árbol más grande del país.
Que el problema no son las luces.
Y en Noviembre sacan la chequera y petan de luces la ciudad y compiten en el árbol más grande del país.
Que el problema no son las luces.
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Hello, computer.
Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales!) was released 39 years ago today.
One of the most popular Trek films, the Whale Movie is indeed one of my fav. Fresh, funny, with a fine environmental message, it completes an overall successful trilogy.
Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales!) was released 39 years ago today.
One of the most popular Trek films, the Whale Movie is indeed one of my fav. Fresh, funny, with a fine environmental message, it completes an overall successful trilogy.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hello, computer.
Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales!) was released 39 years ago today.
One of the most popular Trek films, the Whale Movie is indeed one of my fav. Fresh, funny, with a fine environmental message, it completes an overall successful trilogy.
Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales!) was released 39 years ago today.
One of the most popular Trek films, the Whale Movie is indeed one of my fav. Fresh, funny, with a fine environmental message, it completes an overall successful trilogy.
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Four dead after fire engulfs residential high-rise buildings in Hong Kong reut.rs/4pBu4Bp
Four dead after fire engulfs residential high-rise buildings in Hong Kong
At least four people have died and others remain trapped after a massive fire engulfed multiple high-rise towers of a residential complex in Hong Kong's northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, the government and Fire Services Department said.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Four dead after fire engulfs residential high-rise buildings in Hong Kong reut.rs/4pBu4Bp
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The fire is still going. With people and their pets trapped. Harrowing scenes.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The fire is still going. With people and their pets trapped. Harrowing scenes.
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Starfighter (2027)
New picture of director Shawn Levy on set. A spaceship set? Not a starfighter, for sure :)
New picture of director Shawn Levy on set. A spaceship set? Not a starfighter, for sure :)
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Starfighter (2027)
New picture of director Shawn Levy on set. A spaceship set? Not a starfighter, for sure :)
New picture of director Shawn Levy on set. A spaceship set? Not a starfighter, for sure :)
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Ecologistas piden no simplificar normativa de agua en la UE pese a presión industrial.
Organizaciones ecologistas piden que dejen la legislación sobre agua fuera de ese ejercicio de síntesis, pese a las presiones de las industrias mineras, agrícolas o químicas.
efeverde.com/ecologistas-...
Organizaciones ecologistas piden que dejen la legislación sobre agua fuera de ese ejercicio de síntesis, pese a las presiones de las industrias mineras, agrícolas o químicas.
efeverde.com/ecologistas-...
Ecologistas piden no simplificar normativa de agua en la UE pese a presión industrial - EFEverde
La Comisión Europea presentará en diciembre una propuesta para simplificar las normas medioambientales de la Unión Europea y las organizaciones ecologistas piden al Ejecutivo que deje la legislación s...
efeverde.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Ecologistas piden no simplificar normativa de agua en la UE pese a presión industrial.
Organizaciones ecologistas piden que dejen la legislación sobre agua fuera de ese ejercicio de síntesis, pese a las presiones de las industrias mineras, agrícolas o químicas.
efeverde.com/ecologistas-...
Organizaciones ecologistas piden que dejen la legislación sobre agua fuera de ese ejercicio de síntesis, pese a las presiones de las industrias mineras, agrícolas o químicas.
efeverde.com/ecologistas-...
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Don't ever think your writing is not good because it's fanfiction. Retellings are a very VERY old thing.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Don't ever think your writing is not good because it's fanfiction. Retellings are a very VERY old thing.
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This is so important. Fanfiction is a contemporary version of oral tradition and the only reason it's free is because of the IPs and that's the only way to keep it as is is. Fanfiction is folklore.
i still can not believe fanfiction is FREE
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This is so important. Fanfiction is a contemporary version of oral tradition and the only reason it's free is because of the IPs and that's the only way to keep it as is is. Fanfiction is folklore.
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Pero la desinformación no existe (leer todo el hilo).
El otro día nos llegó una nota de prensa en la que se afirmaba que se había producido un terrible escándalo en el pueblecito navarro de Arbizuelo del Monte tras la celebración de un taller en el que se animaba a los niños a hacerse homosexuales para combatir el cambio climático. (Esto es literal).
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Pero la desinformación no existe (leer todo el hilo).
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Aquí tenéis otra perspectiva de los efectos de la erupción del Hayli Gubbi del pasado día 23. Se puede ver la enorme extensión cubierta por la caída de las cenizas alrededor del volcán gracias a las imágenes del satélite Landsat 8 de la NASA/USGS.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Aquí tenéis otra perspectiva de los efectos de la erupción del Hayli Gubbi del pasado día 23. Se puede ver la enorme extensión cubierta por la caída de las cenizas alrededor del volcán gracias a las imágenes del satélite Landsat 8 de la NASA/USGS.