Dr Alfredo Carpineti
@drcarpineti.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | He/him | opinions are my own
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For the last seven months, Chris and I have worked on creating a limited series to tackle the topic of dark skies and light pollution, and why you should care about it.
We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps
www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...
We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps
www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...
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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.
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As harrowing as this, it felt like a relief to read it. The commentariat's refusal to grapple with what climate change will do to us, if we don't phase out fossil fuels, has been driving me insane.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As harrowing as this, it felt like a relief to read it. The commentariat's refusal to grapple with what climate change will do to us, if we don't phase out fossil fuels, has been driving me insane.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
This should help break the collective amnesia.
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
Quick and a tad out of focus Orion Nebula tonight, but I was rushed by some earthly clouds
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Quick and a tad out of focus Orion Nebula tonight, but I was rushed by some earthly clouds
VIVA FOREVER
I’LL BE WAITING
EVERLASTING
LIKE THE SON
I’LL BE WAITING
EVERLASTING
LIKE THE SON
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
VIVA FOREVER
I’LL BE WAITING
EVERLASTING
LIKE THE SON
I’LL BE WAITING
EVERLASTING
LIKE THE SON
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Part of me wonders why Musk would allow something like this that reveals the scale of bots and sock-puppeting on X, but then I remembered there is literally nothing that could ever actually stop people volunteering their time, effort and money to help him out and prop up X's ad revenue and influence
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Part of me wonders why Musk would allow something like this that reveals the scale of bots and sock-puppeting on X, but then I remembered there is literally nothing that could ever actually stop people volunteering their time, effort and money to help him out and prop up X's ad revenue and influence
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Whoa it's almost like this entire cultural movement is based on fake bullshit at every level and our leaders should stop letting fucking social media dictate policy
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Whoa it's almost like this entire cultural movement is based on fake bullshit at every level and our leaders should stop letting fucking social media dictate policy
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Ireland spookytime, anyone? @drcarpineti.bsky.social faces the ghosts and goblins of Black Isle in First Time Tomb Raider 5 😈
youtu.be/Q3iCR2hT9yA
youtu.be/Q3iCR2hT9yA
Husband Plays Tomb Raider 5 - Gallows Tree
YouTube video by Raidercast
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Ireland spookytime, anyone? @drcarpineti.bsky.social faces the ghosts and goblins of Black Isle in First Time Tomb Raider 5 😈
youtu.be/Q3iCR2hT9yA
youtu.be/Q3iCR2hT9yA
Just saw Dylan Hollis, a guy that makes old recipes on TikTok, make one from 1990
a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on
Alt: Matt Damon in saving private Ryan aging into an old man
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Just saw Dylan Hollis, a guy that makes old recipes on TikTok, make one from 1990
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Our recent low-significance candidate #S251112cm has caught some interest. A false alarm or a big discovery—we will keep investigating. Catch up in these two articles
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
www.science.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our recent low-significance candidate #S251112cm has caught some interest. A false alarm or a big discovery—we will keep investigating. Catch up in these two articles
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
Having a local corgi meet up for the birthday boy - made birthday corgi shortbread for us and peanut butter banana, oats for them
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Having a local corgi meet up for the birthday boy - made birthday corgi shortbread for us and peanut butter banana, oats for them
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The most Discworld-ass email I've ever seen
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The most Discworld-ass email I've ever seen
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forgive me father for i have synth
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
forgive me father for i have synth
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As @doctorvive.bsky.social has pointed out a quadrillion times, it such a moment of significant and extreme alarm that fossi lfuel industry talking points are being shamelessly and bluntly repeated by people like this
Very, very, very grim
Very, very, very grim
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
As @doctorvive.bsky.social has pointed out a quadrillion times, it such a moment of significant and extreme alarm that fossi lfuel industry talking points are being shamelessly and bluntly repeated by people like this
Very, very, very grim
Very, very, very grim
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everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
It’s always fun checking on Your Party
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It’s always fun checking on Your Party
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Shorter story, per fawning Telegraph article depicting them as victims: they start off by demonising trans people, then they move on to be pro-Trump, attack migrants, pro-genocide of Palestinians, ‘Nigel Farage is “too soft” on multiculturalism’, and so on.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Shorter story, per fawning Telegraph article depicting them as victims: they start off by demonising trans people, then they move on to be pro-Trump, attack migrants, pro-genocide of Palestinians, ‘Nigel Farage is “too soft” on multiculturalism’, and so on.
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Time to look into your settings, folks.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Time to look into your settings, folks.
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No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
It's Fascinating Communication Friday! #FCF
Human Penises Are Getting Bigger At A Fast Rate, But That Might Not Be A Good Thing
www.iflscience.com/human-penise...
www.iflscience.com/human-penise...
Human Penises Are Getting Bigger At A Fast Rate, But That Might Not Be A Good Thing
Over the last 29 years, the average size has increased significantly.
www.iflscience.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It's Fascinating Communication Friday! #FCF
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Labour will not chase our votes as they were happier to lose than have a left wing Labour in power in 2019, except the Labour right have alienated far more actual voters this time
just like they're doing to get the reform votes, if Labour see enough shift towards another party getting votes, they'll chase them
'others' never really get anywhere, they just pull the 2/3 main ones in their direction if they poll well enough
I'm not happy about that but seems to be how it works
'others' never really get anywhere, they just pull the 2/3 main ones in their direction if they poll well enough
I'm not happy about that but seems to be how it works
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Labour will not chase our votes as they were happier to lose than have a left wing Labour in power in 2019, except the Labour right have alienated far more actual voters this time
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I am a cis woman.
My hair is short.
I don't wear skirts or heels.
My son is more likely to wear makeup and jewellery than I am.
Looking forward to being denied services due to my "appearance" because of the transphobia of a few vocal hate-filled bigots who dare to call themselves feminists!
My hair is short.
I don't wear skirts or heels.
My son is more likely to wear makeup and jewellery than I am.
Looking forward to being denied services due to my "appearance" because of the transphobia of a few vocal hate-filled bigots who dare to call themselves feminists!
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I am a cis woman.
My hair is short.
I don't wear skirts or heels.
My son is more likely to wear makeup and jewellery than I am.
Looking forward to being denied services due to my "appearance" because of the transphobia of a few vocal hate-filled bigots who dare to call themselves feminists!
My hair is short.
I don't wear skirts or heels.
My son is more likely to wear makeup and jewellery than I am.
Looking forward to being denied services due to my "appearance" because of the transphobia of a few vocal hate-filled bigots who dare to call themselves feminists!
It’s little Llywelyn 4th birthday today 🎂🥳
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It’s little Llywelyn 4th birthday today 🎂🥳
Very early start here, but I managed to get interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before dawn! 🔭
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Very early start here, but I managed to get interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before dawn! 🔭
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.