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Captain Stockton Crunch @cpnstocktoncrunch.bsky.social · Sep 12

For my contribution to the #BlueSkyArtShow, here’s a picture of me holding a barred owl several years ago. #owls #owlsofbluesky #birds #cute #animals #barredowl

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · Sep 12

These maps are utterly amazing, the author wrote up detailed descriptions and design choices in the GitHub repos - really detailed and brilliant work! #astrosci

Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · Sep 12

This is also amazing and she open sourced the method

The Geology of the Moon

A map of basins, lava flows, valleys, and impact craters on the Earth's Moon.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Sep 12

ARP! ARP! ARP! ☄️🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2509.09011

Interacting galaxies from the Arp-Madore catalog, viewed with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Drewck @enginometry.bsky.social · Sep 12

it is a big energy resource; shown to be bigger than oil gas and nuclear notwithstanding cleaner environment goals and it is also found in deposits not a flux like incident solar

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Sep 11

$200 billion worth of data center projects are being built in the South, according to a new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social.

To keep up with the massive amounts of energy these centers consume, projects like gas pipelines and coal plants are also growing.

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Alberta Wilderness Association @albertawilderness.bsky.social · Sep 11

A former Alberta government biologist has a warning: Coal companies are polluting rivers and watersheds, and government isn’t stopping them.

Read Lorne Fitch's opinion article here:
albertawilderness.ca/lorne-fitch-...
#mountainsnotmines #coal
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Lorne Fitch: As Mining Companies Write Their Own Rules, People Pay the Price - Alberta Wilderness Association

Canada is letting coal firms off the hook for polluting B.C. and Alberta watersheds. By...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Sep 12

Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster.

Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

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Drewck @enginometry.bsky.social · Sep 2

the combination mmr and bcg took care of a good fraction later

Drewck @enginometry.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ted Theodore Logan once said "most excellent" 🎸

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Drewck @enginometry.bsky.social · Sep 2

water lillies without the water ph

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · Sep 2

#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy.
- don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources
- naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping
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Drewck @enginometry.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ronald Reagan

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T.a.dunmire Photography @t-a-dunmire.bsky.social · Sep 2

Barred Owl

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #outerbanks #nc #nature #animals #outdoors #animalkingdom #animalsofinstagram #photo #photography #owl #bird

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Pepe Chambó @pepechambo.cometografia.es · Sep 1

☄️ Comets in September 🔭
Comet 2025A6 Lemmon with binoculars, and visible to the naked eye in October? 👀
Is 2025K1 ATLAS disintegrating on its way to the Sun? 🌞
Will the interstellar 3I ATLAS attack us with turbolasers? ⚡️
All the answers (and much more) here 👇
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Cometas visibles en Septiembre de 2025 - Cometografía

Tras un aumento repentino de brillo, el cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) podría alcanzar este mes la magnitud 7, siendo observable con prismáticos y con la expectativa de que llegue a ser observable a simple...

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · Sep 2

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : It’s an itty bitty teeny weeny ultra faint dwarf galaxy-ni! Today’s bite talks about the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system! 🔭✨☄️
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Do You Have This Andromeda Galaxy in Extra-Extra-Extra Small?

It's an itty bitty teeny weeny ultra faint dwarf galaxy-ni! Today's bite talks about the discovery of the faintest galaxy in the Andromeda system!

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · Sep 2

Beyond just utility bills, groups say the LG&E proposal worsens climate change and pollution, as it scraps a proposed battery plants and keeps an extra coal plant open in Louisville that was set to retire, in addition to the new gas plants.

Kentucky AG, LG&E agree to keep coal plant operating for future data centers

The electric utilities’ proposal would spend billions of dollars on new power plants to supply future data centers, but is now amended to extend the life of another coal plant.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · Sep 2

LNG is worse than coal when it comes to warming impacts due to high methane emissions.

If Japan isn't starting to realize the error of their ways, they will.

However, the powers that be in Japan are working to mislead the world about this basic science so they can make a few more $$$.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · Sep 2

ICYMI: LG&E wants to spend $3B on 2 new gas plants & extend the life of two new coal plants, largely due to future data center demand. Other states have higher energy bills now because of data centers, but LG&E says it has a mechanism to protect KY ratepayers... which some are very skeptical of.

LG&E says $3B expansion will protect Kentucky ratepayers from data center costs, others are doubtful

Kentucky’s largest utility company is proposing a mechanism to make new data centers pay their fair share, but first wants approval to build $3 billion of new gas plants.

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · Sep 2

“A single unsealed coal borehole in country Queensland is releasing the greenhouse gas equivalent of 10,000 cars each driving 12,000 kilometres a year – and it’s just one of 130,000 across the state.”

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The small patch of paddock emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of methane

A single hole in country Queensland has a climate impact equivalent to 10,000 cars – and it’s just one of 130,000 unsealed boreholes across the state of concern for researchers.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Sep 1

Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened.

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Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead

The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · Aug 25

yay?

‘building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), the strategic cooperation between LONGi and Center Int achieved a breakthrough for curved coal-storage sheds. Using a contour-following mounting scheme and an arched cleaning robot’

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · Aug 25

My mother scavenged coal from the railway tracks and one year had to burn furniture and the lino for warmth. Her mother lived on bread, margarine and sweet tea to feed the kids. Poverty has always been with us. The difference is that a lot of boomers don’t want their kids to have it better than them

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Drewck @enginometry.bsky.social · Aug 25

LSB or last stage blades on steam turbines each can span dozens of inches often wondered if a wind turbine blade could be the actual LSB if any research could be done on that

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · Aug 22

New from Peter Blanchard! A possible NIR-counterpart (observed with JWST, “NIR-1”) to an extremely close and bright fast radio burst (FRB). The origins of FRBs are uncertain, and until now*, haven’t been observed in any non-radio wavelength! very very cool !! 🧪🔭☄️

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A James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) infrared image of the galaxy NGC 4141 containing the fast radio burst FRB 20250316A. This FRB was discovered March 16, 2025 using the CHIME Outrigger array. The inset shows a tiny area of the galaxy containing the FRB’s precise location, revealing the faint infrared source, NIR-1. This may be the binary companion of a neutron star that produced the FRB or fading light from an energetic outburst that produced the FRB. If NIR-1 is unrelated to the FRB, the young massive stars surrounding the FRB location also point to a neutron star origin.

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Jerry Cannon's Wild Life @jerrycannon27.bsky.social · Aug 24

Barred Owl at John Chesnut Park #birds #owls #wildlife #nature

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