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Charles Erick
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Music Lover 🎶 | Chess Struggler ♟️ | Tech Whiz 🖥️ | Book Backlog | Guitar Procrastinator 🎸 | Coffee Aficionado ☕ | Science & Math Novice 🧪🧮
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Charles Erick @ewmpsi.bsky.social · Aug 31
📚 Next up: Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 by Eric Foner.
A deep dive into one of the most transformative—and contested—eras in U.S. history. 🇺🇸

#BookSky #BlackSky

#Reconstruction #EricFoner #AmericanHistory #NowReading
A paperback copy of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 by Eric Foner rests on a dark brown table. The cover shows a black-and-white historical photo of several Black men and boys sitting near ruins of buildings after the Civil War. To the right of the book is a white ceramic mug with a “Niagara Falls, Canada” design, filled with black coffee.
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NY FED: Consumers pay 90% of tariffs.

CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs.

www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Today’s CBO report says US consumers pay 95% of tariffs. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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myzerocarbon.org
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Keeping it cool
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to keep #GlobalWarming below 1.5°!

more📖 www.wwf.org.uk/our-reports/...
more📖 www.un.org/en/climatech...
PL RP🩷💚💙

graph via WWF

#climate #ClimateChange #environment #hope #cleanenergy #EndFossilFuels #ClimateActionNow #renewables
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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wiseunclebuck.bsky.social
I’m not here that often and don’t have much traction on this site, but I appreciate you being here for me. Have a good night and persevere….
January 28, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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myzerocarbon.org
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19 Climate Actions - ranked

personal #ClimateAction we can all take today!

PL RP🩷💚💙

full #video with more detail▶️https://youtu.be/Xia2dKtHHCg

report @worldresources.bsky.social
📖 wri.org/research/eff...

#ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow #ActOnClimate #climate #environment #hope #cleanenergy
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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wordwatcher.bsky.social
Hey, Donald! How are those blockades working out for you.
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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neverstopthefight.bsky.social
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Thank you @docmurphydog.bsky.social 💙💙💙
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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myzerocarbon.org
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State of Climate Action 2025

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange!

PL RP 🩷💚💙 Thank you!

full #video▶️ youtu.be/SKx21eLLUqs
report 📖 wri.org/research/sta...

#climate #environment #cleanenergy #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChangeIsReal #Klima #ClimateActionNow
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
If you fight Nazis online then you’re banned from visiting America is a wild thing to even say let alone now being official U.S. government policy.
US sanctions former EU commissioner and four Europeans over efforts to curb online hate speech
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio named British, French and German citizens involved in efforts to curb the spread of disinformation are targeted by the visa ban.
www.politico.eu
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
(🦋) BLUESKY NEWS: The South African Sociopath—everyone knows who I mean—has apparently just made a series of changes to Twitter that launched a new exodus. The per-second growth rate here at BlueSky is now *more than triple* what it was yesterday.

So welcome, Twitter refugees! This is *way* better.
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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stephen5150.bsky.social
TY @mlipsitt.bsky.social FOR INCLUDING ME

CHECK OUT THE PACK, FOLLOW AND RP
December 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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tonyhq1985.bsky.social
Thank you my friend Stuart 🙏💙🎅🍾🎁🍾🎉🎊
@authorstuartmiller.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/SL2LMLP
December 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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lownewser.bsky.social
Got this card from someone,
and it's such a different take on Christmas!
It's always nice to see how creative people
can be with their holiday wishes. 😅
December 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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optica-opn.org
Scientists have produced an isolated soft X-ray pulse with a duration of only 19.2 attoseconds.

The high-harmonic generation tabletop experiment could unlock new details about electron dynamics.

Read the OPN story: https://bit.ly/4qqzhMO

#attosecond #x-ray 💡 ⚛️
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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eso.org
Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before! 💥

Our VLT revealed that its source lies outside our galaxy. Yet its cause is still unknown 🤔 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2514/

🔭 🧪 ☄️
#extragalactic
#highenergyastro
September 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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starlights.bsky.social
🧪☄️🔭 #highenergyastro
thenrao.bsky.social National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · Dec 12
NEW: First Radio Detection of Rare Supernova Type, Revealing Secrets of Stellar Death

Brand new discovery from the Very Large Array! 💥 Astronomers have captured the first-ever radio signals from a rare class of stellar explosion known as a Type Ibn supernova.

#Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #Supernova
First Radio Detection of Rare Supernova Type, Revealing Secrets of Stellar Death
Astronomers using the NSF’s Very Large Array have detected the first-ever radio signals from a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star shed helium-rich material in its final years before...
public.nrao.edu
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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profannawatts.bsky.social
Loads of Square Kilometer Array pulsar goodness on the arXiv this morning!! #highenergyastro 🔭 For an overview of all of the papers see here:

arxiv.org/abs/2512.16152
Pulsar Science with the SKA Observatory
The large instantaneous sensitivity, a wide frequency coverage and flexible observation modes with large number of beams in the sky are the main features of the SKA observatory's two telescopes, the S...
arxiv.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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gammitin.bsky.social
Merry XMAS & Happy New Year to all you amazing retro gaming and computer fans! 🎄✨
Thanks for keeping the love of old hardware, pixel art, floppy disks, CRT glow, and childhood memories alive. Here’s to more nostalgia, discoveries, repairs, and retro fun in the new year! 😘❤️
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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optica-opn.org
📣 OPN's January issue is now live 📣

The latest issue has stories about using optics to see the deep sea, the secrets of replicated mirrors, using AI for optical system design and so much more! https://bit.ly/45oaSiD 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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jibarrondo.bsky.social
AI may upend online studies critical to social science | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
AI may upend online studies critical to social science
Sophisticated bots risk contaminating surveys, games, and other approaches designed to shed light on human behavior
www.science.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌎 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌎

Climate change reshapes plant–microbe interactions by linking temperature perception with pathogen stress. Thakur & Yang explore the underlying cellular mechanisms and strategies to engineer climate-resilient crops 🪾

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Impact of climate change on host (plants)–pathogen–environment interactions and disease development. Climate change impacts ambient environmental conditions and pathogen life cycles, which in turn affect plant health, growth, immunity and productivity. Unfavored or extreme climate conditions (extremity) can cause compromised resistance to biotic and abiotic stress, leading to an increase in disease severity and incidence. Understanding the interactions between host-microbe-environment is necessary for developing strategies to mitigate the negative impact of climate change on crop productivity and agricultural sustainability. Small cartoon images of pathogens, plant and earth were obtained from https://www.freepik.com.
December 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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jibarrondo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
Polyamines sustain epithelial regeneration in aged intestines by modulating protein homeostasis - Nature Cell Biology
Minetti, Omrani et al. report that delayed intestinal regeneration results from protein homeostasis stress and can be improved by modulation of the polyamine pathway dynamics.
www.nature.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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marckuchner.bsky.social
Gorgeous colliding spiral galaxies for your holiday pleasure! #cosmiccollisions images from JWST and Chandra. #astrophotography #space
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
An update to the huge Sol 1717 mosaic currently being transferred from Perseverance. More to come.

🔍 zoomhub.net/OVqq9

#Mars 🧪🔭

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
An ochre toned mosaic of images capturing a Martian landscape, with some elements of the Mars rover Perseverance in the foreground.
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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kraymondh.bsky.social
Reading #philtech papers from 5-10 years ago it's striking how many of the emerging technologies discussed in that literature went nowhere
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM