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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 18h

Not to diminish the great Sagan, but see also: Mitchell, 1969.

"We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden"

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 1d

"Who the heck are you?"

"Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet" episode 1 (1966). #DoctorWho

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

In the late 1980s, there was an anti-authoritarian protest movement in Poland called The Orange Alternative where people would wear "dwarf hats," and it made arresting them look ridiculous

Orange Alternative protest in Poland with people wearing dwarf hats

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms. It's basic pendulum physics, per new study. Workers with ropes could make the moai "walk" in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms

Workers with ropes could make the moai “walk” in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose.

arstechnica.com

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 21h

Edward Watts on his new book The Romans: A 2,000-Year History | from @thedissenteryt.bsky.social

#history

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#1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year History

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 22h

James Tabor on the historical Mary, mother of Jesus | From @closertotruth.bsky.social Chats

#religion #history

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James Tabor on The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus | Closer To Truth Chats

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 22h

Thought this piece might be full of nonsense, turns out it's not bad at all.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 23h

I'd not want anyone changing names and am not a fan of marriage anyway, but yeah, for those men who are into marriage and want him & her to have the same surname, if he'd not take hers rather than her take his, that's straight-up sexism.

Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 3d

Asking a dude if he would ever take his partner’s last name eliminates a large portion of red flags at the outset of dating tbh

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Mary Reber @maryreber.bsky.social · 1d

#twinpeaks @markfrost.bsky.social

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

I'd imagine there's aspects to the job some see as perks. E.g. famous people like to hobnob with royals so you might get to meet them. Traditionally royals were attended by less senior members of the nobility, which is even weirder

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Lady-in-waiting - Wikipedia

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antmeals @antmeals.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9
#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
#Musicsky

Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

PRESS: "What do you think about Emperor Caligula naming his horse as a Senator?"

SPEAKER JOHNSON: "I didn't see that. i don't have time to follow every news story or social media post."

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

The Verve - Sonnet

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The Verve - Sonnet

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Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social · 2d

"Music is healing. Music holds things together." - Prince

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

The Cure - Give Me It (1984 02 22 Richard Skinner Radio Session)

Old upload | Hardest fastest version of the hardest fastest Cure song

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The Cure - Give Me It (1984 02 22 Richard Skinner Radio Session) | CA0062

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's not nice, or becoming, but sometimes I get bored of pretending people with bigoted views are anything other than stupid.

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

It takes a fair level of stupidity to have racist views, so in educated people it would almost be impressive if it wasn't so common.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

Matthew Goodwin continues to harden and radicalise his own views, year on year.

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

The Cure - Shiver & Shake (1996 08 05 San Jose)

New upload | A few altered lyrics on Shiver & Shake from San Jose 4th August 1996.

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The Cure - Shiver & Shake (1996 08 05 San Jose) | CA 0564

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

The Liminality of Over the Garden Wall

Jess Of The Shire explores this modern fairy tale. Watched the series to watch this. Was enjoyable.

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The Twisted Fairytale of Over the Garden Wall

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 3d

A recent proof has revealed a deep connection between origami and particle collisions.

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 3d

How David Hume split literature from philosophy

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#philsky

How David Hume split literature from philosophy | Aeon Essays

Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

"We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and start a civil war here by breaking the law"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

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Germfree Adolescence

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 2d

Power from a Black Hole, My Meteorite, Oort Cloud Attachment | Q&A 360 from @universetoday.com

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Power from a Black Hole, My Meteorite, Oort Cloud Attachment | Q&A 360

YouTube video by Fraser Cain

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