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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 16h

See you there!

Captains Quadrant @captainsquadrant.bsky.social · 17h

We are back and with special guest @trektivism.bsky.social ‘s Matthew! Going to be a blast talking #startrek #discovery since our show started after the series it’s nice to go back! We will be live tonight at 9pm est!

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Star Trek Discovery: The Sanctuary

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Or at least responsible!!!!!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Melinda M. Snodgrass @melindas.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Kristie Noem has arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa. Was she in Canada? (Little shout out to Avenue Q but I digress).

Since it was a movement founded in 1920 to combat fascism I rather doubt this claim unless Kristie was using a Ouija Board.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 5d

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 8d

Before my feed becomes all Taylor/SHOWGIRL:

World Space Week starts Saturday & we're celebrating all next week! Join us on Tuesday Oct 7 at noon ET for a live Zoom call on Women in Space: Claiming Power & Creating Equity 💫

Link in next comment - submit your questions by Monday evening!

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 13d

I'm grateful so many world leaders chose to walk out of President Vasil Ghurkos' speech at the United Nations.

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 14d

Had tickets to see #StarWars in concert tonight in Vancouver by the #VSO - ultimately a series of films about fighting oppression. Unions are a great way to do that. So May the Force be with them!

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 17d

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra musicians issue 72-hour strike notice

For the first time in over a century, the musicians of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra have issued a 72-hour strike notice.

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 16d

Assassination is political violence
So too is...
Police violence
Poverty
Ecological destruction
Censorship
Demonization of sexual and gender minorities
State sponsored religion
Anti-intellectualism
Gutting health care
Genocide
This is all political violence

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 21d

See you at ThunderCon this weekend! So excited to be doing another @trektivism.bsky.social panel on Saturday. Also doing a #SciComm panel Sunday about Comet 3I/Atlas and the frenzy of both science and pseudo science surrounding its passage through our solar system.
#space #TREKtivism

TREKtivism.org @trektivism.bsky.social · 21d

Wow, that is a photo of a younger me when ThunderCon was new! Congrats to ThunderCon on 10yrs! We will be back again this year with another #TREKtivism panel. Catch the panel this Saturday at 12:30 in the Paradox Pavilion. I will be joined by @ontarioklingon.bsky.social
- @matthewcimone.bsky.social

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 23d

this is true and i wish there was a good alternative model for digital video that wasn't owned by google

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25d

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 24d

I'm making plasma - thousands of degrees - in a microwave at @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social. This one of the demos I did for our Cosmic Nights event this past Friday. Going to post a longer explanation but was excited to share a bit of it first!
(Don't try this at home) #space #scicomm

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 24d

lol it was an unfortunate ordering of the images to show the storage room before the actual room - but I felt it a fitting image to describe the general housing situation out here nevertheless

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 24d

#Vancouver

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 25d

New episode up now. The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, with guest David Quantick in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @quantick.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...

248. Th Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm — Backlisted

Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick ( Veep ,  The Thick of It ) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller  The Eye of the Beholder  (1980). David last app...

www.backlisted.fm

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 26d

I guess this is why there is a new #Tron movie coming out!

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 28d

Remember, it's never aliens until its actually aliens. We need to get those samples back. But we may not be able to. Imagine losing the discovery of life on Mars - when we're potentially this close - due to budget cuts.

Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 28d

"U.S. President Donald Trump's current budget proposal would cancel NASA's existing Mars Sample Return mission...NASA is examining various ways for potential sample retrieval or even sending equipment to #Mars to do further analysis there."
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.reuters.com/science/nasa...

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Sep 8

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#StarTrekDay

TREKtivism.org @trektivism.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy Star Trek Day! If we're going to get to that Star Trek future, we need to believe that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the 0.1%
#StarTrekDay

On Star Trek day remember: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the 0.1%

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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm at Ottawa Comiccon this weekend Friday through Sunday, EY Center. Come by, say hi, and support the philosophy of pawraxis. #ottawacomiccon #comiccon

An ad for Nathan Nun Art at Comicon. It features one of his art prints of cats in 1930s style propaganda poster.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Sep 6

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · Sep 5

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Sep 6

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..."

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Roughly two months before New York City’s mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani has raised enough money to hit the $8 million fund-raising cap.”

Donors Push Mamdani to Maximum Fund-Raising Cap in Mayor’s Race

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign says it has hit the $8 million spending cap, a sign of the Democrat’s support especially among small-dollar donors in New York City.

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 4

My book is absolutely great. My book is absolutely great. This is my mantra as I read it for the nth time while doing copyedit corrections.

Please you guys preorder this book because I have suffered to deliver it to you lolsob (actually it really is great I’m just tired, please preorder)

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · Sep 4

Also a big shoutout to @gmskeptic.bsky.social who was foundational in helping me make those final steps out.
#space #astronomy #wonder #exvangelical #pluralism 5/5

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