Mary Knapp
@mknapp.bsky.social
Radio astronomer, cycling and gardening enthusiast, fiber artist
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
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Today my 11y old kitty Maria has started treatment for Lymphoma. I would be really thankful for those of you who can help share this or even donate, all the help is deeply and truly appreciated!!
Maria Amália thanks you as well!
gofund.me/340d98c70
#fundraiser #cat
Maria Amália thanks you as well!
gofund.me/340d98c70
#fundraiser #cat
December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Today my 11y old kitty Maria has started treatment for Lymphoma. I would be really thankful for those of you who can help share this or even donate, all the help is deeply and truly appreciated!!
Maria Amália thanks you as well!
gofund.me/340d98c70
#fundraiser #cat
Maria Amália thanks you as well!
gofund.me/340d98c70
#fundraiser #cat
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On #GivingTueaday, we know there are so many worthy charities who rely on donations asking for money. It can feel hard to support everyone when we’re all spread so thin.
Sustainable monthly giving is the lifeblood of rescues & makes a huge impact for just a few $’s each month: linktr.ee/crits4cats
Sustainable monthly giving is the lifeblood of rescues & makes a huge impact for just a few $’s each month: linktr.ee/crits4cats
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
On #GivingTueaday, we know there are so many worthy charities who rely on donations asking for money. It can feel hard to support everyone when we’re all spread so thin.
Sustainable monthly giving is the lifeblood of rescues & makes a huge impact for just a few $’s each month: linktr.ee/crits4cats
Sustainable monthly giving is the lifeblood of rescues & makes a huge impact for just a few $’s each month: linktr.ee/crits4cats
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I hope that on this #GivingTuesday you might consider a donation to my fundraiser for our local shelter. They don't just adopt out animals - they run a low-cost vet and spay/neuter clinic, offer emergency pet housing for domestic violence victims, and so much more. givebutter.com/n5l31M
Molly's Holiday Fundraiser 2025
Make Winter Merry and Bright in Honor of Fergus
givebutter.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I hope that on this #GivingTuesday you might consider a donation to my fundraiser for our local shelter. They don't just adopt out animals - they run a low-cost vet and spay/neuter clinic, offer emergency pet housing for domestic violence victims, and so much more. givebutter.com/n5l31M
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I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word.
If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home!
centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt
If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home!
centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word.
If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home!
centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt
If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home!
centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt
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🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA can live with cats, no dogs. She needs a patient, loving human who can train and be her forever. She needs a calm adult only home. 3.5 years old. Around 50 pounds. Over 800 days 😢
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA can live with cats, no dogs. She needs a patient, loving human who can train and be her forever. She needs a calm adult only home. 3.5 years old. Around 50 pounds. Over 800 days 😢
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
💻[email protected]
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA can live with cats, no dogs. She needs a patient, loving human who can train and be her forever. She needs a calm adult only home. 3.5 years old. Around 50 pounds. Over 800 days 😢
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA can live with cats, no dogs. She needs a patient, loving human who can train and be her forever. She needs a calm adult only home. 3.5 years old. Around 50 pounds. Over 800 days 😢
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
I feel both seen and attacked.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I feel both seen and attacked.
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Friends, I hate to ask but I need some help please 🙏 I urgently need a new temp quarantine space.
If you have a little extra would you consider donating toward heavy-duty cages? Thank you for considering!
donorbox.org/ccn-quaranti...
(Also check out my new logo! 🤩🥳)
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If you have a little extra would you consider donating toward heavy-duty cages? Thank you for considering!
donorbox.org/ccn-quaranti...
(Also check out my new logo! 🤩🥳)
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Quarantine Cages for Cat Care Network | CAT CARE NETWORK (Powered by Donorbox)
donorbox.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Friends, I hate to ask but I need some help please 🙏 I urgently need a new temp quarantine space.
If you have a little extra would you consider donating toward heavy-duty cages? Thank you for considering!
donorbox.org/ccn-quaranti...
(Also check out my new logo! 🤩🥳)
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If you have a little extra would you consider donating toward heavy-duty cages? Thank you for considering!
donorbox.org/ccn-quaranti...
(Also check out my new logo! 🤩🥳)
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What a universe. Sometimes I feel it's good that we really don't matter to it (and also good that it matters to us).
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
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science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
What a universe. Sometimes I feel it's good that we really don't matter to it (and also good that it matters to us).
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Hi, it's me again
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hi, it's me again
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
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4/ Summers is welcome to publish papers via peer review like anyone else. He should not be a leader of the profession, given plums such as invited publications, lectures, made integral to programmatic policy statements, etc. Doing so implies that gross sexism is regarded as triviality.
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
4/ Summers is welcome to publish papers via peer review like anyone else. He should not be a leader of the profession, given plums such as invited publications, lectures, made integral to programmatic policy statements, etc. Doing so implies that gross sexism is regarded as triviality.
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The fact that Larry Summers was able to continue having a prominent career despite explicit bias toward women and Black folks (can't bring myself to imagine being a Black woman in his orbit) AND being a shitty economist to boot has enraged me for decades. Hope this finally puts him where he belongs.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The fact that Larry Summers was able to continue having a prominent career despite explicit bias toward women and Black folks (can't bring myself to imagine being a Black woman in his orbit) AND being a shitty economist to boot has enraged me for decades. Hope this finally puts him where he belongs.
Oh *fuck* this. Other 👏 economists 👏 are 👏 available!
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Oh *fuck* this. Other 👏 economists 👏 are 👏 available!
Thinking this morning about the fun “national debate” Larry Summers started in 2005 when I was a 16 year old aspiring to a STEM career…turns out he was personally, actively undermining women in STEM by sexually harassing them and chitchatting about it with his best pal Epstein…
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thinking this morning about the fun “national debate” Larry Summers started in 2005 when I was a 16 year old aspiring to a STEM career…turns out he was personally, actively undermining women in STEM by sexually harassing them and chitchatting about it with his best pal Epstein…
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
This video unexpectedly brought me to tears. We live on such a beautiful planet filled with such joyous creatures
Rare albino humpback whale 🐋
Only 1 in 40,000 whales are albino
#tuesdayvibe #tuesdaymotivations
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Only 1 in 40,000 whales are albino
#tuesdayvibe #tuesdaymotivations
📹issydphoto
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This video unexpectedly brought me to tears. We live on such a beautiful planet filled with such joyous creatures
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I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
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If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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Do you know a high school student who is interested in astrophysics? Here is a list of 10 Astrophysics Summer Programs for High School Students! See horizoninspires.com/blog/astroph... for more details.
10 Astrophysics Summer Programs for High School Student...
This blog includes 10 great astrophysics summer programs for high school students, including internships, pre-college programs, and research programs in the field.
horizoninspires.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Do you know a high school student who is interested in astrophysics? Here is a list of 10 Astrophysics Summer Programs for High School Students! See horizoninspires.com/blog/astroph... for more details.
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.
Lawsuit Alleges Inhumane Conditions at Broadview ICE Facility
Federal authorities moved two plaintiffs in the suit out of state; a judge has ordered they be returned Monday.
southsideweekly.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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