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Rua Lupa 🐾 @rua-lupa.bsky.social · Dec 21

"Darksky Communities" have successfully reclaimed a view of the Stars, and you can too with these simple approaches.

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Source: Summit County Utah Sheriff’s Office, Dark Sky Ordinance
www.summitcountysheriff.org/FAQ.aspx?QID...

"What are some examples of dark sky compliant lighting fixtures and tactics?
1. Be a good neighbor! Use lighting that is fully shielded, down-directed and only where needed."

Image depicts a night landscape with 4 lamps, each with different light fixtures and seeing more stars as you move toward the right.

From left to right is:
• A globe light labeled × Non-Compliant,
• A light with a small cap labeled × Non-Compliant,
• A light with a wide brim cap labeled × Non-Compliant, and
• A light fully under an opaque cover - shining only downward - labeled with a checkmark and Compliant.

The top of the image has text that reads,
"Use fully shielded, downward directed light"

"2. - Angle lighting so that it doesn’t spill into neighboring yards.
- Set timers for outdoor lights and only use outdoor light when needed.
- For landscape lighting, choose fixtures that are low voltage LED or solar powered, downward directed and mounted no more than 18 inches above the ground level."

Image depicts a night scene of a house with different outdoor lighting and a house on either side.

On the left side is an uncovered light that is shining directly onto the house neighboring on the left side, and no stars are visible.
This side of the house is labeled × Non-Compliant

On the right side is a light shining only downward. It does not impact the neighbor on the right, and the stars are visible.
This side of the house is labeled with a checkmark and Compliant

The text at the top of the image reads, "Avoid light overflow that falls beyond your property and onto a neighbor's property or home."

"3. This graphic shows what “Light Bulbs that are 3,000 Degrees Kelvin or Less” means. To learn more about color temperature, measured in degrees Kelvin (K), visit this webpage." [Webpage Link: https://lightingdesignstudio.co.uk/colour-temperature/ ]

Image depicts a blue background with 5 sun icons, the base of the image is a grey bar background.

The 3 sun icons on the left are pale in color and are upon a pale blue boxed background, labeled from left to right 6000K Daylight, 4000K Cool White, 3500K White. Beneath these three sun icons on the grey bar at the base reads, "× Non-Compliant"

On the right of the image are two sun icons of a orange-red coloration. From left to right they are labeled, 3000K Warm White, and 2700K Extra Warm White. Beneath these sun icons on the grey bar at the base reads, "✔️ Compliant"

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 5h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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dfm @cthonicyouth.bsky.social · 18h

Day 10; #sweep the porch #pokétober #poketober2025 #inktober #inktober2025 #psyduck🐥 #pidgeot #butterfree #pokemon

Psyduck sweeping a porch. There are nice flower beds and a pideoto sits nearby and a butterfree flutters near the blooms

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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 1d

Sabine is SO MAD. How DARE I mistake her for her sister and pick her up and kiss her own personal little head?!

The audacity! The HORROR. She was only acting like Meg and headbutting me because she is a bit relieved to be back in foster.

A very grumpy little black cat with a white splash under her chin. She's sulking in a grey fluffy bed after I cleaned her eyes and kissed her head.

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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 15h

Orange is the new spooky black. Boo! 👻

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Color photograph. Long haired gray, black and brown tabby is looking at the camera with a side glance. She wears an orange pumpkin harness.

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Melissa @melissainglover.bsky.social · 12h

And that’s a wrap on this farm!! Got mama and babies yesterday, feels so good to complete a colony ❤️
#TNR

Tiny black and white long haired kitten sitting on a table with a pink towel

Baby dilute long haired calico and solid back kitten inside of a cat carrier.

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Jasper @jaspersfelines.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday Mollie!!! 🎉🎉 Pretty lady is 4 😺🤎 #cats

A long haired tortoiseshell cat with green eyes

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Gryph @lfgryph.com · 1d

Pretty Chessie last night. TNR Porch cats are starting to get their fall coats. ❤️

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RappCatsAdopt @rappcats.bsky.social · 5d

We told Gunnar to mark his calendar but he's not too excited. Now that he's cured of his FIP (he responded beautifully to treatment) he can be neutered & get vaccines. We offer spay/neuter to our community & have 2 carloads of #cats going Tuesday. No more babies having babies!💙
#kitten #kittens #cat

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 1h

my final update from the TX redistricting hearing in el paso 🫡

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

NEW: A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 4h

Encouraged by the example of MIT, I wrote today to the new president of UT-Austin, my alma mater, to ask him to reject Trump's foolish and authoritarian "compact."

For other UT alums, Jim Davis's e-mail is [email protected].

Email to president@utexas.edu. Subject: President Trump's Compact.

Dear President Davis,

Good morning. I'm a two-time graduate of UT-Austin (BA English 1989, PhD American Studies 2003). My parents are both UT grads. I've been a visiting professor at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and I'm a Life Member of the Texas Exes. I'm a proud, multigenerational Longhorn.

I'd like to ask you urgently to reject President Trump's harmful and illegal "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education."

As I'm sure you know, MIT has already rejected the compact, and no doubt many other respected institutions will do so soon.

Free inquiry and academic freedom are critical to the success and proper functioning of any university, and it would be tragic if UT-Austin were to sacrifice its long tradition of academic excellence by submitting to an unconstitutional and autocratic demand from the White House. It is simply not the president's right or role to dictate to any university what its faculty can teach, say, or research. He must be resisted.

The UT community, and you as its leader, should stand firm against the president's direct challenge to the integrity of the University and to the prestige of the degrees we earned there.

Please reject this outrageous assault on academic freedom and the University's most deeply held values.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Bryan Edward Stone, Ph.D.

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Fluff and Wobbles @fluffandwobbles.bsky.social · 3h

Little Pye is my houseguest for the weekend.

A small black kitten lays on his back on a fluffy blanket and shows off his fuzzy belly.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 20d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 2h

When writing alt text for an image of text, it's not enough to just write "screen shot of text from article." Sighted users get to know what is in that screen shot, so why don't blind users deserve the same? The alt text should include all the actual text in the image.

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Texas Cat Lady @catmahm.bsky.social · 2h

“You’re getting sleepy…..very sleeepppyyy”

tabby, cat, extreme close-up of its face it has a white muzzle and chest and long white whiskers

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Ashton P. Woods @ashtonpwoods.bsky.social · 2h

Hey world I need help, I've gone blind in my right eye. Not sure if it is temporary or if it will be a new reality. I'm raising funds to cover medical costs...

facebook.com/share/p/1CBe7Z…

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 10h

Come see me today and all weekend at GalaxyCon St. Louis! Drawing lil' bird doodles in your books or planners or on nice paper.

effinbirds.com/appearances

A raggedy-looking raven drawn on the end paper of a book

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

“[AI companies] enable and enact misconduct such as fabrication of data, plagiarism, as well as questionable research practises (QRPs)”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Gus & Echo @katskitties.bsky.social · 1d

Echo-mandated purr break!!

Echo is on human in the recliner. She has her paw on human’s chest to hold her down

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RavenMae @ravenmae.bsky.social · 14h

TIL to never leave the dog's patio blanket out all night when it's cold or else a mole will chew a tiny hole in the lining to crawl inside. And then I'll pick up a blanket that wriggles & have to cut a couple larger holes to guide a mole safely out. And then I'll have more laundry to do. #UglyDogs

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OBDsity - Bunnies in a Bun Dance @obdsity.bsky.social · 12h

When Cookie sleeps deeply, his ears fold up and he briefly looks like an uppedy-eared bunny 😌✌🏻

#ACookieADay

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A Daily Violence ☠ @adailyviolet.bsky.social · 12h

Still successfully hiding from the work week!

#BunnyButtFriday #aDailyViolet

Small grey rabbit with head and hindquarters visible behind a thoroughly chewed cardboard box.

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