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🏳️‍🌈I am a Gay Man, He/Him.

I oppose war. I oppose genocide. I oppose ethnic cleansing. I fight for ⚖️ #EqualJustice and 🏳️‍🌈 #EqualRights.

As the Regime commits Crimes against Humanity around the world, I stand with our allies! 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸💙🇺🇸💔
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🏳️‍🌈Alex Vander Veur💙🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸💙🇺🇸💔 @alexvanderveur.bsky.social · 36m
Mental health break. Self-care matters. Making and keeping the world a place worth fighting for matters. 💙🌎💕
Post by @mark_mackillop: "The next time you see someone enjoying something, that isn't hurting anyone, that's not your cup of tea instead of saying something negative train yourself to think to yourself "I'm glad they're happy" and carry on with your life. post by @daviowhite: "I need to embrace this more" followed a picture of a sticky note saying "Just make it exist first you can make it good later." post by pc-98s reading: I highly recommend developing an intense interest in some natural phenomenon or creature such as bugs or stars or mushrooms. you will be delighted every time you go outside. Quote by Ernest Hemingway: "You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."
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stsci.edu
The ridge-like Orion Bar, seen in the lower left of this Hubble image, is created when stars’ ultraviolet light—capable of carving more diffuse matter—collides with denser, less penetrable matter.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. 🔭 🧪
A portion of the Orion Nebula. There are clouds of different colors and densities throughout. In the center, there are several bright white orbs, which are stars, surrounded by a pale-yellow cloud of dust and gas. Filaments of brown are spread throughout the pale-yellow clouds. Between 9 o’clock and 2 o’clock, and between 4 o’clock and 7 o’clock, there are darker brown clouds that spread to the image’s edges. A sharp diagonal line separates the pale-yellow clouds and a more purple-colored region, which contains two more bright-white stars. To the right of the pale-yellow clouds are black clouds of dust and gas. Red stars are spread throughout.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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jibarrondo.bsky.social
Dementia researchers cheer Texas voters’ approval of $3 billion funding initiative | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Dementia researchers cheer Texas voters’ approval of $3 billion funding initiative
New effort is modeled after the state’s long-running cancer research institute
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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jibarrondo.bsky.social
Metal scaffolds turn bacteria into live wires | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Metal scaffolds turn bacteria into live wires
Mud-dwelling cable bacteria construct metal organic frameworks to grow
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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cenmag.bsky.social
Diplomats from nearly 200 countries, as well as tens of thousands of observers, are gathering in Belém, Brazil, from Nov. 10 to 21 for the annual United Nations climate summit. cen.acs.org/policy/COP30... #chemsky 🧪
As COP30 begins, countries face ‘hard truth’ of 1.5 °C global warming
The average global surface temperature passed a key threshold last year. Meanwhile, the US does not have an official delegation at the UN climate conference now underway in Brazil
cen.acs.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
me when the AI bubble bursts
3 panel comic Panel 1: A desperate, panicking Blue Guy screams into his phone: Come Quickly! The AI companies are in trouble! Panel 2: A Pink Guy, also on the phone, replies: Oh Shit! I’m on my way! Panel 3: Pink Guy is relaxing in his living room, having a lovely cup of tea. He has no intention of going to help save the AI sinking slop ship.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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astrobites.bsky.social
From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...
Fast metal factories at z ~ 5, lessons from ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST
JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang.
astrobites.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
i don't want to hear about your feelings. i want to know what you are doing to punish the fuckers who sold us out
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
you guys genuinely need to decide if you are not just going to, but ABLE to defend basic concepts like the rule of law and at least the outline of something like representative government. if you're not, and you're not able to work together to defend that then step down for someone who will
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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shiplives.bsky.social
Let's say you made a special material to make safer railcars for transporting Hazmat. How do you test it?

By going to the desert and slamming into it with 300,000 pounds. (Of course there's video.)

#Transportation #Engineering 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2025/11/stud...
Study: Composite Metal Foam Could Lead to Safer Hazmat Transportation
Composite metal foam can withstand tremendous force – enough to punch a hole in a railroad tank car – at much lower weight than solid steel.
news.ncsu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
One of my favorite fellow cosmologists gave a talk on the cosmic web and I cannot recommend @markneyrinck.bsky.social’s work enough!

Accessible for everyone! 🧪🔭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrX3...
Cosmic webs and flows on Earth and within us | Dr Mark Neyrinck | TEDxBoulder
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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kristalamb.bsky.social
More insightful research from @type1better.bsky.social! Did you know that approx. half of adults living with T1D in Canada experience poor sleep quality? This study, among the largest in Canada on #T1D and sleep quality, held so many interesting nuggets. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
On 20 November there will be a Micromoon version of a New Moon. Occurs when New Moon coincides with apogee (farthest point in Moon's Earth orbit). 🔭 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
Want good news on the climate front? The world is making immense strides in harnessing solar energy. Some of the leaders might surprise you (we see you, Texas!) This week, author @billmckibben.bsky.social on our sunnier future on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪

Listen bigpicturescience.org/episodes/sol...
A bright sunny day over a field with rows of solar panels stretching back to the edge of the clearing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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museumofscience.bsky.social
What makes this foil ring float with no strings attached? ⚡️🧪

Using a handheld Van de Graaff generator, we build up a strong negative charge. When a lightweight foil ring is brought close, it picks up some of those electrons.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
🧪 What kind of work does #NIH funding support?
An example is the development of a human breast atlas that captures the state & action of INDIVIDUAL breast cells. This allows us to mine a tissue sample for as much information as possible.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35617956/
A human breast atlas integrating single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics - PubMed
The breast is a dynamic organ whose response to physiological and pathophysiological conditions alters its disease susceptibility, yet the specific effects of these clinical variables on cell state remain poorly annotated. We present a unified, high-resolution breast atlas by integrating single-cell …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
🧪 Adding- Brugge had a 7 yr #NIH #breastcancer grant worth $7 million. It was arbitrarily canceled by Trump. This resulted in slowing down of ongoing projects. Six of her staff have left. This also impacts talented immigrants on work visas, afraid to speak out.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
A quest to end breast cancer slows as the Trump-Harvard dispute drags on
Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer is one of hundreds of projects at Harvard caught up in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the university’s handling of antisemitism on camp...
www.wbur.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social.

Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.

We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
On November 8, 2025, in Chicago, a masked ICE or CBP GOON point-blank sprayed pepper spray at worried neighbors, including several elderly individuals, after causing a car accident.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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atrupar.com
RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture in this country."
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally.

If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
This is what a bunch of Democrats in the Senate just voted for:
ericjgeller.com Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 1h
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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cooltxchick.bsky.social
How did those Dems think this was gonna go? On what planet did any of them think that Republicans would come to the table? Getting people to capitulate is Trump’s kink. You don’t negotiate with bullies or terrorists, and MAGA is both. Sold out their constituents and the country…
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h
OK, where are we on the SNAP benefits cases?

Two things happened this morning:

* DOJ told SCOTUS they're still fighting to stop full November SNAP benefit payments, via their stay request at SCOTUS
* District court judge in Mass. stayed USDA's 11/8 memo ordering states to "undo" full payments
U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Solicitor General Washington, D.C. 20530 November 10, 2025 Honorable Scott S. Harris Clerk Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. 20543 Re: Rollins, et al. v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al., No. 25A539 Dear Mr. Harris: Pursuant to the Court's order from this morning, this letter confirms that the government still intends to pursue a stay in this matter and will file a supplemental brief by 4:00pm this afternoon. I also write to inform the Court about two developments relating to this application. First, last evening, the Senate voted to begin the process for ending the shutdown and funding the government-including full funding for SNAP through the end of the fiscal year. See Jordain Carney, Senate Advances Plan to End Historic Shutdown in Bipartisan Breakthrough, Politico (Nov. 9, 2025).' That proposal, if ultimately adopted by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President, would end the shutdown and moot this application. Second, this morning, a district court in a related case issued a temporary restraining order. That TRO purports to stay the USDA's November 8 memorandum that directed States that had processed full SNAP benefits for November without authorization to take immediate steps to undo those actions and revert to processing partial (65%) SNAP payments for November. See Order, Massachusetts, et al. v. USDA, et al., No. 1:25-cv-13165 (D. Mass., Nov. 10, 2025). Sincerely, D. John Sauer Solicitor General Judge Indira Talwani: ELECTRONIC ORDER: granting in part Plaintiffs' Further Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Emergency Virtual Hearing Request [ 80 ]. Good cause shown, the USDA Memorandum issued on Saturday, November 8, 2025, directing that "ItJo the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025," they "must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025" and shall "advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum[,l" see Attachment to Defendants' Third Notice to Court 4 [ 79 4 is STAYED pending further court order. The clerk shall reset the hearing scheduled for November 13, 2025, to a remote hearing today at 3:30 p.m.(SEC) (Entered: 11/10/2025)
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
Should be a huge news story. Again, why is Maxwell getting special treatment? Why is she in a minimum security camp? How come Trump didnt rule out a pardon?

Where are the Epstein Files?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek commutation from Trump, whistleblower says
The whistleblower came forward with the information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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muellershewrote.com
SOURCES: The Epstein files are actually worse than previously thought. Here's my latest episode of The Breakdown in case you missed it yesterday. www.muellershewrote.com/p/sources-th...
SOURCES: The Epstein Files ARE Worse Than Previously Thought
I reached out to sources that reviewed the files after David Shuster reported that republicans in the House are panicking. This is about what I learned.
www.muellershewrote.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Thank you, Zohran, for standing with our LGBTQ+ community 100% and defying those stereotypes!
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM