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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος

@apolitosb.bsky.social

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Astronomer, supernovae, spent time at Paranal in prehistoric times, currently ELT telescope scientist www.eso.org/~jspyromi Personal account. Speaking solely for myself

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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · Dec 7

#astronomy

If you teach or do emission line physics you might want to read this

arxiv.org/abs/2410.22539

Now published at PASP

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Forbidden lines are not quenched

There is no such thing as quenching of forbidden lines.

arxiv.org

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 1h

FEATURE NOT BUG

"The intense focus on immigration has raised alarm among FBI agents who say morale is low across the bureau as they have less time to dedicate to national security, white-collar crime and complex cases."

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 16h

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at The Onion on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · 10h

What’s 6x7 ?

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 12h

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

Ryan Byrnes on the Khalidi Family’s Battle to Protect Their Library From Ultra-Orthodox Settlers

lithub.com/the-race-to-...

#books #libraries

Khalidi Library, from the opening c. 1900. From right: Hajj Raghib al-Khalidi, Sheikh Taher al-Jaza’ireh (from Damascus), Sheikh Musa Shafiq al-Khalidi, Sheikh Khalil al-Khalidi, Sheikh Muhammad al-Habbal (from Beirut)

Costumes and characters, etc. Mohammedan sheikhs and effendies in front of Bibboth Khaldieh, Jerusalem

https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/matpc.06804/

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Aurélien Genin @astroaure.bsky.social · 15h

🛰 Un à deux Starlink rentrent dans l'atmosphère chaque jour 😮 Il y a 5 ans, on était plutôt à un satellite par semaine ! Et on connaît encore très mal l'impact sur l'atmosphère de ces rentrées, mais les premières études sont pas jolies... Il est urgent de réguler 📢

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

earthsky.org

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · 12h

People in glass houses …

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Vatican Observatory @vaticanobservatory.bsky.social · 1d

I adore comets because they morph as they move through space. This makes them very interesting to me, visually and in their physical actions.

Comet - C/2025 A6 ( Lemmon) - Vatican Observatory

I adore comets because they morph as they move through space. This makes them very interesting to me, visually and in their physical actions.

www.vaticanobservatory.org

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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 1d

424.09 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 06-Oct-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

The Keeling Curve

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the other half? 😀

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 1d

Physics Today also published a half-decent article on the history of Josephson junctions & superconducting computing in 2016:

doi.org/10.1063/PT.3...

Between research and development: IBM and Josephson computing

For years the dream of turning the semiconductor industry into a superconductor industry has been only that. In the 1970s IBM—with help from the National Securi

doi.org

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 1d

Statue of Athena circa 200 AD, a Roman copy of an older Greek original, in the Boboli gardens near the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 2d

My university has something called the "raft debate" where professors defend their disciplines. I've been chosen to represent the humanities and they asked me to make a promo video. You know what I had to do.

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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · 1d

At an annual average salary of 600K I’m all in. Maybe I can do the admin at 10M per year.

What a load of 🐊

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 2d

Explain yourself, ladies

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · May 16

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

@anntelnaes.bsky.social is right:

“A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM Of EXPRESSION.

EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S (dies in darkness WaPo) CANARY in a COAL MINE.

SO IF YOU SEE A COUNTRY WIHOUT EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS Or ONE WHERE THEY ARE NOT CREATING TOUCH, POINTED SATTRE AGAINST POLITICIANS and POLICIES, BE AWARE.
A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM
Of EXPRESSION
EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S CANARY ina COAL MINE
ANTENAES

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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · 5d

From the headline it is hard to tell whether this is in Tunisia or in some other country … take your pick

Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · 5d

Paranal observatory. Sometimes ESO but almost never the full name.

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