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Sur Cielbleu personne ne sait que je suis un chien. Curious about astronomy, computing, and other nerdy things. Recovering flerf herder.

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · Dec 20

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:

Arthur C. Clarke
Douglas Hofstadter
Jules Verne
Greg Egan
Robert Forward
James P. Hogan
Richard Dawkins

Oops that’s seven. 🤗

Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · Dec 20

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:
Terry Pratchett
Diana Wynne Jones
Brandon Sanderson
Neil Gaiman 💀
Ursula Le Guin

Doesn’t take manga into account for obvious reasons.

Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com · Dec 20

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:
Mick Herron
Ben Aaronovitch
Kevin Hearne
Jodi Taylor
Benedict Jacka

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Elzo @elzoblu.bsky.social · 3h

Curiosidades en las fronteras españolas

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Konrad Cox @konradcox.bsky.social · 2h

Looking through rough, bark binoculars into the autumn forest.
#photography #newforest

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David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 4h

Ce livre regroupe les devinettes, énigmes, problèmes gnomoniques, et tests rapides de la section Jeux et énigmes des 18 premiers numéros du magazine Cadrans solaires pour tous.
Il peut être téléchargé gratuitement depuis bit.ly/48nwqhY
🔭

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 3h

Photos prises avec mon iPhone le soir du 1er avril dernier. Les Pléiades seront plus difficiles à voir cette nuit, avec la lune presque pleine, plus éblouissante qu’un croissant…

Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 4h

Avenue de l’opéra ?

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Marcas Tardigrade-17 Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social · 7h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.

B/w photo of Sophie Scholl, a young student in Munich and one of the leaders of the White Rose, a non-violent anti-Nazi resistance group. Guillotined by the Nazis along with her brother and one of their White Rose comrades. Scholl’s boyfriend was also involved (and survived), so the tag line is strictly speaking accurate; but of course Scholl herself was absolutely central to antifa during the period of actual, straight-up Nazi tyranny. But then, ironically underscoring the down-valuing of women’s contributions to the fight against the fash is sort of the point of this meme, I think?

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Panorama & Vertorama @panophotos.bsky.social · 9h

💠 #A2Z-PanoPhotos #week360 for #360°

Thanks, Thomas, for sharing this inverted or vortex perspective in your #tinyPlanet #pano at Dysart Harbour in Fife, Scotland.

It almost looks like the boats are circling down a drain. LOL! 😊

Thomas @thaywoodphoto.bsky.social · 1d

An inverted little planet view of Dysart Harbour, once a thriving port for coal and salt.
Now peaceful and still, its circular world feels almost other-worldly.
What does it make you think of — a tiny planet, a whirlpool, or something else entirely?

✈️ Thomas Haywood
@panophotos.bsky.social

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Risa Koizumi 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @risakoizumi.bsky.social · 14h

@gregmorosoff.bsky.social

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

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Panorama & Vertorama @panophotos.bsky.social · 19h

💠 #A2Z-PanoPhotos #week360 for #360°

Thanks to Paul Bourke @pauldavidbourke.bsky.social for allowing us to share his full 360° vertical #panorama or #vertorama.

Like it? Paul has more at his website: paulbourke.net/panorama/vpa...

📸 The Red Fort (Lal Qila), a historic citadel in Delhi, India

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 8h

Mastodon has it too, to take an example more comparable to Bluesky.

Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 8h

Woahhh 80× compression factor!? What’s that?? Do tell!

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 21h

Avez-vous déjà vu... un train de satellites Starlink depuis la Station Spatiale Internationale ?

Maintenant, oui.

© Don Pettit
Source : www.instagram.com/astro_pettit...

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve just seen this today, about a quarter of an hour before sunset. If I’m not mistaken that’s known as an upper tangent arc.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent...

#atmosphericoptics #atoptics #photography

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 22h

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Diane Leigh @dianeleigh.net · 1d

So... they apparently posted this 4 DAYS ago

Seems like they are trying to say something.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Cz...

The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies

www.youtube.com

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 1d

Vous êtes astronomes amateur(ice), vous avez un télescope, une caméra de prise de vue et vous voulez participer à cette passionnante (et rare) expérience de mesure ?

N'hésitez pas à contacter l' @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social .

En attendant, je vous laisse dérouler le fil ci-dessous pour plus d'infos.

Observatoire de Paris - PSL @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social · 1d

Dans la nuit du 13 au 14 octobre 2025, Ganymède — le plus grand satellite de Jupiter — occultera une étoile de magnitude 7. Un phénomène rare et passionnant !
👇 observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/une-occultat...
@science.esa.int @academiesciences.bsky.social @astropierre.com

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 1d

Snailbot is a self-reconfigurable robot using rocker-bogie suspension by The University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

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Panorama & Vertorama @panophotos.bsky.social · 1d

💠 #A2Z-PanoPhotos #week360 for #360°

It certainly is hypnotizing from this viewpoint, Sebastian!

Thanks for sharing this cool and convoluted #tinyPlanet #pano that you took at the Quartier 206 department store in Berlin, Germany.

Sebastian Niedlich @autorsniedlich.bsky.social · Aug 15

Quartier 206 in der Friedrichstraße. Ich hatte schon immer as Gefühl, dass man da beim Blick von oben hypnotisiert wird ...

#Insta360 #tinyplanet

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 2d

Le prix Nobel de Physique 2025 revient à des travaux faisant le pont entre les étrangetés du monde quantique et les comportement "classique" de notre monde macroscopique.

Qu'est-ce que l' "effet tunnel macroscopique" ?
Déroulez le fil d' @alexandradelbot.bsky.social ci-dessous :

Alexandra Delbot @alexandradelbot.bsky.social · 2d

Le prix Nobel de physique 2025 récompense Michel Devoret, John Clarke et John Martinis pour leur découverte de l’effet tunnel macroscopique : un phénomène quantique où des milliards d’électrons traversent une barrière infranchissable selon la physique classique.

Kezako ? Explications en Gif ⬇️

Le prix Nobel de physique 2025 récompense l’effet tunnel quantique à grande échelle

www.radiofrance.fr

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mrbyll @mrbyll.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the end.

www.tiktok.com/@sadbeige?_t...

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Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social · 5d

I know, I know this is not my usual photography, but I can't pass by the art challenge of #week360 #360° #Pano
#A2Z-PanoPhotos

This is a 360 drone shot near where I live, turned into a tiny planet in post processing.

#EastCoastKin #Photography

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Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 2d

🎶 a year has passed since I wrote my note…

Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 2d

Aww they’re super-cute! (from a safe distance…) 😜

Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 2d

Answering unexpected phone calls? How quaint!

Badibulgator @badibulgator.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully you don’t use signed 32-bits integers as post identifiers… 🤞