Barb Shubinski
@barbshubinski.bsky.social
½ Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican liberal lesbian poet/writer Harvard-Radcliffe alumna blackjack dealer healing from PTSD who loves music, books, movies, sashimi, Star Trek, LOST, Schitt's Creek, Ted Lasso, and a cat, looking for light through the dark forest.
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How big is space? Our galaxy in perspective...
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
March 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
How big is space? Our galaxy in perspective...
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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With these cuts to the Federal budget, who is going to rake the forest floor in the 19 million acres of California forests that are Federal lands?
February 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
With these cuts to the Federal budget, who is going to rake the forest floor in the 19 million acres of California forests that are Federal lands?
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The sheep pen, moonlight https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-sheep-pen-moonlight-1873
February 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The sheep pen, moonlight https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-sheep-pen-moonlight-1873
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February 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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If you think the sun is big based on our last post: here it is in comparison with other well-known stars in the Milky Way!
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you think the sun is big based on our last post: here it is in comparison with other well-known stars in the Milky Way!
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"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
February 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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Pandemics do not begin with official announcements.
They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern."
Pay attention.
They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern."
Pay attention.
February 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Pandemics do not begin with official announcements.
They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern."
Pay attention.
They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern."
Pay attention.
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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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a lot of folks get angry if you tell them a fact they haven't heard or introduce them to a book they haven't read, but I think the happiest people are the ones who are just mad to know things, who hoard knowledge like gold, who read because they can't help it.
February 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
a lot of folks get angry if you tell them a fact they haven't heard or introduce them to a book they haven't read, but I think the happiest people are the ones who are just mad to know things, who hoard knowledge like gold, who read because they can't help it.
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my favorite people are the ones who are drunk on learning, who check more books from the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about stardust or the sea or Icelandic sagas and just. never. stop.
February 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
my favorite people are the ones who are drunk on learning, who check more books from the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about stardust or the sea or Icelandic sagas and just. never. stop.
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Many of the White House candidates for high level positions in the Federal government come across as badly qualified for the jobs they are seeking.
If they all happened to be Black, I wonder if they’d instead be rejected as incompetent DEI hires?
If they all happened to be Black, I wonder if they’d instead be rejected as incompetent DEI hires?
February 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Many of the White House candidates for high level positions in the Federal government come across as badly qualified for the jobs they are seeking.
If they all happened to be Black, I wonder if they’d instead be rejected as incompetent DEI hires?
If they all happened to be Black, I wonder if they’d instead be rejected as incompetent DEI hires?
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'Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star'
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
January 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
'Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star'
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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I will die on the hill of: fictional characters can be essential sources of inspiration, support, & modeling for complex trauma survivors who grew up surrounded by toxic family, peers, & culture.
January 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I will die on the hill of: fictional characters can be essential sources of inspiration, support, & modeling for complex trauma survivors who grew up surrounded by toxic family, peers, & culture.
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Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach our galactic neighbour, Andromeda..
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
January 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach our galactic neighbour, Andromeda..
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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Trauma survivors NEED to take our nervous system's insistence on not feeling trapped seriously.
If we don't leave ourselves an "escape hatch" in situations, our nervous system will create that "escape hatch" for us-- often w/ self-sabotage or suicidal ideation.
If we don't leave ourselves an "escape hatch" in situations, our nervous system will create that "escape hatch" for us-- often w/ self-sabotage or suicidal ideation.
January 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trauma survivors NEED to take our nervous system's insistence on not feeling trapped seriously.
If we don't leave ourselves an "escape hatch" in situations, our nervous system will create that "escape hatch" for us-- often w/ self-sabotage or suicidal ideation.
If we don't leave ourselves an "escape hatch" in situations, our nervous system will create that "escape hatch" for us-- often w/ self-sabotage or suicidal ideation.
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A view of Earth from the surface of Mars...
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMLI)
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMLI)
January 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A view of Earth from the surface of Mars...
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMLI)
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMLI)
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I think people who are focusing on Trump not facing jailtime or fines or some other real punishment are missing it. Judge Merchan, Alvin Bragg and a New York jury have accomplished the seemingly impossible: they forced Donald Trump for the first time in his life to face consequences. And stigma.
January 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I think people who are focusing on Trump not facing jailtime or fines or some other real punishment are missing it. Judge Merchan, Alvin Bragg and a New York jury have accomplished the seemingly impossible: they forced Donald Trump for the first time in his life to face consequences. And stigma.
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called 'Big Eight' major American studios 'had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under cont...
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January 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
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⚠️🚨 Ex-CDC Director: “There WILL Be a Bird Flu Pandemic”
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu could dwarf COVID, saying it's a matter of "when," not "if."
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu's 25-50% mortality rate could trigger an inevitable pandemic once it spreads human-to-human.
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu could dwarf COVID, saying it's a matter of "when," not "if."
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu's 25-50% mortality rate could trigger an inevitable pandemic once it spreads human-to-human.
December 27, 2024 at 3:18 PM
⚠️🚨 Ex-CDC Director: “There WILL Be a Bird Flu Pandemic”
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu could dwarf COVID, saying it's a matter of "when," not "if."
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu's 25-50% mortality rate could trigger an inevitable pandemic once it spreads human-to-human.
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu could dwarf COVID, saying it's a matter of "when," not "if."
Dr. Redfield warns bird flu's 25-50% mortality rate could trigger an inevitable pandemic once it spreads human-to-human.
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Size comparison: Earth versus Saturn
Is this what you expected?
(Credit: Tristan3D/HDR Universal-Sci)
Is this what you expected?
(Credit: Tristan3D/HDR Universal-Sci)
December 22, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Size comparison: Earth versus Saturn
Is this what you expected?
(Credit: Tristan3D/HDR Universal-Sci)
Is this what you expected?
(Credit: Tristan3D/HDR Universal-Sci)
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Is there REALLY that much going on in space. It is full of empty rocks. Have you ever stared into the heart of a hoverboard it contains the endless unknown.
December 17, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Is there REALLY that much going on in space. It is full of empty rocks. Have you ever stared into the heart of a hoverboard it contains the endless unknown.
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Remember today that your playlists, your books, your comics, your movies, your poems, your historical figures, your fictional characters-- these are all trauma recovery tools that are as real & important as anything a trauma "expert" has to say. Use 'em. Use the hell out of 'em.
December 16, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Remember today that your playlists, your books, your comics, your movies, your poems, your historical figures, your fictional characters-- these are all trauma recovery tools that are as real & important as anything a trauma "expert" has to say. Use 'em. Use the hell out of 'em.
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Interesting fact: Our sun is so enormous that it holds over 99% of the total mass of the entire solar system...
It is about 333,000 times the mass of Earth!
It is about 333,000 times the mass of Earth!
December 11, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Interesting fact: Our sun is so enormous that it holds over 99% of the total mass of the entire solar system...
It is about 333,000 times the mass of Earth!
It is about 333,000 times the mass of Earth!
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Utterly mind-blowing: This is what 100 Million Stars look like!
Take a journey through the most detailed view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever captured as we zoom out from its core.
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / Video by Universal-Sci)
Take a journey through the most detailed view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever captured as we zoom out from its core.
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / Video by Universal-Sci)
November 15, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Utterly mind-blowing: This is what 100 Million Stars look like!
Take a journey through the most detailed view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever captured as we zoom out from its core.
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / Video by Universal-Sci)
Take a journey through the most detailed view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever captured as we zoom out from its core.
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / Video by Universal-Sci)