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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15h

Trump’s Gaza deal may bring a welcome pause to years of bloodshed — but let’s be clear: one ceasefire doesn’t make him a peacemaker.
While he chases a Nobel Prize abroad, he’s been stoking violence at home.
Peace isn’t a brand. It’s a character test.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The "Peacemaker" Who Thrives on Chaos

Trump’s Gaza deal may earn him applause — but his record of stoking violence at home shows he’s no champion of peace.

open.substack.com

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 11h

Wurde der Post vom US-Präsidenten nur freigegeben oder persönlich verfasst?
apnews.com/article/trum...
AP photos show Rubio’s urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 14h

400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn’s rings

Saturn's rings have been a mystery for a long time.

We now know they're under 200 million years old, and an idea from 2022 just might explain their origin, and a whole lot more.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#saturn #space #astro

400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn's rings

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn's rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

bigthink.com

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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · 13h

Gyroscope measurements of the precession and nutation of Earth’s axis: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -> Optical gyroscope detects Earth’s rotation with the highest precision yet: physicsworld.com/a/optical-gy...

Gyroscope measurements of the precession and nutation of Earth’s axis

Inertial rotation sensing with a ring laser gyroscope provides the precession and nutation motion of Earth with high accuracy.

www.science.org

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T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com · 12h

Our Great, Noble and Puissant President. So what if he’s too confused even to cheat at golf anymore—he promised to Make America White Again, didn’t he?

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 12h

AP photos show Rubio’s urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal
apnews.com/article/trum... - AP News

Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 18h

So the posts by realDonaldTrump are by an anonymous ghostwriter?
x.com/evanvucci/st...

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 20h

Ha! It looks like Avi Loeb silently edited his Medium post about the Perseverance Navcam images, after being called out for his wrong interpretation.
While he previously claimed the image was of 3I/Atlas, he now says the claim came from "social media". 🔭

A paragraph about the Navcam image that claimed the image is of 3I/Atlas was edited to say "This was claimed on social media to be an image" of the comet

A paragraph that previously only mentioned the object creating the source could be much closer to the camera than Atlas was extended with a speculation that it could be one of the Martian moons.

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 19h

COSAM researchers race from discovery to paper in just days
wire.auburn.edu/content/cosa... - Auburn University

Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 20h

COSAM researchers race from discovery to paper in just days
wire.auburn.edu/content/cosa... - Auburn University

COSAM researchers race from discovery to paper in just days

Auburn physicists Shawn Oset and Zexi Xing helped lead an international effort to study 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object. In just days, their team moved from first observation to a p...

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 20h

Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS phys.org/news/2025-10... - by Auburn University

Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer, that bottle finally washed ashore in our solar system and was ...

phys.org

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 22h

Der StZ-Artikel ist hinter Paywall - Mehr:
www.parkschuetzer.de/statements/2...

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 1d

🌡️ The September 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin reports the third-warmest September globally, with an average surface air temperature of 16.11°C — 1.47°C above estimated pre-industrial levels. Global average sea surface temperature reached 20.72°C, the 3rd-highest on record for September.

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 23h

Friedenskonferenz
Blick hinter die Kulissen von Häberle und Pfleiderer
www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/FJHJ3MX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UApJ...

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Club of Rome @clubofrome.org · 1d

We need to cut lifestyle carbon footprint by 85% within the next decade to stay within the the 1.5°C target by 2035 . No country is there yet. So how do we do it?

Read "A Climate for Sufficiency," the new 1.5 Degree Lifestyles report from the Hot or Cool Institute: vist.ly/49ppw

Colourful graphic with text: The Lifestyle Carbon Footprint. Bar chart shows 7.1 tonnes per person (where we are) vs 1.1 tonnes (where we should be). No country is yet on track to meet the 1.5c target.

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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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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 1d

Verspätete Flüge, geschlossene Museen, dreckige Parktoiletten: Nach gut einer Woche spüren viele Amerikaner die ersten Folgen des Shutdowns. Derweil will die Trump-Regierung 750.000 Beamten die Gehälter für die Zeit des Zwangsurlaubs streichen und viele ganz entlassen. www.rnd.de/politik/shut...

Wo US-Bürger den Shutdown spüren

Verspätete Flüge, geschlossene Museen, dreckige Parktoiletten: Nach gut einer Woche spüren viele Amerikaner die ersten Folgen des Shutdowns. Derweil will die Trump-Regierung rund 750.000 Beamten die G...

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Dan Farber @dfarber1950.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's "compact" with universities is a dire threat to free speech and academic freedom. It will also pressure universities to shy away from teaching and research relating to climate change and renewable energy. Here's a detailed explainer.
legal-planet.org/2025/10/08/a...

The Compact for Censorship - Legal Planet

The Administration released a “Compact” with universities late last week that threatens free speech - including on climate change.

legal-planet.org

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

OB-Wahlkämpfer Wolfgang Schuster zu Stuttgart21 am 14.9.1996
"Wir brauchen dringend Bauinvestitionen...
Wir Stuttgarter sind auf alle Fälle die Gewinner"
youtu.be/zEgbZthjhbQ

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Werner Sauerborn @wernerborn.bsky.social · 1d

VfB-Spiel, letzter Tag Wasen, Rückreiseverkehr nach Brückentagen: Chaos im Stuttgarter Bahnhof, blockierte Bahnsteige ..Menetekel für Stuttgart 21 mit halb so viel, teils zugestellten Bahn steigen und ohne sichere Fluchtwege! PM des Aktionsbündnisses: kopfbahnhof-21.de/pressemittei...

Menetekel Stuttgart21 (Pressemitteilung) - Kopfbahnhof 21

(hier diese Pressemitteilung als pdf-Datei) Menschenstaus auf Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof am Wochenende Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, 5.10., 15 h, Bahnsteig zwischen Gleis 7 und 8 Als unheilvollen Ausblick auf...

kopfbahnhof-21.de

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 2d

'Satellite Swarm Zoom'

A star trail image made with a time-lapse image sequence photographed by Jonny Kim from ISS. Each image was restored, remastered then retimed using frame interpolation for a short film. These new frames allowed for a simulated long exposure photograph.

Stars and satellites glowing in long exposure streaks of light as ISS orbits Earth.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 2d

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon has been wowing early morning astrophotographers, and it’s about to go on to its encore dusk apparition in mid-October, joining Comet R2 SWAN in the evening sky. Here’s our latest post for @universetoday.com on what to expect: www.universetoday.com/articles/com...

Comet A6 Lemmon's Encore October Evening Show

October 2025 may provide a memorable sky scene, as Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon puts on an encore appearance at dusk. The comet joins Comet R2 SWAN, which slides 0.26 Astronomical Units (AU) past Earth on O...

www.universetoday.com

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 2d

A dust devil was spotted off in the distance following the Perseverance Rover’s Sol 1646 drive.

flic.kr/p/2rxWAaR

A large and distant dust devil vortex in the plains beyond a ridge. Rover hardware is visible.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 2d

Portland’s weekend of ICE protests: Tear gas, National Guard restraining orders and false claims of a city burning to the ground
www.opb.org/article/2025... - OPB

Portland’s weekend of ICE protests: Tear gas, National Guard restraining orders and false claims of a city burning to the ground

An unprecedented weekend put Portland at the center of national headlines, as President Trump continued his push to deploy National Guard members into the city over the objections of city and state el...

www.opb.org

Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 2d

How Black Holes Produce Powerful Relativistic Jets
aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/how-...

How Black Holes Produce Powerful Relativistic Jets | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Theoretical physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt describe the origin of powerful jets using complex simulations A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first...

aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de