Paul Wren
@elevenpointtwo.bsky.social
Avionics software engineer, adjunct Astronomy professor, occasional planetary scientist, former developer of @jmars_gis.bsky.social he/him #SaveOurOceans #BlackLivesMatter #SaveOurRepublic
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No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
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In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Pretty sure we’ve all had enough.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Pretty sure we’ve all had enough.
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Do any of you lovely folks work at FB or meta?
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Do any of you lovely folks work at FB or meta?
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Over 320,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce.
This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA.
I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.
This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA.
I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Over 320,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce.
This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA.
I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.
This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA.
I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.
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I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
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A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
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Huh.
A volcano in Ethiopia where there is no record of eruption for about the last ~10,000 - 12,000 years (short on geological timescales) erupted and there happened to be an Earth Observing satellite overhead at the time to catch it!
[alt-text: images showing volcanic plume rising from eruption]
A volcano in Ethiopia where there is no record of eruption for about the last ~10,000 - 12,000 years (short on geological timescales) erupted and there happened to be an Earth Observing satellite overhead at the time to catch it!
[alt-text: images showing volcanic plume rising from eruption]
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Huh.
A volcano in Ethiopia where there is no record of eruption for about the last ~10,000 - 12,000 years (short on geological timescales) erupted and there happened to be an Earth Observing satellite overhead at the time to catch it!
[alt-text: images showing volcanic plume rising from eruption]
A volcano in Ethiopia where there is no record of eruption for about the last ~10,000 - 12,000 years (short on geological timescales) erupted and there happened to be an Earth Observing satellite overhead at the time to catch it!
[alt-text: images showing volcanic plume rising from eruption]
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
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Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
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Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card
As an Arizonan, I am deeply disappointed that @repgregstanton.bsky.social joined the GOP to denounce public schools, public libraries, national parks, first responders, public highways, and Medicare.
85 other Democrats did the same. Is your representative in the list? Let them know how you feel.
85 other Democrats did the same. Is your representative in the list? Let them know how you feel.
Roll Call 305 Roll Call 305, Bill Number: H. Con. Res. 58, 119th Congress, 1st Session
VOTE QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution, DESCRIPTION: Denouncing the horrors of socialism, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed
clerk.house.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As an Arizonan, I am deeply disappointed that @repgregstanton.bsky.social joined the GOP to denounce public schools, public libraries, national parks, first responders, public highways, and Medicare.
85 other Democrats did the same. Is your representative in the list? Let them know how you feel.
85 other Democrats did the same. Is your representative in the list? Let them know how you feel.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Karen Attiah on the Murder of Kashoggi and Trump’s Embrace of His Murderer dianeravitch.net/2025/11/20/k...
Karen Attiah on the Murder of Kashoggi and Trump’s Embrace of His Murderer
Karen Attiah was the editor at The Washington Post for Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. She recently left the Post, objecting to its obeisance to Trump. Trump’s warm welcome for Saudi Arabia&…
dianeravitch.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Karen Attiah on the Murder of Kashoggi and Trump’s Embrace of His Murderer dianeravitch.net/2025/11/20/k...
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Trump does not understand what sedition is. Try this, Piggy
brian sicknick died defending the u.s. capitol
Alt: brian sicknick died defending the u.s. capitol during the January 6, 2021 insurrection
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Trump does not understand what sedition is. Try this, Piggy
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Our free and open source software for estimating property level flood risk under uncertainty now has a peer reviewed software paper!
We would love your thoughts for improvement and contributions! github.com/abpoll/unsafe
@jdossgollin.bsky.social @vsrikrish.bsky.social
We would love your thoughts for improvement and contributions! github.com/abpoll/unsafe
@jdossgollin.bsky.social @vsrikrish.bsky.social
Just published in JOSS: 'UNSAFE: An UNcertain Structure And Fragility Ensemble framework for property-level flood risk estimation' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07527
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Our free and open source software for estimating property level flood risk under uncertainty now has a peer reviewed software paper!
We would love your thoughts for improvement and contributions! github.com/abpoll/unsafe
@jdossgollin.bsky.social @vsrikrish.bsky.social
We would love your thoughts for improvement and contributions! github.com/abpoll/unsafe
@jdossgollin.bsky.social @vsrikrish.bsky.social
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Well, in fairness, any time the House Republicans do nothing they are indeed doing the best work of their careers.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well, in fairness, any time the House Republicans do nothing they are indeed doing the best work of their careers.
I"m really missing the old diverse, equitable, and inclusive LPSC. Looks like it's dead, for sure.
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I"m really missing the old diverse, equitable, and inclusive LPSC. Looks like it's dead, for sure.
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The more I think about this, the more it pisses me off, and I was pissed off to start with
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The more I think about this, the more it pisses me off, and I was pissed off to start with
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...