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🎉 We’re celebrating our 50th birthday on 30 May! For half a century, we’ve been serving Europe, inspiring its citizens and exploring the cosmos. Check out our #50YearsOfESA web site for stories, archive images and details of events coming up in the year.
🔗 esa.int/About_Us/50_...
🔗 esa.int/About_Us/50_...
May 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🎉 We’re celebrating our 50th birthday on 30 May! For half a century, we’ve been serving Europe, inspiring its citizens and exploring the cosmos. Check out our #50YearsOfESA web site for stories, archive images and details of events coming up in the year.
🔗 esa.int/About_Us/50_...
🔗 esa.int/About_Us/50_...
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💫 🔭 A beautiful spiral galaxy dazzles in today’s picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This galaxy, Arp 184 or NGC 1961, gets its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Its uneven shape earned it a spot in the catalogue.
🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
This galaxy, Arp 184 or NGC 1961, gets its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Its uneven shape earned it a spot in the catalogue.
🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
April 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
💫 🔭 A beautiful spiral galaxy dazzles in today’s picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This galaxy, Arp 184 or NGC 1961, gets its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Its uneven shape earned it a spot in the catalogue.
🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
This galaxy, Arp 184 or NGC 1961, gets its name from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Its uneven shape earned it a spot in the catalogue.
🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
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Looking for your next read? Check out our curated SFF reviews, author interviews, and upcoming releases in Locus Magazine. Start your literary adventure today! www.locusmag.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Looking for your next read? Check out our curated SFF reviews, author interviews, and upcoming releases in Locus Magazine. Start your literary adventure today! www.locusmag.com
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Couple more photos from the #murderbot set visit. More info in the alt text:
April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Couple more photos from the #murderbot set visit. More info in the alt text:
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Enormously honoured to be featured on both the novel and series shortlists for this year’s Hugo awards.
2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award Announcement: Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and As…
2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award Announcement
Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for…
seattlein2025.org
April 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Enormously honoured to be featured on both the novel and series shortlists for this year’s Hugo awards.
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Monday comes around once more and this week I'm reading North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
March 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Monday comes around once more and this week I'm reading North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
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Monday comes around once more and this week I'm reading England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempell
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
March 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Monday comes around once more and this week I'm reading England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempell
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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March 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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A brilliant Banksy.
March 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A brilliant Banksy.
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, is an emission nebula located 8 000 light-years away. This stunning new image was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate its 26th year in space.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
#Astronomy
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
#Astronomy
February 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, is an emission nebula located 8 000 light-years away. This stunning new image was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate its 26th year in space.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
#Astronomy
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
#Astronomy
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Monday morning once more and this week I'm reading "Faithbreaker" by Hannah Kaner
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #MondayReads #AmReading #TBR
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #MondayReads #AmReading #TBR
February 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Monday morning once more and this week I'm reading "Faithbreaker" by Hannah Kaner
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #MondayReads #AmReading #TBR
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #MondayReads #AmReading #TBR
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Next month, the #ladyastronaut universe expands!
#themartiancontingency, the fourth book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's #ladyastronaut series is coming into land!
Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/lamarcon
#themartiancontingency, the fourth book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's #ladyastronaut series is coming into land!
Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/lamarcon
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Next month, the #ladyastronaut universe expands!
#themartiancontingency, the fourth book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's #ladyastronaut series is coming into land!
Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/lamarcon
#themartiancontingency, the fourth book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's #ladyastronaut series is coming into land!
Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/lamarcon
Terribly sad to hear ChatGPT lost its job to an AI 😂
So even the market disruptor, the $1 tn black swan, was a rip off of a rip off. This entire industry is one big circle jerk of banality. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
OpenAI reportedly claims it has evidence China’s DeepSeek ‘used its model’ to train AI chatbot – business live
White House advisor David Sacks says there is ‘substantial evidence’ of DeepSeek using OpenAI technology
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Terribly sad to hear ChatGPT lost its job to an AI 😂
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Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. Here’s what you need to know if you want to limit the company’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. Here’s what you need to know if you want to limit the company’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data.
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Read @hawkwing_lb’s review of AND THE MIGHTY WILL FALL by @kbwagers: “a damn fine science fiction action-adventure novel, nail-bitingly tense, with excellent character development, some stunning twists, and a bedrock sense that we save each other...” locusmag.com/2025/01...
And the Mighty Will Fall by K.B. Wagers: Review by Liz Bourke
And the Mighty Will Fall, K.B. Wagers (Harper Voyager 978-0-06-311524-8, $19.99, 464pp, tp) November 2024. And the Mighty Will Fall is K.B. Wagers’s tenth and latest space opera novel, the fourth b…
locusmag.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Read @hawkwing_lb’s review of AND THE MIGHTY WILL FALL by @kbwagers: “a damn fine science fiction action-adventure novel, nail-bitingly tense, with excellent character development, some stunning twists, and a bedrock sense that we save each other...” locusmag.com/2025/01...
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Europe has a message for Elmo.
January 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Europe has a message for Elmo.
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📚 Education is a fundamental human right. Without it, there is no freedom and no prosperity.
We are committed to investing in high-quality education and continued training for citizens in Europe and beyond.
#InternationalDayOfEducation
We are committed to investing in high-quality education and continued training for citizens in Europe and beyond.
#InternationalDayOfEducation
January 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📚 Education is a fundamental human right. Without it, there is no freedom and no prosperity.
We are committed to investing in high-quality education and continued training for citizens in Europe and beyond.
#InternationalDayOfEducation
We are committed to investing in high-quality education and continued training for citizens in Europe and beyond.
#InternationalDayOfEducation
The "European Alternatives" is a project which collects and analyzes European alternatives to popular webservices and products. It provides alternatives to many of the "big tech" companies, so give them a browse or maybe even some feedback: european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
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European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
January 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The "European Alternatives" is a project which collects and analyzes European alternatives to popular webservices and products. It provides alternatives to many of the "big tech" companies, so give them a browse or maybe even some feedback: european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
January 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Every star may be a sun to someone.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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January 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Faithless, No Roots, 2004:
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
January 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Faithless, No Roots, 2004:
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
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One of the very greatest things about #cycling is that whatever difficulties you may be experiencing, there is a cycle for you!
Here's one of our most popular blogs of all time, which runs through your options: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/top-tips-cho...
#InclusiveCycling #DisabilityCycling
Here's one of our most popular blogs of all time, which runs through your options: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/top-tips-cho...
#InclusiveCycling #DisabilityCycling
Bikeability Top Tips – Choosing an Accessible Cycle part 1
Wheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling.
wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
January 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
One of the very greatest things about #cycling is that whatever difficulties you may be experiencing, there is a cycle for you!
Here's one of our most popular blogs of all time, which runs through your options: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/top-tips-cho...
#InclusiveCycling #DisabilityCycling
Here's one of our most popular blogs of all time, which runs through your options: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/top-tips-cho...
#InclusiveCycling #DisabilityCycling