Nixie
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Profile pic: "Keep your cool" by Marco Melgrati
https://marcomelgrati.com/artwork/keep-your-cool/
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In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
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📴 Silence for Gaza
🕘 21:00–21:30 (local time)
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There is no internet.
No signal. No sound.
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No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.
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Join the coordinated wave.
Set a daily reminder.
Stand in digital silence.
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#silenceforgaza #gaza #pocketproject
🕘 21:00–21:30 (local time)
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There is no internet.
No signal. No sound.
⠀
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.
⠀
Join the coordinated wave.
Set a daily reminder.
Stand in digital silence.
⠀
#silenceforgaza #gaza #pocketproject
July 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📴 Silence for Gaza
🕘 21:00–21:30 (local time)
⠀
There is no internet.
No signal. No sound.
⠀
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.
⠀
Join the coordinated wave.
Set a daily reminder.
Stand in digital silence.
⠀
#silenceforgaza #gaza #pocketproject
🕘 21:00–21:30 (local time)
⠀
There is no internet.
No signal. No sound.
⠀
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.
⠀
Join the coordinated wave.
Set a daily reminder.
Stand in digital silence.
⠀
#silenceforgaza #gaza #pocketproject
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Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants. www.wired.com/story/no-mor...
Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes
Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.
www.wired.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Gaza is starving #gaza #starving
YouTube video by Icons Speak
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August 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first three images that show the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas and the Virgo Cluster.
Astronomers say the images are unlike anything they've seen before. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Astronomers say the images are unlike anything they've seen before. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
June 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first three images that show the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas and the Virgo Cluster.
Astronomers say the images are unlike anything they've seen before. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Astronomers say the images are unlike anything they've seen before. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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Last week, we’ve issued a new statement on Gaza, condemning the ongoing genocide and calling for an #armsembargonow. Find out more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/optisra... @penmena.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Last week, we’ve issued a new statement on Gaza, condemning the ongoing genocide and calling for an #armsembargonow. Find out more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/optisra... @penmena.bsky.social
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One of these tattoos was for autism awareness
"Shame on you" -- Leavitt gets mad at @andrewfeinberg.com for asking her about a document indicating that tattoos are all it takes for migrants to get sent to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One of these tattoos was for autism awareness
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Here is the new afterword for the new paperback version of me memoir, Burn Book www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Move Fast and Destroy Democracy
Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.
www.theatlantic.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Here is the new afterword for the new paperback version of me memoir, Burn Book www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Flowers turn sunlight into sugar for life. Cyanotypes turn sunlight into immortality. Stunning cyanotypes immortalizing flowers:
Haunting Cyanotype Portraits of Flowers by Artist Rosalind Hobley
Roses are blue, violets are ultraviolet, and beauty is made of chemistry and light.
www.themarginalian.org
March 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Flowers turn sunlight into sugar for life. Cyanotypes turn sunlight into immortality. Stunning cyanotypes immortalizing flowers:
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Brave Ukraine defender Natalia Grabarchuk, a former kindergarten teacher, stopped a Russian cruise missile from killing civilians, including children in 2024. #3E #IWD #InternationalWomensDay
March 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Brave Ukraine defender Natalia Grabarchuk, a former kindergarten teacher, stopped a Russian cruise missile from killing civilians, including children in 2024. #3E #IWD #InternationalWomensDay
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March 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The thing is...
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March 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The thing is...
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Born on this day in 1865, Wilson Bentley was only a teenager, with an early camera and a supportive mom, when he captured the otherworldly beauty of snowflakes in his pioneering photomicroscopy
The Haunting Beauty of Snowflakes: Wilson Bentley’s Pioneering 19th-Century Photomicroscopy of Snow Crystals
The quest to capture nature’s vanishing masterpieces, endowed with the delicacy of flowers and the mathematical precision of honeycombs.
www.themarginalian.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Born on this day in 1865, Wilson Bentley was only a teenager, with an early camera and a supportive mom, when he captured the otherworldly beauty of snowflakes in his pioneering photomicroscopy
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...