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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thanks for the props. 🥰

admirablewomen.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social · Jul 16

Meet Poppy Northcutt, the Woman Who Helped Bring the #Apollo11 Astronauts Home Safely #WomenInSTEM

time.com/5614162/apol...

Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy #OTD in 1969.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 11

I too am mystified. Especially by all the Republican senators who have abdicated their senatorial powers to him.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 11

He reminds me of those animals that “mark” their territory.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · May 11

Bribery in plain sight.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 11

So now the Orange One is renaming another gulf, this one not even in our hemisphere. He has already renamed a mountain. So what’s next? Oceans? Countries? Continents? Planets? Galaxies? Megalomania marches on. @harriscodemocrats.bsky.social

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 6

I reposted it

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 6

I reposted the link

Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

May the Fourth be with you.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · May 4

"Apocalypse." "Catastrophe." That's how scientists are describing Trump's latest funding freeze. This war on science is an innovation-killer. Where does Trump think things like MRIs, computers, touch screens, GPS, mRNA vaccines, and the internet came from?

Scientists deem Trump’s latest funding freeze a “slow-moving apocalypse”

The National Science Foundation has long been a crucial supporter of research and science eduction.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

I reposted it. Bluesky won’t let me edit

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

My apologies. I didn’t realize the url had been cut off by bluesky when I pasted it in. Still not used to the shorter message length.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

Deliberately alienating a long time good neighbor is crazy. As is the fixation on Greenland.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

NASA SMD Dear Colleague Action Alert | American Astronomical Society

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks for letting me know.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

If you like me sometimes have insomnia, you can also use Resistbot to write your member of Congress about the proposed NASA budget cuts or any of the other atrocities coming out of this administration.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 5

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has made it easy for you to reach out to your local representatives asking them to sign a bipartisan Congressional letter advocating for continued funding of NASA's science portfolio. aas.org/urge-nasa-supp…

https://aas.org/urge-nasa-supp…

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · May 4

They were kids and cops and other victims of gun violence. Trump can take down their faces, but he’ll never erase memories of them. wapo.st/3Yu9wzH

Memorial to victims of gun violence taken down at ATF headquarters

The “Faces of Gun Violence” memorial was installed at ATF in 2024 to remind the workforce of the human toll.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

It definitely wa.

Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

Steven J. Hatfill, a virologist and White House adviser during Trump’s first term who pushed hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid is now a special adviser at a small HHS agency responsible for preparing the U.S. for disasters such as pandemics and biological and chemical attacks. 😳

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

I am in recovery today after working from 5:30 am til about 9:15 pm when delivered ballot boxes to election central. The return location was out by IAH way out at the edge of the county. Was after 10 pm by time I hot home. 🥱

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

How cool a job is that — training astronauts to do EVA’s!!

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

How out of it do you have to be to think that most little girls get 30 dolls for Christmas! Millions of little girls are thrilled to get one doll as a present. Sadly many of those little girls will be seeing a hard candy Christmas with the orange guy in office. @harriscodemocrats.bsky.social

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

Upside was that 3 of my election clerks were newbies — a 16 yr old high school student and 2 20-somethings who train astronauts how to do EVAs.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

Yesterday’s turnout at my polling place was slightly better than I expected. We voted 11 people instead of my predicted 8 to 10. Not really surprising since we were in a very urban location for very suburban elections.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · May 4

Houston