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Salul
@salul07.bsky.social
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- Recovering academic
- Bibliophile
- Old school DM (pencil, paper, dice) and space nerd
- When adulting am an environmental anthropologist of the Pacific Islands🇻🇺🇹🇱🇵🇬🇳🇨 and Tibet.
- Seeking common humanity through trekking, reading, and landscapes.
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salul07.bsky.social
The sun rises over Mokoliʻi islet, windward O’ahu. Moko, an older form of the word mo’o (lizard); li’i (small).

According to the Pele epic, the goddess Hiʻiaka killed a giant lizard at Kualoa. Part of its body fell into the bay: the islet is the tip of the tail sticking out of the water.
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
My god. It's full of stars.

This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known.

Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.
A sparling scene is six-pointed stars, with a large cluster at upper centre and a particularly bright example at lower right. The background is wispy and in shades of blue and grey–red, with a bright border of reddy–orange clouds along the left and bottom of the scene.
December 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
salul07.bsky.social
Behind the veil of early morning haze, a mountain lurks.
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
salul07.bsky.social
Summertime in Bergen, Norway. Some time ago.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
salul07.bsky.social
Sunrise over Coyoacán, Mexico City. To the left, the church tower and one of the steeples of the parish of San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist), overseen by the Franciscan order since the late 1530s.
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
salul07.bsky.social
El sol se asoma sobre Coyoacán.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
salul07.bsky.social
My ethnographic endeavours require much travel, often to destinations far away and of difficult access. To say nothing of local conditions on the ground. It is no small exaggeration when I am able to take a snap like this one (from this evening) and be reminded that there is no place like home.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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nasawatch.bsky.social
On 13 Nov 2026 #NASA's Voyager 1 will be one light day (25.9b km/16b mi) from Earth. No other nation has done this - yet Voyager carries greetings from all humanity. We're not only spacefaring - we're now starfaring. How about a #LightDay - some #interstellar #softpower for NASA?
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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glastomichelle.bsky.social
Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the living and the spirit world. The beginning of the darker half of the year. The light this morning was lovely shortly after sunrise here in Glastonbury. #samhain
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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arealmofwonder.bsky.social
Robert Frost 🖎
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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glastomichelle.bsky.social
Autumn Gold. Photo taken this morning in Glastonbury.
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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danielmachacek.bsky.social
Bright auroras visible on the night side of Jupiter from the Juno's SRU camera during orbits 69 and 70.

Left image:
Date: 2025/01/28.
Time: 23:08:17 (UTC).

Right image:
Date: 2025/03/02.
Time: 16:04:45 (UTC).

Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/SwRI/D. Machacek.
Black-and-white image of bright aurora glowing on the night side of Jupiter with stars visible behind horizon. Image taken by SRU camera onboard Juno spacecraft during orbit 69. Black-and-white image of bright aurora glowing on the night side of Jupiter with stars visible behind horizon. Image taken by SRU camera onboard Juno spacecraft during orbit 70.
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
A picture of the full moon
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall |
Famous Last Words
October 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️Update: 1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities.

In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, regional Governor Serhii Lysak reported that one person was killed and 13 others injured amid the large-scale attack on the country.
1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities
Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others, officials reported.
kyivindependent.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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parisnoire.bsky.social
Robert Redford has died. A clip from one of my most favorite films. He was so pretty. And so funny: youtu.be/XhCo2mgRD4A
MOVIE SCENE | Barefoot in the Park | Robert Redford & Jane Fonda
YouTube video by Cherry Oh Baby
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September 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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wxnb.bsky.social
Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin.

Simply incredible.
August 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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arstechnica.com
Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website
US restores deleted portions after people noticed the Constitution had shrunk.
arstechnica.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Centuries-Old Hawaiian Petroglyphs Emerge From the Sand for the First Time in Nine Years
Centuries-Old Hawaiian Petroglyphs Emerge From the Sand for the First Time in Nine Years
Discovered in 2016, the sandstone carvings on the western shore of Oahu depict human-like figures and extend across more than 100 feet
www.smithsonianmag.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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ellecordova.bsky.social
Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker
July 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
salul07.bsky.social
Evening clouds over Coyoacán. Mexico City.
July 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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luckytran.com
NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent.

"We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."
The Voyager Declaration Dear Interim Administrator Duffy, In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold. Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire. Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C, NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5) Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific. As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv… • We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts. • We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial observations. • We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology. • We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission. • We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s… We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies. We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.
July 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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brionesci.bsky.social
Hoy es un buen día para seguir dando pequeños pasos... y quizá con alguno lleguemos muy lejos, como con este del 20 de julio de 1969.

#DíaInternacionalDeLaLuna
July 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM