Samuel Karlin
@samuelkarlin.bsky.social
Physicist, software developer, keen on photos of gorgeous landscapes, space and nature. 🏠 Oxford. 🌹 Leftie. He/him. Here for pretty pictures and a political conversation hopefully more civilised than Musk's Twitter.
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Nice image of our interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS from Dan Bartlett in California and the comet-ml. Note that the coma is green and there is a blue tail and anti-tail. This is from a 2 hour exposure.
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Nice image of our interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS from Dan Bartlett in California and the comet-ml. Note that the coma is green and there is a blue tail and anti-tail. This is from a 2 hour exposure.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Another beautiful nebula!
The California Nebula (in the shape of the USA state. Last night I added and stacked another 60 minutes worth of 60 sec exposures on top of three hours already in the Dwarf3 smart scope memory.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The California Nebula (in the shape of the USA state. Last night I added and stacked another 60 minutes worth of 60 sec exposures on top of three hours already in the Dwarf3 smart scope memory.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Another beautiful nebula!
The California Nebula (in the shape of the USA state. Last night I added and stacked another 60 minutes worth of 60 sec exposures on top of three hours already in the Dwarf3 smart scope memory.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The California Nebula (in the shape of the USA state. Last night I added and stacked another 60 minutes worth of 60 sec exposures on top of three hours already in the Dwarf3 smart scope memory.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
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Poland states the obvious: EU and NATO member state Hungary is an ally of Putin’s Russia
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Poland states the obvious: EU and NATO member state Hungary is an ally of Putin’s Russia
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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A reminder that this is the same man who has just spent the past week calling all the Jewish victims of his own horrific anti-semitic abuse liars
December 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A reminder that this is the same man who has just spent the past week calling all the Jewish victims of his own horrific anti-semitic abuse liars
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Been thinking about this guy all day. The stones on the man. A true hero.
Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
December 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Been thinking about this guy all day. The stones on the man. A true hero.
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Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
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Turns out that safeguarding Jewish life in this country depends on safeguarding liberal democracy and pluralism, not expecting assistance from the Radical Right. Who knew!?!
Cole does ask if banning Halal means banning Kosher.
CT says it should
CT does say he'd ban Kosher + those Jews who want it "have a country of their own to go to"
Cole does not challenge or contest this in any way
CT says it should
CT does say he'd ban Kosher + those Jews who want it "have a country of their own to go to"
Cole does not challenge or contest this in any way
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Turns out that safeguarding Jewish life in this country depends on safeguarding liberal democracy and pluralism, not expecting assistance from the Radical Right. Who knew!?!
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Thank God we didn't panic and lose Chamberlain
December 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Thank God we didn't panic and lose Chamberlain
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This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
December 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
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The basic truth of all claims about immigrants is that immigrants are just, you know, people, and therefore what is true for any human in the UK working in one field is also true of an immigrant in that one: www.ft.com/content/10da...
December 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The basic truth of all claims about immigrants is that immigrants are just, you know, people, and therefore what is true for any human in the UK working in one field is also true of an immigrant in that one: www.ft.com/content/10da...
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes. That huge majority is created from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU people entering the electorate, and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward Rejoin.
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes. That huge majority is created from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU people entering the electorate, and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward Rejoin.
Actual good news - and important good news, at that.
UK’s higher borrowing costs compared with major countries ‘may be coming to an end’
UK’s higher borrowing costs compared with major countries ‘may be coming to an end’
Thinktank says Rachel Reeves’s budget had started to assure bond markets about fiscal approach
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Rachel Reeves’s test from the bond markets starts now
The “premium” that the UK pays to borrow money compared with its international peers may be coming to an end as markets grow more confident about the government’s plans, a thinktank has suggested.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s announcement in the autumn budget that she would be more than doubling the UK’s financial headroom by 2030 from £9.9bn to £22bn had begun to assure bond markets about Labour’s fiscal approach. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Actual good news - and important good news, at that.
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#MountainMonday
walking down to Hidden Lake, nestled
between Reynolds Mountain (left)
and the prominent Bearhat Mountain (right)
Glacier National Park, Montana
August 2025
#hiking #GlacierNP #mountains #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyMonday
walking down to Hidden Lake, nestled
between Reynolds Mountain (left)
and the prominent Bearhat Mountain (right)
Glacier National Park, Montana
August 2025
#hiking #GlacierNP #mountains #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyMonday
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#MountainMonday
walking down to Hidden Lake, nestled
between Reynolds Mountain (left)
and the prominent Bearhat Mountain (right)
Glacier National Park, Montana
August 2025
#hiking #GlacierNP #mountains #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyMonday
walking down to Hidden Lake, nestled
between Reynolds Mountain (left)
and the prominent Bearhat Mountain (right)
Glacier National Park, Montana
August 2025
#hiking #GlacierNP #mountains #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyMonday
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cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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This really isn’t going away is it. Reform’s line that all these many people are lying just isn’t remotely plausible.
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This really isn’t going away is it. Reform’s line that all these many people are lying just isn’t remotely plausible.
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Yosemite Valley never disappoints #elcapitan #yosemite #yosemitenationalpark #yosemitevalley #yose #rangeoflight #sierra #sierranevada #landscapephotography
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Yosemite Valley never disappoints #elcapitan #yosemite #yosemitenationalpark #yosemitevalley #yose #rangeoflight #sierra #sierranevada #landscapephotography
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Farage’s defence of his schoolboy racism leans on an anti-#MeToo vibe... the idea that everyone rolls their eyes at being held to account for “old” behaviour. But he’s wildly overestimating how many Brits spent their youth swaggering around public school shouting antisemitic slurs
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Farage’s defence of his schoolboy racism leans on an anti-#MeToo vibe... the idea that everyone rolls their eyes at being held to account for “old” behaviour. But he’s wildly overestimating how many Brits spent their youth swaggering around public school shouting antisemitic slurs
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The essence of Blue Labour thought is that somewhere in Downing Street there is a button marked “reindustrialise” that Tony Blair could have pressed, but instead he opted for the “more Woke Studies” button.
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The essence of Blue Labour thought is that somewhere in Downing Street there is a button marked “reindustrialise” that Tony Blair could have pressed, but instead he opted for the “more Woke Studies” button.
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This is exactly it. What's killing Labour on social media is "the mentality of the message". There simply is no way for the party to get back in the game without loosening up and allowing its MPs and councillors to start being themselves and saying what they think.
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is exactly it. What's killing Labour on social media is "the mentality of the message". There simply is no way for the party to get back in the game without loosening up and allowing its MPs and councillors to start being themselves and saying what they think.
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The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long.
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long.
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long.
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long.