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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 7h

@allplanets.bsky.social is a senior astronomer and Director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of @unistellar.bsky.social, and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of @skymapper.bsky.social. 🧪 🔭

#PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens

Text: #notjustaliens. Franck Marchis, planetary astronomy. Background: Starry night sky. Inset: Photo of person.

Text: Dr. Franck Marchis is a senior astronomer and Director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Unistellar, and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyMapper. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets in front of it.

Text: His research includes notable discoveries such as the first triple-asteroid system, the binary Trojan asteroid Patroclus, the direct imaging of a Jupiter-like exoplanet, and major advancements in adaptive optics, as well as citizen science using networks of small telescopes. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 16h

I see you and love you and love this, Portland. Hope to get back there sooner than later.

Maybe I'll return as Captain Volcano, Longview's mascot of tourism after the eruption. I will be alone and nobody will know who I am. I'll exhaust myself explaining who I am and burn myself out.

Person in a superhero costume with a "Captain Volcano" helmet stands in front of signage that reads "Longview Chamber of Commerce." September 1980. Fardell/Daily News.

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kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · 16h

Krasheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka.

Image taken today by Sentinel-2.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16h

Friends, please join me in welcoming the Manta Trust to Bluesky! They’ve left Twitter and are setting up shop here.

🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm

Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 18h

Some of our ocean’s most iconic species are vanishing — whale sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays.

Join us in calling for action. Sign the petition today: only.one/act/cites-2025

#CITESCoP20 #SaveTheMantas

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 11h

Some octopus studies from today's art gym!

#SciArt #WorldOctopusDay #Octopus

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 6h

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 3h

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Spam McGrumper🌹 @cooptimo.bsky.social · 10h

"YOU AREN'T OCCUPYING PORTLAND, PORTLAND IS OCCUPYING YOU!" *random dude in inflatable costume starts twerking*

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 7h

Give Portland another sports team so they can name them the Portland Frogs after the valiant hero defending the city

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stealingsand (Mia) @stealingsand.bsky.social · 1h

Portland's entire tourism ad budget can be repurposed...

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1h

When I published a pro-transit op-ed in the SF Chronicle, holy shit did the fact-checker grill me. Made me give citations upon citations. If only they were one-tenth that rigorous about Heather Knight's columns attacking Chesa Boudin...

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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BAJA BLAST BLAINE @shrekromancer.gay · 4h

got fired from my job as a restaurant host because I was telling customers "park your flesh heap right over here" as I seated them

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 4h

are we sure it's a misspelling?

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

Kurt Cobain would have had to apologize to him

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 5h

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 18h

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

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stealingsand (Mia) @stealingsand.bsky.social · 4h

That cracked me the fuck up

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4h

how things are going

[22:24]sky: NO NO NO NO NO
[22:24]sky: NO
[22:24]sky: YOU CANNOT DO THAT
[22:24]sky: ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT
[22:24]sky: WHERE IS MY BIG RED DENIED STAMP

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4h

One thing I don't see a lot of game critics really delving into: We all agree that GamerGate and gamer subcultures have been a pivotal component of this current era... But what you don't see discussed is which games shaped those cultures from a literary movement standpoint. Whose voices are these?

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NurseBrianRN @nursebrianrn.bsky.social · 5h

quitting my job to focus on my laundry

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 12h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

it is so important for the public to know about this terrible waste of talent, curiosity, wonder, and progress

too much of science -- how it's made, who makes it, and how and why -- is hidden from public view

these stories need to be told

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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stealingsand (Mia) @stealingsand.bsky.social · 4h

Big same on both points.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

I honestly think Stephen Miller being such a shrill little bitch is a major obstacle to wearing down the people’s morale, people dont get intimidated into shutting up when Big Brother is furiously screeching that he’s not three apples tall

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 5h

Still from a 3d Megaman game showing a helmet helmetless megaman standing in a dilapidated kitchen with a small floating monkey creature. Text reads "Damn Bitch, You Live Like This?

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