@astrognome.bsky.social
Here for outdoorsy things, leftist politics, astronomy, coding, gaming, and books.
Excited to be in the generation that gets to find out what the Great Filter is!
Excited to be in the generation that gets to find out what the Great Filter is!
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I think the most succinct way to introduce myself here, beyond what I wrote in my bio, is with a picture of my bookshelf. I may elaborate further later but this has most of the essentials!
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Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
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For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
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since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution
there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close
denvergov.org/Government/A...
there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close
denvergov.org/Government/A...
Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates
Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...
denvergov.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution
there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close
denvergov.org/Government/A...
there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close
denvergov.org/Government/A...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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It’s wild how my entire life news media was hyperbolic and overdramatic about everything and now when the US is being taken apart in full view of the world they’re like ‘eyebrows were raised in DC today as the president’s private militia smashed their way into a church, in a move some find worrying’
October 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It’s wild how my entire life news media was hyperbolic and overdramatic about everything and now when the US is being taken apart in full view of the world they’re like ‘eyebrows were raised in DC today as the president’s private militia smashed their way into a church, in a move some find worrying’
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
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It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.
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There were more than 120 domestic terrorist attacks, in which there were 11 murders, in the United States during the “relative calm” of the 1980s and 1990s. They just all happened to be at abortion clinics, so I guess those don’t count.
September 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There were more than 120 domestic terrorist attacks, in which there were 11 murders, in the United States during the “relative calm” of the 1980s and 1990s. They just all happened to be at abortion clinics, so I guess those don’t count.
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There's a "national emergency" somewhere. We're just not sure, but we'll figure it out soon & send in the troops. Somewhere, to be sure, with a bunch of Black people.
Just wildly unconstitutional, immediate presidency-ending stuff, & yet here we are for the One Special Boy
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Just wildly unconstitutional, immediate presidency-ending stuff, & yet here we are for the One Special Boy
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Trump: "We're making a determination now -- do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough, quite bad?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
There's a "national emergency" somewhere. We're just not sure, but we'll figure it out soon & send in the troops. Somewhere, to be sure, with a bunch of Black people.
Just wildly unconstitutional, immediate presidency-ending stuff, & yet here we are for the One Special Boy
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Just wildly unconstitutional, immediate presidency-ending stuff, & yet here we are for the One Special Boy
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
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the core issue here is that crime rates are down exponentially from where they were just a few decades ago:
you’re asking Democrats to make “effective plans to deal with crime” that *largely only exists in the deluded minds of brainwashed MAGAs, most of whom don’t live in cities*
you’re asking Democrats to make “effective plans to deal with crime” that *largely only exists in the deluded minds of brainwashed MAGAs, most of whom don’t live in cities*
While I agree with you that Democrats must stand up against this military takeover of our streets, opposition to this takeover must also be combined with effective plans to deal with crime. Like it or not, crime is a very salient issue for most American voters.
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
the core issue here is that crime rates are down exponentially from where they were just a few decades ago:
you’re asking Democrats to make “effective plans to deal with crime” that *largely only exists in the deluded minds of brainwashed MAGAs, most of whom don’t live in cities*
you’re asking Democrats to make “effective plans to deal with crime” that *largely only exists in the deluded minds of brainwashed MAGAs, most of whom don’t live in cities*
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This is why physical media is still so important.
August 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is why physical media is still so important.
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During the 2024 campaign Trump literally just said that if he wins they will "fix it so Republicans will never have to vote again" and the press was like "huh I wonder what he means by that, doesn't seem like something we should follow up on"
In an alarming move, the Department of Justice has demanded voter and election information from at least 19 states
DOJ Seeking Voter And Election Information From At Least 19 States
The move's alarmed states, which have the constitutional authority to run elections and are protected from sharing individual data with the government.
www.huffpost.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
During the 2024 campaign Trump literally just said that if he wins they will "fix it so Republicans will never have to vote again" and the press was like "huh I wonder what he means by that, doesn't seem like something we should follow up on"
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
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the first reason to not entertain compromises on trans people’s right to play sports is that people should be able to participate in society by playing sports.
the second reason to not entertain compromises on trans people’s right to play sports is IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT MORE THAN SPORTS.
the second reason to not entertain compromises on trans people’s right to play sports is IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT MORE THAN SPORTS.
by 2020, before the springer buyout, politico did a journalism& got one of the guys spearheading the attack on trans people to nakedly explain it was never about sports, that sports was the easiest way to break solidarity with trans people.
i don't direct link politico.🧵
archive.is/7Jkuv
i don't direct link politico.🧵
archive.is/7Jkuv
July 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
the first reason to not entertain compromises on trans people’s right to play sports is that people should be able to participate in society by playing sports.
the second reason to not entertain compromises on trans people’s right to play sports is IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT MORE THAN SPORTS.
the second reason to not entertain compromises on trans people’s right to play sports is IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT MORE THAN SPORTS.
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The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
July 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.”
The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.
The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.”
The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.
The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
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NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
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There is no greater distance between the facts on the ground and the political discourse than this fucking genocide. Thousands of people are being killed and starved! Children! No one meaningfully disputes this. Yet the only thing the media generates moral outrage about is the civility of protestors
June 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There is no greater distance between the facts on the ground and the political discourse than this fucking genocide. Thousands of people are being killed and starved! Children! No one meaningfully disputes this. Yet the only thing the media generates moral outrage about is the civility of protestors
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If the bargain the Democratic Party leadership wants to make to the left is, the left should compete in primaries and then support the Democrat in the general, even if it isn't their favored candidate, it has to go both ways: When leftist candidates win primaries, the party needs to get behind them.
June 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If the bargain the Democratic Party leadership wants to make to the left is, the left should compete in primaries and then support the Democrat in the general, even if it isn't their favored candidate, it has to go both ways: When leftist candidates win primaries, the party needs to get behind them.