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Lord Dover
@lorddover.com
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Astronomer @ Sybilla Technologies working on space surveillance & tracking 🛰️🔭
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I really wish the government would fuck off with this creepy authoritarian bullshit. Nobody asked for this.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Being on that list is a badge of honour
bellingcat.com Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 7d
Bellingcat has been named an undesirable organisation in Russia because of our reporting on the country dating back to the downing of MH17 in 2014 by Russian-backed forces.

We will continue to report accurately on Russia and will not be intimidated by disinformation and false accusations.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Remember when Obama jokingly predicted this in 2011?
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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After today’s surgery I am ~0.05% titanium.

Would not recommend.
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I can finally start calling him “the Andrew formerly known as Prince”
Andrew loses 'prince' title and home as Virginia Giuffre's brother calls for further investigation
Sky Roberts welcomes the King's moves, but says:
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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In her WHAT
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 9
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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If only someone could have predicted that OSA would be a disaster
ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Passed my viva 🥳
September 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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agastro.bsky.social
Check out our tiny rock featured by @eso.org !
Now available in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We measured the size using the new lightcurve shape models and old radar data #TeamRadar
📡🪨🔭🧪
September 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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My name continues to cause chaos 😈
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Such a classy display of patriotism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
August 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water
You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet
andymasley.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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theguardian.com
Planetary scientist Michele Dougherty made UK’s first female astronomer royal
Planetary scientist Michele Dougherty made UK’s first female astronomer royal
Physicist who worked on Nasa Cassini mission ‘absolutely delighted’ after being awarded 350-year-old title A planetary scientist whose research revealed the possibility of extraterrestrial life on one of Saturn’s moons has been made the first female astronomer royal. Prof Michele Dougherty, a leading space physicist who was a researcher for the Nasa Cassini mission, has been awarded the 350-year-old honorary title. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I always found it weird that these guys used to own IDL.
July 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Might be time to revive this 🔭
lorddover.com Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Nov 21
I decided to make a browser extension 🔭
July 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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michael-w-busch.bsky.social
#subpost

"What if this spacecraft in Jupiter orbit magically had four more tons of hydrazine" is not something to be taken seriously by anyone.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Comet Interceptor is now on Bluesky!! ☄️🚀🛰️
July 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
lorddover.com
These petitions don’t seem to achieve much, but it’s still worth a shot.
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
petition.parliament.uk
July 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Google searches for “VPN” in the UK:
A graph showing interest against time, for the past seven days. There is a sharp spike in the past 24 hours.
July 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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whereisyvette.bsky.social
The weirdest thing about this astronomer thing is how the astronomical community keeps thinking “wait do we know him?”
July 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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@ianbetteridge.com’s law now extends to astrophysics pre-prints
rami.spaceaustralia.com CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · Jul 17
Good grief — he just can’t help himself! Classic narcissist.

Everyone’s fav* Harvard astronomer has struck again!

This has to be, as we call it here in Australia …. ‘taking the piss’, right?

RIGHT?!?!?!

HT SpaceFam pvt chat and someone that Loeb already has once tried to take on lmao
Abstract from new paper that features Avi Loeb as an author: At this early stage of its passage through our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, the recently discovered interstellar interloper, has displayed various anomalous characteristics, determined from photometric and astrometric observations. As largely a pedagogical exercise, in this paper we present additional analysis into the astrodynamics of 3I/ATLAS, and hypothesize that this object could be technological, and possibly hostile as would be expected from the 'Dark Forest' resolution to the 'Fermi Paradox'. We show that 3I/ATLAS approaches surprisingly close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, with a probability of ≲0.005\%. Furthermore the low retrograde tilt of 3I/ATLAS's orbital plane to the ecliptic offers various benefits to an Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (ETI), since it allows the object access to our planet with relative impunity. The eclipse by the Sun from Earth of 3I/ATLAS at perihelion, would allow it to conduct a clandestine reverse Solar Oberth Manoeuvre, an optimal high-thrust strategy for interstellar spacecraft to brake and stay bound to the Sun. An optimal intercept of Earth would entail an arrival in late November/early December of 2025, and also, a non-gravitational acceleration of ∼5.9×10−5 au day−2, normalized at 1 au from the Sun, would indicate an intent to intercept the planet Jupiter, not far off its path, and a strategy to rendezvous with it after perihelion.
July 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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leighfletcher.bsky.social
Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana

pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...
July 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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michael-w-busch.bsky.social
For any asteroid observers who have not heard about it already:

Newly-discovered #A11pl3Z is a candidate interstellar object.

cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...
Scout: NEOCP Hazard Assessment
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site. Data related to Earth impact risk, close-approaches, and much more.
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov
July 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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radplanets.com
WHAT
Already, in just over 10 hours of test observations, the observatory has discovered 2,104 never-before-seen-asteroids, including seven near-Earth asteroids, none of which pose any danger.
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM