Reading these two series one after another or at the same time is a real delight. I can imagine they are 2 huge empires *just* separated by a bit of space-time. They are different stories, but somehow complement each other really nicely.
I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels.
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...
www.speculativeinsight.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reading these two series one after another or at the same time is a real delight. I can imagine they are 2 huge empires *just* separated by a bit of space-time. They are different stories, but somehow complement each other really nicely.
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Temps gonna crash from the low 60s mid-afternoon tomorrow to the teens by sunrise Saturday. 50° swing in 12-18 hours.
Just Denver doing Denver things.
#COwx
Just Denver doing Denver things.
#COwx
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Temps gonna crash from the low 60s mid-afternoon tomorrow to the teens by sunrise Saturday. 50° swing in 12-18 hours.
Just Denver doing Denver things.
#COwx
Just Denver doing Denver things.
#COwx
Cult of Personality
Down with the Bass
Good Times Bad Times
Heaven and Hell
Greying Out
Down with the Bass
Good Times Bad Times
Heaven and Hell
Greying Out
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Cult of Personality
Down with the Bass
Good Times Bad Times
Heaven and Hell
Greying Out
Down with the Bass
Good Times Bad Times
Heaven and Hell
Greying Out
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
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An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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🔭 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔭 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
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Driving on a Colorado highway in a 2WD vehicle during a storm? Traction law now requires chains or other devices. trib.al/5Iq3P2X
Driving a 2WD vehicle on I-70 in a storm? New traction law requires chains or anti-slip devices
During storms, CDOT officials can declare the traction law “activated” on any state highway. Along the I-70 mountain corridor through Dotsero, the law remains in effect September through May.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Driving on a Colorado highway in a 2WD vehicle during a storm? Traction law now requires chains or other devices. trib.al/5Iq3P2X
WOLF-RAYET APEP (clap clap clapclapclap)
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
WOLF-RAYET APEP (clap clap clapclapclap)
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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It's always weird to me how there are like these completely different subsets of critically important factual information that most white folk in the US just don't know. 🤷🏿♂️
Because these white folk don't know any Black folk, and don't ask any questions.
Because these white folk don't know any Black folk, and don't ask any questions.
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
November 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's always weird to me how there are like these completely different subsets of critically important factual information that most white folk in the US just don't know. 🤷🏿♂️
Because these white folk don't know any Black folk, and don't ask any questions.
Because these white folk don't know any Black folk, and don't ask any questions.
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2 more good articles - in Astronomy and Scientific American - about the unexplained 1950s transient flashes seen in astronomical photographic plates from Palomar Observatory. #transients 🌌🤔
www.astronomy.com/science/did-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...
www.astronomy.com/science/did-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...
Did aliens watch 1950s nuclear tests? ‘Maybe,’ studies say
OK, it’s probably not aliens, but two new studies confirm 1950s sky flashes were real, reflective objects, and their appearance statistically correlated with nuclear tests.
www.astronomy.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2 more good articles - in Astronomy and Scientific American - about the unexplained 1950s transient flashes seen in astronomical photographic plates from Palomar Observatory. #transients 🌌🤔
www.astronomy.com/science/did-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...
www.astronomy.com/science/did-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...
that teeny tiny smudge next to Merope is Barnard's Merope Nebula. IC349. difficult, but possible to observe visually. I've used a specially prepared eyepiece with an occulting bar in a 13" reflector.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_349
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_349
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
that teeny tiny smudge next to Merope is Barnard's Merope Nebula. IC349. difficult, but possible to observe visually. I've used a specially prepared eyepiece with an occulting bar in a 13" reflector.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_349
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_349
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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Yes … meow meow meow … YES!
Happy Friday from Dottie. I’ve always believed cats were Sickos …
@theonion.com
Happy Friday from Dottie. I’ve always believed cats were Sickos …
@theonion.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Yes … meow meow meow … YES!
Happy Friday from Dottie. I’ve always believed cats were Sickos …
@theonion.com
Happy Friday from Dottie. I’ve always believed cats were Sickos …
@theonion.com
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You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."
a more menacing version of Le Tits Now
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
a more menacing version of Le Tits Now
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Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/
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Reposted by Nathan Murphy
#RECALL: Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#RECALL: Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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It appears there's another chance to see the aurora borealis over Colorado tonight, but tonight's chance is more conditional for two reasons:
1) Cloud cover may mess it up. Less cloud cover east of Denver.
2) The timing of the next CME. Best chance appears closer to sunset tonight (5-8p).
#COwx
1) Cloud cover may mess it up. Less cloud cover east of Denver.
2) The timing of the next CME. Best chance appears closer to sunset tonight (5-8p).
#COwx
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It appears there's another chance to see the aurora borealis over Colorado tonight, but tonight's chance is more conditional for two reasons:
1) Cloud cover may mess it up. Less cloud cover east of Denver.
2) The timing of the next CME. Best chance appears closer to sunset tonight (5-8p).
#COwx
1) Cloud cover may mess it up. Less cloud cover east of Denver.
2) The timing of the next CME. Best chance appears closer to sunset tonight (5-8p).
#COwx
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Be on the lookout tonight again! I've seen photos from places pretty far south. You can always search here on Bluesky for aurora+your state to see if anyone in your area is seeing or has seen them.
The sun just spat out several coronal mass ejections that could trigger a serious solar storm on Wednesday
Powerful Solar Storm Could Trigger Far-Reaching Auroras across U.S.
The sun just spat out several coronal mass ejections that could trigger a serious solar storm on Wednesday
www.scientificamerican.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Be on the lookout tonight again! I've seen photos from places pretty far south. You can always search here on Bluesky for aurora+your state to see if anyone in your area is seeing or has seen them.
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I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.