Paul Sevensky
@p7sky.bsky.social
Retired PR/journalism professional and college faculty. Interests include journalism, photography, hydroponic gardening, astronomy & space exploration, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball & New York Giants football.
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Pennsylvania is home to 700,000 veterans – folks who put on the uniform and served our Commonwealth and country with honor and integrity.
On behalf of all Pennsylvanians, we thank you for your service today and every day.
Happy Veterans Day, Pennsylvania.
On behalf of all Pennsylvanians, we thank you for your service today and every day.
Happy Veterans Day, Pennsylvania.
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Pennsylvania is home to 700,000 veterans – folks who put on the uniform and served our Commonwealth and country with honor and integrity.
On behalf of all Pennsylvanians, we thank you for your service today and every day.
Happy Veterans Day, Pennsylvania.
On behalf of all Pennsylvanians, we thank you for your service today and every day.
Happy Veterans Day, Pennsylvania.
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We closed out our anniversary with an event in DC last month. Check out the conversation: https://loom.ly/3c-4sts
Thanks to @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social and so many more for celebrating with us!
Thanks to @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social and so many more for celebrating with us!
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We closed out our anniversary with an event in DC last month. Check out the conversation: https://loom.ly/3c-4sts
Thanks to @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social and so many more for celebrating with us!
Thanks to @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social and so many more for celebrating with us!
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We stand with The Stanford Daily and @thefireorg.bsky.social to defend all student journalists' right to report without fear.
Hear from several of the 55 college newsrooms and student leaders about why they joined our amicus brief: https://bit.ly/4nd2t7P
Hear from several of the 55 college newsrooms and student leaders about why they joined our amicus brief: https://bit.ly/4nd2t7P
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We stand with The Stanford Daily and @thefireorg.bsky.social to defend all student journalists' right to report without fear.
Hear from several of the 55 college newsrooms and student leaders about why they joined our amicus brief: https://bit.ly/4nd2t7P
Hear from several of the 55 college newsrooms and student leaders about why they joined our amicus brief: https://bit.ly/4nd2t7P
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Thank you Veterns.
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thank you Veterns.
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A female Pileated Woodpecker flying through cattail reeds while looking for a good tree to hammer away at.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A female Pileated Woodpecker flying through cattail reeds while looking for a good tree to hammer away at.
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A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company.
(Published May 2024)
(Published May 2024)
Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company.
(Published May 2024)
(Published May 2024)
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Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. https://to.pbs.org/3LFjGcV
Severe solar storms could hit Earth, space forecasters say. Here's how to see auroras
The vibrant displays could be visible across much of the northern U.S., and as far south as Alabama and Northern California.
www.pbs.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. https://to.pbs.org/3LFjGcV
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"The next generation is speaking up for all of our First Amendment rights." 👏
Thank you @stephruhle.bsky.social and @msnbc.com for highlighting IU's censorship and our amicus brief. As we empower student journalists to defend #pressfreedom, we are inspired every day by their courage and solidarity.
Thank you @stephruhle.bsky.social and @msnbc.com for highlighting IU's censorship and our amicus brief. As we empower student journalists to defend #pressfreedom, we are inspired every day by their courage and solidarity.
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"The next generation is speaking up for all of our First Amendment rights." 👏
Thank you @stephruhle.bsky.social and @msnbc.com for highlighting IU's censorship and our amicus brief. As we empower student journalists to defend #pressfreedom, we are inspired every day by their courage and solidarity.
Thank you @stephruhle.bsky.social and @msnbc.com for highlighting IU's censorship and our amicus brief. As we empower student journalists to defend #pressfreedom, we are inspired every day by their courage and solidarity.
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New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and @texastribune.org, brought against state and local governments.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to rele...
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and @texastribune.org, brought against state and local governments.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
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Perseids incoming! ☄️
The most famous meteor shower of the year sees its peak on the night of 12 to 13 August.
Making a wish will require extra effort this time around:
🌖 look away from the Moon
💡 avoid light pollution
☕ expect to stay up late
🧣 stay warm 1/2
🔭
The most famous meteor shower of the year sees its peak on the night of 12 to 13 August.
Making a wish will require extra effort this time around:
🌖 look away from the Moon
💡 avoid light pollution
☕ expect to stay up late
🧣 stay warm 1/2
🔭
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Perseids incoming! ☄️
The most famous meteor shower of the year sees its peak on the night of 12 to 13 August.
Making a wish will require extra effort this time around:
🌖 look away from the Moon
💡 avoid light pollution
☕ expect to stay up late
🧣 stay warm 1/2
🔭
The most famous meteor shower of the year sees its peak on the night of 12 to 13 August.
Making a wish will require extra effort this time around:
🌖 look away from the Moon
💡 avoid light pollution
☕ expect to stay up late
🧣 stay warm 1/2
🔭
Another example of science leadership.
📺 Watch live on 13 August at 01:37 BST/02:37 CEST as MetOp-SG-A1 and #Copernicus #Sentinel5A are launched on Ariane 6 flight #VA264 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana!
Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch
Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Sp...
www.esa.int
August 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Another example of science leadership.
Space is just awesome! Does the U.S. still have a role or is that being ceded to other countries?
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Space is just awesome! Does the U.S. still have a role or is that being ceded to other countries?
American scientific greatness is in peril. NY Times Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
Opinion | How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
American scientific greatness is in peril. NY Times Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
Could Evan Neal remake himself as a guard? It's possible.
Carter vs Neal
Does Evan Neal look competent at guard here or am I hallucinating?!
Does Evan Neal look competent at guard here or am I hallucinating?!
July 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Could Evan Neal remake himself as a guard? It's possible.
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July 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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In Laurels and Darts, nixing the nameless government spokesman. Plus: Poignant coverage from Texas; inside a notorious Syrian prison; and waffles, glorious waffles, by @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
EschewAnon
Nixing the nameless government spokesman. Plus: Poignant coverage from Texas; inside a notorious Syrian prison; and waffles, glorious waffles.
www.cjr.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In Laurels and Darts, nixing the nameless government spokesman. Plus: Poignant coverage from Texas; inside a notorious Syrian prison; and waffles, glorious waffles, by @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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WATCH: Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene.
But in both disasters, there was a disconnect between accurate weather alerts and on-the-ground action that could have saved lives.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
But in both disasters, there was a disconnect between accurate weather alerts and on-the-ground action that could have saved lives.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
WATCH: Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene.
But in both disasters, there was a disconnect between accurate weather alerts and on-the-ground action that could have saved lives.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
But in both disasters, there was a disconnect between accurate weather alerts and on-the-ground action that could have saved lives.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
@starboydazzle.bsky.social Perhaps a breakthrough at hand in the very long running Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike? From Neiman Lab:
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-th...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-th...
A thousand days in, there may be an end in sight for the newsroom strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"I'm feeling...tired. Mad. Broke."
www.niemanlab.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
@starboydazzle.bsky.social Perhaps a breakthrough at hand in the very long running Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike? From Neiman Lab:
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-th...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-th...
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So stay away from A.I. and in a few years you will be one of the few people left who can think an original thought.
Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So stay away from A.I. and in a few years you will be one of the few people left who can think an original thought.
Cutbacks have consequences. Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Cutbacks have consequences. Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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The Juno spacecraft passing over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. A bit of artwork I rendered back in 2019 or so using reprojected imagery from Perijove 7.
flic.kr/p/2gde7Bw
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June 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Juno spacecraft passing over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. A bit of artwork I rendered back in 2019 or so using reprojected imagery from Perijove 7.
flic.kr/p/2gde7Bw
flic.kr/p/2gde7Bw
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Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
n.pr
June 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
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Right, as usual.
June 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Right, as usual.
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"Beautiful clean coal" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
In Appalachia, a Father Got Black Lung. Then His Son Did, Too.
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Beautiful clean coal" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...