Penni W.
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"You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that."—Samuel Beckett | GOP delenda est
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NASA: Voyager Found a 50,000-Degree “Wall” at the Edge of the Solar System #blogpost
NASA: Voyager Found a 50,000-Degree “Wall” at the Edge of the Solar System
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft discovered something extraordinary at the edge of our Solar System — a superheated plasma “wall” reaching up to 50,000 kelvin. This region, known as the heliopause, marks the boundary between the Sun’s solar wind and the interstellar medium. Despite its name, this “wall of fire” is nearly empty space — yet it changed how we understand our cosmic neighborhood. paper link: nature.com Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:44 DISCOVERY 02:43 SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE & THEORIES
05:31 IMPLICATIONS & WHAT’S NEXT
07:45 Outro
08:07 Enjoy ...
littlegreenfootballs.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
NASA: Voyager Found a 50,000-Degree “Wall” at the Edge of the Solar System #blogpost
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I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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This should alarm everyone.
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This should alarm everyone.
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
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Ed Ruscha, Fast Cash, 2021
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Ed Ruscha, Fast Cash, 2021
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That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
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Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
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While Bouie notes that Vance is pretty useless compared to recent vice presidents, I'd add that all changed after this month's elections. With Trump a shamed duck, Vance is now the leader of the party.
And that makes his welcoming stance towards the Groypers all the more sick and dangerous.
And that makes his welcoming stance towards the Groypers all the more sick and dangerous.
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
While Bouie notes that Vance is pretty useless compared to recent vice presidents, I'd add that all changed after this month's elections. With Trump a shamed duck, Vance is now the leader of the party.
And that makes his welcoming stance towards the Groypers all the more sick and dangerous.
And that makes his welcoming stance towards the Groypers all the more sick and dangerous.
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First exhibition ever dedicated to 16th-century Flemish painter Catharina van Hemessen to premier at the National Gallery, London, in 2027 www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
First exhibition ever dedicated to 16th-century Flemish painter Catharina van Hemessen to premier at the National Gallery, London, in 2027 www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...
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Trump living it up, bedazzling everything, lining his pockets, freeing his criminal allies while out on the streets his goons terrorize entire communities feels like something from dystopian fiction.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Trump living it up, bedazzling everything, lining his pockets, freeing his criminal allies while out on the streets his goons terrorize entire communities feels like something from dystopian fiction.
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For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can.
If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can.
If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
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People keep saying that & I’m like:
- Why did we ditch masking in places that had it previous to the pandemic?
- what happened to all our dashboards? What about our metrics for shutdowns?
- why aren’t we given masks and tests?
- what about ventilation?
- why aren’t all shots free
- Why did we ditch masking in places that had it previous to the pandemic?
- what happened to all our dashboards? What about our metrics for shutdowns?
- why aren’t we given masks and tests?
- what about ventilation?
- why aren’t all shots free
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
People keep saying that & I’m like:
- Why did we ditch masking in places that had it previous to the pandemic?
- what happened to all our dashboards? What about our metrics for shutdowns?
- why aren’t we given masks and tests?
- what about ventilation?
- why aren’t all shots free
- Why did we ditch masking in places that had it previous to the pandemic?
- what happened to all our dashboards? What about our metrics for shutdowns?
- why aren’t we given masks and tests?
- what about ventilation?
- why aren’t all shots free
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now we collectively all can't unsee it, you're welcome 🤣🖤
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
now we collectively all can't unsee it, you're welcome 🤣🖤
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please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures
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My parents met on jury duty. I’m pretty sure my mom was engaged to a guy named Doug at the time.
In the jury pool room they watched the Watergate hearings and she thought my dad was an asshole. They were married within the month.
And seven years later they named their only child after a hot dog.
In the jury pool room they watched the Watergate hearings and she thought my dad was an asshole. They were married within the month.
And seven years later they named their only child after a hot dog.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My parents met on jury duty. I’m pretty sure my mom was engaged to a guy named Doug at the time.
In the jury pool room they watched the Watergate hearings and she thought my dad was an asshole. They were married within the month.
And seven years later they named their only child after a hot dog.
In the jury pool room they watched the Watergate hearings and she thought my dad was an asshole. They were married within the month.
And seven years later they named their only child after a hot dog.
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
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From an official government account: "Womp womp."
It is not just that we are ruled by morons, but our tax dollars are paying the salaries of morons who possess the emotional capacity of a Doberman in heat.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
It is not just that we are ruled by morons, but our tax dollars are paying the salaries of morons who possess the emotional capacity of a Doberman in heat.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
From an official government account: "Womp womp."
It is not just that we are ruled by morons, but our tax dollars are paying the salaries of morons who possess the emotional capacity of a Doberman in heat.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
It is not just that we are ruled by morons, but our tax dollars are paying the salaries of morons who possess the emotional capacity of a Doberman in heat.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
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normal things happening
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
normal things happening
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This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
dlvr.it
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
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I joined BlueSky mostly for scholarly inspiration, but all of the academics I follow just talk about politics. I muted All The Political Words, and now my timeline is silent apart from a bloke who posts pictures of his pet chicken Colin.
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I joined BlueSky mostly for scholarly inspiration, but all of the academics I follow just talk about politics. I muted All The Political Words, and now my timeline is silent apart from a bloke who posts pictures of his pet chicken Colin.
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"Last year saw a doubling of Americans who were hospitalized or killed by contaminated food outbreaks ... Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce."
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Last year saw a doubling of Americans who were hospitalized or killed by contaminated food outbreaks ... Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce."
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Before anyone gets too carried away here.
Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him
Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked ‘credible death threats’ against him and his family
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Before anyone gets too carried away here.
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So Stephen Colbert's show *does* get cancelled because he didn't flatter Trump.
And Megyn R. Kelly's show *doesn't* get cancelled because she tried to dismiss & normalize pedophilia.
That's the morally topsy-turvy country we are currently living in.
And Megyn R. Kelly's show *doesn't* get cancelled because she tried to dismiss & normalize pedophilia.
That's the morally topsy-turvy country we are currently living in.
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So Stephen Colbert's show *does* get cancelled because he didn't flatter Trump.
And Megyn R. Kelly's show *doesn't* get cancelled because she tried to dismiss & normalize pedophilia.
That's the morally topsy-turvy country we are currently living in.
And Megyn R. Kelly's show *doesn't* get cancelled because she tried to dismiss & normalize pedophilia.
That's the morally topsy-turvy country we are currently living in.