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Audrey D Stargazer
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Home librarian with gigantic 'waiting to be read' book pile. Enthusiastic and shamless reposter. Any of my own photos posted are taken with the little phone cam only, no effects added.
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Great Atlantic Sargassum blooms are fueled by enhanced phosphate upwelling during the negative phase of the Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM): 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2025/12/08/s...
Solving the Mystery of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt: 5 Surprising Truths
This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms” by Jung et al. (2025). De…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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barrabirder.bsky.social
Merlin sitting tight with prey at Borve today. These fabulous little falcons are a daily feature on Barra at this time of year. #birdingscotland #birds
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
#Egypt #archaeology #Egyptology
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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dailyherald.bsky.social
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego

GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego
GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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jqadams-mhs.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! Starting on December 6, we'll share the daily entry from the line-a-day diary kept by John Quincy Adams 200 years ago.

You can start exploring all 51 volumes of JQA's diaries here: www.primarysourcecoop.org/jqa/
John Quincy Adams Digital Diary
www.primarysourcecoop.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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schmidtocean.bsky.social
In January 2025, R/V Falkor (too) carried the #AntarcticClimateConnections expedition team through the famed Drake Passage, into the Bellingshausen Sea. Here's a link to our recently released short film, "Crossing the Divide:" https://youtu.be/C4e3GZkGwxk?si=wccBT82dgY46Y-de
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
In case you're STILL confused about mafia enabler Merrick Garland, please read this article. I wrote it in 2023. It is not a response to current events. It explains why the these events would happen unless good people intervened -- which they did not. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
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November 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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fotofacade.bsky.social
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Norway hits the the pause button on #Deepsea Mining 🌊🦑🧪 www.wwf.no/nyheter/a-hi...
A historic victory: Norway halts plans for deep seabed mining in the Arctic - WWF
The decision establishes a four-year stop to any exploration or extraction activities in Norwegian waters.
www.wwf.no
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Waxing Gibbous Moon. 3 December 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Moon at waxing gibbous phase on a blue sky background.
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
This piece really resonates with me and my exact story — I don’t come from a science background, but decided to chase my passion. It took a lot of hard work (basically restarting from scratch) but previous experience across industries gave me the right tools to persist through challenges.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 7d
"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg
An illustration of a man standing in water that comes up to his neck surrounded by fish, with text: I dropped out of high school. Now, I’m living my dream as a fish scientist
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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1789jam.bsky.social
Still just resting & coughing. Am excited to watch this webinar tho: Helen Wilson, "Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850." Will use the info for the Jane Austen Seminar next semester. #JaneAusten #BlackBritain #Skystorians #18thC
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Opening PowerPoint for webinar "Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850" by Helen Wilson. Image shows an 18th century London crowd scene with men fighting, pigs crossing a bridge, and a line of people presumably bringing bribes to a government office.
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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hillaryburlock.bsky.social
Delighted that my short piece on Jane Austen and dance has been published in The Conversation! theconversation.com/inside-the-r... #assemblyrooms #dancehistory #18thc
Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen
Ball-goers needed months to prepare for these events.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!

Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...

What's up first?
CHESS!

December 1 (1/24)

Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
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Black and white woodcut of a man sitting at a chessboard, holding one of the black pieces as if to invite you to play. Letterpress text above and below with some red initials, underlining, and emphasis.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
Offered seasonally with book selections by guest curators, this new collection highlights renowned and modern artists practicing within ... themes of poetry, visual art, critical thought, design and ... more. Works can be borrowed by readers for 45-days, free of costs to our U.S. based community.
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias

Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices | Cliff Mitchell
@cliffmitchell.bsky.social @sdupp.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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danneidle.bsky.social
These "property gurus" charge people a fortune for terrible advice. Here's Samuel Leeds selling a series of tax ideas that don't work. Clueless.

And here's an actual tax adviser explaining why they fail: buff.ly/2hyertH
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Forget me not: unravelling the mystery of poor memory

Forgetfulness is a frustrating trait, but delving deeper into the complexities of memory dispels many myths around failure to remember | Ian Kirke
@iankirke.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Forget me not: unravelling the mystery of poor memory
Forgetfulness is a frustrating trait, but delving deeper into the complexities of memory dispels many myths around failure to remembe
centralbylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
Glasman represents a long standing Labour tradition of North London intellectuals who think they understand the working classes which in his case is to think they are racists who must be pandered to (the Tony Benn version was more romantic if just as wrong)
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
I love this GALEX ultraviolet view of Andromeda. I wrote about it a few years back: slate.com/technology/2...
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
A reminder that Trump is loyal to no one. No one. He will always eventually screw over everyone.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.

bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
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November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Our 2026 wall and desk calendars are available to order!
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Pre-order Grandiloquent Word of the Day 2026 Calendars on BackerKit
Grandiloquent words with definitions & pronunciations, vintage illustrations, daily holidays, and celestial details!
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November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Good eels make good neighbors. Sometimes.

In 1410, the Archbishop of Canterbury & the Earl of Arundel got in a fight about eel fishing rights on the Ouse in Sussex. Each wanted sole rights to set nets & traps in the river.

It got so bad that King Henry IV had to intervene. 1/3
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Meme. Painting of King Henry on a black background. His name is in gold letters floating above his head, so you know it's him. He is proud, as befits a king whose name follows him around. His expression is stern, but disappointed. He is absolutely giving you the side-eye. What have you done? He is wearing a fairly silly red hat that drapes over his head like a small child dropped a blanket on him. You'd make fun of him if he were your friend, but he's the king, so you'll probably start wearing a blanket on your head, too. Henry's mustache is amazing, tailored to graceful points at the end. Surely he twirls them. How could he not? His beard is that kind of manicured scruffy that plays well with wine moms, and his nose is so sharp that you might think you could cut cheese with it. But...don't. That's pretty textbook lèse-majesté. And Henry demands more majesty, damn it. Meme text reads: "Fighting over eels again? Don't make me pull this country over"
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM