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Ben TG
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professional rocket scientist, amateur astronomer
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this one's new too
President Donald J Trump is a pig.
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Check this out.
In Cincinnati the Democratic mayor defeated JD Vance's half brother!!
What a night
#fightfacism
AP report. Purveal defeats Bowman. Even though Pureval is a Democrat and Bowman -- the half brother of Vice President JD Vance -- is a Republican, neither run on a party line. The Cincinnati mayor’s office is a nonpartisan position.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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This @apnews.com description of Kirk's shirt just misses the mark.
AP article with a quotation mark in the wrong place. Wearing a white “freedom” shirt like the one her husband wore when he was shot, Erika Kirk urged young Christian conservatives to courageously fight for their beliefs and not fear the social consequences.
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Freedom isn't free.
#waroncars
Traffic backs up Wednesday afternoon entering and leaving Gainesville Middle School. School officials have been working on solutions to the problem of long lines of cars and buses as parents drop off and pick up students at the new school. - photo by Tom Reed https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/school-system-will-stagger-schedules-to-alleviate-gms-traffic-snarl/
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Nice work here @apnews.com
#nokings
Trump himself is away from Washington at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. “They say they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” Trump said in a Fox News interview airing early Friday, before he departed for a $1 million-per-plate MAGA Inc. super PAC fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. Protests are expected nearby Saturday.
October 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Thanks @repsuhas.bsky.social and for supporting funding for #nasa and #science.

Sad that 🚫maga🚫 wants us to live in the stone age.
VA-10 Rep Suhas Subramanyam speaking in front of NASA headquarters to fight for continuing funding of science, research, technology, and education in the USA.
September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Protesting to #SaveOurScience in front of NASA HQ.
Our investments in science and tech make us great.
Protesters in front of NASA HQ Sept 15 2025. On the mic, enumerating all the science programs on the chopping block and their impact.
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Picked up the new @seanmcarroll.bsky.social book, Quanta and Fields at @eastcitybooks.bsky.social!

Just finished chapter 1 and already solved the Schrödinger equation for simple harmonic oscillator potential 🔱
The Biggest Ideas In The Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll resting on my window sill on Sunday morning.
August 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Great dark sky on Vinalhaven, ME.
Ok photo.
#astronomy
Milky Way Galaxy. Vinalhaven, Maine. Aug 21, 2025 (no kings/fascists) Fujifilm X-E3. 50 mm f/2.0 ISO 3200 Some crude Android post processing
August 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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This city is our home and happens to also be home to our federal govt.
Hill family bike ride in January 2025, on East Capitol Street.
August 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Crazy sky tonight in #dc
Orange and pink sky over the Capitol building. A giant shadow is cast by something, maybe the Washington Monument? Looking west down Penn Ave
July 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Great ride yesterday! Thank you @hillfamilybiking.org for organizing every month.
#bikeDC
July Hill Family Bike Ride
July 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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best tag I've ever seen.
best use of DC flag I've ever seen.
eiπ + 1 = 0 Really, exp(iπ) + 1 = 0 Euler's formula
July 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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#immigrantfood
July 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Weather imitating art
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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They are also cutting the crewed mission that I work on, with no clear plan to replace it. But I agree that robotic missions are typically more effective and also the science we get from them is more interesting (for me personally). This is a dark time for the US.
NASA will sunset the Gateway - a planned lunar orbiting space station - to focus efforts on direct- to-surface exploration. We will explore opportunities for our commercial or international partners to repurpose elements of the Gateway.
May 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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That's a win 📌
March 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Also at #Ruta
Ukraine!
March 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Just had dinner at #RUTA.
Amazing food. Amazing bathroom decoration. 👊 #Ukraine
Ukraine defeats invading rußian battleship.
March 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Should be able to win back the house if we advance on errors like this Habba quote:
#ap
But at the same time, we have taxpayer dollars, we have a fiscal responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work,” Habba told reporters. “That doesn’t mean that we forget our veterans, by any means. We are going to care for them in the right way. But perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment, or not willing to come to work.”
March 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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idiot fascists
Estimated federal civilian employment by congressional district, 2023
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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It's good to see regular maintenance on #wmata. Single track trains *still* running every few minutes. Great job @wmata.com, @wmatagm.bsky.social
Workers replacing lamps at Eastern Market Metro station. See the bright disks laying near the edge. Trains single tracked on the inbound side, but we only waited about 3 minutes for our train (an outbound train came and went in that time).
February 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The National Gallery of Art Library is really amazing.
National Gallery of Art Library
February 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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folks in Alaska get the idea.
AP News: “It’s always been Denali, and it always will be,” he said. The executive order can instigate the name change, but compliance is another issue. “The only people that are going to adhere to that are probably the people that would have been still calling it McKinley anyway,” McAneney said There is a long-standing Alaska trait of ignoring what the rest of the world thinks, and it’s usually expressed like this: “We don’t care how they do it Outside.” Outside, which is always capitalized, refers to every place that is not Alaska."
January 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Mars approaching Moon
#phoneastronomybleh
#occult
Mars and Moon a few hours away from occultation. Mars to the lower left. The other bright spot to the upper left of the moon is the star Pollux. From Capitol Hill in DC.
January 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM