Steve Foster
@boredtownboy.bsky.social
Amateur astrophysicist. Tom Waits fan. Member @thefabians. Married to @Goody200Shoes. One planet. One species. One nation.
(Liverpool, UK)
(Liverpool, UK)
ATel #17511: Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: discovery of the 2025 eruption
ATel On
www.astronomerstelegram.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We always knew that this was going to be a circus. The only positive that I can see is that the infighting would otherwise have been within Labour.
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
“End The Witch-hunt”: The First 24 Hours At The Chaotic ‘Your Party’ Conference
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural conference of ‘Your Party’, the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Su...
www.politicshome.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We always knew that this was going to be a circus. The only positive that I can see is that the infighting would otherwise have been within Labour.
My new retirement income plan is to write vitriolic clickbait on X under multiple fake identities so as to make easy money from Elon😁
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My new retirement income plan is to write vitriolic clickbait on X under multiple fake identities so as to make easy money from Elon😁
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It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
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Really enjoying the new series of Celebrity Traitors.
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Really enjoying the new series of Celebrity Traitors.
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
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Speaking as a spacecraft engineer, the thing that gets me about Loeb's interpretations is that his alien engineers are insultingly incompetent.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Speaking as a spacecraft engineer, the thing that gets me about Loeb's interpretations is that his alien engineers are insultingly incompetent.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
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You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…
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1. Fundamentally, a significant part of what I do is the prediction of both the behaviour of pathogens in the future and our likely collective response to future pathogenic threats. I have an excellent track record in this regard for two main reasons:
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
1. Fundamentally, a significant part of what I do is the prediction of both the behaviour of pathogens in the future and our likely collective response to future pathogenic threats. I have an excellent track record in this regard for two main reasons:
I ordered some glue from Amazon and got these recommendations. The mind boggles at what some of their customers must get up to!
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I ordered some glue from Amazon and got these recommendations. The mind boggles at what some of their customers must get up to!
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The most French story since bumbling jewel thieves hit the Louvre.
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The most French story since bumbling jewel thieves hit the Louvre.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Who would have thought that this would be the most accurate prediction of any sci-fi film of the 21st Century
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
Idiocracy (2006) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
1h 24m | R
www.imdb.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Who would have thought that this would be the most accurate prediction of any sci-fi film of the 21st Century
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
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Half the major parties in the United Kingdom appear to be in a desperate arms race to see who can be performatively cruel enough to foreigners to earn a "based" quote tweet from Elon Musk.
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Half the major parties in the United Kingdom appear to be in a desperate arms race to see who can be performatively cruel enough to foreigners to earn a "based" quote tweet from Elon Musk.
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The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money
The FT reports this morning that:
Chinese tech giants have paused plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong, after Beijing raised concerns about the rise of currencies controlled by the private sector.
...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
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Gonna start loading up all the Mr Blobby in films I did. One a day. Starting with Mr Blobby in the Matrix.
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Gonna start loading up all the Mr Blobby in films I did. One a day. Starting with Mr Blobby in the Matrix.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Given that the whole point is to keep escalating the violence, this is the most effective form of protest. It undermines their narrative of a "violent mob", and every time they try to escalate, they'll just look goofy as hell beating a bunch of inflatable animals.
This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses
so yes, this does do something actually
so yes, this does do something actually
October 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Given that the whole point is to keep escalating the violence, this is the most effective form of protest. It undermines their narrative of a "violent mob", and every time they try to escalate, they'll just look goofy as hell beating a bunch of inflatable animals.
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All my comics have happy endings!
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
All my comics have happy endings!
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It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
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The Labour MP for East Thanet, Polly Billington MP, has written to the Reform Leader of Kent County Council to express her concern about Reform in Kent’s "continued endorsement of anti-science organisations and conspiracy theories" in a new motion on climate change (🧵)
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Labour MP for East Thanet, Polly Billington MP, has written to the Reform Leader of Kent County Council to express her concern about Reform in Kent’s "continued endorsement of anti-science organisations and conspiracy theories" in a new motion on climate change (🧵)