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Deivi t'Terra
@deivi-tterra.bsky.social
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(Davie, of Earth)

Galaxy wandering human, friend of Vulcans.

In real life I'm a massive nerd who likes music, art, Star Trek (obviously), science, rock climbing and gaming.

I'm aroace, genderfluid and my pronouns are they/them.
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🔭 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JWST; Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI); Rollover: NASA, ESA, HST, & J. M. Apellániz (IAA, Spain); Acknowledgement: D. De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25092...
Stars dot the frame that has a blue background. Covering the lower part of the image, and the far right, are brown and tan nebular structures. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Timely recommendations:

theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...
How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind
The video of Charlie Kirk’s murder went far and wide, and many people ended up seeing it when they would rather have avoided it.
theconversation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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thisiscolossal.com
New-to-us species alert! 🚨 🐟 These snailfish get bumpy, dark, and sleek in the deep sea.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/new-...
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Bees absolutely love my sedum (which is coming in nicely in my front flower bed!)
A bumble bee collecting nectar from a tight cluster of pink flowers.
September 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.66 (lookback time 6.27 billion years) with coordinates (149.97980, 2.33675).

59 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 59 volunteers.
September 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Finished DS9 (took me a couple years to get through it, which isn’t the 7 years it would have taken when it originally aired!) I’m also watching Babylon 5. I love both shows a lot. It’s weird going from DS9 to Voyager… I love classic Star Trek silliness but DS9 changed the game.
September 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I’m back! With new art. I picked up a Pantone book on a recent trip and am experimenting with only using palettes found in the book. This one is “Bauhaus”.
A digital painting of a realistic nebula in shades of blue, purple and orange-brown on a black background with purple stars and two bright yellow diffraction spikes.
September 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Considering how addicted Americans generally are to coffee, I can’t see this going well lol.
A map of coffee growing regions (none of which are in the US) in response to this post: “What about this is complicated? If you buy American, there is no tariff. Explain to me what Democrats don’t understand.”
April 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Since the us government isn't going to help ukraine, here is a link to several organizations that will directly help the Ukrainian people www.huri.harvard.edu/how-you-can-...
www.huri.harvard.edu
March 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I bought a 2025 Camry (hybrid) over the weekend. I got 60 MPG on the way home last night. SIXTY!!! 🫨
March 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Fuse bead event horizon. I’m glad I finally got my hands on black beads! Also more colors. 😁
Black hole event horizon on a black background, made with fuse beads. Black hole event horizon on a black background, made with fuse beads. Held up to the light, some pinholes that didn’t melt fully allow light to shine through, looking like extra stars. Back side. Melted almost completely smooth. Black hole event horizon on a black background, made with fuse beads.
March 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Nailed it.
Person in a trans flag t-shirt looks down at a knife in their stomach. Person in a MAGA sweatshirt says “it’s just *politics*. We can still be friends.”
March 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Got myself a new hobby for my birthday; my first Perler project in like 25 years 😄. Definitely need some practice, especially with the fusing. I did not get even results.

These things don’t smell like I remember. Probably safer but I’m disappointed.
February 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Tow truck drivers are the unsung heroes of society. (I wish I didn’t have to keep calling them lately, but I’m so grateful that they’re there).
February 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I just read in their email newsletter that this effort was successful! Their BSky feed isn’t very active but their email newsletter is a reliable source of space news and space advocacy news.
planetarysociety.bsky.social The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · Feb 18
The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program.

Read more on our stance. ⬇️
The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Probationary…
Sudden, indiscriminate layoffs at NASA do not serve the national interests in space leadership.
www.planetary.org
February 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
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February 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
deivi-tterra.bsky.social
Oh HELL no. 😡
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Feb 21
He's gonna fuck up every single independent creator who depends on the mail for their business. Call your reps and tell them you didn't vote for Trump to destroy your business. reps.fyi
jacobbogage.bsky.social Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · Feb 21
📬🚨 HUGE NEWS 📬🚨

Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department.

It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.
February 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The rest of the letter is in the comments on the original post.
iwashyna.bsky.social Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 20
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Fantastic resource here! Thanks Joe M for sharing it!
February 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Remember this.
Big grey bird tells four smaller birds of different colors that they’re all degenerates. The four small colored birds morph into one multicolored bird that’s bigger than the grey bird. The grey bird looks scared and says “why stick together? You are all so different. I even tolerate some of you.”
February 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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It’s weird knowing my continued existence is a form of resistance but since we gotta do this…my gender is chaos now.
February 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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kendrawrites.com
I only recently learned that this is the original Rosie The Riveter . The poster we all think of was one created by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. They took the propo image and localized it.
Jacked woman holding some kind of a jack and a sandwich against the backdrop of the US flag
February 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
Have this friend who is newish to #astrophotography here in Sydney. He did 40-hour mosaic on the Vela Supernova remnant in h-alpha/[O-III] …. And holy heck it is incomprehensibly magnificent!

Those are exploded star gutz. At its heart is the Vela pulsar. 🔭

Shared with permission.

📸 David Elford
Astro image of a supernova remaining knots and bubbling clouds of a bright and turbulent nebula.
February 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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wamorrison95.bsky.social
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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thinkingrealhard.bsky.social
What happens when you denigrate humans with words like parasite…
How Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews to facilitate the Holocaust
A new study of speeches, pamphlets and articles from the period shows how German fascism denied Jewish people humanity to fuel hate and justify genocide.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM