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Maz
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I work in tech and like cats, mysteries, sci-fi, goth, synthy music, and the wonders of space.
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andreatweather.bsky.social
Posting this for the umpteenth time.
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Clear Skies From the International Space Station - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/yJU3QU
On Sept. 17, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured images and video from the International Space Station during an early morning flyover of the United States. Sharing with his social media followers, Kelly wrote, "Clear skies over much of the USA today. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace." Tuesday, Sept. 15 marked the midpoint of the one-year mission to the space station for Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. The average International Space Station expedition lasts four to six months. Research enabled by the one-year mission will help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration spaceflight. This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human missions deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer. Image Credit: NASA
March 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social
I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
WOW!!!! THIS NEW JWST IMAGE IS GORGEOUS!! IT SHOWS OUTFLOW FROM A NEWLY FORMING STAR AND THERE’S A GALAXY HERE TOO!!! 🌌
Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.
March 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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ependa.bsky.social
Babylon 5 Ivanova x Delenn
Look, now see here...
Let the ladies kiss instead of being sad all the time
A woman with a bun kisses a long haired woman as they grasp each other
March 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Carina Nebula in natural colours - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kKTS3S
Image of the Carina Nebula using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red), trying to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes). For avoiding saturating the brightest part of the nebula, only 10s exposures were taken, with a small "manual" (*) dithering pattern. 42 single frames were combined in each filter (7 minutes per filter). The data were taken at around 3am, Saturday 13 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia). I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope *). The data have been processed with SIRIL, and then Photoshop for getting the colours. Darks were used but not flats were taken. Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ). (*) Well, actually I didn't use guiding: the ZWO ASIAir didn't want to talk to the mount, and I had to reset the mount a couple of times because, after doing the 3-stars alignment, the solution was completely wrong, once it pointed me to the ground to go to Canopus! After 3 hours fighting, very tired and cold, I decided to do something quick at least for saving the night. This was it. I had to do the dithering manually moving slightly the telescope with the ke...
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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waldo.net
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I’ve been carrying around a similar chart that came out in 2022 like a talisman to prove to myself I’m not the one living in an alternate reality for taking Covid seriously. Unsurprised but heartbroken to find that sharp rise not only continued but increased.
calebcrain.bsky.social Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · Mar 16
This is a remarkable change: since Covid, an additional 5 million Americans report having a disability. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A graph showing that in the years since the Covid-19 outbreak, an additional 5 million Americans have reported having a disability
March 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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czarinaofficial.com
Circuit Preacher ♱⃓ C Z A R I N A

“Fall Damage”
New Single + Music Video
Friday, March 21

♱⃓ Music Video World Premiere ♱⃓
1PM EST | 18H Central EU

♱⃓ bfan.link/falldamage

#darkwave #ebm #orchestral #darkethereal #synthpop #darkelectro #goth #gothic

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@darktunes.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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straczynski.bsky.social
That's from a 21st century perspective. In the time of our story gender shifts are as easy as an appendectomy and about as controversial. It's like when Loki became Lady Loki, none of the Asgardians thought two things about it. Both sides would have only focused on the Minbari-Human shift.
qu0rra.bsky.social qu0rra.bsky.social @qu0rra.bsky.social · Mar 15
This transformation would certainly have been poorly and skeptically received by both races. And it should have become a difficult test for the character herself. Therefore, it seems to me that an additional transition would have been unnecessary.
March 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
machine-dreams.bsky.social
I hate that I know anything about 'vibe coding' let alone anyone's opinion on it. I need to get off LinkedIn.
March 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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autisticadvocacy.org
Want to help disabled people who cannot talk on the phone reach their legislators? Become a proxy caller volunteer! Learn more and sign up to volunteer at proxycaller.org!
Textured light blue background. Text at the top reads: Want to help disabled people who cannot talk on the phone reach their legislators? Blue bold text reads: Become a Proxy Caller Volunteer! On the left there is an illustration of a phone with an outgoing call. Text on the phone reads: Outgoing Proxy Call, calling… On the right of the phone, text reads: Learn more and sign up to volunteer at proxycaller.org! The ASAN logo is at the bottom.
March 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mortiscausa.bsky.social
finally finished my first fill for #marchtocamelot, hunt
gwalchmai ap gwyar leading a hunt on horseback, another horseman follows behind him and three dogs run alongside. in the background are more riders emerging from a forest
March 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
machine-dreams.bsky.social
if you see someone being a bathroom cop irl, confront them too
coyotegirl.online Emmy Cumslutress @coyotegirl.online · Mar 6
cis folks,

please do not let us die. please stand up for us.

outside of contacting your reps, please say something when a family member or friend says something abhorrent about trans people (especially youth)

it starts by letting assholes know that everyone else does not think like them

please.
March 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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theastroastro.bsky.social
Rosette nebula with QHY Minicam8 Mono [by wheelie80]

#astrophotography #astronomy
March 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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levin.bsky.social
also there's a pandemic. right now. that causes chronic illness in over 7% of the people who get it. That's a LOT of people
amandalhu.bsky.social Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · Mar 1
Thinking a lot about the belief that humans are overwhelmingly mostly healthy and normal and that an increase in chronic illness diagnosis is due to overdiagnosis when it’s actually that chronic illness/disease is the norm and we’ve been not detecting most of it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?
Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
thinking about how beautiful the jwst photo of uranus and its moons is again
The planet Uranus is on a black background just left of center. It is colored light blue and displays a large, white patch on the right side as well as two bright spots and a surrounding system of nested rings oriented vertically. Just below the planet at the 7-o’clock position is a faint blue point, Puck. Brighter blue points at 8 o’clock, 5 o’clock, and 3 o’clock are Ariel, Miranda, and Umbriel, respectively. Farther from the planet, two additional blue points at 7 o’clock and 5 o’clock are Titania and Oberon. Faint orange smudges are scattered in the background.
February 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
People. Are. Dying. Of. Covid. In America. Every. Single. Day. At the peak of the summer 24 wave, the 2nd largest wave we’ve ever had, there were nearly 2000 deaths a week. There is no OTHER SIDE.
“worse. But when we came out the other side — 1.5 million fewer of us — we were, as a country, exhausted, resentful, deluded and distrustful. A huge amount of the world in which we now reside was formed in that crucible. I will write more about that next week.”
February 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
machine-dreams.bsky.social
both evil and stupid as shit
February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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theverge.com
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/9a2i63
NASA image release January 13, 2011 These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. The image above, taken in visible light, highlights the attributes of a typical spiral galaxy, including graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions, and brilliant blue strands of star clusters. In the image here, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure, as seen in near-infrared light. This new image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core. To map the galaxy's dust structure, researchers collected the galaxy's starlight by combining images taken in visible and near-infrared light. The visible-light image captured only some of the light; the rest was obscured by dust. The near-infrared view, however, revealed more starlight because near-infrared light penetrates dust. The researchers then subtracted the total amount of starlight from both images to see the galaxy's dust structure. The red color in the near-infrared image traces the dust, which is punctuated by hundreds of tiny clumps of stars, each about 65 light-years wide. These stars have never been seen before. The star clusters cannot be seen in visible light because dense dust enshrouds them. The image reveals details as sma...
February 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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esghound.com
Since this post is getting traction, please remember to block Eric Berger, a paid Musk Propagandist, who somehow continues to post on bsky without getting ratio'd into oblivion @sciguyspace.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/esgh...
esghound.com Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · Feb 20
Eric Berger is saying that NASA should have been defunded and the entire pot of money handed to SpaceX 15 years ago. A serious space news journalist.

Why haven't you blocked @sciguyspace.bsky.social yet?
Eric Berger Tweet: Brilliant. India learns the lesson NASA and the US Congress refused to for 15 years, as they spent billions on bloated rocket programs while the private industry pushed for rapid reuse. The answer to sustainable space exploration is distributed launch and in-space refueling.
February 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Autistic pattern recognition with an in-depth knowledge of facism and history, coupled with rampant intrusive thoughts, an overdeveloped sense of social justice and a people pleasing nature born out of experiences which lead you to want help everyone. Anyway, so how is everyone else's Sunday going?
February 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM