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I am honestly in awe of how well the HSGAC and Senate Budget Democratic staff did. They won on almost everything. Legendary stuff here.

Tho it does help that the GOP staffers in the room were…. not good at their jobs.
bbkogan.bsky.social Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 23
Wow. Fourth batch of Byrd droppings is out - Dem staff absolutely dominated the HSGAC fight

We won on reorg & bonuses for cost cutters ofc, but also on at-will, filing fees, and USPS green vehicles & infrastructure sales

Seriously, major praise to the D staff
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
“One Big, Beautiful Bill” Has More Provisions That Violate the Byrd Rule, According to Senate Parliamentarian | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
www.budget.senate.gov
June 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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monicabyrne13.bsky.social
Iran is filled with unspeakable beauty. I barely got to scratch the surface even in the month I was there. Here: a stained glass window reflected in a pool at Bagh-e Dolat Abad, a traditional garden in Yazd.
An intricate, colorful stained glass window reflected in a still pool of water.
June 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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oceanlani.bsky.social
From diving Rota Island's reefs of the Northern Mariana Islands 🇲🇵💙💚 #NaGatboLuta
A close up of a large Diploastrea coral showing a green coral with blue septa A close up of a smaller Diploastrea coral showing a green coral with blue septa. The coral mound is surrounded by green algae. A zoom out of a large Diploastrea coral about 12-15 feet across A close up of a large clam with blue and very dark green spotted patterns, most likely Tridacna squamosa or similar
June 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”

A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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astrosociety.org
Spring arrives in the northern hemisphere early tomorrow morning! Do you know why our ancestors created the word “equinox” to mark this day (& the first day of fall)? Curious to see what one year of sunlight falling on our planet looks like from space?! @ourislanduniverse.bsky.social has got you! 🔭
ourislanduniverse.space Our Island Universe @ourislanduniverse.space · Mar 20
#Spring arrives for the northern hemisphere tomorrow at 5:01a EDT (2:01a PDT) & with it the return of warmth, the return of longer days, and shorter nights! Our ancestors coined a new word for days like tomorrow: #equinox. What were they trying to tell us?! 🔭🧪

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March 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
Here are some photons I rescued from crashing into my driveway a while back.

Inside the core of the Heart Nebula
🧪🔭 #astrophotography
A colorful image of a space nebula, with golden, red, cyan and dark blue areas. In the center there's various complex structures, one which looks a bit like a tree. Stars are everywhere.
March 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
See that dark spot? That’s not a sunspot. It's a planet!!

In 2012, Venus perfectly aligned with the Sun, creating a rare "Venusian annular eclipse" with an enormous ring of fire. This won't happen again until 2117.

More info here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25031...

🔭🧪🐡
Venus appears as a dark circle crossing the bright Sun in this rare 2012 event, captured in ultraviolet light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Image Credit: NASA/SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. Dove
March 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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brophoto.bsky.social
The very special night of May 10, 2024 rewarded attentive observers of the sky with the strongest display of #northernlights I've ever seen in lower latitudes by far (here: 49° 42′ N, Wasserliesch, near #Trier). #aurora #polarlights #astrophotography #astroscapes #astronomy #photography #nightsky
a wide angle panorama composition of circular, purple polar light curtains spanning the whole sky from Southwest (left) to North (right), above a little lake near the village of Wasserliesch, Germany - a very unique sight in this area ... there are some trees near the lakeshore, and a green-yellow aurora display low above the horizon below the purple curtains a colourful aurora display above a little lake and mountain near Wasserliesch, Germany, ranging from deep red (left-middle) through a yellow-greenish single patch in the low middle to purple curtain-like structures (right side) - the lake reflects some of the colors a strong aurora display above a lake near Wasserliesch, Germany, painting the sky green-yellow and purple-red and the lake showing its reflections
March 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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fraknoi.bsky.social
This #Hubble telescope image shows the Trumpler 14 star cluster some 8000 lightyears away. The stars are extremely young, only half a million years old. Many will end their lives in a few million years in great explosions.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotography #astronomyimages #sciencephotos
This image shows some of the hot, blue, young stars in the Trumpler 14 star cluster, as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope
March 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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astropotamus.com
If I can't find good news on Earth, I'll find it in Space. 🔭
NASA's stuck astronauts welcome their newly arrived replacements to the space station
A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.
apnews.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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alrouen.bsky.social
NGC 2264 – the Christmas Tree Cluster & Cone Nebula! I did the composition in SHO. This deep-space view reveals incredible detail and contrast. A rewarding target to image and process—hope you like it! 🔭 #astrophotography (78×300s Ha / 64×300s SII exposures over 2 nights) @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
NGC2264 (The Christmas tree and the Cone Nebula), in SHO colors.
March 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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adammc.space
NASA has published this year’s edition of Spinoff, their annual magazine showcasing all the ways NASA technology has been reused for new things. Refer to this next time someone questions if it’s worth spending money on space research 🔭🧪 www.nasa.gov/newsletters/...
NASA Releases its Spinoff 2025 Publication
This publication features commercial infusions of NASA technologies, including research originated at NASA Glenn.
www.nasa.gov
March 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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ututuy.org
The Milky Way in the direction of the constellation of Scutum. The Eagle and the Omega Nebula appear as small reddish smudges close to the trees. The Omega nebula is one of the largest star-forming regions in our galaxy. 🧪 🔭
Picture of the Milky Way behind a mountain in the Alps, near Ausserbinn, Switzerland. The galaxy appears as a vertical nebulous structure with many stars, also dark regions.
March 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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astropotamus.com
Life Hack: Exploring #Astronomy might inspire you or your kids to pursue careers in STEM fields. Or even a hobby. Or just a passing interest. Which helps prevent mental decay and makes you live longer!
March 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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martian-observer.art
NASA Mars Perseverance rover at Jezero crater, sol 1445 (14-Mar-2025)

Quick deck check

Nothing seems to have been stolen

Captured @ 14:13 lmst with NavCam-Left

Site 70; Drive 0
📷 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer
The surface of the rover, as viewed by navcam-left on the mast, looking back and down over the mostly white finished body upon which large accumulations of rusty coloured grit and dust have gathered around cable runs and other fixtures on the deck. Toward the back of the rover, the early afternoon Jezero sun casts sharp shadows across the RTeG radiator fins.
March 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
nerdybaker23.bsky.social
Finally completed @marasghost.bsky.social 's February baking challenge!! Matcha milk bread turtles!!

Recipe: food52-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/food52.c...
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
nerdybaker23.bsky.social
Hey @hankgreen.bsky.social I am so proud of our little corner of the internet!!!
Look at the write up in 1440!
DFTBA 💙
February 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day! Ḵaax̱gal.aat (1911–1958), who was Raven of the Tlingit Lukaax.ádi clan, gave a moving speech that is believed to be a large reason the first civil rights bill for Alaska Natives was passed in 1945. Read more about her here:

archives.alaska.gov/education/pe...
Black and white photo of Elizabeth Peratrovich, a woman with flawless skin, elegant earrings, dark hair and eyes. "Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve." Born in 1911, she was an equal rights advocate for all Alaska Natives and helped pass the first anti-discrimination law in the US Elizabeth Peratrovich quote: "I would not have expected that I, who am barely out of 'savagery', would have to remind gentlemen with five thousand years of recorded civilization behind them, of our bill of rights." Cartoon of Tlingit woman draped in a red shawl with a raven on it, her hair in a red bandana, posed with her arm flexed. Alaska scene behind her with a bill dozer, signs including one that says HB77
February 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nerdybaker23.bsky.social
It's the moooost wonderful tiiiiiiime of the yeeeeaaaarrrrrr
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Feb 14
The Project for Awesome is a very fun and silly but also important event that raises millions of dollars for global health and other charities voted on by YOU. It has just begun. Please join us at ProjectforAwesome.com/live
A goose, it says "I think I will cause problems on purpose."
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
The Project for Awesome is a very fun and silly but also important event that raises millions of dollars for global health and other charities voted on by YOU. It has just begun. Please join us at ProjectforAwesome.com/live
A goose, it says "I think I will cause problems on purpose."
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
nerdybaker23.bsky.social
It's been almost exactly 5 years since I last NSO-ed a roller derby game. It felt like I returned to where I belong and I am so glad to be back 💙
February 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
nerdybaker23.bsky.social
substack.com/@itsluke7/no...

This video was so damn cathartic to watch.
ItsLuke on Substack
Conservatives are supposed to be thick skinned right? So why are they so salty any time they get a taste of their own medicine?
substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
nerdybaker23.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/weneedab...

#SignalBoost
What White People Didn’t Get About Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance
Here are some of the hidden messages
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February 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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oldparatrp.bsky.social
Good morning,
If you voted for the destruction of this country & now you are coming on this platform asking for grace because you made a mistake.

Here is your grace:
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
February 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM