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21 🏳️‍🌈 | 🌐Seattle, WA | he/him

Student @ UW Seattle
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junlper.beer
February 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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astrokatie.com
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
my current favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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mattbinder.bsky.social
the TikTok algorithm is so good that it even served up the perfect video to act as the background for its ban announcement
January 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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typewriteralley.bsky.social
ICYMI: Senator-elect Jessica Bateman has dropped an ambitious bill that takes direct aim at Washington's costly parking mandates.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/10/b...
Bateman Takes Aim at Washington’s Parking Mandates - The Urbanist
# A new bill introduced at the state legislature by longtime housing advocate Jessica Bateman would represent a sea change, limiting the ability of cities and counties to mandate high amounts of parki...
www.theurbanist.org
January 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
snibk.bsky.social
yeah actually I do wonder...
January 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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hakita.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i have been playing FTL: Faster Than Life again and rediscovering that this game is an incredibly dangerous time sink for me
December 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Guinea worm used to afflict 3.5 million people each year. This year, thanks in part to Jimmy Carter, there have been 7 cases. He negotiated the longest humanitarian cease-fire in history to distribute water filters & larvicides www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm... via @tanyalewis.bsky.social
Jimmy Carter, Who Has Died at Age 100, Spared Millions of People from Guinea Worm, a Debilitating Parasite
Former president Jimmy Carter’s charity has helped transform Guinea worm from a disease that used to infect millions to one that infects fewer than a dozen
www.scientificamerican.com
December 29, 2024 at 11:14 PM
snibk.bsky.social
#wawx I'm working on an independent power outage tracker that aggregates data from multiple providers (PSE, SCL, etc). It's not ready to be publicly accessed yet but it seems the last data it a couple minutes ago got totals 343K (!!!) customers without power between the two providers
November 20, 2024 at 4:35 AM