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mcnees.bsky.social
Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.
December 17, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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brentlee.bsky.social
Misinformation?
Disinformation?
What's the difference?

A very simple and festive explainer. 🎅

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🎨 @felixuncia.bsky.social
🧠 @brentlee.bsky.social
A festive two tile comic strip illustrating the difference between misinformation and disinformation. Tile A: Disinformation. Scene: Christmas morning in the living room. A child looking at wrapped Christmas present which seems to have the outline of a bicycle. Parents stood in the background are telling the child "It's from Santa Claus!". Tile B: Misinformation Scene: Later that day, the child is riding his new bike outside. While passing his three friends standing on the sidewalk, he shouts "It's from Santa Claus!". Credit: This comic strip is a collaboration between @brentlee.bsky.social & artist @felixuncia.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Military disability payments are well deserved. There is a massive glut at the moment because Burn Pit veterans are retiring, and the burn pits caused all kinds of issues, for me as well. And we have no idea what it WILL do to us when we are older. Cont…
December 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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moon1over.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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astronomers.bsky.social
The first direct image of another 'solar system'

Space
November 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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I have been suffering from depression and my extraordinary husband just sent me the attached and you should follow him, he is a remarkable man, as courageous as he is insightful, as strong as he is empathetic, and brilliant all the time: @bendavison.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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November 18, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Congrats to @bluesky for all the new users

My 2 cents. Find every news source the has an RSS feed or equivalent and create accounts that that show their public deeds on here under @johndoetimesfeed

That way we all get access to news without having to wait for them to create accounts first.
November 14, 2024 at 1:21 AM