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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 8
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Harvard Observatory
A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She is sitting at her desk and looking up at the camera, which is in front of her and to her left. Payne-Gaposchkin is wearing a baggy, ribbed sweater and has a wristwatch on her right arm. A pair of glasses rests on the desk in front of her, next to open books and papers which are just visible at the bottom of the photogaph. Filing cabinets, drawers, and another desk are visible in the background. She has short, dark hair which is no longer than chin-length, pulled out of her face behind her left ear.
May 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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macspace.bsky.social
If you see this, post your blue art 🔵

some of my Near Earth Orbit classics.
July 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
*speechless horror*

(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
Screenshot of the president's budget showing that the Exoplanet Exploration budget would reduce from $54.4M to $3.3M.
May 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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semafor.com
🟡 SCOOP: The White House is likely to pull the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, just days before he was set to receive a confirmation vote in the Senate.
White House expected to pull NASA nominee Isaacman
Jared Isaacman was set for a vote next week, but now the president may yank his nomination.
www.semafor.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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caseydreier.bsky.social
Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget:

- Cuts to every science division
- Smallest science funding since 1984
- 19 active, inflight missions cancelled
- Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
May 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
Happy birthday to Keir Dullea, born in 1936. 🥳

↖️2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
⬆️The Starlost (1973)
↗️2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
↙️Space Station 76 (2014)
⬇️Halo (2022)
↘️Starfield (2023)
Keir Dullea in: ↖️2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ⬆️The Starlost (1973) ↗️2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) ↙️Space Station 76 (2014) ⬇️Halo (2022) ↘️Starfield (2023)
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Open this image up fully.

Look to the top right.

That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.

And that bright point of light?

Earth.
March 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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birdyword.bsky.social
Capital Economics: if today's announcements are implemented, the effective US tariff rate will shoot straight past the Smoot-Hawley levels of the 1930s.

"The effective tariff rate on all imports will rise from 2.3% last year to around 26%, leaving it at a 131-year high"
April 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA JWST image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image... 🧪 🔭
In the center is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background.
March 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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clpolk.com
So I’m getting started reading Values by Mark Carney and I want to share some shots of how this book starts because it makes me blink in surprise.

If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.
Page excerpt of Mark Carney’s book, Values. These are the questions that this book seeks to explore. It will examine how our society came to embody Wilde's aphorism - knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing. How by elevating belief in the market to an inviolable truth we moved from a market economy to a market society. And how we can turn this around. In many respects, this book is a belated response to a question posed a few summers ago when a range of policymakers, business people, academics, labour leaders and charity workers gathered at the Vatican to discuss the future of the market system. Pope Francis surprised us by joining the lunch and sharing a parable. He observed that: Our meal will be accompanied by wine. Now, wine is many things. It has a bouquet, colour and richness of taste that all complement the food. It has alcohol that can enliven the mind. Wine enriches all our senses. At the end of our feast, we will have grappa. Grappa is one thing: alcohol. Grappa is wine distilled. He continued: Humanity is many things - passionate, curious, rational, altruistic, creative, self-interested. Excerpt, continued: But the market is one thing: self-interested. The market is humanity distilled. And then he challenged us: Your job is to turn the grappa back into wine, to turn the market back into humanity. This isn't theology. This is reality. This is the truth. This book draws on my experience in the private sector and public policy to examine the relationship between value and values. How they shape each other, and how, by doing so, they can determine our livelihoods, identities and possibilities. And how, once we recognise these dynamics, we can turn grappa back into wine. The book is divided into three parts. Part I examines various concepts of value and their roots in political philosophy and, more recently and narrowly, in economic theory and financial practice. It uses a series of valuation paradoxes from art to the environment to illustrate the potential disconnects between valuations in markets and the values of society. Values and value are related but distinct. In the most general terms, values represent the principles or standards of behaviour; they are judgements of what is important in life. Examples include integrity, A second excerpt from Values by Mark Carney: Chapter 6 shows that our deepest challenges are rooted in the narrowing of our values to market fundamentalism, and it explains how this is contributing to the growing exclusivity of capitalism and the rise of populism. In particular, it argues that, just as all ideologies are prone to extremes, capitalism loses its sense of moderation when the belief in the power of the market enters the realm of faith. In the decades prior to the financial crisis, such radicalism came to dominate economic ideas and became a pattern of social behaviour. In short, we have moved from a market economy to a market society, and this is now undermining our basic social contract of relative equality of outcomes, equality of opportunity and fairness across generations. Part II explores the three most significant crises of the twenty-first century - of credit, Covid and climate.
March 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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uahirise.bsky.social
NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes

www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts
Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes
www.newscientist.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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dutchspace.bsky.social
Firefly Aerospace just released their Blue Ghost Moon landing video, this view is rather special...

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHh...

#BGM1
March 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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toughsf.bsky.social
An impressive mission to Titan done in KSP's Realism Overhaul.
4K edit here: youtu.be/0Oj4jqqJQOA
March 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
We live in an age when commercial spacecraft are flying around the Moon and we're getting views of our homeworld like this one.

Simply incredible.

View from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, scheduled to touch down Sunday in Mare Crisium on the Moon!

Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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operations.esa.int
Flyby success! Solar Orbiter swept past Venus last night, using the planet's gravity to adjust its orbit and grant it a new view of the Sun's polar regions. Everything went as planned 🕹️🛰️✅
operations.esa.int ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · Feb 18
ESA mission control will guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter through a close encounter with Venus tonight. The gravity assist manouevre will 'tilt' the spacecraft's orbit around the Sun and grant it a unique view of our star's enigmatic polar regions. 🕵️‍♀️ ☀️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spac...
www.esa.int
February 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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simonsat.bsky.social
Our wonderful planet, seen by @eumetsat.bsky.social's #MTG satellite.

I'll never get tired of views like this. Can you see the thunderstorm clouds bubbling up just ahead of the sunset?
February 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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element115.bsky.social
In 1961, artist G. Pokrovsky drew a Mars exploration vessel for Tekhnika Molodezhi. His drawing depicted a silvery spaceplane with its scientific equipment carried in a series of inflatable structures. This is my render of the ship, original drawing below.
A spaceship with inflatable structures trailing.
February 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
February 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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ericlipton.nytimes.com
The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws (Gift Article)
Government watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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mc2x.bsky.social
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

web.archive.org/web/20231206...
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
web.archive.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM