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Astroñoratx

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Astronomer, data scientist, chilanga turned austinite.

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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 24m
I for one plan to vote early 🤞🏼
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h
Stevens: Endorses Abdul Slotkin: Endorses Abdul Nessel: Endorses Abdul Peters: Endorses Abdul Whitmer: Endorses Abdul Harris: Endorses Abdul DSCC: $30M helping Abdul OBAMA: Endorses Abdul Leftists: "WHY DO MODERATES WANT ABDUL TO LOSE???" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month.
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 2h
I also didn’t find one album by Caetano Veloso that I would have otherwise included. These are mostly acts that blew me away live after forming my taste in relevant years. my9albums.com
Dynamo-Soda Stereo, La canción de Juan Perro-Radio Futura, Achtung Baby-U2, Songs of Faith and Devotion-Depeche Mode, Disintegration-The Cure, I’m your Man-Leonard Cohen, Re-Café Tacuba, OK Computer-Radiohead, This is Hardcore-Pulp.
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 5h
I agree with everything in this thread. This is not a comedy, this is not even satire, it’s a fable. And yes, Tom Cruise was brave for having done it. It will lose a ton of money… that’s not the point. It’s the most relevant film by González Iñárritu. Go watch it.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data centers are booming. All other private construction is shrinking.
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 14h
The abstract idea of not dying… I detest this creature.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s wild how every (putatively independent) federal agency has focused their social media messaging around the GOP’s midterm strategy of “stopping communism.” Also, how many American voters do you think could identify this “loser” who died 102 years ago and never set foot in the US?
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With Communism, everything turns to og and under @POTUS, America will NEVER be a Communist country.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do not... DO NOT... DOOO NOOTTTTT!!! Use the Postal Service to return your mail ballot, if at all possible. Use your State or County Dropboxes!! Cut the USPS out of the system and eliminate your worry. And use BALLOTTRAX if your state uses it.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since taking office, Ken Paxton has spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on luxury travel, including to: — China — Israel — India — Italy — Malta — Taiwan — Albania — Greece — Palm Beach — South Africa — Dominican Republic — 25 trips to California — The 2024 Kentucky Derby
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are falling behind and this is why. They are to blame. Don’t let them blame academics.
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What isn't surprising: work requirements are reducing coverage because of paperwork burdens What is surprising: apparently The Pitt had a storyline that demonstrated the difficulty of navigating Medicaid redeterminations
“Hopefully we’ll be back on Medicaid by then.”

“How’d you lose it?”

“They sent a redetermination letter to our old apartment. It didn’t get forwarded.”

“And you haven’t been able to get it back since?”

“I’ve been trying for months. To get re-enrolled, you need tax returns, pay stubs… I cut hair. My income fluctuates.”

– The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 13
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See? Astronomers are handy people… or @astrokatie.com is awesome… or both.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Via @birdyword.bsky.social
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, that’s what I want before I go to a show, listening to NOT the act’s music 🙄
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries by 96% from 21,096 legal immigrants and refugees in Dec. 2024 to 808 in Feb. 2026. Far more severe than anything in his 1st term, falling disproportionately on spouses of US citizens and skilled immigrants... www.cato.org/blog/legal-i...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had to... :)
Idiots in congress holding up a sign identifying Schmitt as an asshole
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
no matter how badly donald trump loses the midterms he will never lose them as badly as he has lost canadian elections
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One additional 'quick fact': if your name is John, the Nobel committee is twice as likely to award you the Prize for Physics, compared to scientists who are female - Number of physics prizes to a John: 10 - Number of female physics Nobel laureates: 5 Best wishes to all the John-hopefuls this yr 👩‍🔬⚛️
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are people like this allowed to have a quiet life?
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Upside down society
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.@Cornell arrested 22 students for protesting a genocide but seven students who drugged and raped a woman for seven hours were made to write essays about it.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not to mention the many many lizards and birds that get to live because my cat only gets to see them through the windows.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bryan Ferry is somehow 81 years old today + is still putting younger lads to shame with his absolute aura.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
oh noooooo
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1. The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean *just plain bad*.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Basically what this means is that Gavin Newsom, who ostensibly wants to be President, is either the stupidest guy in the United States or that he cut a deal with Ellison & Musk in exchange for the promise of favorable coverage during his campaign. Either possibility is Uh Super Bad.
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Astroñoratx @astrochilanga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Or minerals. There are no minerals in healthcare 🙄
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