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@astrojamz.bsky.social
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Hertzsprung Rustler. Occasionally writes fiction.

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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can find your latitude AND north. You only need instruments if you want accuracy and you'd NEVER need charts to do it. All you need is the star and the horizon/zenith
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Make a war film rubbish The Great Escape from an Uncomfortable Conversation
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fellas, what if we did the science ourselves? Just a thought.
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The arXiv limit Putting my community service hat on, I thought I would relay an announcement on the an announcement on the arXiv blog that it is introducing a limit on the rate that any individual can submit papers to arXiv. To start with, the limit will be two per month. This limit applies to the…
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The arXiv limit
Putting my community service hat on, I thought I would relay an announcement on the an announcement on the arXiv blog that it is introducing a limit on the rate that any individual can submit papers to arXiv. To start with, the limit will be two per month. This limit applies to the submitter, not to all the authors, so I think large collaborations will find a way around it by having different co-authors do the submissions.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How many antisemitic dogwhistles can you cram into a single sentence? Jfc.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Before you can convince me we need to win some AI arms race, you need to demonstrate some kind of benefit of the tech in the first place.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
👇🏽🤷🏼
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's crazy that literally any republican this cycle is running unopposed.
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It's crazy it even got cert. It's such a blatantly unconstitutional thing I can't even believe this was treated as a live question or controversy.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How is this even legal?
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brian pillion @anaphoristand.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Not with THAT attitude.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Aug 19, 2021
Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Jan 25
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
May it serve as a model for federal policy someday soon.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Kermit voice, Oscar heart.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Dude was already a quack before his epstein involvement came to light.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
As Microsoft defeatures excel in favor of copilot, people everywhere are going to be shopping for a new spreadsheet. Smart companies are going to be trying to provide it.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'd say they want to be the Russian oligarchs, but I think it would be more like Malcolm McDowell in Tank Girl.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Appalachian State University gave this bozo a Batch in PoliSci. How embarrassing for them and every alumnus.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Why do we let people who can't pass a high school civics test serve in congress?
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The unreleased files? I strongly suspect this is what's in them.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
They should be impeaching him every single day. New crime, new impeachment. They should keep impeaching him once he’s out of office. They should keep impeaching him after he’s dead.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/02/2026
"Two clients Lawyer Eric Lee visited last week, a boy and a girl who are twins, turned 5 in the detention center....The twin 5-year-olds, and their family members who are 9, 16, and 18, have been there for an appalling eight months."
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Why a Scared 5-Year-Old Boy Shook Our National Conscience
What the image of Liam Ramos, grabbed in Minnesota and thrown in detention in Texas, means for our democracy.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Let me clarify: it was a satire video, not not fraud.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There's this guy I came across on tiktok fake selling an api to convert Celsius to Farenheit with monthly subscription plans.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Even if their mission were worthwhile (it's not), the past year is such a fundamental breach of the public trust that the entire agency is irredeemable.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/01/2026
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Not voting is how we got here. Voting isn't the whole solution, but it's a vital part of it.
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump sold the oil from a seized Venezuelan tanker for $500,000,000.. Where is the money? He deposited it in a bank in Qatar where Congress can't get to it. He stole the oil from Venezuela, but he stole the money from America. Why has Congress not impeached and imprisoned him for his crimes?
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Nail on the head.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
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NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
About half the country is buzzing with a decade of frustration and humiliation at this bullshit. Before invoking the insurrection act, this administration should ask itself what's gonna happen if we suddenly have no choice but to fight them. Can. You. Count. Suckas?
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a man is standing in front of a crowd and asking can you dig it ?
ALT: a man is standing in front of a crowd and asking can you dig it ?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
You take really shitty notes.
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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