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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was able to get up close and personal with a mockup of Starfish Space's Otter spacecraft during the party at @seattleaquarium.bsky.social ... H/T to Stan Shull for taking the picture!

Alan Boyle stands alongside mockup of Starfish Space's Otter spacecraft during celebration at Seattle Aquarium

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Osprey sighting on a tree-lined street east of Seattle …

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Voyager to acquire Astrobotic: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Illustration showing moon lander with Voyager and Astrobotic logos

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Tweet roundup: Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp and NASA Admin Jared Isaacman checked out LC-36 after New Glenn explosion. "We will get back to flight, and we will get to the moon," Bezos says. Updates: www.blueorigin.com/news/ng-4-ho...

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“The Lord does not leave us alone in life’s trials” … but we can’t persist in evil.

It is precisely because he loves us that the Lord does not leave us alone in life’s trials trials; he promises us the Paraclete, that is, the Advocate, the “Spirit of truth” (Jn 14:17). This gift is one that “the world cannot receive” (ibid.), as long as it persists in evil, oppressing the poor, excluding the weak and killing the innocent. Those who respond to Jesus’ love for all, on the other hand, will find in the Holy Spirit an ally who will never fail: “You know him,” says Jesus, “for he dwells with you, and will be in you” (ibid.). We can therefore bear witness to God, who is love, always and everywhere. Love is not an idea of the human mind, but the reality of divine life, through which all things were created out of nothing and redeemed from death.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You-know-who may not be a madman, but he plays one on TV. Here's hoping that sanity ... and Pope Leo's counsel ... prevails. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Screenshot of NYT update: "Pope Leo XIV, addressing reporters on Tuesday evening in Italy, renewed the calls for peace that he has been making amid the war in the Middle East, asking 'all people of goodwill to always search for peace and not violence, to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is unjust, which is continuing to escalate and which is not resolving anything.'

"He also alluded to a statement President Trump made on Tuesday about wiping out a 'whole civilization' without naming the American leader, saying, 'Today, as we all know, there has also been this threat against the entire people of Iran. And this is truly unacceptable! There are certainly issues of international law here, but even more, it is a moral question concerning the good of the people as a whole, in its entirety.'"

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

NASA has started posting high-resolution pictures from the #Artemis2 lunar flyby, including a stunning #Earthset photo that rekindles the thrill surrounding the Apollo 8 #Earthrise photo from 1968. Check out images.nasa.gov

Artemis 2 Earthset photo: Crescent Earth about to dip beneath lunar horizon

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

That's an exhausted me banging away at the bucket drum at Seattle Center, at the 1:21 mark in the video.

Crowd marching through Seattle Center, with some guy in a white hat banging on a red bucket drum to the side of the path.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Getting ready for Seattle #NoKings March … #velshi

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Father Michael Ryan gave a barn-burner of a homily about #immigration policy at St. James Cathedral in Seattle on Sunday: "I simply cannot be silent when wholesale sweeps and dragnets are currently taking place across the country." Must-see or must-read: www.stjames-cathedral.org/Pubs/Pastor/...

Father Michael Ryan at the pulpit at St. James Cathedral in Seattle

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Seattle in solidarity with Minneapolis

Banners at entrance to Seattle protest: “Say Her Name: Renee Good” and “Say His Name: Alex Pretti”

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Took part in the Seattle rally and march to protest the madness in Minneapolis (and elsewhere) #ICEOut

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Shouldn’t it be obvious by now who’s responsible for this crisis? And what should be done about it? #ICEOut www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

There’s an ever-so-slight glimmer in the northern sky over Bellevue. I don’t know if this counts as #Seattle #aurora

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

At Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park for rally to resist the craziness of the past week and the past year.

Crowd at Seattle rally including folks in inflatable costumes

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Northern Lights in the skies over Dubuque, Iowa, seen from Mount Carmel. The red-green glow is hard to see with the naked eye, but an iPhone 3-sec exposure brings out the colors. #aurora

Red-green northern lights in sky over Dubuque, Iowa

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Glad my sister alerted me to the Northern Lights in Iowa … they faded noticeably even as we were watching. #aurora

Red aurora with tree branches in foreground

Arc of green Aurora with spikes over Coralville Reservoir

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Could this be a sign for the Mariners game? #GoMs

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The Inflatable Army is out in force for #NoKings rally in #Seattle

Inflatable chicken and bee at Seattle Center

Inflatable frog with “Frogs Against Fascism” sign

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

15 innings! That was almost literally a heart-stopper of a baseball game! Good game, Tigers … and GO M’S!!!

Apple Watch says: High Heart Rate: your heart rate rose above 120 BPM while you seemed to be inactive for 10 minutes starting at 8:46 PM.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Nice evening for a ballgame… #GoMs

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

These are the kinds of headlines you’d expect to see in a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie. But there’s good news in the refers: party in the park and an AI lawsuit payday. H/T @seattletimes.com

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'll be one of the science writers partnering up with playwrights to create one-act plays that will be performed next weekend. If you're in Seattle on Friday or Saturday, please come to Theatre Off Jackson and see "Centrifuge," the result of Infinity Box Theater's experiment... infinitybox.org

Flyer for "Centrifuge" theater presentation, with QR code for tickets

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Please, Lord, let this not be a sign…

Two posts, one right after the other in feed … First one notes tweet from Lindsey Graham advocating for Trump to become pope as well as president, second one speculates that a demon could become pope.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Here’s at least one Times front page that get the play right when it comes to coverage of the #HandsOff protests this weekend. Cc: @seattletimes.com @nytimes.com

Seattle Times front page with lead headline: “Trump, Musk denounced in protests across Washington”

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Perhaps not as prestigious as a Mozartesque festival. Nevertheless, I’m honored.

Ad for Seattle Boylesque Festival with pictures of drag performers

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Quote with your lock screen

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Wow, @nytimes.com is just a ray of sunshine today…

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The skies cleared in the Seattle area for at least part of the total solar eclipse… The moon turned a healthy shade of orange, which looks brighter than it actually was in this time-lapse iPhone snapshot.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Still a bit cloudy in Seattle, but here's a better view of the lunar eclipse in process...

Moon with a bite taken out of it during lunar eclipse

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Lunar eclipse has begun! A little tricky to track it through Seattles clouds…

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson tells demonstrators at Seattle #StandUpForScience rally that he’s on their side.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A nice crowd is coming together for the #StandUpForScience rally in Seattle

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Look who just flew in to the #StandUpForScience rally in Seattle…

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Double rainbow, double rainbow - so intense! Reminds me of a song.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Paging @supkeva.bsky.social ... do you know about next weekend's Real Twin Peaks festival in Snoqualmie Valley. Looks like the VIP passes are sold out, but you can still go to the Prom... tix.therealtwinpeaks.com

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“5-star survivalist experience”!

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is sounding more and more like “1984” …

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, 1984

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I'm going through the hundreds of pictures I took during my recent trip to Egypt - and happened upon this one from Kom Ombo Temple, about discoveries brought to light through a groundwater-lowering project supported by ... USAID. (See upper left.) Save the agency!

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Wow, Colombian President Gustavo Petro is giving as good as he gets in the war of words (and tariffs) with Tronald Dump. Says he'll put a 25-50% tariff on US goods and vows defiance on X over what Dump is doing on deportations.

Gustavo Petro posting on X: "Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed...." https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/1883624818811236502

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Nothing like a nearly full moon on a winter afternoon

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

I missed seeing Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on Saturday night, but tonight I upped my game and got a grand view at Issaquah's Grand View Park, east of Seattle. I'm just glad a got a look before the clouds close in this week.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as seen from Issaquah

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