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Jackie Barrientes

@barrientes.bsky.social
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Social Media Specialist - Space Telescopes, Digital Audience Strategist, UNTx/AzSU alum, knitter, wine/bourbon drinker, Texas native, Baltimore 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Unitedstatesofwine.blog

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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 3h
Stavros Cassadine! ☹️
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 6h
Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with no electric charge and extraordinarily small mass, making them difficult to detect. Yet they are everywhere: They spew from stars like the sun, and trillions zip through our bodies every second. #NobelPrize
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Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics
A Belgian-born scientist has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolv...
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 6h
"But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as a young, white gamer upset some conservatives last week. Five decades after Reagan popularized the 'welfare queen' trope about people living luxuriously while not working, they wanted to know why the video wasn’t featuring a Black woman instead."
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Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white
A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 6h
Have you seen today's Google Doodle? 🎆 Learn more about the colorful clouds of NGC 7129: go.nasa.gov/4rNzF9M
A cosmic-themed Google Doodle featuring a nebula with vibrant colors including yellows, pinks, and blues. Stars are scattered throughout the image, and the word "Google" is centered in white text.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 8h
Kentucky, who managed to get kicked out of the Top 25 despite winning.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 8h
Check out this absolute rock star of a star forming region in space! ☄️
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 19h
REVIEW: Illahe Vineyards' 2025 Pinot Gris from Willamette Valley, Oregon, surprised the reviewer with its high acidity and tart flavor profile, featuring lemon zest and green apple. After some air exposure, it softened to reveal a hint of sweetness. #WineSky 🍷
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Oregon – Pinot Gris/Grigio
Illahe Vineyards’ 2025 Pinot Gris from Willamette Valley, Oregon, surprised the reviewer with its high acidity and tart flavor profile, featuring lemon zest and green apple. After some air ex…
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Woo! I passed Wine 101 from @winefolly.com! I learned the core fundamentals of wine along with tasting techniques. 🍷 #WineSky
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There comes a time when we must all hang up our skates. Ovechkin will always be part of the Washington Capital's DNA. And it was an honor having watched him all these years. 🥲 Now let's go out and win it for Ovi! #NHL
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Alex Ovechkin Announces 2026-27 Will Be His Final NHL Season | Washington Capitals
Stanley Cup champion, NHL’s All-Time Goal-Scoring Leader and Longest-Tenured Athlete in D.C. History to Retire After 22 Seasons
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 05/10/2026
NEW: A surprising chemical clue has broken open a Hubble cold case from 1999. Astronomers now suspect the mystery signatures in the data are from a second-generation planet that formed from gas and dust ejected by a dying star: news.stsci.edu/46WpciV 🔭
Illustration labeled Artist’s Concept at bottom right. A gaseous planet in the right foreground, seen mostly in silhouette, orbits a small, white star in the background at left. The star is surrounded by a thin, bright white disk tilted from lower left to upper right. A semi-transparent tail of material comes off the planet toward upper right. Distant stars dot the black background of space.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How did Kentucky fall out of the Top 25 after beating another SEC Team?!
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A little girl was the innocent victim of two idiots firing at each other over a fucking parking spot.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I knew it! I told my Kentucky-born boyfriend that UK could come back 0-17 to South Carolina because they were no longer coached by Mark Poops. Cats 35, Chickens 34 #NCAAF #CFB #UKvsUSC
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It gets funnier the more you watch it.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still weird that South Carolina's mascot is just an example of animal cruelty. #NCAAF #CFB
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If I only had these nine albums to listen for the rest of my life, I would be incredibly happy. Pick your favorite albums: rkhub.site/albums9
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump says prices are going down, but here's my receipt for two weeks' worth of food for two people. This is also from Walmart, where it's "cheaper" than a real grocery store. We didn't get anything extravagant, just normal everyday foods. It was nearly $300.
Grocery receipt that shows the total being $282.87.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is just drinking with my historian boyfriend. If I make the mistake of asking him anything, I get a drunken 30-min lecture.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Refs at the Iowa-Ohio State game have to replace the broken chains. Fleetwood Mac would be so disappointed. #NCAAF #CFB
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I didn't even know UConn had a football team. #NCAAF
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Little disappointed Logan let two in against a team that played as bad as the Hurricanes did. #ALLCAPS
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Having the Caps back on my TV is healing me. It helps they're up 4-0 on the Canes. #ALLCAPS
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Alex Ovechkin's Iconic Goal Celebration
ALT: Alex Ovechkin's Iconic Goal Celebration
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty (flipped, detail), by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1746, 📸 by @madelinepcarter.bsky.social
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years after our colleague Jamal Khashoggi’s body was dismembered by a bone saw, there has never been high-level accountability for the horrific crime, the Editorial Board writes. "The Saudis do not deserve the benefit of the doubt."
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Opinion | Saudi Arabia wants America’s nuclear trust. Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
The regime tried to cover up its assassination of a Post columnist eight years ago. Don’t believe it wants a peaceful nuclear program.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're taking the MARC train home on the Penn line, check your train status. #DC #MD
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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For the second fiscal year in a row, NASA awarded ~20% fewer grants than the recent historical average. That's about 500 fewer grants going out to scientists around the country.
Line chart showing the running sum of new grant awards in FY 2026 compared to the average between 2021-2025, which is about 20% higher.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 02/10/2026
Astronomers: Join us for the Rocky Worlds DDT Workshop, a community gathering focused on the science enabled by the Rocky Worlds Director’s Discretionary Time (DDT) program, at STScI on November 16-18. Registration closes October 16: bit.ly/4edubQ7 🔭
A banner for the Rocky Worlds DDT Workshop, detailing "Data Challenge Results & Rocky Worlds DDT Science" from November 16 to 18, 2026. It features a red planet and small yellow planet on the right side, with the Rocky Worlds logo and colorful blocks at the bottom.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pope Leo thinks your AI-generated flyers are ugly and "lack the spark of humanity." No seriously. #StopAI
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas can start using the Northern U.S. recipe that's just watered down ketchup and not real tomatoes. (Excluding Southside Chicago, of course.)
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/10/2026
Experts say the Nobel Peace Prize might go to the International Space Station this year, highlighting global cooperation. But terrestrial contenders include U.S. President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and emergency teams in Sudan.
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A galactic Nobel? Experts float the International Space Station among contenders for the Peace Prize
Experts say the Nobel Peace Prize might go to the International Space Station this year, highlighting global cooperation. But terrestrial contenders include U.S.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Known as the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, a massive portion of Chile's Atacama Desert has been covered in flowers after the El Niño weather pattern brought heavy rains to the region earlier this year.
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Earth’s driest desert is covered in wildflowers right now
Spring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and even Chile's Atacama Desert is blossoming. Known as the driest nonpolar desert, it's now covered in flowers due to heavy rains from the El Niño weath...
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Lynne Popkowski @pop-lynne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Watson used massage therapy appointments as opportunities to expose himself and engage in nonconsensual sexual contact." You good with that Tony? #DeshaunWatson
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OK, now I need Amazon Prime to fire Tony Gonzalez.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh absolutely the fuck not, Tony Gonzalez! Deshaun Watson IS A SEX OFFENDER and I will not tip my hat to him. #NFLonPrime should be ashamed of itself for making it seem like Watson overcame "adversity." Also, Fitz, Sherm and Whit, shame on you for not speaking up! #TNF
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OK, I'm going to need to know how to get a hold of Tony Gonzalez's mom right now, cause she needs to straighten her dumbass adult son out.
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Helluva Boss: La Chancla
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know someone qualifying for parole after 7 years of a 10-year term isn't abnormal. But this trial feels like it happened so recently, I remember watching it on TV. Maybe she shouldn't only have gotten 10 years for killing a man in his own home, armed only with a bowl of cereal.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dwayne Wayne and Whitley are separated! This is my chance to finally get the first man I ever loved. 😍 #ADifferentWorld
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NewsLab @thenewslab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The prestigious journalism school at Columbia University announces it is pausing admissions for its M.A. degree program to reevaluate the curriculum.
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
VOTERS: please we can’t afford groceries TRUMP:
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My man Wemby is a classy guy.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/10/2026
#NASAWebb has provided a crash course on planet-shattering collisions, providing clues to the amount of energy in their collisions. (1/6) 🧵 🔭 🧪
Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disk against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disk is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disk is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disk. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary embryo colliding into the left side of a larger spherical object. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a mottled appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disk and its star are many small stars in the background. A label in the bottom right corner reads “Artist’s Concept.”
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's almost as if fraternities are dangerous places, and they should not continue to exist our society as they are.
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Ex-fraternity leader at Arizona university gets jail time after pledge died of alcohol poisoning
A former fraternity leader at Northern Arizona University has been sentenced to two months in jail and three years of supervised probation for his role in a deadly hazing.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026
We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was 96° at 11:00 a.m. in Lamont, CA. Farm workers were bent over harvesting Asian leafy greens. "Erik" shares, "Our work is being done in direct sunlight and requires being bent over for hours at a time. By the end of the day our back hips and knees hurt." #WeFeedYou
Workers in a field bent over harvesting Asian leafy greens
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/10/2026
#NASAWebb data is helping scientists identify the types of collisions—high or lower energy—occurring between Moon- and Mars-sized objects in young stellar environments. Our solar system is thought to have undergone similar events to form the Moon: news.stsci.edu/47mLryB
Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disk against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disk is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disk is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disk. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary body colliding with a larger spherical object on its right. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a lava-like appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disk and its star are many small stars in the background. A label in the bottom right corner reads “Artist’s Concept.”
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Funny how both the Astros and Red Sox were wearing "No Time Like October" shirts when their seasons didn't make it past September. #WildCard
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
>>>>>>win first playoff series in 20 years
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
STScI: The APT server is still experiencing issues. The deadline is extended to October 1, 2026 at 5pm Eastern time for all proposers. There are (or will be) banners on APT and the help desk.
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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you, Chicago White Sox, for taking out the Houston Astros. 🤍🖤 Signed, a Texas Rangers fan
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