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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

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Chris Byrne @chris-byrne.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Aerials from the desert badlands. You can never have too many drone batteries out here!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Dr Kerry Elgie @kerryasynt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy 1st October! 🍁 The brilliant reds, oranges & yellows of autumn leaves aren’t just a seasonal show, they’re the result of clever chemistry. A perfect reminder that chemistry always leaves us impressed. 🍂 Many thanks to @compoundchem.com for the fabulous graphic. #ColourChemistry

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 01/10/2025

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A massive U.S. study of >460k kids found a 2nd Covid infection doubled the risk of long Covid despite vaxx status. Leaders must act now to reduce reinfections in schools & communities

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/10/2025

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

"Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

By Keith @keetmuise Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying… Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety Keep it going in the comments Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...

Keith @keetmuise

Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying…

Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety
Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety
Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety
Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety

Keep it going in the comments

1:02 PM · Sep 27, 2025 · 46.1K Views

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/11/2024

Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 01/08/2025

My chuckle for the morning…

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

the nyt has become the onion and the onion has become the nyt and that about sums up how it feels to live, during these times ...

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America. By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/07/2025

"If we give Hitler Austria, surely he'll be satisfied and won't try to take more territory."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/06/2025

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Not everyone can participate in boots on the ground resistance. Protesting is a privilege. Boycotting is a privilege. Many forms of resistance are privileges that are out of reach for the most vulnerable. If you can’t be boots on the ground, here’s a community action item that needs support!

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A good visualization to challenge your terracentricism CC: @marcusrediker.bsky.social

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

please be conscientious of the way you talk about “masked people” these days; some face coverings are poor excuses for protection as they are used as vehicles for oppression, others—respirators—are themselves tools of liberation. act like it. mask up & support maskblocs. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgaeMAa/

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Dr Doom @drdoomgrumps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

DO NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR PEACE.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

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Dad Joke Sean @dadjokesean.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Which birthday only lasts for one minute? Your 62nd birthday 🎂 #Dadjoke #Joke

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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Holy feck USA…look at these maps. Wildfire country in California now has no overnight forecasters on deck. Much of Kansas tornado alley not covered at night time.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info

A “BirdCast” map of the USA reads:

Night of April 13, 2025
129 million birds predicted
Generated 13 Apr 2025 at 06:00 UTC (13 Apr at 02:00 ET)
Bird migration forecast

The map colors show the highest intensity in the southern US, spreading northward and gradually fading in intensity in that direction.

Gif of radar map. A 24-hour national mosaic animation of radar imagery featuring large numbers of birds taking flight. Circular blue and green features represent bird migration; precipitation appears as irregular bands. (Base reflectivity radar imagery from October 16th-17th, 2017, 12pm-12pm EST.)

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The Fourteen Best Mindfulness Techniques For Denying You Have Long Covid

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Random Fact The strongest, most durable biological material as yet discovered are the tongue teeth of the Limpet (an herbivorous marine snail) that … *kinda* eats rocks. They basically carve favorite spots into rocks … called a “homescar” 🏞️:BBC & Wikipedia

Several blue blade like curled tusks like teeth.

Not sure what this text is. Assume it’s the photographer & source:
BARBER, U, PORTSMOUTH / N PUGNO, U. TRENTO

A depression in a rock caused by a limpet. This is called a homescar

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/03/2025

I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom. I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Many folks want to organize right now but aren’t sure how. There are many ways; that’s the hard part AND the beauty of it. This model by Leah Penniman, illustrated by Christine Tyler Hill, shows how comprehensive social change requires many strategies. We need all of us. Find your role and begin.

Four Wings Of Movement Collaboration
- Leah Penniman

A butterfly is drawn with four segments of its wings, each labeled RESIST, BUILD, REFORM, and HEAL. Within each winglet, examples are written, and they’re described in detail along the edges of the illustration.

RESISTING oppression via direct action—think Occupy, protests, boycotts, marches, treesitting, etc.

BUILDING new worlds and systems—think co-ops, community ownership models, land trusts, social networks, food hubs, organic farms, etc.

REFORMING existing systems to shift power and resources—think holding elected office, advocacy, institutional leadership, etc.

HEALING individual and collective trauma—think art and experience-making, storytelling, medicine-making, therapy, music, etc.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/03/2025

In case you need a break from the awfulness, here's an embroidered jellyfish I finished last night--my latest project to avoid doomscrolling before bed.

Black background with a jellyfish embroidered in bright greens, blues, and yellow mixed with orange flowers.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

We'll have more to share in the coming days. But what can you do right now? Call Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries. It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: bit.ly/ALA-LibraryStoryIMLS

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Cat's Eye Nebula - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/7GLbNG

The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye.

The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula is revealed in this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows a bull's eye pattern of eleven or even more concentric rings, or shells, around the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky -- that's why it appears bright along its outer edge.

Observations suggest the star ejected its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals. These convulsions created dust shells, each of which contain as much mass as all of the planets in our solar system combined (still only one percent of the Sun's mass). These concentric shells make a layered, onion-skin structure around the dying star. The view from Hubble is like seeing an onion cut in half, where each skin layer is discernible.

The bull's-eye patterns seen around planetary nebulae come as a surprise to astronomers because they had no expectation that episodes of mass loss at the end of stellar lives would repeat every 1,500 years. Several explanations have been proposed, including cycles of magnetic activity somewhat similar to our own Sun's sunspot cycle, the action of companion stars orbiting around the dying star, and stellar pulsations. Another school of thought is t...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/03/2025

The wonder of Voyager: This is the most beautiful thread I’ve read in a long time.

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I can’t emphasize enough how much accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. You caring about accessibility is literally caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just a reminder. There is great beauty in the natural world right around us. Red tailked hawk in Davis, CA this PM. #birds

Red tailed hawk in flight with very blue sky as background. Both wings are raised up. Bird is facing to the left.

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