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Bob Soltys

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Renaissance man. Peace correspondent on the Toltec path. Nitro's dad. Former Navy officer. Scientist. Letter revivalist. Film, fountain pens, Day-Timers, paper books, slide rules-not apps. No nonsense! JOMO! 🇸🇰 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 📷 ✍️ 🔭 🦉 www.bobsoltys.net

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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 3m
On the first day of the war in Iran, two Tomahawk missiles struck a school, killing 120 children. In a recent investigation into the attack, Bloomberg News reported that an #AI -linked system was used to target the school. The system, Maven was made by #Palantir www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi
AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Those bad things? They only happen to other people
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Art Billingsley @billingsley.bsky.social · 1h
COGNOSCERE Daily Brief — 2026-10-08 A Kenyan citizen who lived in Congo flew into Nairobi Saturday and died Monday f youtube.com/watch?v=vOayP2iOktg www.cognoscerellc.com/news
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Briana @neverstopthefight.bsky.social · 10h
youtu.be/nGYpc7AuQjQ?... I have this album in vinyl ☺️ I would use my pay for playing piano in church for the children’s church choir( I was 12) to buy music. Flashback 💜 Have a peaceful night 🌘💫🌌🎤🎹
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Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star
YouTube video by BakNDaDay
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 3h
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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 2h
8th to 9th October: The minor #Draconids meteor shower peaks this evening. Unusually for a meteor shower, the best rates occur in the early evening as that is when the radiant is highest. The Moon does not interfere this year, so conditions are good for spotting these slow-moving meteors. #Astronomy
Stellarium graphic showing the location of the Draconids meteor shower radiant point on 8 October 2026.
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Openly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😂🥹🥹
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 7h
Heartwarming story with some wonderful black and white back stage photos www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles
From a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husban...
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 17h
Must-read article for anyone looking for work. #careeradvice
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 17h
American bombers can each their targets,only by flying from the U.S, requiring more time and refueling. Carrier groups can still patrol in the Arabian Sea, outside the Persian Gulf, but now they must be resupplied from Diego Garcia, an island 2,200 miles away. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat (Gift Article)
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 22h
Photographer Captures the Milky Way Over Manhattan, Despite the Light Pollution petapixel.com/2026/10/07/p... #infrared #astrophotography #PhotographyInspiration
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Photographer Captures the Milky Way Over Manhattan, Despite the Light Pollution
The stars are shining above New York City, you just need special camera gear to see them.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 22h
Photographer Brings Speed to Life Through Jaw-Dropping Plane Photos petapixel.com/2026/10/06/p...
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Photographer Brings Speed to Life Through Jaw-Dropping Plane Photos
Speed!
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 23h
Critics have warned the gloves will give #ICE another weapon to intimidate and brutalize people even as the agency is under fire for excessive force that has left a trail of deaths and injuries across the nation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Electric-shock gloves ICE plans to use inflicted intense pain in army study
Immigration enforcement agency has signed $16.7m deal for devices that induced ‘excessive’ fear in military subjects
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Constantine Alexander @alexanderca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai. The Nobel Committee recognized them for solving a century-old mystery about how molecules with mirror images can emerge in nature. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai (Gift Article)
The Nobel Committee recognized them for solving a century-old mystery about how molecules with mirror images can emerge in nature.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...
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What's it like to be a Catholic priest rooting against Pope Leo XIV's favorite team?
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Linda Paul @rangewriterlp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"During a #dictatorship, there's a move to erase memory, because memory is an inherent threat to the order imposed by the dictatorship." Megan McDowell interview The Sun Magazine 10/26 Ban #books? Fire Aacademicians? Hassle #librarians? Sanitize #history? Who's done this in the last century?
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
3) That's me in the front row with a camera around my neck. My parents, God rest them, supported what I did, and my mother - who joked about "my son the campus radical" - even took my prints to the Herald the following Monday morning.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2) I launched my photography career in 1971 when my camera and I joined students at my high school who walked out to protest a teachers' strike that would have delayed seniors' graduation. Instead of interfering, the police in Gary made sure Broadway was clear for us. How times have changed.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
1) I hope not. "The debate around the schools protests is angry and polarised. I fear this is a foretaste of how election tensions next year will play out." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I see what’s happening here in Paris: reasonable student demands met with awful violence | Helen Massy-Beresford
The debate around the schools protests is angry and polarised: a foretaste of how next year’s presidential election is likely to play out, says Helen Massy-Beresford, a British journalist and editor w...
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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‘We’ll borrow a stargazing kit next’: first public nature library in US helps visitors explore great outdoors
As well as books, the new facility offers hundreds of kits to connect people with the natural world, including hammocks and nightvision binoculars. We asked five of the first visitors what they though...
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Save the date for this year’s #ChristmasCardDay! Send everyone you know some cheery good news for the Christmas season and let’s fill our beautiful postboxes with Christmas cards on Wednesday 9th December! 🥳🎄⛪️👼💌
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Striking composition by @w-dunigan.bsky.social
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Powerful use of light and lines by @adelapazos.bsky.social
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The judge found that the #ICE agents had improperly arrested Mr. Almonte — and then tried to cover up their mistake. He found that ICE had faked an arrest warrant after the fact www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Big Tech platforms like Amazon and Meta are turning the screws on American mom-and-pop online businesses and empowering deep-pocketed mega-retailers like Quince, which a Times newsletter called a “well-branded dupe emporium.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o... #NoAmazon #NoMeta
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Opinion | Meta Is Crushing Small Online Retailers (Gift Article)
Meta is crushing small online businesses by charging more for less effective ads, a sign of its extraordinary grip on the market.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Multiple studies back permanent standard time over permanent DST, warning DST could harm health, economic productivity & students’ well-being
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Jay @jaywingold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oct 5 2018 at 226pm, Monet's garden, Giverny France. Lots of visitors, but dense foliage makes for the illusion of solitude. #monet #garden #landscape #photography #reflection
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.bobsoltys.net/musings/2026... #Moon #Jupiter #astronomy
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The Moon is in the Eleventh House, and Jupiter and Mars are Rising — Bob Soltys
The planet Jupiter and Moon ruled the morning sky early today. Jupiter remained visible above the Moon during morning twilight until just before sunrise.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Snakes, bobcats, mountain lions: the secret animal world beneath the Hollywood sign
An international symbol for the city, the sign is also hallmark of the region’s environmental richness
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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have you ever seen a green glow at the top edge of the sun? That's the #greenflash. If you haven’t seen one yet, you can! Here are a few tips to help you spot it: buff.ly/vQNqhDk Jelieta Walinski captured this one in Oregon on September 26. Thank you! buff.ly/2dF2jHt
The top half of the sun is visible above the horizon, while the other half remains below it. A green glow appears along the sun’s upper edge.
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Alan Dyer @amazingskyguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An auroral arc across the north with a Kp4-level display underway, good enough for my location at 51º N in Alberta to put an aurora to the north only. This was October 4, 2026. The Big Dipper is at left; the Pleiades are rising at right. Details in Alt Text.
The diagonal streak silhouetted in front of the aurora is an aircraft contrail. The brightest lights on the horizon are from farm combines still harvesting. 

Technical:
A single 30-second exposure at f/2.8 (wide open) with the ultra-wide Laowa 10mm rectilinear lens, on the Nikon Z8 at ISO 1600.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We are concerned about teens’ mental health… It should be permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST…”
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Colorado’s CW 2

Permanent Daylight Saving Time vs Permanent Standard Time

Arguments against a permanent daylight saving time cite that later sunrises in the winter would have a n impact on school children and early morning works’ sleep schedule.

Permanent daylight saving time? Schools and students would suffer, experts say

by: Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill
Posted: Sep 23, 2026 / 03:44 PM MDT

[Image of children boarding a bus in autumn.]
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#SteveThoughts
Description: A cartoon otter named Steve, wearing a necktie and a badge, sits behind a cluttered news desk in a simple blue-grey office illustration.

Text in image:
“So we have actual fact checkers who know all the facts?  
Why not create a TV channel where they just give us the facts?  
We could call it the News.  
#SteveThoughts”

On the otter’s badge: “Steve”  
In the bottom corner (signature): “In Ötter News”
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Millennium Falcon has returned ... #clouds
A cloud that looks like the Millennium Falcon
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Postal correspondence has a trapped-in-amber quality that an electronic exchange never can. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/b... #letters #SnailMail #PaperNotScreen
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Slow Motion
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The Local France @thelocalfrance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
France to suspend driving licences of motorists caught on phones
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France to suspend driving licences of motorists caught on phones
France is set to take a tougher approach to drivers caught using their mobile phones behind the wheel, with driving licence suspensions set to be applied nationwide after local pilot schemes were judged a success.
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Nicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was so dreary & rainy this weekend... I'm in need of some happy colors. Greens, yellows, pinks.. and I'm in heaven. Also this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail was looking pretty great and its wings were mostly intact. #ECK #photography #insects #flowers #nature #butterfly
Photo of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, a large mostly yellow and black butterfly, on a pink wildflower bloom. The background is out of focus in greens and yellows
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Rare northern bald ibises take flight in human-led European migration project
Micro aircraft used to help guide birds to Spanish stopover as part of efforts to create sustaining migratory population
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Magnifique !
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A snapshot from the relatively "small" thunderstorm that moved over the Salton Sea on September 28th. The last sunlight still reached the cloud tops (just under 20,000 feet) 10 minutes after the sun had set locally at the Salton Sea (Photo: Sicco Rood).
Relatively "small" thunderstorm that moved over the Salton Sea on September 28th. The last sunlight still reached the cloud tops (just under 20,000 feet) 10 minutes after the sun had set locally at the Salton. desert in foreground with ocotillos and Font point in distance.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The next week's reading, borrowed from the library yesterday. Everything Is Photograph, A Life of André Kertész #BooksAboutPhotography #Read #InspiringBooks
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our roads and crosswalks would be safer if, as in France, a drivers' license could be suspended for using a phone while driving.
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've always wanted to see a barn owl in the wild. I'll keep looking
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Waiting – first place in the documentary category ‘This image captures rescued dogs in a shelter, their eyes full of hope as they wait for adoption. Behind the bars, they hold on to the quiet longing for a loving home.’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #dogs
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Barking beautiful: the 2026 Dog Photography awards – in pictures
The 18 winning images chosen from about 1,900 entries to the annual contest from 50 countries across the globe
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heartwarming triumph for the barn owl ... and especially for its owlet www.theguardian.com/environment/... #owls #barnowl
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The week in wildlife: a rescued orangutan, the chonkiest bear and a barn owl’s triumph
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The dash cam firm Nextbase will install cameras ... Nextbase says that its dash cams also capture license plates, which may alarm US citizens concerned about Flock cameras and other Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs). cybernews.com/privacy/usps... #SurveillanceState #NextBase #ALPR
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USPS surveillance cameras in trucks raise privacy questions
100 USPS delivery vehicles will test USPS surveillance cameras that scan roads, signs, and may capture plates. See what the pilot reveals
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 01/10/2026
From @atlanticbirding.bsky.social, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&White, any shot in black and white. With that in mind, here's a Great Grey Owl showcasing their impressive wingspan! #owls
A black and white photo of a Great Grey Owl standing on a post. The owl's wings are outstretched above them and a piece of grass dangles from the owl's beak.
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MyBibliotheca | Reading Tracker 📚 @mybibliotheca.org · 01/10/2026
My kind of month 😎
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Happy October! Linus & Sally Peanuts Pumpkin Patch
ALT: Happy October! Linus & Sally Peanuts Pumpkin Patch
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Bob Soltys @bobsoltys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congrats @skyandtelescope.bsky.social for achieving this milestone. The Sky Tour Astronomy podcast provides an outstanding overview of what to expect in the night sky each month. #astronomy #nightsky
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