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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18h

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 18h

The outrage about the Cornell rape is entirely valid and correct. However, looking at some of the comments/quotes here, I don't think brainstorming increasingly violent rape fantasies with strangers online is a great way to channel that outrage, even if it is "joking."

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz! For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial! www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...

A single quartz point, deep violet in its core and entirely clear around the outside, with ghostly traces of the crystal's former shape inside, as well as a few tiny bubbles.

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really think it will have to be that severe *at minimum* for democracy in this country to recover. There needs to be a complete purge of these people from power, every single one, not just those with documented crimes and corruption. Assuming guilt by association is sometimes necessary.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The National Science Foundation in its current form is a lawless organization, subject to and an instrument of the whims of an aspiring autocrat.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026

Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.

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PsychedelicYops @psychedelicyops.pet · 02/10/2026

Yote got a vest...

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Star cluster KMK88 87 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bright star on the right is [MG 73] 46. #JWST NIRCam (F115W, F150W, F200W). Parallel observation. program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Blue stars in an elongated star cluster. A bright yellow star on the right.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Less than 2 hrs to vote! #MinCup26 I was conflicted because #cuprite is so neat but imo #quartz deserves it more. Useful, everywhere, and beautiful in so many different forms. Plus I love crystals with inclusions :) And since quartz & cuprite can form together a vote for quartz kinda lets both win!

Quartz with stunning elbaite inclusions at the Smithsonian source: me :)

Quartz with cuprite inclusions! Source: https://www.mineralauctions.com/items/cuprite-included-in-quartz-new-find-99966

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why is it difficult to understand that a political movement and ideology built around that would consider cancer research 'woke'?

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"People have been understandably confused by this and tried to understand what about, say, cancer research, is 'woke.'" Are people actually confused by this given the MAHA ideology? The RFK, Jr., ultimately the head guy for cancer research, believes it's all "chemicals" and hates medicine.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split image of fine red needles of cuprite on one side and chunky clear quartz crystals on the other.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the space lawyers: Is this something that the NASA Administrator actually has the authority to do? And, yet again: Jared Isaacman should not be NASA Administrator. (Also, no, there is not now any "push for human exploration of Mars". There is only vaporware.)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if Tina Kotek cared about this state she'd see these polls as a five alarm fire

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I believe the technical term for this is a "little oopsie-woopsie"

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Vote #Quartz! These are both good minerals, but quartz comes in pretty colors and crystal shapes. #MinCup

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is actually an *extremely* strong statement to see in a science paper, FYI. And earned after spending a huge amount of effort to tear apart alternate hypotheses. Screenshot from here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Screenshot from the conclusions of linked paper reading "Using new P. taiti specimens, we demonstrate that P. taiti is structurally distinct from all known Fungi, that the molecular fingerprint of P. taiti is distinct from contemporaneous fossil Fungi in the Rhynie chert, and that P. taiti lacks the fungal biomarker perylene. With no support for a Fungal affinity, we suggest that Prototaxites is best considered a member of a previously undescribed, independent and extinct lineage of complex multicellular eukaryotes (Fig. 4)."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026

This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gotta go for #cuprite. The complex crystal shapes look so mesmerizing. Plus it forms cubes/octahedra so it can look like dice, granted #halite can too! But it can become malachite so turquoise color dice :)

Red cuprite crystal cluster source: https://www.mindat.org/a/best_cuprite

Cuprite cubes/octahedra altered to turquoise colored malachite. Source: https://www.mindat.org/a/best_cuprite

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CUBE VS CUBE WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO VOTE THIS ROUND VOTE CUBE? VOTE #MINCUP26

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want another reason to never use the automated plagiarism machines, scientists.

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That Erin @toadpuppy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did this. On purpose. Ok so I’ve never worked with stained glass before and had to watch a ton of tutorials on how to solder, but I think it’s pretty good for a first try, and I may suddenly have a new crafting obsession. Plus it matches my tattoo 😂

Stained glass suncatcher in the shape of a Luna moth

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally got one of the commemorative Eldar Spiritseer models magnetized and primed with a playable 25mm base on the side. Had some challenges with sculpting greenstuff but it was fun practice :) #40k #eldar

40k Eldar Spiritseer model over broken Wraithlord terrain feature. Primed dark grey.

Same 40k Eldar Spiritseer model over broken Wraithlord terrain feature on smaller base. Primed dark grey.

40k Eldar Spiritseer model over broken Wraithlord terrain feature. Two base options shown: large diorama and small playable. Primed dark grey.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Bajoran workers, your attention please. Your attempt to seize control of this facility is going to fail. You are valuable workers and we wish you no harm."

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🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bring to a job interview, Y/N?

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok, so, why vote #Quartz? #MinCup26 Because it's an absolute weirdo that if you squeeze generates electricity, and if you expose it to electricity acts like you've squeezed it. This led to quartz being used for the first sonar systems. Learn more about this effect and quartz's role in its use here

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i have no faith that any of these are good books but god the covers kick ass

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vote Quartz, it's the clear choice. #MinCup26

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Kepler 🍁ΘΔ @andromedaphoenix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Team art history again with Cuprite's use as a pigment! Also wow what a close vote rn #MinCup26

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Zray! 🪴✨➡️ FALL SHOP DROP!! 🎃 @zray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good mornin’ friends!! 🚌 💨 I am off for a quick trip with friends this weekend and will be out of office until Monday! Thank you to everyone who helped fund this little trip — I will never get over how sweet all of you are :’)) HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!!

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So what, precisely, does Jensen Huang bring to Nvidia?

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like how in random dreams about playing soccer in high school I'm still bad at it 😭

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got a VR headset cheap from a coworker. Maybe finally try some vr chat or something :3

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026

This is the Dragonfly spacecraft, ultimately destined for Titan, photographed in July during early construction at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The mission PI, Zibi Turtle, shared this image at the OPAG meeting today. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Zibi Turtle

The Dragonfly spacecraft structure, showing the main chassis, the four struts to which the propellers will be attached, and various electrical and avionics boxes.

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 23/09/2026

Dragonfly (banana for scale)

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The one good thing for Star Trek (and Star Wars): for gods sake let them rest, promote some new sci fi IPs!

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mixed feeling thinking about how permissive my boss is sometimes. On one hand I have had my share of fuckups (like today) and don't get threatened with termination or anything, on the other I know we've had serious issues currently and in the past that weren't addressed like they should have been. 🤷

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Kuna @wryote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone’s doin’ their best and everyone’s burnt the f out and everyone needs more grace from everyone but everyone can’t find it to give if they don’t have the space to recover and we all collectively need a deep breath and a hot bubble bath and a break to rebuild our patience and energy.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As always: we will not be solving the science crisis by emigrating from the US. The science crisis is international. The science crisis has been building since at least 2008. The science crisis is a part of the more general crisis of expertise and education at all levels.

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🔥🐉𝔓𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔦🐉🔥 @pelzidragon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cant stop drawing furry 40k art. Sororitas snep.

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Plus MSR was a bloated disaster of a project that should have been canceled years ago. It was given a huge chunk of NASA's budget every year for over a decade despite *never* having a finalized mission plan. So many proposals with an actual chance of success were scrapped to pay for that waste.

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