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Astrophysics, science communication, sci-fi, nerdery (he/him) Astronomer at @cefca-oaj.bsky.social linksta.cc/@darksapiens

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 1h
Made some good progress today! Gave the rectangles a layer of paint & mapped out the flowers.
Painting in progress on easel. Today the rectangles now have a layer of light blue paint that fades into hot pink. The saguaro has more details and flowers mapped out.
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DarkSapiens @darksapiens.bsky.social · 1h
The YT-1300 variant with cylindrical engines from the West End Games RPG is now part of this animation too :)
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Ooooooh nice
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Javier Lorente @jlorentef.bsky.social · 6h
La pregunta es: ¿si no hubieran sometido a una anciana a un estrés extremo, por simple codicia, y de forma desproporcionadamente violenta... habría fallecido? Mientras quepa la posibilidad de que la respuesta sea sí, sobran las razones y basta con simple humanidad para evitar que esto se repita.
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 4h
Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 3h
Margaret Hamilton is rightly remembered for her work programming the flight computers for Apollo. But she should also be remembered for her work on early weather prediction software, which informed the realization that weather is chaotic and the limits to predicting it. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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ExaltadaLocaModerna™ @exaltada.bsky.social · 6h
Someter a una persona tan mayor a ese nivel de estrés y desasosiego tiene estas consecuencias. Ojalá nadie involucrado en su desahucio pueda volver a dormir por las noches, ojalá nadie qué se dedique a joder tantísimo a otros pueda con el peso de su conciencia, qué malparidos.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3h
"A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline. She worked at MIT from 1959 until the mid-1970s, after which she became a successful computing entrepreneur and CEO."
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3h
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 4h
Here's a good overview of the student protests in France, which began in Paris suburbs, in working-class schools attended by many black & brown students, & have spread nationwide. The government has tried to end the protests through violent repression. It hasn't worked. f24.my/CCfu
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'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowing
Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4h
Apollo 13 (1995): LEM Robert Bonchune : "My first job was as a practical models, miniatures and full size mock-ups builder at Wonderworks. The LEM was used in the NASA training facility but was prominent in Jim Lovell's (Tom Hanks) dream sequence of having landed on the moon."
Apollo 13 (1995): LEMApollo 13 (1995)
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La Bruja Coruja @bruja-coruja.bsky.social · 5h
"Hay muchas maneras de matar. Se puede apuñalar a alguien en el estómago, privarlo de pan, no curarlo de una enfermedad, alojarlo en condiciones miserables, explotarlo hasta la muerte, inducirlo al suicidio, enviarlo a la guerra, etc. Solo algunas de estas acciones son ilegales en nuestro país."
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Idoia @ptraci.bsky.social · 6h
En su casa y con su rutina y sin estos últimos años de machaque aún estaría viva. A Maricarmen la han matado y le han robado años de vida.
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Félix Bolaños @felixbolanosg.bsky.social · 7h
El verdadero programa de PPVox: el recorte masivo de derechos. Pretenden recortar un 50% la sanidad, la educación y la policía. Más áticos y yates para unos pocos y menos salud y seguridad para el resto. Lo pararemos en las urnas. www.lasexta.com/noticias/nac...
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Vox vuelve a la carga con sus cuentas a mano alzada sobre IRPF y todo con un único objetivo: dar más a los que más tienen
Los detalles: Antes fueron las pensiones, de las que dice la ultraderecha que son un sistema "zombie". Ahora a Vox se le ha ido la mano prometiendo bajadas de impuestos, para los más ricos, claro. Tan...
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?
4 panel comic:
Panel 1: pink blob guy on a table, pencil in their hands. Grey circle on a piece of paper and a glass of water on the table. They say “look here”
Panel 2: Proudly, they hold up the drawing of a grey blobby character on two stick legs up in the air. The pink blob says “I drew this!”
Panel 3: Satisfied they sit back down on the table. They now go “it’s not much, but..” The grey drawing looks a bit peeved because the drawer is calling it “not much”
Panel 4: But it’s okay, because now the pink blob is very pleased finally. He says “it came from my brain!” Holding the pencil up. The grey drawing blob is happy again, too. End well, all well!
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Noel Ceballos @noelceballos.bsky.social · 6h
En “Horizonte”, el programa de Iker Jiménez y Carmen Porter, llevaban una semana humillando y difamando a una persona que hoy ha muerto en el hospital tras ser desahuciada. Ayer se dio voz a alguien que la acusó de ser una actriz contratada por Moncloa.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 4h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Nature @nature.com · 9h
None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 5h
Also, wear a mask. Remember during early COVID when an entire strain of influenza went extinct? That was due in part to masking. I still wear mine whenever I'm out shopping.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 5h
You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Pepsic @pepsic.bsky.social · 6h
La violencia moral que se ha ejercido sobre Mari Carmen con resultado de muerte no debe quedar impune. Ni por los periodistas adictos a la trama política. Debe quedar clara una repulsa y desprecio eterno a toda esta cuadrilla de indeseables. Pero una hostia en las urnas me parece hasta insuficiente.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
A visualization of a dark Moon eclipsing the Sun is marked with handwritten notes in this Apr 6, 2026, screenshot from an Artemis II crew member’s tablet. NASA astronauts observed impact flashes and their locations, which are noted on the image.
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 8h
33 years ago today, Sideshow Bob first met his old archenemy: Rakes. #TheSimpsons episode “Cape Feare” first aired October 7, 1993.
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Nuevas Degeneraciones @nndgg.bsky.social · 6h
La han matado. Y no hablo en plan conspiranoico, echaron a una anciana de su casa y de ahí al hospital. Cualquiera que haya tratado con personas mayores sabe a qué velocidad se deterioran cuando les sacas de su rutina.
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 6h
Ha muerto Maricarmen. La desahuciaron el 23/09 y desde entonces permanecía hospitalizada. El acuerdo que le permitía volver a su casa llegó demasiado tarde. Nos deja su lucha y una frase que ya es un mandato: «Luchad, seguid luchando por lo que es vuestro». Por Maricarmen ✊🏽✊🏻
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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 10h
🚨🚨🚨On its second birthday in space, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence has spotted its asteroid destination for the first time, from an approximate distance of 236 500 km away! The Didymos system is actually two asteroids, seen as a single pixel for now www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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Destination in sight: Hera's first glimpse of Didymos
Destination in sight: Hera's first glimpse of Didymos
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 7h
I would again like to request a list of the people who are agreeing to fly these planes. Monsters.
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 7h
this is wild.
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Blue Discabreada @bluedementia.bsky.social · 12h
Al hilo de esto, pienso mucho en cómo se sentirá la chiquita que llevaba la cuenta fan de Taylor Swift a la que encarcelaron por negarse a servir en el IDF sabiendo que Taylor Swift no ha dicho ni mu en todo este tiempo y es, de hecho, amiga de prominentes sionistas.
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Blanca 🎲🌚 revival MdT era🍂 @burimiau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
El voto por correo se solicita a partir de mañana. Por favor, apuntaos un paseíto pendiente, que hasta el 19 de noviembre seguro que os lo podéis dar. Para los empadronados a partir del 31 de julio, seguís en el censo de vuestro lugar de empadronamiento anterior.
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Mauro Entrialgo @tyrexito.bsky.social · 8h
Este es de hace meses, pero viene perfectamente bien hoy.
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DarkSapiens @darksapiens.bsky.social · 4h
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DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr-epic.bot.country · 8h
09:50 on Monday October 5th, over DR Congo
An image of the Earth from space.
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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 8h
Somehow all these models of our future assume that there is some OTHER group of very highly trained, insightful individuals who function as an underclass that will somehow be satisfied with endlessly reviewing the products of the Real Scientists to make all this work out.
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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 8h
And the zillions of pull requests that the Agentically Enabled will be generating for key open source projects. Who exactly is supposed to be verifying and implementing them? Who exactly is supposed to be wading through to find which ones are misguided?
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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 8h
The hundreds of papers collaborated into existence with LLMs? The Real Scientists will be leading these, and the magic of peer review will separate the wheat from the chaff. Who, exactly, is supposed to be executing this tedious search for the wheat?
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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 8h
The Real Scientists of the future are envisioned to be those pushing agentic LLMs to the forefront of rapid knowledge discovery. And then that work is supposed to be tediously verified and translated by who exactly?
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Javier Igea Arisqueta @arisquetaigea.bsky.social · 8h
La vida es tan cruel que te cambias el apellido de Fernández a Figaredo para parecer distinguido y lo que consigues es que a tu nieto le llamen Frigodedo.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h
That's a start...
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DarkSapiens @darksapiens.bsky.social · 4h
Today I needed some references to add some detail to a Corellian bridge, so I rewatched part of Rogue One, Rebels and Resistance, looked for set photos from RotS and TRoS, found some useful Rebels concept art… And I guess I'll leave the actual modeling for the weekend 💀
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 9h
I was up on a hilltop in Santa Clarita mainly to take photos to make a large mosaic of the Sierra Pelona anticline. I also got a bunch of nice sunset shots as well. flic.kr/p/2sEUVq7 flic.kr/p/2sEUDMn flic.kr/p/2sEUVpW flic.kr/p/2sENM59
Distant peaks past Piru, California. The tall double-peak is Santa Paula Peak above, somewhat expectedly, Santa Paula, California (southern edge of the Topatopa Mountains).The Sun setting above hills in the direction of Ventura, California. Seen from Santa Clarita.The Sun setting over hills in the direction of Ventura, California. Seen from Santa Clarita.The last bit of visible Sun as it sets behind the hills. Some green flashing is visible.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 9h
Star Wars Resistance started 8 years ago today. "Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot for the Resistance, is tasked with a top secret mission to investigate the First Order, a growing threat in the galaxy."
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Kaz Meets Poe Dameron 🚀👨‍✈️ | Star Wars Resistance | @StarWarsKids
YouTube video by Star Wars Kids
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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 5h
Title text: "Rumor has it that they're finally auctioning off the zeppelin navigation bands, but everyone is worried that the scary boat captains will express interest." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3307#Transcript
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 5h
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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DarkSapiens @darksapiens.bsky.social · 4h
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Fue Sin Querer Queriendo Chavo
ALT: Fue Sin Querer Queriendo Chavo
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Danda @dandastur.bsky.social · 6h
Cuando dijeron que sufría desorientación en el hospital ya lo vi venir. He visto en mi familia cómo cuando pasa eso ya no te recuperas. Y ha sido realmente rápido. Nadie puede dudar de que ha muerto por el desahucio. Me pregunto si esto servirá para que alguien entienda que el capitalismo MATA.
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Marta Carmona @adrasteaquiesce.bsky.social · 6h
No solo la arrancaron de su casa provocándole una cascada de complicaciones que se la ha llevado por delante; es que en sus últimos días de vida ha tenido a toda la derecha mediática vomitando mierda sobre ella, intentando convencernos de que si protestas no mereces casa. Rabia infinita.
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Spooky Myles 🎃🐬🌙 @mylestring.bsky.social · 5h
Ya lo venían avisando muchos profesionales sanitarios y lo sabe toda persona que haya convivido un poco con gente mayor... Esa clase de estrés tan brutal es maltrato puro y duro. Como darle una paliza Maricarmen se ha muerto fuera de su casa. Ojalá no haya paz para quienes dieron y dan lugar a esto
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