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Dana Matson

@double-oh-3.bsky.social
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Astrophotography, ultimate frisbee, video production, plus some other things Prints of some of my photos: store.rupertstudios.com

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I need something better than a like button for this. Something like a celebration emoji button would be good.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is it just me, or has Pastrnak looked spectacularly average in the first 2 games? #NHLBruins
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AstroBin @astrobin.com · 26/09/2026
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula" by Peter Butler www.astrobin.com/xpnq8e/ #astrophotography
NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN BACK
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the only guidance that makes sense
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Jordan Maples @maples-astro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's the North America nebula, the Pelican nebula, and the dark nebula LDN 935 in between them. This image is in SHO as I implied in my other post of the LRGB version. This is a little less data than I normally go for at just under 13 hours. I hope you enjoy! #astrophotography #photography
This image is composed of two major bright nebulae and a dark nebula that's separating them. This image is composed using the Hubble palette, which gives the overall nebula structure a strong contrast of golden oranges and light blues.

In this image the Pelican nebula is at the top right, while the North America nebula is on the left, with the Cygnus Wall at the bottom left corner of the image.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Plans for #astrophotography this evening thwarted by the worst sort of cloud. The thin stuff that taunts you with gkimpses of starlight.... grrrrr!
It's dark and it's cloudy with annoying thin low clouds that mean NO ASTRONOMY for this evening I think
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Mary McIntyre @marymcintyreastro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On Wed 9th September I'm visiting Buckingham Camera Club to talk about astrophotography without a telescope. 8pm at Padbury Village Hall (MK18 2AN). Non-members can attend a couple of meetings for free so if you're in the area I'm sure you'd be very welcome to come along :-)
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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 01/06/2026
Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE
DS9 scene: Kor, a Klingon, greets Dax as Curzon. Dax corrects him as the host is now in Jadzia, a Trill female. Cor immediately responds, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend" without missing a beat. 

Right: Two tweets from 2019: "This Pride Month, never forget that Klingons had trans rights"; "No hostility, no confusion, no clumsy excuse-filled justification, just a quick self-correction and the exact same amount of love and respect before and after. Cis allies: Be like Kor."
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Haters and bigots have no honor.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Because I didn't have enough reasons to avoid Meta products before
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My wife and I inherited the stand mixer that she grew up with. It is at least 50 years old and still works better than any brand new consumer stand mixer you can find. We just had to replace our 7 year old fridge, and the repair guy said that's about the lifespan of a fridge these days.
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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
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ultiworld.bsky.social @ultiworld.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Our Callahan and Donovan video list has gotten another update! New additions include: *Caroline Stone (Vermont) *Elijah Diamond (WWU) *Orlando Impas (Lewis & Clark) *Lochlan Margison (Victoria) *Devin Allard-Neptune (Brown) and more! -> buff.ly/l5Kor0V And our YouTube playlist has every video.
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
PLEASE REMOVE THE CAROUSEL. No one has wanted those since about 2003, it makes it impossible to tell at a glance how many shots are in a given post, my pinned post with 4 shots now looks absurd. Go back to the standard 4 x 4 display PLEASE
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Emmanuel Margeat @emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Moonrise, this morning. Etang des Aresquiers, next to #Montpellier #astrophotography
Moon rising, reflecting in a
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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
THIS is how you do #Astro alt text! People that rely on alt text to understand what has been posted, or just curious minds, are not helped *at all* by just stating that the image is 'a galaxy', your gear list, or only the catalog number. It takes little effort to do better. 🧪 #📷
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
So Artemis is faster, smarter and more powerful than Apollo. Good to know.
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Boston Bruins (twitter mirror) @bruinsnhlbot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On Saturday, the #NHLBruins and @MAStateLottery honored Dr. Harold May as a Community All-Star. Dr. May was an original member of the first African American military pilots and aircrew, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, and later became the first Black surgical resident at Mass General Hospital. [1/3]
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UltiPhotos @ultiphotos.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sunday Highlights from YULA Invite 2026 are UP ultiphotos.com/yula/2026/highlights/sun - Photos by @kevinleclairephoto.bsky.social, Sydney Kane, Shawn Lanzillo @YULAultimate
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UltiPhotos @ultiphotos.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Saturday Highlights from Stanford Invite Mens 2026 are UP ultiphotos.com/stanfordinvite/2026/highlights/sat - Photos by Rodney Chen and MaryBeth Vellequette
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joegeiger @joegeiger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just finished up about 6hrs of data on the Seagull Nebula in Monoceros. It’s about 4000 ly from Earth. I used a OSC camera, a RedCat51 & 2 Antlia dual narrowband filters: one capturing Ha & OIII. The other capturing SII & Hb. I then split & recombined the channels in SHO pallet. 🔭 #Astrophotography
A nebula shaped like a flying seagull fills the frame in different wavelengths of light resulting in vibrant colors that define the makeup of the nebula.
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Kellyyy 👻 @tealwaistcoat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Hän Gwich’in musher Jody Potts-Joseph has outfitted all 16 of her Iditarod dogs with handmade beaded blankets made by Alaska or Canadian First Nations artists! The time and love that went into these, wow... 📸: www.vogue.com/article/idit... #Iditarod54
Four dogs, closeup on the front two, waiting to run the Iditarod. They're standing on snow as light snow falls, and they're wearing small blankets on their backs. Description from Vogue's website: "Natrah and Coki prepare to lead the team on the 11-mile kickoff course, wearing blankets made by Denise Newman and April Monroe. Photo: Emily Sullivan"Two women sit on a leather couch making the blankets for the dogs. Above them are two photos of an Alaskan view and Iditarod dogs. Description from Vogue website: "Kate Chavez, one of the beadwork artists, working with her sister Brittany to make last-minute adjustments to the blankets before the Iditarod starts. Photo: Emily Sullivan"Closeup of one of the blankets, featuring beaded flowers and northern lights. Description from Vogue website: "A detail shot of a beaded blanket by Erika Scheffen and Keisha Green from Dawson City, Yukon. “There is so much meaning, from the northern lights to the stars. I put in the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, which Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and many other [nations] have traditional stories about that have been passed down through generations orally,” says Scheffen. “I also added forget-me-nots to represent the Alaska state flower.” Photo: Emily Sullivan"Closeup of another blanket, featuring a beaded dogs face surrounded by a circle and snowflakes. Description from Vogue's website: "A detail shot of a beaded blanket by April Monroe of Fairbanks, Alaska. “On this blanket is Jody’s sled dog Flash,” says Monroe. “He was a foundation dog for her team, and many of the dogs running the race with her today are his children and grandchildren.” Photo: Emily Sullivan"
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Computer scientist Barbara Liskov's work forms the foundation of modern software engineering. She is best known for inventing data abstraction & the Liskov Substitution Principle, concepts that are now fundamental to how almost all modern software is written. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth (1/2)
A color photograph of Barbara Liskov, the pioneering American computer scientist, Turing Award winner, and MIT Institute Professor, standing in front of a large black chalkboard filled with dense handwritten mathematical and computer science notations. She is an older woman with short, curly hair, warm smile, and a friendly, engaging expression as she looks directly at the camera. She wears a light mint-green shirt or sweater with a collar. Behind her, the chalkboard is covered in complex equations, diagrams, symbols (including Greek letters like π, arrows, brackets, subscripts, superscripts, terms like "DB", "30sec", "Lop", "D", "T", "eichn", "P", "Joe", "Page", "aps", "uige", and various parentheses, integrals, and code-like fragments), suggesting an active lecture or research discussion on programming languages, data abstraction, or algorithms. The setting appears to be an academic classroom or office at MIT, conveying her enduring role as a mentor and innovator in computer science, particularly for contributions like abstract data types, the Liskov substitution principle, and object-oriented programming foundations. The overall mood is intellectual, approachable, and inspiring.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I hear the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SteppingOut and in that vein I present a Brown-hooded Parrot preparing to step out into the great unknown.
A green parrot with a brown head in profile standing on one foot
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I've been very lucky to be able to visit Costa Rica, and got even luckier to see a Red-Eyed Tree Frog during the day. This almost instantly became one of my favorite photos I've taken. #photography #wildlife #frogs
Red-eyed tree frog clinging to a small tree trunk. The frog is mostly green, with some blue on its sides and the inside of its legs. Its hands and feet are orange, and you can see most of one bright red eye with a vertical black pupil protruding from its head.
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dusty.rhodes @dustyrhodes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
this is the most bizarre thing i have seen in quite a while:
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 28/02/2026
It's Mardi Gras night, so time to once again share this fab image from Alex Cherney of CSIRO #ASKAP telescope core located at the Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara observatory, illuminated in pride colours. Light, even radio light, is a spectrum. Light is gay. Universe makes the rules, not me. 📡🔭
six radio telescope dish antennas at varying distances in the desert. Each antenna is illuminated in one of the pride colours. The Milky Way arches overhead.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org
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Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Winter is coming...
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Looking forward to the bird-shaped Aurora
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I particularly hated that they kept running ads during the female sliders' runs in the team skeleton event
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I'm 2/14 for knowing the sound each photo represents. Presumably that's uncommonly low.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
As I've been on a roll with Star Trek threads today, let's continue with this one: you know one of the best parts of Geordie's visor? 90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.
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a man is standing in a hallway with a blue light behind him
Alt: Geordie LaForge, rolling to make it out of Engineering under the lowering blast doors.
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cpk13.bsky.social @cpk13.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Remember pals, keep track of your toys, even when you're napping. Your welcome. Jordy🐾 #terriertuesday #dogsofbluesky #airedales
Airedale Terrier napping on a rug with three toys, one under his neck, one under his back and one under his hind legs.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I feel like everyone is missing the worst part of this. They're going to start analyzing everything every user types into the app to determine their age first. Then, if they think a person is too young or they can't make a determination, they will require a face scan or ID.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I'm so glad I watched no ads during the football game today. I'm sure lots of companies spent way too much money trying to get people to buy things they don't need or want.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 02/02/2026
this is up to 5,335,376. wow.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My camera that has to be sent to China to be repaired is now stuck in US customs, because they want to charge an enormous tax for the import, even though it was a repair, which should be exempt. #astrophotography
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 24/01/2026
In the app this is in ☰ > Settings > Content and media I’d recommend turning all toggles off
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 23/01/2026
Answering earnestly: Make time for Joy! Joy is a powerful weapon. Some people will break down. Most won't. I keep pointing out that what cops do to Black folk is measurably 10x to 100x worse than what ICE does to immigrants. And yet, we are still here. "Strong Black woman!" is survivorship bias.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is some wild tracking. The package even made it to my local post office at one, then for some reason went back across the country. I just want my fracking spacers.
USPS tracking showing a package that starts in California, goes to Massachusetts, makes 4 stops, then goes to Arizona for 3 more stops.
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joegeiger @joegeiger.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Spent the weekend in Reykjavik, Iceland. Friday was clear and provided an opportunity to view the northern lights.
A green ribbon of auroral light fills the frame. Stars poke through the darkness and aurora. The Sun Voyager overlooks the harbor in Reykjavik.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is the most compelling reason to join TikTok I have encountered so far
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ultiworld.bsky.social @ultiworld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Ultiworld’s 2025 Throw Of The Year Bracket - Subscriber Selection - Vote by 12PM ET January 16th to narrow down the bracket to the top 16! buff.ly/mTAcs6X
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The gecko and part of the Great Lacerta Nebula. I've been working on this since October. Between travel, clouds, broken mount, and delays in processing it's been a long journey to finish this photo, which includes about 25 hours of HA and 15 hours of broadband data.
The bottom left has a grey cloudy structure that resembles, with some imagination, a gecko shown from above. Behind that structure, and filling most of the frame is a red, cloudy structure in the shape of a triangle, with one point near the top of the frame, one near the bottom left and one near the bottom right.
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My dew point is about 10 degrees fahrenheit. Where is that on the darkness scale?
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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A sad day for astronomers and astrophotographers
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