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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That was a pitiful performance. They're better than that.

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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

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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 🧵

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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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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I had no idea MapQuest still existed. Google Maps has gotten so much worse in the last few years, I'll give MapQuest a shot.

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

World cup surprises me. The rest make a lot of sense to me.

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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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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

I didn't know, but I bet you can bet on how it will end

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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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Callahan Videos Archives - Ultiworld

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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

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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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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Definitely adding HA is worthwhile on M51

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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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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thanks! It's coming along. I need the moon to go away so I can get some broadband data.

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I totally get that. The 571 is a great sensor. I have a QHY 268C, and I kind of wish I had gone mono when I first got that.

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Livestack from last night of M63 in HA only

Monochrome image of a galaxy as seen through a filter that only allows light from ionized hydrogen particles. The Galaxy is in the middle and relatively small in the frame. It is oval and mostly vertical. There's a bright core and lots of spirals of brighter areas around the core.

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

What camera do you have on your 120APO? I've been really happy with the Minicam8 + 120APO for galaxies

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

One of my favorites is The Space Between Worlds by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Really well-written and entertaining.

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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.

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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Just don't try it again next year

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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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Dana Matson @double-oh-3.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It should be the government's responsibility to tell me how much I owe them/am owed as a refund. Why do I have to do anything other than submit or receive a payment?

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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 · 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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