iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 1h

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 1h

We cannot become numb to this. Reporting via CNN

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

Mark Sykes describes just how much funding is being withheld from NASA's Planetary Research & Analysis programs: blog.planetary-research.org/2026/09/25/r... (With the context of how what Congress has ordered has already been well below what the National Academies recommended.)

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just came across this cool artifact: “Viking Lander Biological Instrument, Life on Mars” matchbox. (“The most complex instrument ever flown “) From a party in Pasadena for first Mars landing in 1976. Handed down to me by the late, great Shirley Arden (Carl Sagan’s long time executive assistant). 🧪

Picture of a gold matchbox with black design of a little Martian bug holding a spear and sword, with the lettering: VLBI, the most complex instrument ever flown.

Other side of the matchbook .The little Martian dude with “TRW” and “Life on Mars?”

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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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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s my band GROOVADELICS covering Toots and the Maytals last Saturday: youtu.be/MelRWApaZnM?...

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GROOVADELICS- 5446 Was My Number

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s my band GROOVADELICS covering Toots and the Maytals last Saturday: youtu.be/MelRWApaZnM?...

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GROOVADELICS- 5446 Was My Number

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How do you know? Do you know what makes a mind? Or how it works? Or what happens when we create a sufficiently complex machine that recognizes patterns, connects information and iterates in novel ways? If so, you are the only person on Earth who does.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For one and all who need to hear this, me included

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.” — Octavia Butler 🧪

A JWST image of the “pillars of creation”

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.” — Octavia Butler 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fun conversation with @starstryder.space on @cosmoquest.org about searching for life on Mars and elsewhere and the legacy, and fond memories, of the Viking missions. youtu.be/dKrgLRCe9H8?...

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Viking: Chasing Astrobiology then and now with David Grinspoon

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is fascinating to see Jacob Coxon attacked from the left “He’s making it up to boost share values” & the right “He’s making it up to force regulation”. Anyone who doubts AI could cause existential risks lacks imagination. Anyone who thinks they know the level of! risk is overconfident. So…(1/2) 🧪

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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Nepal needs $5bn to rebuild from the #floods. Oil giants Exxon, Chevron & Shell made $36.5bn profit in the past quarter alone. The #LossandDamage Fund can provide only up to $20 million in emergency support. Shared thoughts with @stuti.bsky.social on why this is a test for #climatejustice.

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Nepal floods disaster offers crucial first test of world climate fund

Nepal wants up to $5bn to rebuild after devastating floods – a figure that is 200 times what’s on offer. Stuti Mishra explains where that leaves the Himalayan nation

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you @exploratorium.bsky.social for hosting my talk Thursday on “Shaping Earth’s Future” What a cool museum and great audience. 🙏🏼 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you @exploratorium.bsky.social for hosting my talk Thursday on “Shaping Earth’s Future” What a cool museum and great audience. 🙏🏼 🧪

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.

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Schnozzy @thewizardofschnoz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Americans need to understand their place in the world. American decisions are leading to higher costs globally. Your idiot is screaming in our faces too. Australia in an affordability crisis fuelled by your democratic cancer and illegal wars We don't have the vote, please start voting better.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aww the great and powerful Gloria Steinem has died. I’ll never forget hearing her speak when I was a grad student in Tucson, and she asked “Workers of the world, who is doing your laundry?” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

47 years ago today the magnificent ringed planet Saturn was visited for the first time by a spacecraft from Earth: NASA’s Pioneer 11. 🧪🔭

Saturn, half lit, and a sliver of ring, looking in vast darkness, photographed by Pioneer 11.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m doing 2 presentations at Exploratorium in San Fran Thurs 9/3 part of "After Dark: Pale Blue Dot" 7:30 PM “OUR PLANETARY FUTURE: How can we go from just changing Earth to caring for it?" 8:15 "Ask an Astrobiologist Anything" discussion. Hope to see you! www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...

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After Dark: Pale Blue Dot | Exploratorium Museum Event

Take a step way back and see our planet in context: a tiny yet dynamic system in a vast cosmic neighborhood.

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After Dark: Pale Blue Dot | Exploratorium Museum Event

Take a step way back and see our planet in context: a tiny yet dynamic system in a vast cosmic neighborhood.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There are 2 huge threats to the survival of our democracy. They are related but distinct. Once we rescue our country from the attempts by Trump & his cronies to subvert elections, we will be left with the task of clawing power back from oligarchs & corporations. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

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‘The Least Transparent Midterm’: How Dark Money Is Washing Over the 2026 Election (Gift Article)

At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s odd, and a little disappointing, that @barbmcquade.bsky.social (whom I admire greatly) would assume that everyone is reporting differently from her on this because we must just “believe what we read on social media posts”, when we’re actually reporting on what we see directly on Google Maps.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Early moment of self-reflection: Today in 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 took this -The first pic of Earth from lunar orbit. 🧪

A grainy, striped photo of the lunar limb with a crescent Earth hanging above.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Early moment of self-reflection: Today in 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 took this -The first pic of Earth from lunar orbit. 🧪

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 20/08/2026

I wrote about the impending end of U.S. federal funding for archaeology and anthropology in April. August numbers (reported in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...) show that no new grants have been awarded this year. www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

johnhawks.net

U.S. federal support for human origins research may be over

The field is generating more new discoveries than ever, but significant setbacks for students and many researchers.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A federal judge ruled a border wall can cross the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation, over the tribe’s objection. The proposed wall would destroy sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands the O'odham have stewarded since time immemorial. But the fight isn’t over.

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Federal Judge Rejects Tohono O’odham Nation’s Bid to Halt Border Wall Construction

Overview: A federal judge has denied the Tohono O’odham Nation’s request to stop construction of a border wall on its reservation in southern Arizona, prompting tribal leaders to consider their next…

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Per internal park service records obtained by "Scott MacFarlane Reports" The $5 million allotted by Nat Park Service for Trump's helipad is roughly the same amount of $ set aside this year for all of: Gettysburg National historic site Olympic Natl Park Glen Canyon Bryce Canyon

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Check out Venus at maximum elongation, cavorting with a new crescent moon in the evening sky! 🧪🔭❤️

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Check out Venus at maximum elongation, cavorting with a new crescent moon in the evening sky! 🧪🔭❤️

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

14 years ago Curiosity was snapping its first pics on Mars. Unbelievable! 🧪🔭

Desolate flat Martian plain, rim of mountains on horizon, selfie shadow of spacecraft camera arm in foreground.

Flat martiana plane with scattered dust & pebbles. Crater rim
Mountains in background. Rover instrument deck in foreground.

Gently sloping pebble-strewn plain with hints of crater rim
Mountains in distance.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

NGC 6720 "Ring" - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/gjBAcn

The Ring Nebula has a very nice set of data. It's very fun without a lot of odd things to deal with. I included the faint outer structures which resemble petals of a carnation but they are a bit underexposed and blurry. You can see them better here in an image which combines Hubble data with imagery taken from the ground.

Red: hst_07632_01_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci
Green: hst_07632_01_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci
Blue: hst_07632_01_wfpc2_f469n_wf_sci

North is NOT up

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 12/08/2026

🔭 Perseids Over a little Planet Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Rosadziński Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260812

The ground is shown in a little planet perspective, surrounded by the sky with a diffuse glow. The Milky Way is visible in the sky, as well as some nebulae in red and over a hundred meteors. Most of them appear to come from the same point.

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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Consider again that dot of sunbeam. On it, every good dog you have ever loved, every loyal companion, every tail-wagging pup who ever lived, lived out their lives."

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What my puppy decided to chew on this AM. Ashes to ashes, star stuff to poop… 🧪

An envelope with return address of Carl Sagan at Cornell, letter addressed to David Grinsooon at NASA/Ames research center

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The art of dying: The sublime beauty of dying stars, blowing their guts back out into space and seeding new stars, planets, life? 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Front page of yesterday’s Financial Times, one of the most widely read and respected mainstream/conservative papers in the world:

Headline reads “Trimp is dismantling US democratic guardrails, warn former CIA officials “
Subhead: “moves out of autocrat’s playbook” “checks on executive power eroded” “alarm at personality cult “

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mmr @mmr3cords.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sun Ra Arkestra live at Jazz Jamboree, Warsaw 1987 — a cosmic journey where avant-garde jazz, big band tradition, electronic sounds, and theatrical performance collide. A rare glimpse into Sun Ra's legendary universe. 🌌🎷 Sun Ra Arkestra Jazz Jamboree Warsaw, Poland youtu.be/qmJb4jRcadQ

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Sun Ra Arkestra Jazz Jamboree Warsaw, Poland, 22nd October 1987

YouTube video by BDM

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In some far off place, Many light years in space, I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, Where human eyes have never seen, I'll build a world of abstract dreams and wait for you. (Sun Ra)

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Moment of anthropocene self-reflection: 67 y.a. today Explorer 6 launched & took first photos of Earth from orbit. 🧪🔭

A grainy black and white image of Earth from space, bright clouds and dark, indistinct shapes…

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The art of dying: The sublime beauty of dying stars, blowing their guts back out into space and seeding new stars, planets, life? 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Moment of anthropocene self-reflection: 67 y.a. today Explorer 6 launched & took first photos of Earth from orbit. 🧪🔭

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