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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3h
Adelaideans! Come and hear me in conversation with Elise Stephenson, author of Space XX: Gender, Power and the New Space Race, Thu, 22 Oct, 5:30pm, at the Australian Space Discovery Centre! @giwlanu.bsky.social 🧪 🔭 #WomenInSTEM
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Book Launch - Space XX: Gender, Power and the New Space Race
Compelling and urgent, Space XX exposes the state of the New Space Race and argues that a more inclusive future can – and must – be fought for.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 5h
Ah I see! That would be an interesting anthropological question.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 11h
I'm not really sure what you're getting at, but it's not numbers, it's ideology.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 11h
Aaaaaaargh I didn't think about that
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 16h
Thanks now to @bleepl9.bsky.social, it is now clear that the new Node 1 display is a space trinity similar to the one in Zvezda (Tsiolkovsky, Korolev, Gagarin - recently complemented by Leonov). Here we have Isaacman, Musk, and Wernher von Braun.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15h
In what now amounts to a half-dozen cases, OpenAI agents keep getting caught taking actions that would likely result in criminal charges if performed by humans: arstechnica.visitlink.me/l4Zbk2
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 12h
I think bots are reading my blog.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 15h
Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954) www.openculture.com/2016/11/carl...
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Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954)
Carl Sagan may have passed away almost twenty years ago, but he continues to influence minds of all generations through intellectual heirs like Neil DeGrasse Tyson (host of the remake of Sagan's belov...
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 14h
Men, instead of gaslighting, deflecting every detail emerging about Jane Doe at Cornell and every other woman treated as an object for men's pleasure, talk with your friends, relatives, and sons. "Boys come whip it out" should never come out of your mouth. #cornell7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEK0...
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Secretly taped phone call revealed between Jane Doe, Cornell frat brother accused in gang rape case
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 14h
“Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course.”
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 12h
How annoying, I hope you feel better soon
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 13h
It feels like at some point computers have gone from really trying to solve humanities' problems, to creating most of them, instead.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 21h
Contents of an ostrich’s stomach extracted after its death. Taken at the Zoological Society of London, ca. 1930: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah? Should I have another go at it?
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 20h
Mechanical cars be the only ones that work after the AI apocalypse
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 20h
If I'd been drinking a cup of tea I would have snorted it out of my nose
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'While we light up tangible heritages, we push an “intangible heritage” far away from us – Darkness' #Heritage #DarkSkies 🏺
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While we light up tangible heritages, we push an “intangible heritage” far away from us - Darkness - kobi lighting studio
Preservative Site & Preservative Darkness While we light up tangible heritage, we push an intangible one far away from us, into the darkness. When night falls, monuments everywhere glow. Ancient walls...
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
288. It's been 5 years since we wrote the Declaration of the Rights of the Moon. Legal scholar Camilla S. Haake offers some thoughts. #TabClosed2026 🧪 🔭
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Nothing New on the Moon?
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We published a thorough analysis of known displays on ISS and earlier stations in Current Anthropology in 2021 (open access) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/reader/1...
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Visual Displays in Space Station Culture An Archaeological Analysis
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to @yellowstoneten.bsky.social for identifying the "young man" as NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. Suddenly this display seems to mimic the Russian display in the Zvezda module with its portraits of Soviet space heroes including the original space program director Sergei Korolev
A screenshot from a video of arriving ISS crew in September 2019 in the Zvezda module. On the wall behind are various items, above an Italian flag is a portrait of Sergei Korolev.
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anil Menon, who recently arrived on ISS, published a video revealing an all-new crew-created visual display on the hatch from the US Node 1 into the Pressurized Mating Adapter leading to the Russian segment. This one consists of a paper document and two photos: Elon Musk and an unknown young man.
NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway preparesan experiment with an apple. On the hatch door behind him are a printed paper document (illegible) attached with grey duct tape and two photographs attached with yellow kapton tape.Closeup of the previous image, showing the two photos. The young man wears a jacket and tie; it appears to be an official US government portrait with the US flag and a NASA flag. In the other image, Elon Musk wears a leather bomber jacket with sheepskin lining. He is looking down and to his left.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All actions of men have had an effect - it's the patriarchy! Both women and men are inculcated in this belief system. Totally agree that we all have a choice but I don't underestimate the difficulty of going against cultural norms.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You don't have to apologise for diacritics!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is a general background scatter of arseholes everywhere. It does not explain systemic, societal norms which privilege men.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Men are what they are because #patriarchy. It's systemic and cultural.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's not just that women are silenced, harrassed, assaulted, pushed out of work, assumed to be incompetent, have their work stolen or credit denied. It's that men get ahead standing on the backs of women being pushed down. When you point this out they get ANGRY. #patriarchy
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder if many men realise how much they assume all women's labour is owed to them, even intellectual labour....
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
She's female so must be stupid, or 'just' a technician ....
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah they'd have done it if they thought it supported their version wouldn't they
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well blow me away with a feather!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a mystery to me!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It does. You are absolutely right.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Checks out
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Center for Space Environmentalism @space-environment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CSE has formally petitioned the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to dismiss SpaceX's application for the 100,000-satellite Starlink Gen3 constellation. Read our full comment: www.spaceenvironmentalism.org/actions/publ...
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Comment on the SpaceX Starlink Gen3 VLEO Application to the U.S. FCC (2026)
October 3, 2026 Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 via ICFS Electronic Filing In the Matter of: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC, Application for...
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's extraordinary that no-one thought to go through her lab books before.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great image!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The spooky skeleton people was the best!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I mean gyrobiro!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I believe you and sadly am not suprised.
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Char @char20.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Males have a massive problem is that only they can fix. I worked an emergency medicine & also mental health & am here to tell you that the numbers are astonishing of how many people/kids have been prayed upon sexually. 
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Alex Samaras (he/him) @bioalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am not exempt. Until we break out of this longstanding bullshit patriarchal rape culture, we will never be exempt because we could always be doing more to stand & speak out & act against our disgusting culture that ignores, accepts, & condones this shit. #YesAllMen
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not sure this knowledge is meant for human brains. 🧪
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Icosidodecahedron - Wikipedia
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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 05/10/2026
Sign The Australia Institute's petition to phase out fossil fuels! put some pressure on our government to do the right thing nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...
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✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels
Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Haha she has the best toys!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Poor beautiful Laika ❤️
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Probs - no food delivery system, poop management needed, maybe they just curled up inside their shells until it was safe to come out.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well yes. Mostly they are just enraged.
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mens silence is violence
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I did think bacon was a good addition to the cheesy chip, but I'm not sure I'd like it in a syringe!
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