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Sea-Watch @sea-watch.org · 26/09/2026

🔴 „Ich habe es geschafft, [der libyschen Küstenwache] die Position des Schlauchboots zu geben.“ Das funkte heute die von Frontex betriebene Drohne „Falcon01“. Unsere Seabird war vor Ort: ~65 Menschen in Seenot wurden danach abgefangen & nach Libyen verschleppt. 🧵(1/4)

Eine kleine graue Starrflügel-Drohne mit langen, schmalen Tragflächen, doppeltem Leitwerksträger und festem Fahrwerk fliegt vor klarem blauem Himmel. Laut unserer Seabird-Crew handelt es sich um die Drohne „Falcon01“, fotografiert am 26. September 2026 über dem zentralen Mittelmeer.

Luftaufnahme eines weißen Patrouillenboots der sogenannten libyschen Küstenwache mit orangefarbenem Streifen am Rumpf auf offenem, tiefblauem Meer. Das Vorderdeck ist voller Menschen. Daneben liegt ein dunkles Schlauchboot, in dem noch einige Menschen sitzen, während Crewmitglieder des Patrouillenboots sie herüberholen.

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Ronen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ich empfehle sehr, den Essay von @dnah.bsky.social in der taz zu lesen. taz.de/Antisemitism...

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HZDR @hzdr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⚗️⚛️ Radioaktive Elemente im atomaren Detail: Nina Huittinen erhält für herausragende Leistungen in der #Nuklearchemie den Fritz-Straßmann-Preis der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker. 👏 @gdch.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #HZDR ▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/huitt...

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Erik Strub @erikstrub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And, almost forgot, the amethyst color is of course due to charge-transfer effects. So inorg chemistry, applied chem (silica fuse), solid state physics, nuclear physics, geology, cristallography, mathematics, you could almost think quartz is the holy grail of polymathy. #mincup #quartz

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Erik Strub @erikstrub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cone on. #Asagiite had its chances in recent years, this time I am with #quartz superstar. I mean, piezoeletricity. I mean, helical structure. I mean, thermoluminescence. I mean, the memory of cosmic rays in Be-10 and Al-26. I mean, amethyst. Vote quartz! #MinCup26

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Erik Strub @erikstrub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wir, wie wir mit Hilfe von Tankrabatten und Preisdeckeln auch künftig unsere CO2-Emissionen sicherstellen

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Elmo Burning in Hell

Alt: Elmo Burning in Hell

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Owen Missen @scimissionowen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Xocolatlite is a tellurium mineral with a great name, and features in the 10th edition of Mineral Cup, five years after the most unlikely of champions, quetzalcoatlite! Xocolatlite also has the distinction of being described by my phd supervisor Joel Brugger and team!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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Elvira Rosert @elvirarosert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Follow-Up: Die Logo-Redaktion hat (auf meine E-Mail) geantwortet und Einsicht gezeigt. Das Konzept habe nicht funktioniert; die Einordnungen seien nicht ausreichend gewesen; für die Wahl in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern werde ein anderes Konzept eingesetzt. 💪

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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Wir müssen wirklich aufhören, den Tech-Bros ihre Stories abzukaufen und ernst zu nehmen. Sie sind keine verlässlichen Kommunikationspartner."

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shame David found this need to clarify the joke. NO real climate scientist would be only now waking up to the danger of climate change after working on "fossil fuel extraction" with the big oil companies for the past 3 years. His satire shows how messed up our perspective is on the real dangers.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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Bijan Moini @bijanmoini.de · 13/09/2026

„Unter dieser Polithure fing alles an. Sie ist des Galgens würdig.“ Das postete jemand mit Bebilderung unter einen Facebook-Beitrag des AfD-S-A-Chefs Martin Reichardt. Der neue Blog „Protestwahl“ hat 100 solcher Beiträge gesammelt. Warum spielen solche Aussagen in unserem Gutachten keine Rolle?

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Sachsen-Anhalt wählte den Wechsel: Auf dass die AfD die Demokraten hängt? - Protestwahl.INFO

Die AfD will politische Gegner einsperren. Nicht wegen Straftaten – sondern wegen Politik, die auf Parlamentsbeschlüssen beruht. Auf Social-Media-Seiten der AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fordern Kommentatoren so...

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...

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Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle

Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A Nobel as a shield for working women. "I would be particularly happy if the distinction awarded to me could [...] safeguard women's most precious right: to practise, on the same terms as men, the professions for which they are qualified." ― Irène Joliot-Curie, born #OTD in 1897. 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah, this Anthropic guy resigning over AI risks. lots of headlines. And I see little to no questioning of what he's actually saying. Well after all, he's the expert, right? He actually worked on this stuff, right? mashable.com/tech/anthrop...

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Anthropic researcher quits, calls AI an existential threat to humanity

An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed it believes AI could kill all humans.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 09/09/2026

Drawing a picture from the continued fraction of a number. The continued fraction terms drive a Fourier series.

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Erik Strub @erikstrub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also die 100 Millionen hätte Lars Klingbeil jetzt auch noch drauflegen können

Tortengrafik zum Bundeshaushalt mit Gesamtsumme 555,4 Mrd €

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Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 08/09/2026

This part is crazy. Every paragraph is worse than the last. Perhaps I was naive, but I didn't think OpenAI capable of being this dishonest.

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Nico Semsrott @nicosemsrott.de · 06/09/2026

Gesichert rechtsextreme Partei gewinnt in Sachsen-Anhalt. AfD-Verbot jetzt! Der Bundesrat muss sofort handeln und das Parteiverbot beim Bundesverfassungsgericht beantragen! Auf die Straßen! @pruef-demos.de am 12.9.! #afdverbot #pruef

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ich habe hier zusammengefasst, wie die etablierten Parteien entscheidend zur Stärkung radikal rechter Parteien wie der AfD beigetragen haben. Auch als Reaktion auf den Wahlausgang gestern sehen wir wieder die genau gleichen Narrative aus Politik und Medien. Man bleibt im Teufelskreis gefangen.

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vote for quartz, the only mineral cool enough to feature in the Lego Minerals set three times! 1) Tiny colourless acicular crystals associated with red rhodochrosite 2) An amethyst geode 3) Orange "tangerine quartz" #TeamQuartz #MinCup26

Close up of two Lego figures: dark red rhodochrosite cubes on a black matrix with colourless acicular quartz crystals, and a dark purple amethyst geode.

A Lego model of tangerine quartz. It's a deep orange colour with white tips.

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Mario Donick (#Weltraumprojekt era, HRO & MD) @mariodonick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

3. Dokumentiert, was passiert. 4. Nutzt den Rechtsweg. 5. Demonstriert weiter, gg. jede menschenverachtende o. illegale Maßnahme. 6. Widersprecht in eurem Umfeld. 7. Gebt nicht auf. Es wird auch wieder anders werden.

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Mario Donick (#Weltraumprojekt era, HRO & MD) @mariodonick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Was ich mir jetzt wünsche: 1. Wenn ihr Geld habt, spendet, z.b. an @polyluxnetwork.bsky.social 2. Wenn ihr in Sachsen-Anhalt in Behörden, Schulen usw mit menschenverachtenden o. illegalen Anweisungen zu tun habt, dann remonstriert (Beamte), verzögert, "vergesst", haltet Rücksprache, ... /1

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Hugo van Schrojenstein Lantman @hugolantman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's that time of year again, is it? Well, quartz needs your help. This absolutely incredible mineral is versatile, useful, and highly interesting, and deserves a #MinCup26 win. Attached: a quartz-rich thin section spinning in the optical microscope using cross-polarised light

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wake up and quartz is behind? How? Look at what you can do with it! Patrick Dreher spent 500+ hours carving this octopus from a single quartz crystal. The chimps were carved from a single piece of agate by Gerd and Patrick Dreher #TeamQuartz #MinCup26 #SciArt

A very intricate carving of an octopus made from a colourless piece of quartz. It looks like it's perching on a boulder.

On display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A double terminate crystal of slightly smoky quartz next to the octopus. It's from Grisons, Switzerland.

On display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Three chimpanzees carved from a single piece of agate. Their fur is black and their hands are brown. Two chimps at the front are looking at each other while the third one has its back turned towards them.

On display in the Natural History Museum, London.

An example of the agate the three chimps were carved from. It's shaped like a V and is black on the outside and brown on the inside. An outline of the chimps is drawn on top. The agate is from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

On display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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Kerstin Neuhaus @microtopico.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#Quartz is still behind #Asagiite! After ten years and with all these beautiful colors it deserves at least the quarter finals! Vote #quartz! #MinCup26 👩‍🔬🧪⚒️

Tweezers for scale. Polished quartz samples are arranged in a line with white and clear samples at one end, violet, yellow, and red in the middle and brown and grey ones at the other end.

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How can you not vote for quartz. Look how pretty it looks when combined with other minerals! These are smoky quartz prisms emerging from a bed of white feldspar, with a sprinkling of spessartine garnet! #TeamQuartz #MinCup26

Black, translucent crystals of smoky quartz rising out of a white feldspar groundmass sprinkled with tiny orange spessartine crystals, a type of garnet. From Tongbei, China.

Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.

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Erik Strub @erikstrub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reposting to boost #quartz #mineralcup www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Kerstin Neuhaus @microtopico.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reposting this to boost #quartz. #MinCup26

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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Don’t sleep on Quartz folks!

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Tappin Lisa @tappinlisa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Based on the #MinCup26 picture, #Asagiite is prettier, but my favorite color is purple, and amethyst is a variety of #Quartz! I'm #TeamQuartz for this round.

A cluster of lovely purple amethyst crystals

Photo credit: By Gonzalo Devia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34696023

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

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Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities

Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RIP Yayoi Kusama

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's like they're slightly terrified to realise that Dolly might have in fact been that thing they like to call... woke. But how can this be?!!

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/08/2026

It is absolutely meaningless for the UK government (or EU governments) to talk about regulating social media while continuing to ignore this stuff from Musk.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom

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ADFC Köln @adfc.koeln · 22/08/2026

Anders als der KSTA titelt, wird die Severinsbrücke am morgigen Sonntag nicht voll gesperrt. 🚈🚲🚶 KVB, Radverkehr und Fußverkehr können die Brücke wie gewohnt nutzen. 🚗🛻🚛 Die Sperrung betrifft lediglich den Autoverkehr. www.ksta.de/koeln/severi...

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Severinsbrücke wird voll gesperrt – ab Montag Sperrung in Südstadt | Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

Der Stadtbahnverkehr sowie Fußgänger und Radfahrer sind nicht betroffen.

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Ralf Giernoth @rgiernoth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stell dir vor: Jemand filmt dich – und du merkst nichts. Kamerabrillen bedrohen unsere Privatsphäre. Fordere klare Grenzen! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/wi...

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Du bist kein Content: Spanner-Brillen verbieten!

Stell dir vor: Jemand filmt dich – und du merkst nichts. Kamerabrillen bedrohen unsere Privatsphäre. Fordere klare Grenzen! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What drives me nuts about so much ed. admin. attitudes re: AI is that they don't seem to recognize that whatever value it might have as a tool now or in the future, it is in direct opposition to the core idea of learning basic skills. And without those, it is worse than useless — it is dangerous.

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Ralf Sudowe @rsudowe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Would you enjoy a glass of wine grown in the Fukushima province? You can without second thoughts! In our recent article in the Health Physics Journal we report the results of our analysis of some wines and ciders grown in this region. www.ovid.com/jnls/health-...

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Radiological Analysis of 137 Cs and 90 Sr in Wine... : Health Physics

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2011 released substantial amounts of radiocesium (137Cs, 134Cs) and smaller amounts of...

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ja, Ulf! Und die Sommerzeit ist ein Schlafentzugsprogramm der NATO, die Mülltrennung eine Gehorsamsstudie der Kompostmafia und IKEA-Bauanleitungen ein Belastungstest des schwedischen Auslandsnachrichtendiensts. Aber viel interessanter ist doch die Frage: Wer steckt hinter dem Experiment Ulf?

"Corona war ein Experiment des Staates" - Ulf Poschardt bei ben ungescriptet

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) The most troubling thing about this is, Originality AI is apparently used by agents & publishers alike. Dear agents and publishers, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET: AI “detectors” are slop machines same as the slop machines whose output they purport to analyze. 🧵4/5

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