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@eviljaffafish.bsky.social
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radio astronomer (just about) bi. she/they. dr. northern irish living in the north west astronomy, science, weather, art, politics.... gundam. maybe some motorsports sprinkled on top. very little original here, mainly just reposts.

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Victor Sales @vsalesv.bsky.social · 9h
My contribution to the new Streets of Perú Zine. I had the chance to visit the Islas Ballestas and wanted to represent this beautiful environment. I encourage everyone to visit streetsofzine.com and check all the beautiful illustrations for this edition. ✨ @streetsofzine.bsky.social
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13h
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11h
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Duille @duille.com · 16h
Poster. Philip Zec. 1932.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 16h
Temperatures will drop rather quickly under these clear skies tonight - will definitely feel more autumnal tomorrow.
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 16h
Cumulonimbus action from earlier. @petergibbs.bsky.social
Showers, rays, virga, BIG clouds over the Minch Anvil cumulonimbus cloud over the Torridon hillsSun shining onto the sea through the upper part of the anvil of the cumulonimbus cloudTropopause pushing out the highest bit of anvil over the sea
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Weather Mizumoto @weathermizu.bsky.social · 22h
At first, when I heard the term “asymmetric autocatalytic reaction,” I was not sure what it meant, but as I heard the specifics, it clicked, I recalled it in a book before. It will become a fundamental for medicine developments. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10...
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Japanese scientist Kenso Soai and France’s Henri B. Kagan win Nobel Prize in chemistry
Japanese scientist Kenso Soai and Henri B. Kagan won “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 20h
I get so many comments on my videos that are essentially this picture. "Surely your favorite QM book isn't by a man named Shankar...surely you've just missed the actual books." People are really racist! All the time!
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21h
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Jet Engine" Painting study
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Only one lifetime ago, child mortality IN EUROPE was ten percent. Everything you understand about the normal conditions of everyday life is a fragile, precious achievement won at great cost. Shun and denounce anyone who talks as if it isn't.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These slop machines are now pushed on us and our students by publishers, and unis provide no protections nor any support in helping researchers, teachers and students to fight back the pollution bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/10/2025
Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 05/10/2026
If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this. **Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers** math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...
Currently, authors posting to arXiv have no control over whether bots scrape their full-text PDFs and LaTeX source files.

We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:

Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.

Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.

Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tate brothers bail denial has lots of funny evidence. Including them boasting in social media about ignoring court dates and using multiple passports, including forged ones to jump jurisdictions “I'm untouchable because I've spent a decade spreading myself into MANY grids.” Apparently you didn't
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026
over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":
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The Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'
Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“For entire disciplines, this is existential”
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Gracile @gracile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Matt Payne @mattpaynephoto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Creativity begins before the shutter clicks.” Meet Roxanne Bouche Overton, our guest this week on F-Stop Collaborate and Listen. From the Pacific Northwest to the world of intentional camera movement (ICM), Roxanne helps us rethink how we see and photograph. Tune in wherever you find podcasts!
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I took this photo of a Nymphaea 'Pink Pearl' waterlily at a Buddhist monastery in Hualien, Taiwan. It's near my house. 😍 #naturephotography #nature #flowers #waterlily #lotus #floralphotography #eastcoastkin #photography
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Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · 06/10/2026
From my trip to Japan.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
now when you want to call someone a loser for using AI-generated music, you can compare them to an ohio pastor who briefly appeared on american idol and was just sentenced to life without parole for murdering his wife while having an affair. apnews.com/article/cale...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1200 sexual assault reports in 6 years. That’s 1 every 2 days. Only 7 resulted in an expulsion or dismissal. Only 14 resulted in a suspension. Cornell is a rapist factory. Drive it out of business. Also, only 5-13% of college women who are assaulted report it. That’s 5-6 assaults a day.
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Cornell University gang rape case reveals 1200 sexual assaults reported between 2018-24, only 7 expulsion even as over 51 people were found responsible; trend follows in NYU, Coloumbia and major NewYo...
Between 2018 and 2024, Cornell University documented 1,200 instances of sexual misconduct, yet only a handful of disciplinary measures were taken. Merely seven students faced expulsion, and 14 others ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh yeah man, this datacentre stuff? Solid reputable businesses. www.afr.com/rear-window/...
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Firmus missed first rental payment to data centre landlord
Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield’s multibillion-dollar juggernaut needed chasing to pay the bill that keeps the lights on.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places reut.rs/4zbUkqB
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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places
Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of ​AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell is a Rapist Haven. Alums: you know what to do.
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Mia Varlineau 🌻 playing FFXIV (wolshipping 25/7) @miavarlineau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
LEAVE ME ALONE
Tetsuo from the anime/manga Akira meme screaming with bsky julies following him. Girl pls stop
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 05/10/2026
All my current paintings in progress are in their awkward/ugly phase lol, so here is one I did last October! A spooky star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula I named Leviathan’s Wake. I’ll bring back prints at the end of this month 🐉
Rectangular painting on easel of star-forming region in Eagle nebula that looks like a dragon or leviathan skeleton rising. Colors of the nebula are dark brown, orange, pink, and purple
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Smartphone Photographer @pocket-ireland.com · 04/10/2026
The Oak Walk. buff.ly/8hDZ9XL #photography #Landscape #Nature #WoodlandPhotography #IrishAutumn #autumn #fall
Eye-level perspective looking straight down a tarmac walkway lined with low wire fences and neat grass borders. A tall, mature canopy of broadleaf oak trees arches completely over the path, forming an enclosed natural tunnel. Warm, bright late-afternoon sunlight filters through the green and yellow leaves, casting horizontal shadows and bright golden pools of light across the ground. Light scattered autumn leaves rest along the path surface.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
musk (again) agrees with ending women's right to vote
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026
"A ten-year contract signed in 2015 gave the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) preferential access to land identified for development by Manchester city council.""
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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good thing no one ever needs a taxi after a nice night at the bar or anything
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
trying my best to stay out of rape discourse because the past few years have already been very hard & it seems like 60% of people are cool with a world with a little rape in it but whoever this was invented “manic pixie rape girl in the lives of the men they helped improve” & that sucks. it sucks.
I don't mean to downplay sexual assault but l also have known a lot of good people who had to learn healthy boundaries by violating someone else's and never forgetting the experience
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
The Orange Order, and the police, have got this all so badly wrong and every person in the country could have told then that before it had to happen
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
started levitating during this whole bit
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 02/10/2026
This is an excellent video that was *made in 1958* that covers these early days of the emergence of #RadioAstronomy in Australia. Highly recommend this -- it's like a time capsule of what they knew of the radio sky back then (juxtaposed against what we know today). it's very good!
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Radio astronomy in Australia (1958)
YouTube video by CSIRO
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
attempting to dox a gang rape survivor is like the final boss in loser behavior. a cloud of loserdom will surround you for the rest of your life. people on the street will see you and they probably won’t know your name but they’ll know you’re the fucking worst.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying
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