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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“Seeking is the nature of wisdom.” (Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth)

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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The board of peace. #r4today

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just had a lovely evening at a @humanists.uk event, where the ace @jimalkhalili.bsky.social was interviewing the excellent @profaliceroberts.bsky.social . Given the frenetic nature of the news & the world at the moment, a dose of reason, science and nuanced debate was very welcome. More of that!

Jim Al-Khalili and Alice Roberts on stage with a Humanists UK backdrop

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/01/2026

Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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DHS ICE memo 1-21-26

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

TODAY on #MSNOW: 10am-2pm/EST 7am-11am/PST-Jack Smith Finally Testifies to Congress about when our Presidementia incited an insurrection at the Capitol to steal a free & fair election & when he stole Top-Secret Gov't Documents & stored them in his bathroom. Y'know... many, many, MANY crimes ago.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A very exciting new result from @alexji.bsky.social: the discovery of a star with the lowest measured abundance of non-primordial elements anywhere in the Universe, including those JWST is observing in the infant cosmos. It seems to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud. 🧪

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A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mass stars, they could ...

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 29/09/2025

#NASAWebb has found the first direct evidence of potential moon formation around a giant exoplanet. The discovery is shedding light on how such systems evolve and why moons could be potentially habitable worlds: bit.ly/46xGodN 🔭 🧪

An illustration of a young planet with a surrounding disk of dust and gas potentially forming moons. The planet, which appears dark red, is shown at lower right, circled by a cloudy, clumpy reddish orange-colored disk. The host star appears at upper left, and glows yellow, with its own reddish disk of debris. The disk that surrounds the planet takes up about half the illustration. The black background of space is speckled with stars. At the bottom of the illustration, graphics of molecules are listed in the following order: Acetylene, Carbon Dioxide, Ethane, Benzene, Hydrogen cyanide. The words Artist’s Concept appear at upper right.

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September. 💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST! Let's make it absolutely massive. stoptrump.org.uk

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Rika Smith @iamrikasmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thanks to Lise Meitner, Heisenberg and Oppenheimer, this is where we are.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun

An artist’s rendition of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

What we learned yesterday. The Times They Are a-Changin'

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).

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Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic “No Kings Day” Protests

Almost no one showed up to Donald Trump’s surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"This is what you get when you order your 79th birthday celebration from Temu, but didn't pay the tariffs."

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A friend got my pic. YUGE crowd. Big beautiful crowd. #nokings

A big crowd with me holding a flag, wearing a cowboy hat,and wearing an LGBTQ+ Star Trek t shirt

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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺) @sethchagi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Say it tall loud and proud! THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES 🇺🇸 OF AMERICA! None! And THERE NEVER WILL BE! #NoKings

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

HONESTY. INTEGRITY. DECENCY. #June14th-ObamaAppreciationDay

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This looks like important work on the impact of rocket launches on the upper atmosphere.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hell of a photo

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

So glad this came out on a slow news day.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Honestly, I think this is one of the more accurate predictions re. the Trump/ Musk bitch off.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“I saved you,” cried the billionaire “And you’ve bitten me even, heavens why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die” ‍ “Oh shut up, silly DOGE king,” said the reptile with a grin “You knew damn well I was a snake before you got me elected!”