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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 13h

Yet again, USA: Require that regulators actually regulate. And #ImpeachRFKJr and remove him & all the lethal quacks with him, before they kill even more people than they already have. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic

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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 20h

A rainy day at Jodrell Bank has its perks ☔✨ When the puddles line up just right, the Lovell Telescope puts on a whole new show. Which reflection is your favourite? 👇 📸 Image credit: Jon Dixon

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 15h

A similar dystopia shows up in James P. Hogan's "Voyage from Yesteryear". Hogan: "This is a post-scarcity anarchist space utopia." Readers: "Okay." Hogan: "Everyone carries guns everywhere and the suspicion of an offense is punished by summary execution." Readers: "What."

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 16h

Forty-five years of cyberpunk writers explain "this is a warning, not an instruction manual". And yet far too many people continue to miss the point.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 16h

Now I am wondering about the economics of growing decorative gourds. Paging @sarahtaber.bsky.social? bsky.app/profile/sara...

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2/2 Here's Phobos, with Saturn (natural size 1x) in the background by @science.esa.int Mars Express Full size: flic.kr/p/2sFs2yu 🧪🔭 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

The potato shaped moon of Mars, Phobos, as seen by ESA’s Mars Express. Its grey, covered on craters, 2 enormous ones that occupy nearly a third of the visible side, along with long grooves etched into the terrain. In the background, a tiny far away Saturn appears in a yellowish, colourised view, adding contrast without exaggerating the planet’s size.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 19h

I would also like to know the total, since most of what I have seen reported has been from one agency at a time. For example: $1.4 billion stolen from NSF programs and a couple of billion taken from different NASA programs - although even for NASA, I have not seen a total accounting.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 21h

In the two times that he has been allowed to hold the position of POTUS; Donald Trump has enacted policies that have killed near 2,000,000 people and has threatened the lives of tens of millions. #ImpeachTrump, remove him, and end all of this; United States.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 21h

It is way past time to #ImpeachTrump and remove him & those with him for their crimes.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 21h

I would listen to the Subnautica episode.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Edouard Harris is the founder of a group calling themselves "Gladstone AI". He makes money by convincing people to give it to him to "mitigate national security risk from AGI". He is literally in the business of making up things to scare people with.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

EMPs do not do that (per @nuclearanthro.bsky.social). Especially not since the power grids have surge protectors on them. But, as has always been the case, acknowledging facts does not make "AI" seem powerful. And so the people hyping it for money invoke apocalyptic imaginary things.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Seems like a great time to pull up a map of local noise ordinances.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When someone tried to hack the water supply in Minnesota; the engineers switched to manual controls and kept on running as normal. Before that; cyberattackers tried to hold St. Paul's computers for ransom. The city switched to paper and reset. But admitting facts does not make "AI" seem powerful.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am not the same Michael. But I also appreciated this take.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 10/10/2026

Important to remember: you can still register at the polls. It’s just easier if you’re registered ahead of time. Good idea to double-check.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I voted 14 days ago. bsky.app/profile/mich...

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 09/10/2026

We recently had a couple of very special visitors at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory: Andean condors! 🦅 They're some of the largest flying birds on Earth, with wingspans more than 10 feet (3 m). Soaring with air currents, they can go huge distances while barely flapping their wings! 🔭🧪

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 09/10/2026

Looking for some interactive art for kids? This week's #SciArt feature is coloring sheets designed by Annyse Buxner. Annyse’s mother is Sanlyn Buxner, a PSI Senior Education and Communication Special and Senior Scientist. Download the full series: buff.ly/BiGtaKD

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hot off the presses and many years in the making- what we know about Selk crater now… Looking forward to rendering it obsolete journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 🧪🔭

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I remember when JD Vance came here to the Twin Cities and stood in front of a vacant building to pretend that Minneapolis had burned to the ground. Never mind that Vance himself could see the city in front of him. The blatancy of the lie is part of the attempt to assert power.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Others have already pointed out how Elon Musk is infamously cruel and abusive to his own family members and employees. We also know how Musk lies at lot. And consistency has never been something that authoritarians care about. So this all fits his horrific pattern.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Violent crime in #Minnesota remains near historic lows. The worst violence this year was ICE and the Border Patrol coming here to kidnap, assault, and kill people. And yet we have news media querying candidates about supposed "high-profile" violent crime by a few individuals. Do better, media.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It has been disappointing to read even media outlets that often do better, like @minnesotareformer.com, perpetuate the grossly misleading framing here.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 08/10/2026

🦖Do you have a name for Hera's pet dino? Come up with one and you could win a place at the unveiling of the mission's first asteroid close-up in Berlin next month! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I just learned that the documentary Shifting Baselines f3m.ca/en/film/shifting-baselines, about the environmental destruction caused by SpaceX, is available through most US libraries streaming on Kanopy I'm in it. So is @planet4589.bsky.social. So are my goats and my llama! (RIP llama […]

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even then, the images would be blurry. I defer to Slava Turyshev: arxiv.org/abs/2606.14899.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have sometimes wondered if people imagine Mars as a place to potentially live so often because we have actual resolved pictures of it. As opposed to projecting that imagination onto a dot or a curve on a plot.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Gotta catch them all" does work as a description of a volume-limited survey.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 09/10/2026

Imagine throwing a ball up into the sky so hard it just keeps going - that's our Hera mission, now nearing its target asteroids across millions of km of space. 🛰️ 🪨 But how does Hera know where it is & where it needs to go? Thanks goes to ESA's Flight Dynamics team! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#UnpackTheCourt (The Marquette poll does not seem to have asked about support for impeaching & removing the illegitimate extremists now on SCOTUS, unless that is to be included under "enforce strict ethics code for justices".)

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And tell your Representatives to expel Tom Emmer from the House.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yet again, USA: Require that your members of Congress do their jobs and act to #ImpeachTrump & remove him. Give them no choice otherwise.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 08/10/2026

A night at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory✨ Beneath the Milky Way, Rubin shares the scene with the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the faint red Cobold Nebula. 🔭🧪 Over the next decade, Rubin will scan this sky over and over, building an ever-deeper view of the changing Universe🌌

A stunning night sky showcasing the vibrant, colorful Milky Way galaxy arching above a boot-shaped observatory on a hill, with countless stars and cosmic dust visible in the clear atmosphere.

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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#ThrowbackThursday Did you know that the Very Large Array helped with NASA’s Voyager 2 mission? 🛰️ The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989.

Black and white drawing of two men with testing equipment. Text says: Tracking "Voyager" NRAO/VLA and JPL Venture, November 1985.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

JD Vance has repeatedly publicly admitted to telling horrifically bigoted and blatant lies for his own political advantage. Which is entirely disqualifying for a politician. But, as you wrote, for the last decade the GOP has not even pretended to care about that.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do not mistake JD Vance's malice for ignorance.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Within SETI; there has long been a common opinion that should aliens be found, it will start with "that looks strange". But that is an aside to @annaleen.bsky.social's points here.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I personally do not like the sedation mixes that include propofol, because for me the sedation wears off before the amnesia does. So there were periods of a couple of hours after I had endoscopies where I was conscious, talking, and doing things that I have no memory of. Brains are weird.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 08/10/2026

💥A 10 billion-year-old radio signal reaches Earth 💥 🚨 Exciting new FRB paper led by @sydney.edu.au astronomers @manishacaleb.bsky.social & Dr Themiya Nanayakkara 🚨 www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/10-b... 📸 JWST/NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/T. Nanayakkara/J. DePasquale #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy 🔭📡

$Deep field image showing a portion of the sky with many galaxies. Two nearby stars are bright and show diffraction spikes. A small inset square is annotated showing the location of the FRB near a fuzzy blob of light.$

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For the asteroid crowd: Is anyone aware of any new results to be released from #Tianwen-2 at #Kamoʻoalewa? We are entering the period where the asteroid will be closest to Earth while the spacecraft is there; so downlink will be easiest. @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social ?

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yet again, USA: Require that this be blocked. And require that Congress #ImpeachRFKJr and remove him & the lethal quacks with him before they kill even more people than they already have.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yet again, USA: Require that Congress ensure that the executive branch operate as it has ordered. Rather than allowing outrageous theft & fraud like this.

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