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Douglas Long @minimillian.bsky.social · 16h

In case anyone has missed the news about tonight’s JWST proposal deadline: September 30, 2026 The APT server experienced technical issues at 7:45 pm ET on September 30. Accordingly, the deadline is extended to 5 pm Eastern Time, October 1, 2026 🔭

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Infinite personalized music” was already solved, it’s called learning to play an instrument

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 15/09/2026

In Japan, a radical feminist theater troupe is turning Gothic Lolita fashion into a form of protest, using frills, fury and stories of sexual violence to challenge misogyny. 👉 ebx.sh/U1KryA

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

$At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.$

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The RedDot @thereddot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fucking hell part 2

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JWST Observer @jwstobserver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The new NIRSpec BOTS multistripe readout capability improves the bright limits for #JWST time-series observations. Read more: ow.ly/zAeX50ZBr5o

Line drawing of JWST on a background of the Tarantula Nebula observed by JWST using MIRI

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Douglas Long @minimillian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This seems to sum up all of this insanity

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Leah Von Noire @leahvonnoire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

❣️❣️

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want the Machine Learning tool that can spot cancer cells through pattern recognition. I do not want the Copyright Infringer 9000 that generates CSAM.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It’s really something how people get up in arms about accessibility and equity when the thing in question is pervert glasses or Dark Clippy. I don’t see you folks showing up when Ticketmaster says there’s no way a wheelchair user can come to concerts or that sign language is “too distracting”.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.

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Douglas Long @minimillian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I just read (and reread to make sure I wasn’t misreading) an article repeatedly identifying Jamaica and Japan(!) as parts of “The Global South”. Did the magnetic pole flip?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 09/07/2026

NEWS: Can rocky exoplanets hold an atmosphere? A major milestone brings us closer to answering that question. The Rocky Worlds DDT team has completed its first coordinated #NASAWebb and Hubble observations: news.stsci.edu/4v80qpM 🔭 🧪

Artist’s concept of a star and planet. The star takes up the majority of the illustration. It is reddish orange with many flares, and the surface resembles lava. The planet appears as a small, dark grey silhouette passing in front of the top left side of the star. The words “Artist’s Concept” appear at the bottom right of the illustration.

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Douglas Long @minimillian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

AI knows me not. (It’s a pretty common name)

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Douglas Long @minimillian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“Rogers is no longer afraid that the Canadian government and the Canadian people would reject this as a mass cultural massacre” Prove them wrong. 🇨🇦

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I wish as a society we didn’t long for power, & instead aimed to be decent people who care for each other and our world. It’s alluring to see all that money, to be sold the sci fi dreams of our childhoods, the escape, the adventure. Only the worst kind of people use our dreams against us.

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thread on our new paper on arxiv today! We stumbled across a weird sinusoidal systematic that we think appears in every observation from the NIRISS instrument on JWST. We derive a correction and see how much it impacts exoplanet spectra. (1/N) #astro #exoplanets 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2606.11983

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Calibration of an Analog-to-Digital Conversion Nonlinearity in JWST/NIRISS

We quantify an unusual flux-dependent systematic which is periodic in raw counts in flight data from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NIRISS), used...

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JWST Observer @jwstobserver.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Join us on June 25th for JWebbinar 49 - Hands-on Session for Custom #JWST WCS Alignment with JHAT. We'll provide an overview of the JWST/HST Alignment Tool (JHAT): ow.ly/wytP50Z9vIy

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“Perps name is Donny T, goes by John Barron on the dark web. Real sex pervert, walks in on underage girls, sticks his hands in privates, total groper. My source says he hangs out at MSG.”

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Ice T as Sergeant Tutuola's Doubting Glare

ALT: Ice T as Sergeant Tutuola's Doubting Glare

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Douglas Long @minimillian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m always fascinated by forgotten pasts.

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SuperNinfriendo 🎀 (Top 10) @superninfriendo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

❤️🧡💛💚💙🩵💜

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 31/05/2026

This month has been challenging, but we have continued to fight back against attacks on our communities, our rights, and our futures. See what we’ve been up to this month and how you can get involved. autisticadvocacy.org/2026/05/asan...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026

As Baldur Bjarnason writes, under Trump, America "first turned on their trading partners, then their allies in Europe, and then they delivered one of this century’s biggest economic and energy crises to their allies in Asia": www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old... 9/

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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Kinda funny that they turned a color photograph into black-and-white for this.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.

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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026

It's so weird to grow up in the 80s and 90s, where we were taught unequivocally that all Nazis should get the rope, to be alive now where people try to pretend that that shit is a normal phase for men. Or that a nazi is someone with merely a different opinion. No the fuck it isn't!!!!

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 30/04/2026

Autism Acceptance Month is coming to an end, but our fight continues. Your support empowers self-advocates: autisticadvocacy.org/donate/

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/04/2026

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

A detailed image of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space, showing its solar panels and cylindrical body in space.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Hegseth on dropping the flu vaccine reqt for the military: We will not force you to take it, “because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.” OH REALLY? Replace ‘flu vaccine’ with ‘abortion’ and we’ll see how ‘negotiable’ my body, faith, and convictions are.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

If one more app that I have been successfully using with no major complaints for at least a decade incorporates AI I will lose my shit

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