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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 5h

Please enjoy this monarch butterfly. I grew that marigold myself, so I’m quite pleased.

A monarch butterfly perched on a bright yellow marigold

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Africanfuturism (one word, not two) is concerned with visions of the future, is interested in technology, leaves the Earth, skews optimistic, is centered on and predominantly written by people of African descent and it is rooted first and foremost in Africa. 🌍🤖👽🚀🪐

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, another Black-throated sparrow in cholla cactus, sweet sparrow of the desert. 🪶 Borrego Springs , CA

Black throated sparrow in chollas cactus

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters

The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very much worth reading if you don’t known about Petrov. This is the day we celebrate and honour him, and properly feel gratitude, and other things. Relying on tech in wartime can be deeply perilous. sammatey.substack.com/p/happy-stan...

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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MixBluets🌈🗽🌻🍁🌿 @mixbluets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Expanse ought to be this list! It had 5 excellent seasons with a top notch cast giving incredible performances + flawless production values: all while wrangling with salient political issues interwoven with the cosmic horror of encountering the inscrutable artifacts of an alien civilization.

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've worked for a natural history museum for 11 years at this point (man, yikes) and while it is sad, it isn't surprising to see two major institutions facing closure this year.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The US Constitution is a blueprint for governing and a safety net for civil liberties, not an obstacle to be navigated for loopholes. Happy Constitution Day.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘ken paxton owns 15 homes while most texans can‘t afford one‘ so refreshing to hear a from james talarico, a candidate who doesn't accept corporate pac money

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In 1882, Claude Monet spent seven months painting on the Normandy coast, working on as many as eight separate pictures in one day. This picture depicts the sailors' church in Varengeville at the precipice of a monumental cliff in the mid-morning sun.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/09/2026

That small black circle is the planet Mercury, seen crossing the face of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 9 May 2016.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Eamonn Kerins @eamonnkerins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not a bad view! And weather looks ok 👍

Cape Canaveral Pad 39A where the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope sits atop a Falcon Heavy awaiting launch. Local time is 3:30 - t-minus 4 hours to launch.

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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s the weekend! Let’s stretch a little with these cats. Cats seem to know better than we do how to truly relax. Stretch your legs, loosen up, and let go of the week’s tiredness. I hope these little cats bring a bit of ease and a good mood to your weekend😊 #shouxinsketch #cat #sketch #sketchdaily

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 27/08/2026

NASA and SpaceX are targeting #NASARoman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, August 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 🎥 Launch coverage begins at 6:20 a.m. 🔭

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NASA Sets Coverage for Roman Space Telescope Launch from Florida - NASA

Coverage plans are ready for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA's next-generation observatory designed to

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My wife found this little guy on our patio! I've never seen a wee baby turtle in the wild before. We had to move it a little bit to keep the dogs from being too interested but it seemed happy in the new place as far as we could tell.

A very small turtle with its head and front legs tucked into its shell, sitting on my wife's hand. It is maybe 3 centimeters across.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/08/2026

The Moon blocking light from the Sun, which is illuminating zodiacal dust and making the Moon appear to be backlit. Photographed by the Artemis II Crew. Also, 71 days to Halloween.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

End of Days. Some cheerful new Tyrannosaur art from me. #SciArt

A digital illustration shows a large T.rex, with a vivid pattern of grey and white spots, walking through a barren landscape of burnt trees. A weak sun shines through the smoke-filled air.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard during an extended deployment in the Middle East. The aircraft carrier has a crew of around 5,000. Their deployment began November 21 and had been expected to end in May, but has been extended with no current return date.

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Desperate US sailors trying to jump overboard on extended Middle East deployment, families say - AOL

Concerns have been raised about conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, with claims of food shortages and sailors’ mental health struggles

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Are you not entotained!

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When the Viking landing sites were well photographed, maps of the surroundings could be compiled. I made a grayscale overview based on comparisons between the two camera panoramas, and with reference to sample field maps. A color oil painting of the lander was then done incorporating such work.

This vertical view of the Viking 1 landing site is based on the surface panoramas, extrapolated from the cameras views, seeking to place the featured in reasonably proper relative distances from the lander. Such work was of course drafted and executed by hand.

After the Viking mission two large format NASA Special Publications were especially valuable in later efforts to portray the Viking landing sites in Perspective. First, of course, was NASA SP-425 The Martian Landscape' with beautiful large reproductions of earlier Viking photos, and NASA CR-3568 'The Viking Lander Atlas of Mars' which displayed the derived locations of landscape features in 3D space, plotted in contour lines defined by the perspective of the two cameras.
This is a low resolution view of an artwork done in an odd art medium, scratchboard with a gray dot screen printed on it as a basis for making white or inked marks. Several sheets of this were given to me in the 70s by Chesley Bonestell, encouraging me to play with them. He said they were old, so that could mean WW II or so. I used all but one for such Planetary work. I did maps with them of the sites of Vikings 1 & 2, Venera 9, and Venera 10. All those were published in Sky & Telescope magazine, and in their volume 'The New Solar System', which used my art through out the book. I also made an overview of where they thought Viking 1 was, which turned out to be incorrect.

An unfinished one of the Lunar Orientale basin awaits completion, at the time I started it the Western portions of that basin were still poorly photographed and my drawing was going to be an improvement in the available imagery. Now it is quite well known so there is less incentive to finish it.
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Viking 1 on Mars. This oil on illustration board painting incorporated my efforts to plot the lander surroundings in perspective, and of course knowledge of the final actual lander appearance. The nearest footpad is entirely buried in the powdery dust, a sight which would have certainly been alarming if that had happened to the footpad seen in the first photo! The large rock in the right foreground was nicknamed 'Big Joe'. Just to the right of the lander along the horizon is the upraised rim of a distant impact crater.

The overall color of the scenery reflects mostly influence from initial contemporary sources. National Geographic published a Viking article which featured the kind of independent first class photo work they used to be known for in the early space age. Their color chart driven version of the Martian scenery tended toward the brick red, reasonably approximating the hues as if lit by a noon time Sun in a Terrestrial sky. This painting was initially done in a similar color balance to what they mostly used, then later I learned of the ambient sky etc contributions and overpainted the scene with an orange tan layer. The result color wise is something in between what it was and what it should be, but the scenery remains valid. The Martian sky was based on Viking camera images, whose truncated brightness near the top of the frame complicated portraying the actual sky brightness range.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/06/2026

Your reminder that, while everyone is rightly focused on the Moon these days, Venus is the only other Earth-sized world we will ever visit. And if we truly want to understand why our own planet is habitable, we must explore the one that isn't.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10/06/2026

Both Orwell and Idiocracy comparisons have grown stale through overuse. However

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Cloudy Mars: Olympus and Tharsis, ESA Mars Express HRSC Massive 220MP image on Flickr ➡️ flic.kr/p/2seL8ss 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-08-02 North is down HR242_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3 Notes: Cool cloud formation over the North Pole and a dust storm-like feature over Olympus Mons!

View of Mars from orbit. Colours are rusty red and pale white from cloud cover and atmospheric haze. Bright white polar ice caps swirl near the top, while thin cloudy streaks drift across the surface. Four large circular volcanoes are arranged in a broad triangle across the planet’s face. The scene feels dry, vast and softly hazy. Notably, a very cool spiral-like cloud formation appears over the North Pole, along with a dust storm-like feature near Olympus Mons.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/05/2025

These are real images of exoplanets. Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away. These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark. And we can see them.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/05/2026

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

Three crescents. Top: the Moon. Midde: Mars. Bottom: Earth. Background: the infinite black of space.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A 6,000 year-old pottery bowl with five small hippos and a crocodile. From the grave of a woman and child at Matmar, near Asyut, Egypt. Early Predynastic, Naqada I. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a handmade pottery bowl made from red polished clay. The bowl shape is rounded, tapering to a narrower rounded base, with a wide flaring rim. Attached around the rim there are five small hand-modelled figures of hippopotami and one crocodile. The bowl was broken when found, and has been restored. Diameter: 29.50 cm (max) Height: 13.80 cm.

It was excavated from a predynastic cemetery at Matmar by Guy Brunton circa 1929-31. It was found in grave 2646 which belonged to a female and child.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Crescent Earth and some delicious lens flare

The Moon eclipsing the Sun, with the corona and zodiacal light forming a diffuse glow behind the satellite

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 25/04/2026

After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written." If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲 www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/04/2026

Holy shit. The Hubble Space Telescope, photographer in space, BY A SATELLITE ALSO IN SPACE (Happy 36th birthday, Hubble!)

A space telescope! In space! Photographed by another satellite, also in space!!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/04/2026

Today’s 10 years since Prince passed, and I just wanted to tell one of many personal stories, about why I have this wonderful photo by Afshin Shahidi (a friend, who was also Prince’s personal photographer for years) hanging in our home. It tells a very special story…

Prince walks down 52nd St. in New York City in 2004, on his way to rehearsal, and on his way to history.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 12/04/2026

Record turnout shows the democratic spirit of the Hungarian people. They have spoken—and their will is clear. I look forward to working closely with Péter Magyar to make Europe stronger and more prosperous.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12/04/2026

The latest numbers from Hungary have the Péter Magyar-led opposition party Tisza winning 138 seats, well over the 2/3 threshold (133 seats) required for passing constitutional reforms. (Viktor Orbán and his party, Fidesz, with the allied KDNP, abused this power to remake Hungary since 2010.)

Screenshot of a depiction of the 199 seats of Hungary's National Assembly, showing 138 seats going to Tisza, 54 seats going to Fidesz and KDNP, and 7 seats going to Mi Hazank.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 08/04/2026

Them: Tell me Europe is mission-critical to bringing humanity back to the Moon without telling me Europe is mission-critical to bringing humanity back to the Moon. Me:

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/04/2026

HOLY SHIT

The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 07/04/2026

Same. Its a fairly common misconception that the nerds are faithless or only believe in what's measurable. There's a reason us nerds keep sending art into space and having the astros record their feelings and do little luck rituals. You don't know what you don't know.

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