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NickAstronomer

@nickastronomer.bsky.social
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Musician., keyboard player and synth programmer for big pop groups and even bigger corporations in the past.. astronomer, discoverer of asteroids #kessleriscoming

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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Where's Donnie ... Come on you orange fascist ... Where are you now ?
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
USA..USA...USA.... Pmsl Oopsies ... Air Farce One helped I see
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Naming the capsule "Integrity" has to be a joke right? Like seriously, it must be a joke... Either than or Alanis Morissette will be asking NASA to hold her beer
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Just saying
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
You had one job BBC News - Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle
Medals given to participants use an image of Sunderland, which has no connection to the event.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
One for the knuckle dragging flag shaggers
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Be afraid..be very afraid That's a survey in the Observer
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Barry @barryp13.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I hereby request FIFA to remove all World Cup matches from the United States.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Always fun to have a president who is not only an idiot, but also a vindictive prick. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
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Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
💥 The NFL is stoked to be woke. “All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: ‘End Racism,’ ‘Stop Hate,’ ‘Choose Love’ or ‘Inspire Change.’ africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
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Social justice messages to continue in end zones
For the sixth straight season, all 32 NFL teams will feature a message of their choice in one end zone at each home game and "It Takes All of Us" in the opposite one.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Dear Universal Music Group Go f*ck yourselves Your copyright strikes against the like of Rick Beato You're just a total bunch of c*nts
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Owch Not been a good week for UK Space Science
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Had to post this ... Given the ridiculous stuff seen on the drive to work
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
That's the point... and merging UKSA into DSIT is not a good look for the UK as a whole, no matter how click baity the BBC headline is, its not a good thing full stop
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Lovely weekend at the Rewind Festival. Great to hear real artists, playing real instruments, who pen real lyrics, driven by real experience... and not some tosh, who think that to chuck a prompt at Chat GPT to create a song allows them to call themselves musicians and producers
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My vote goes to Thames Water
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
14 days in, and Cakewalk still working, thanks to a rather neat bit of code which legally circumvents their utter mindless stupidity
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Lovely evening with friends observing the Perseid peak last night. 41 total, some really bright at around mag -3/4 If it's clear again this evening, I'll probably do the same
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Holy F*CK When will this insanity end? arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
RIP Jim... a true icon of human spaceflight
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Outstanding video from #starskycarr on the Jupiter 8 vs System-8. Owning both over the years (and still the System-8) he nails it, and shows why, along with the V-Synth, The System-8 is absolutely the best synth they have done in decades @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Can it come out of Paula's personal finances, like her house and all assets? Asking for a nation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Horizon victim Lee Castleton sues Post Office and Fujitsu for £4m
This is the first time full details of a complex claim for compensation have been made public.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social ';-) Moral here...Don't mess with software engineers... we always find a way around corporate greed and stupidity... and 100% legal ways too
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
One week in and Cakewalk still running like a charm, courtesy of neat code that is 100% legal & doesn't infringe copyright or "crack" in any way. @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social Don't mess with software engineers, we always find a way around corporate stupidity and greed
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Quite astonishing test series Vs India ..one of those "I was there" moments for anyone watching
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists. This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Actually heartbreaking, the list of colleagues that have run the show behind the scenes for so many years who are saying their pre-emptive goodbyes and taking literally thousands of years of amassed knowledge and expertise with them. Not to mention camaraderie and community. Morale is ... bleak.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I do hope Chloe Kelly wears a "F**K YOU Gareth Taylor" T-shirt today for the open top bus parade Ex Man City Muppet must be regretting the stupidity of what he did...thankfully now removed from ever making such a moronic decision ever again
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I mean, let's be honest here... even Ozzie (god rest his soul) was more coherent and eloquent, and he had 60 years of alcohol and drug abuse as his excuse
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Expect one of two things to happen pretty soon 1: Ghislaine Maxwell will be freed 2: Ghislaine Maxwell will fall off a balcony in a Russian apartment block
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Pretty much sums up the perfect gig that the Oasis Heaton Park weekend was
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Oasis at the weekend were superb, 2 hours of pretty much non stop hits, excellent organisation at Heaton Park, topped off by a quite remarkable set from Richard Ashcroft, who had 80,000 people in the palm of his hands, banging out classics from Urban Hymns. £150 for a ticket, but worth every penny
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hey SIRI...how many creative industry jobs will be destroyed in the next 2 years by people using technology that literally sole decades of hard work and knowledge? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs
The streaming firm says AI allowed The Eternauts to complete a sequence faster and cheaper.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For all synth nerds.. just going to leave this here and let you draw your own conclusions dn790005.ca.archive.org/0/items/Yama... - £20 product s/h (PS3) www.synthxl.com/wp-content/u... - £300+ product s/h & www.noystoise.com/2013/07/yama... @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Boycott everything he goes near, and don't support from home... don't watch adverts, don't give a cent to anything connected with a thing that rapist does Simple really
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
All the people planning on driving/getting the train/coach to London (at your cost) to protest against the state visit of an orange rapist... THINK ABOUT IT Not turning up, turning the streets of Windsor/London SILENT, would be FAR more effective. Cost the Met, millions, and not feed his ego
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
And if I were Carney or Sheinbaum, I'd be telling FIFA to shove it, and pulling out of co hosting
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I am 100% genuinely boycotting the next World Cup. The fact it's being held in the USA is bad enough, but as this OP rightly states in his wonderful post, this isn't football, this is corruption of one of the few things that truly unites this world, on a scale never seen before
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Siri... define an organisation that once did great things and is now utterly f****d
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The second greatest technical engineering feat in spaceflight history, after Apollo.. amazing mission.
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I would never advocate software piracy, but Cakewalk Next is a toy, and a POS, Cakewalk Sonar free, has a hideous UI, doesn't port over existing Cakewalk projects and is bloated, premium, bloated too. Bandlab's stance on removing activations Aug 1st is appalling. Been using Cakewalk for 35 years..
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So glad I've dropped Amazon... Twatter... Microshaft ... Because in a few years when your kids are looking at zero job prospects in multiple areas ...you'll realise that lauding AI wasn't the smartest move
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Dug this oldie but goldie up @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social www.audiotechnology.com/PDF/16/AT16_...
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
That's okay then, because it's the lead poisoning that usually kills when a high calibre, high velocity rifle blasts a hole through a grouse or deer's internal organs for fun (sic)
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NickAstronomer @nickastronomer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
And alongside NASA being f*****d let's tag the rest of the United States in that too, given morons like this are running the country
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