plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026these livestreams have been a favorite of mine for years; recently i finally added green dots to the bottom of my monitor to match the 10cm reference lasers! 010
Reposted by ploxDr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 21/08/2026ㅤ Tiny forest growing on a single pine cone — Hana_b30 ㅤ 292701189
Reposted by ploxjentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 15/07/2026Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeansshare.googleTwo Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan. 157611904
Reposted by ploxProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...gh.bmj.comUS Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortalityIn this observational study, we provide estimates of the impact on the maternal mortality ratio of swings in US aid for family planning and reproductive health driven by changes in the implementation ... 271040520
Reposted by ploxMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' people.com/trump-says-i...people.comTrump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it' 117981346
Reposted by ploxJenka @jenka.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I have maintained for a while that the reason everything around the world (funded by petro-states and carbon oligarchs) is happening rn is because the most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the Earth has no future. And so it must wipe the future out of our imaginations. 12358103
Reposted by ploxCaz @timberwind.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I think it is fun that like, while space elevators certainly *could* take the 'massive space-tower' form often shown in SF, the modern literature on the subject tends to converge on the best initial design being more 'god's own tape measure' - a ~5cm ribbon that is widened by construction robots. 58010
Reposted by ploxAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year. 4459062712
Reposted by ploxCaz @timberwind.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Types of mass driver to Earth-Moon L2 trajectory: - the bwoop - the nyoop - the squiggle 37516
Reposted by ploxBlack 🇬🇱🏳️⚧️Site @unseenops.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Such an interesting beast, she was the fastest attack helicopter ever built, could fire opposite directions at the same time and the gunner seat rotated like a Star Wars turret. Flew before the first moon landing. 414820
Reposted by ploxneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 30/01/2026even absent infiltration by a stranger - people flip. they betray each other. they leak info by checking their phone on a bus, getting MITM'd, getting drunk, dating a shitbag. if your organization is dependent on perfect security you don't have an organization (even a resistance cell) 21668
Reposted by plox⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 29/01/2026Blindsight predicted LLMs Accelerando predicted owl numbers and Roon pray we don't find out what Echopraxia got right 5379
Reposted by ploxtaylr @taylordahlin.com · 25/01/2026signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association 3662621486
Reposted by ploxnat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026there are too many posts on here about "world events" and "AI" and not nearly enough about "Mitsibushi Delica" 152917679
Reposted by ploxAlex Ries @alexries.com · 27/12/2025On the milling of bluestick in the valley of Two-Sky River. Part of the Birrin project. #art #illustration #scifi 321244
Reposted by ploxDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025hey, do you like cyberpunk but want it to be, like...good? are you sick of stories going, "Are machines...people???" for 90 minuets and want a movie that goes, "yes" 5 minutes in and then spends the rest of the runtime exploring actually interesting questions? Do you like ECLIPSE PHASE? Watch! 910417
plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025the 'phoenix moons' hypothesis of martian satellites drifting past the roche limit, breaking up, and reforming at smaller sizes is one of those stories that has been well-supported for a while now but makes 'news' every few years anyways. extremely cool to actually have some new evidence this time! 010
Reposted by ploxBlack 🇬🇱🏳️⚧️Site @unseenops.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Daniel Vierge's 1871 drawings of female Communards in Paris for Le Monde illustré, it must have been pretty unsettling to the European powers to see women under arms with red scarves and black flags. 225365
Reposted by ploxplox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025macro lens experiments with the orb weaver spider in the window :3 131
Reposted by ploxJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 14/11/2025This is an odd way to frame a return to traditional food ways that we ought to celebrate and treat as a chance to reflect on the importance of food sovereignty apnews.com/article/shut...apnews.comTribes that restored buffalo are killing some to feed people because of the shutdownA deal to end the government shutdown is too late for about 30 bison on the Fort Peck reservation in northern Montana. 223933
Reposted by ploxLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/11/2025This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat 161794875
Reposted by ploxDoc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I cringe every time someone pronounces the "Alcubierre" in "Alcubierre Drive" as "Al-koo-bee-air", as if it's a French name It is named after MIGUEL ALCUBIERRE, he is MEXICAN, the name is SPANISH, it is pronounced "Al-koo-byay-rray"! 5397
Reposted by ploxBlack 🇬🇱🏳️⚧️Site @unseenops.bsky.social · 09/08/2025The recent Vekllei post about an unarmed navy reminds me how much I like seeing military hardware for civil service. Bombers into weather researchers, APC's using their amphibious assault capabilities to rescue people in storms, nuclear missiles into satellite launchers 56913
Reposted by ploxRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/10/2025if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine. 4041491103
Reposted by ploxRicardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come. 182312975
Reposted by ploxJacato@BLFC @jaca.to · 27/06/2025The Old Port Up North comm for @littlearrowdog.bsky.social 122287579
Reposted by ploxMichele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025"ESA plans to release imagery by next week. NASA will not be able to release any of its data, or even comment on it, until the U.S. federal government ends the shutdown." 310835
Reposted by ploxToronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Memories of Fiery sunsets. Grundy, Ontario Sept 2016 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sunset #ShareCanGeo #blueskyphotography #GrundyPP 692646238
plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025been on a big sci-fi kick lately, particularly more conceptual authors like peter watts, iain m banks, and ken liu by way of pantheon (but i'm still a sucker for space-focused hard sf, as always) - anything y'all think i should add to my list? 220
Reposted by ploxRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025From NASA: Minatogawa, Olduvai, and Mungo. What's in a name? A nod to the story of humanity's origins. New official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid our Lucy spacecraft visited in April, recognize research & discoveries about early humans on Earth: go.nasa.gov/4goPDS5 04014
plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025macro lens experiments with the orb weaver spider in the window :3 131
plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... solid paper, but the buried lede here is the suggestion that the explosive arthropod radiation of the cambrian may have been (in part) a *result* of the origin of subjective experience(!!!)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govSex-specific triacylglycerides are widely conserved in Drosophila and mediate mating behaviorPheromones play an important role in the behavior, ecology, and evolution of many organisms. The structure of many insect pheromones typically consists of a hydrocarbon backbone, occasionally modified... 120
plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025@bishonentype.bsky.social are you aware of The Lure (2015) and the platinum blonde polish twink contained therein 110
Reposted by ploxtriple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Mercury, planet of bureaucracy #art 512733
Reposted by ploxCaz @timberwind.bsky.social · 10/08/2025nuclear saltwater rocket interplanetary liner named the "Three Mile Island Iced Tea" 611426
Reposted by ploxCaz @timberwind.bsky.social · 09/08/2025💭 space fighter game that is also a rhythm game; you have to manually time your ship's nuclear pulse rocket 1437
Reposted by ploxJames Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Alan Stern & Orkan Umurhan—there are unusual dark streaks and swirls in the northern part of Sputnik Planitia (the giant nitrogen-ice glacier that makes up part of Pluto’s heart). They propose that this is the consequence of melt (liquid nitrogen) rising from the base of the glacier! #Pluto10 24913
plox @ploxerer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025even if i didn't love peter watts' dense prose and subject material, he'd still be one of my all time favorite science fiction authors simply for including a lengthy works-cited page at the end of his scientifically off-the-wall novels 110
Reposted by ploxJustinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · 13/07/2025J1407b also known as a Super-Saturn. Possibly a brown dwarf with a massive ring system with planets forming in it. Now, latest updates on this object suggest that it is not tied to any star and most likely is not illuminated like this. But who knows, maybe somewhere there is a system like this. 533267
Reposted by ploxwrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 29/07/2025spent 4 days out here wandering and resting 1040045
![A map of the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which is gray, lumpy, and cratered. The map identifies several place names, including "Afar Lobus" for the smaller of the asteroids two main lobes, and "Olduvai Lobus" for the larger. Image: NASA Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
[Ed. note: My only interest geekier than planetary bodies is maps and place names on planetary bodies.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r2vcktgfjfuyjujek7vsnrfk/bafkreialvyfas2xccgzvmi5jr2bhmftscopkzhdcs5rtdr3flj7vpz4wni)
