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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And Victor just got hit by the jar of Nutella and put it away lol

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Ok I wasn’t ready for the crying hugging astronauts. Now my face is leaking

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Sarah Noble talking about lunar geology right now saying there's a "back room to the back room" of geologists watching the lunar flyby, where the feeling is "giddy" haha

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Today's Bad Astronomy Newsletter covers a bunch of news from NASA's DART mission, which whacked an asteroid back in 2022. Very cool stuff including streaks on the asteroid moon's surface, the plume generated, and how the orbit of the binary pair changed! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/way-too-mu...

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Way too much DART news

The NASA spacecraft hit the moon Dimorphos, but that yanked the whole system hard enough to measure. Also, the plume was modeled in 3D, and the bigger asteroid is spitting rocks at its moon. So yeah, ...

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If you were going to ask me to imagine what a 1000 year old tree looked like this is exactly where I'd go with it

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Nothing to see here, just a chicken Oh, and the ONE THOUSAND year old Bowthorpe Oak, Lincolnshire Photo: Ed Parker

Massive oak trunk with a red chicken standing in front

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Gordan Ugarković @ugordan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

One of my favorite images from the Cassini era. H/T to John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO for reminding me of it. live.staticflickr.com/6193/6209087...

Looking at Enceladus's nightside, softly illuminated by yellow Saturnshine and the south polar plumes blasting water vapor into space.

Cassini NAC RGB view taken on 2010-11-30. South is up.

Distance: 66 000 km
Phase angle: 162 deg

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/04/2025

It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I do love Dracula as a Billy-no-mates pretending to have servants. Almost Fawltyesque. “I am informed that your supper is ready...”

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theroguebludger.bsky.social @theroguebludger.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

@plutokiller.com we received the BEST mail from Mike Brown today! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy life to write a letter back to my autistic 4 year old (who cannot WAIT for you to discover Planet 9!) Oscar thanks you so much, it made our year!

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Celestial Fireworks: First Amateur Detection of Light Echoes from 19th-Century Great Eruption of Eta Carinae - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2pqiiku

The images in this gallery are the first amateur images of light echoes from the 19th-century Great Eruption of Eta Carinae. These light echoes have been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and from large observatories such as the CTIO 4m telescope, but this is the first time that amateur images reveal these transient features. My other first amateur detection of light echoes from supernova SN1987a inspired me to try looking for the fainter echoes near Eta Carinae.

What are Light Echoes?
Light echoes occur when the initial flash from a bright source, like a supernova, is reflected back to us from a slightly different direction. Dust clouds in interstellar space reflect a portion of the outward-traveling light from the supernova, redirecting it towards Earth. These faint light echoes can be observed decades or centuries after the original flash. Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, known for his contributions to supernovae, neutron stars, dark matter, and gravitational lenses, predicted the existence of light echoes as early as 1940. Together with Walter Baade, he coined the term 'supernova' in 1934 and proposed that faint echoes of historical supernovae could be visible long after the initial explosion.
The Great Eruption was a significant brightening of the star Eta Carinae that occurred in phases during the mid-19th century.
The light echoes are produced when the initial flash from the eruption is subsequently reflected off interstellar dust as light travels outward from ...

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"In postwar Europe, if an artist desired romance balanced with solitude, one could do no better than homosexuality." this natalie adler piece for @readlux.bsky.social on eternal icon tove jansson is a real gift lux-magazine.com/article/tove...

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The Time of Tove - Lux Magazine

From Moominvalley to Finnish islands to Florida, Tove Jansson shows us how to live.

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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I feel like this quote is the quote of quotes of our time

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 23/01/2025

"There is no arc of history bending towards justice. There's only us, working to make the world a better place." I loved this conversation with three of my favorite writers in the world.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

People asked Meryl Streep how she could REALLY not have known about Weinstein, and she was basically like “because I’m fucking Meryl Streep, and I didn’t know because he NEEDED me not to know.” she was vital as part of the cover story

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Would love to know more about these 1914 “sporty girls” who wanted to join Shackleton’s ill-fated Antarctic voyage

Wikipedia screenshot reading Shackleton received more than 5,000 applications for places on the expedition, including a letter from "three sporty girls" who suggested that if their feminine garb was inconvenient they would "just love to don masculine attire."

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Apollo 8 was my favorite Apollo mission probably because it was my first time to work in Mission Control.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/11/2024

Europa Clipper xkcd.com/3011

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Has literally anyone who’s posting “but she seemed to be consenting to Neil Gaiman” heard of the fawn response? It’s an extremely common response to trauma, especially among those who have suffered from past trauma. Source: Bay Area CBT Center

Fawning, a distinctive form of the freeze response, often arises in individuals who have experienced complex trauma, leading them to adopt a pattern of people-pleasing. This trauma response, common in abusive relationships, sees survivors constantly trying to placate others to avoid conflict. Therapies for complex PTSD focus on aiding individuals in their recovery journey, enabling them to rediscover their true selves and achieve a sense of safety.

Therapy plays a key role in addressing the guilt linked to the fawning trauma response. Understanding the different trauma responses—fight, flight, freeze, and fawn—is essential in helping individuals recover from traumatic experiences, whether they are past events or ongoing trauma. This understanding is necessary for trauma recovery and rebalancing the nervous system.

The fawn response is a coping mechanism rooted in childhood trauma. It involves adopting people-pleasing behaviors and struggling to establish personal boundaries as a means to avoid perceived danger or threats. Individuals with this response often suppress their own emotions, a behavior typically developed from experiences related to complex PTSD.

This response is a survival strategy where an individual’s needs and identity become entangled with those of the person causing them trauma. Recognizing the origins and patterns of the fawn response is crucial, as it can significantly impact the development of one’s self-identity. Understanding this response helps in identifying and addressing the long-term effects of trauma on personal behavior and relationships.

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Vergoldet Fledermaus @gildedbat.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

So, yeah, I don't know much about the situation with Gaiman, but I do know that when I see a person smiling, thanking, supporting a man they later accuse of sexual assault, I don't see an impossible contradiction.

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