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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 09/01/2026
On this day in 2020, Harry Styles hits #1 on the Billboard Album Chart with his second album 'Fine Line'. A pop milestone that delivers style, swagger, and the Grammy-winning hit "Watermelon Sugar".
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/09/2025
Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I read this two hours ago and I'm still cackling
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 30/08/2025
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
People really just talk on the phone in public. Amazing.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Nothing says "I don't care about cardio" more than wearing Birkenstocks to the gym.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Denver has to be the only city in the WORLD where people BREAK WHEN THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN
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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
When the Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft gave us our first good view of the Orientale basin it was revelatory. Not only was this giant multi ringed impact basin first revealed in its general form, other such basins were recognized across the Lunar near side. Oil paints on canvas panel.
This is an oil painting done on a 3 foot wide canvas panel. The view is dominated by the Orientale Basin, a vast sprawling depression with three concentric mountain rings surrounding a dark lava plain covering the lowest central region. The upper portions of this view are visible from Earth, with the higher lighter cratered highlands contrasting with the dark Maria plains filling the lowlands.
 
This oil painting was done about 1970, referring to numerous original prints of this giant impact basin. It took over a month, starting from a perspective drawing that I scaled up to the panel size. The large dark region near the middle is Mare Orientale, the 'Sea of the East', named by German astronomer Julius Franz in 1906 back when Lunar East and West were 'flipped', used in reference to the Terrestrial viewer rather than the Lunar globe. In the mid 20th century Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore made observations and described this Maria 'lake'. which is at the very edge, or limb', of the Moon as seen from Earth. At the most favorable orientation, or libration, of the Moon the far 'shore' of this large lave lake can barely be seen. In 1962 Arizona's Lunar and Planetary laboratory, under the great planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, produced a Lunar atlas showing overhead views of the regions of the moon visible from Earth. This was accomplished by taking the best full disk lunar photos and projecting them with a narrow angle lens onto a white hemisphere at the end of a long hall. On the photos showing the Western limb the new view looking 'down' on the feature suddenly revealed the concentric mountain rings for the first time. William Hartmann, planetary scientist and artist, was first to realize the significance of this feature and soon found similar and more degraded or lava buried examples across the Lunar near side. Orientale was recognized, particularly with the aid of the Lunar Orbiter photos, as the youngest and best preserved of the giant Lunar impact basins.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
What a hero
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Well that was short lived. Good riddance. apnews.com/article/elon...
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Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after criticizing president's 'big beautiful bill'
Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This weekend at the Denver Botanic Gardens!
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Feels like a missed opportunity for the Vatican not to have placed a Swiss Guard right next to 47.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
All I really want is for people to stop wearing sandals in the winter.
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My painting WISCONSIN FARM
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Happy #springequinox 💐
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Good Food Kitchen @goodfood.kitchen · 20/03/2025
Happy Spring Equinox, everyone. Longer days, a change in the air, and the first magnolias opening—spring is here. #SpringEquinox
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today has been weird but I did get to see some Keith Haring in person and it was really cool.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Even the fallen petals were beautiful.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sometimes I listen to Kendrick and Drake on the same day just to keep things interesting.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I have no idea what possessed me to pursue an MBA.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I was just screaming about this the other day! They knew! And no one listened!!!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I just want a music streaming platform with a good algorithm.
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abel @abelwithatable.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
FUCKING FINALLY
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Northern Vortex of Terror, Jupiter. Juno Perijove 15.
A jagged and dark cyclone.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
‘Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.’ — James Baldwin
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"I voted for trump because groceries are too expensive" My rage for this kind of shit knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/infl...
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US inflation got worse with rising groceries and gasoline prices
The consumer price index increased 3% in January from a year ago, Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department showed, up from 2.9% the previous month.
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/02/2025
Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/02/2025
A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast. nyti.ms/4186HWs
A person stands on a black car holding a green, black, red and white flag with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” on it. Dozens of people are dancing onstage nearby. Photo credit: Emily Kask for The New York Times.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 10/02/2025
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Internet: do we think the "a" Kendrick was wearing is for Aubrey? I'm sorry, I was born yesterday help.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
God I LOVE Kendrick Lamar. What a legend.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#JanuaryReading really enjoyed them all except for 100 Years of Solitude (please don't @ me). Beloved knocked my socks off, as did Maus. Both feel like required reading right now. A Constellation was such a unique and original story. And Wale Fall was a sweet, quiet comfort. #BookSky
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Just woke up from a dream that I was in Tuscany and picking up pastries for me and my mom. A lemon bar and a dark chocolate cannoli for her, of course.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thirty minute drive and almost listened to three Dream Theater songs. Almost.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/01/2025
New York, Gordon Parks, 1963
a line of people with signs calling out police brutality.

acab
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Not a reporter, just an angry citizen. Natives are the ONLY real citizens #navajonation #iceraids azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...
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Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders
The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Please don’t even talk to me in the morning until I’ve had my coffee, 27 hours of alone time, several months by the seaside to ease my agonies, and many decades to wander the earth until the fabled blade of my ancestors can finally be reforged
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
More like existential panic
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I don't know why I'm still shocked.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A car in front of me this morning had a bumper sticker that read "Don't Say Desantis" in rainbow letters and that really brought me some joy today.
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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The insane resolution of JWST. This is a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star, that lies about 1350 light-years from Earth. 🔭 🧪
An image made of three panels. The largest on the left shows the NIRCam image of a nebula with two bright stars. A skewed box in the top-right points to a second panel on the right, with a MIRI image of that area. A tiny box in the centre of that panel is blown up in a third panel below, with a zoomed-in, combined MIRI and NIRCam image of a yellow and orange blob.
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rachelvardeman.bsky.social @rachelvardeman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Taking amphetamines with coffee is my version of living life on the edge.
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