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

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Me too Sir. Sam. Rest in peace good man.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It’s been a minute since Apollo 17’s last full disc portrait of Ma Earth. A LOT has happened since Gene, Harrison and Ron took a photo like this.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Drawing I did of our bus driver in Switzerland. Not Ai.

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Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Very much worth 3 min of your day.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Here’s a painting I did when my eldest daughter was about four & dad’s favorite model Burt was still alive. I love the idea of a Santa for every culture! Here Klaus wears a Hudson Bay capote, moccasins and N. Plains Indian leggings dancing to a music box in front of our fireplace. Merry Merry!

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I have so many memories following the space program when I was a kid, Apollo 8 and 10 were so amazing! I’m fascinated that the EPA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Earth Day happened because Bill Anders’ photos of earth, particularly the Earth Rise photo were SO powerful.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My favorite chapter in Tim Marshall’s book Prisioners of Geography (the British role James Clapper had) is the chapter on us! So many have no idea how lucky we are, nor what drives geopolitics.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Another life drawing I did in my head drawing class.

Live demo drawing of a twenty something female model. charcoal and white othello on Canson by me, Jeff Carter

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Sometimes you see a photo that stops everything you’re doing just thinking about the effort to plan this. “This striking photo shows a skydiver perfectly aligned with the sun's fiery surface, around 93 million miles … from Earth. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/cosmicbackground.io)”

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Aw man! My dad’s classmate from Art Center. Loved so much about Drew and his work.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Which song did you learn in school? I liked “My home’s in Montana, I wear a bandanna, My spurs are of silver, my pony is gray. Whatever the weather, we travel together, With foot in the stirrup, I’ll gallop all day.” The best.

Sepia photo of 19th century 30 something man with a long pipe wearing a thick wool coat and a big cowboy hat, bandana and walrus mustache captioned “how they imagine you look when you say ‘I’m from Montana’”

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A pen and ink life drawing I did as a demo in my head drawing class.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This is lovely. I saw this a year ago. I’m about done with my goal of watching every episode of TTZ. Rod Serling and my grandfather fought in the same battles in the Philippines during WWII, and the episodes in that setting are particularly powerful & has in an odd way connected me more with grandpa

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.” — Mark Twain

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Woo Hoo! Front row seats at the 5pm & four rows back for 8pm concerts of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones last night at the Warren Miller PAC in Big Sky just 40min North of my home. What a great night of Music I have loved so long.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Thread👇🔥✊🥼🧪🔬🧬

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A year ago Blue Ridge Banjo Campers performed Cassidy Beenjtes’ arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue with Bela fleck, this year we did his Arr. of J.S. Bach violin Concerto in C. The arts keep my peace, hold my hope, fuel my resistance, light my way and soothe every circling beast and bring me love.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Happy Birthday, sir. Thank you for 8 years with 0 indictments 0 lawsuits 0 rape accusations 0 articles of impeachment 0 violations of the espionage act 52.9% of the popular vote 1 Grammy 1 Emmy 1 Nobel Prize The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in 50 years on his watch. 🎂

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Aww Man . . . I ran a spotlight at one of concerts in 1984. I was a big fan and he was very generous with his time. I Loved his music. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...

abcnews.go.com

Chuck Mangione, 'Feels So Good' musician and bandleader, dead at 84

"Feels So Good" reached No. 4 on the Billboard singles chart in 1977.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My favorite Saturn 5 Rocket photo. MaxQ during Apollo 6 All-Up unmanned test. Fun fact: First Stage burned 30 rail-Road Tanker cars of Kerosine and Liquid Oxygen in a minute and a half! Over 6 million pounds of thrust put the stack 30 miles up and 30 miles down range before staging.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I was on the bird-app since 2009, walked away when the megalomaniac turned it into a dystopian mess to expedite turning the US into a dystopian mess. Blue Sky has become a great place to share what I love and find community in good faith with a cautious optimism that we can fix our dystopian mess.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My dad did the cover art for the LP record of the audio highlights of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 56 years ago today. I was 7 & remember that night like it was only 15 years ago. 😀 By the time Gene & Harrison put over 100 Km on the moon buggy during Apollo 17, I was sure we’d be on mars by now.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I live in a town with hardly any 3rd Spaces. I want to fix that. “social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.”

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 08/07/2025

Read this. And then call your Senator and tell them to save NASA science. www.planetary.org/articles/sci...

planetary.org

Scientists behind threatened NASA missions explain what’s at stake

Here is what they have to say, in their own words.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Walk with me where erosion has cut through a geyser basin along the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Breathtaking.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

When our institutions cannot or will not fulfill their responsibilities, our constitutional system of checks and balances has failed. SCOTUS failed to enforce the emoluments clause, the presidential impeachment clause, and sec. 3 of the 14th amendment. (Illustration Bruce MacKinnon 2018)

Bruce MakKinnon’s illustration of the personification of Justice being silenced and restrained and forced on the ground by the Republican Party.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

J. Scott Campbell’s portrait of the only elected POTUS receiving more than 51% of the vote since Eisenhower— twice! Is my favorite illustration of this former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Constitutional Lawyer, husband to Michelle Robinson and father of Melia and Sasha.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

J. Scott Campbell’s portrait of the former editor of the Harvard Law Review, constitutional Lawyer, Melia and Saha and husband to Michelle Robinson

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I like Ike. My grandpa cooked for him and played Santa Claus for Ike and Mamie’s kids. I will always be an Eisenhower Republican. If you know, you know.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The author of this melodrama (we produced live dinner theater for years) liked my logo for his show so much, he called me asking if he could keep it. (Of course!) What a fun summer that was.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My very first post on BlueSky. I did this 48” x 120” oil painting of Lookout Point a while ago. This is still my favorite spot close to my home.

My “Canyon Moonrise” painting. Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, a moonrise one gorgeous October evening. Commissioned work. Oil on canvas stretched on alder wood.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Yay! I figured out why my previous post was blurry of the painting I did on the walls of my grandkids’ little play room. All scenes from cherished books and fun together. I love adding something new each time I visit.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Me painting up a dinosaur I drew on my grandkids’ playroom wall.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is going to make you feel very small. Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This May 4th is the 7th anniversary of a surgery to remove 1/3 to 1/2 of my oral tongue to rid my body of Squamous Cell Carcinoma, an aggressive cancer that kills most men in 3 yrs. & half who survived year 3, by year 5. I’m a lucky boy to have survived. I’m an illustrator, the drawing is accurate.

A Star Wars Day thing I posted days before my tongue cancer surgery of Leila watching Luke’s reaction to his new hand as C-3PO and R2D2 take in a galactic view.

A drawing by Jeff Carter describing what section of his oral tongue was removed to excise Squamous Cell Carcinoma from the affected area.

Neck Scar from Lymph Node removal as part of tongue cancer treatment.

KT tape provides compression during recovery from tongue cancer surgery

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

After Bill Anders took the Earth Rise photo on Apollo 8, Congress passed the clean air act, clean water act, and . . . Yep! EARTH DAY! I remember the first one. We cleaned up the playground! Really good! It was the first time I heard the phrase “fine tooth comb” that didn’t involve my buzzy.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I think the one on the the on the bottom right was where I had one of the best jams of my life. I didn’t get a picture of the outside, so I’m not sure. These are wonderful.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Our Ravens are: - huge. - territorial - mate for life. - live to be 50. - carry grudges - remember you - smart as heck! - share raising young. - symbiotic with wolves. - So cool and kinda like me.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I haven’t been able to get to my favorite spot since my last snowcoach tour during the winter season, but Yellowstone opens next weekend! My profile wallpaper is a 10’ wide oil painting I did of this spot. Peace.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sometimes when I tell people I grew up at the West Gate of Yellowstone Park, I get some pretty interesting reactions. Yes, bears were everywhere, yes we rode our stingray bikes everywhere anyway, yes I saw Snaggletooth (big famous grizzly) with my bare eyeballs. So many stories to share here.

Ice fishing on Hebgen Lake. I got an early start overthinking things. Yes I was a funny kid. A broken arm in a cast did not keep me off my cool Stingray bike.

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Congratulations to our West Yellowstone Varsity Co-Ed Zip Line team for winning at Divisionals, and through local steam no less! Go Wolverines!

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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

✨Quote Repost with your artwork that has stars in it 🌠 This was an album cover (I did several) for the the fictional London band Smoke Screen for a terrific indie film written & directed by Marc Blake. This orbiting venue I imagined is receiving concert goers for an epic zero G party. (Oil/acryl)

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ike-bickerstaff.bsky.social @ike-bickerstaff.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Nobody knew about the moons of Jupiter before 1610, but they were there all along. #proverb That's the difference between facts and knowledge. The facts didn't change, but the knowledge did. After 1610, the knowledge was very unevenly distributed.

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