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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 7h

"In December 2005, Bullingdon Club members smashed 17 bottles of wine, "every piece of crockery," and a window at the 15th-century White Hart pub in Fyfield, Oxfordshire.[22] The dinner was organised by Alexander Fellowes, son of Baron Fellowes"

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Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social · 16h

A figure from the paper: one night’s tracks from one location. Some of these are aircraft or meteors but most are satellites.

Night sky with many straight lines from satellites, aircraft & meteors

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Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social · 16h

The title says it all: arxiv.org/abs/2610.10834 Still in the peer review process but we* felt it Important to get this out there. Satellite companies are not complying with visual brightness limits. Our estimates are that it will get worse, especially at twilight. *I’m a minor part of “we” here

arxiv.org

Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits

Satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit interfere with ground-based optical astronomy, but the scale of that interference has been hard to measure. Here we report an uncued photometric survey ...

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 10h

And off ice protecting his neck!

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, a tired player on a tired unit that was out too long because they didn't take a shot that risked a break in play or a clear. The bench staff should have done some shift-time management there, doing partial replacements of PP1 if the actual idea was to keep the puck moving around in the O-zone.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11h

But that's what you get when your PP1 does nothing but pass the puck pass the puck pass the oops collect the puck pass the oops collect the puck totally luckily bobble a shot worse than the opportunities that were passed away from collect the puck totally luckily pass the puck oops ...

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 13h

Warning me away from their patrol

Three soldiers patrol an active ballot box, October 14, 2026. Photo: Brad Johnson

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Second period Habs have arrived, late.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Some of that is also that he's no longer being paired with Struble. And vice-versa. Struble has been solid on his new team. They were really bad together, I think they both knew that, and thank Hughes for consigning that pairing to the history of the franchise.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Curiosity caught an extraordinary panorama at dawn on Mars: the yardangs — wind-sculpted cliffs on Mount Sharp — lit by morning light. Shot 11 Aug 2026 at 8:30 local, no white balancing so the blue early-morning tones stay visible. The most detailed view ever. www.nasa.gov/missions/mar... 🔭 ⚛️🧪

nasa.gov

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn - NASA

A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs, highlighting features

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Danault also got to see that the grass isn't always greener. In fact, there's practically no grass in LA, there's only the charred remains of the scrub that burned away in various California wildfires. And the Kings are smouldering at 0-2-2.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 13/10/2026

savage lmao (this is a fun read)

AI is really good at automating our worst tendencies. It amplifies the unspoken cultural practices no one likes, but no individual can reasonably deviate from. It exploits the mechanized traditions recalcitrant to collective action. In that vein, AI can now write useless theory papers. But perhaps in the absurdity of the distasteful OpenAI trash dump of proofs, we can all look up and realize together that we should consider doing something else.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 10/10/2026

🔭 Lunar Farside Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ap261010

A mosaic image of the farside of the Moon.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In 2021, an international team produced a census of everything we know within 10 pc (about 33 light-years) from the Sun. 540 objects in 339 systems: stars, brown dwarfs, white dwarfs and exoplanets. Animation: galaxymap. org 🔭🧪⚛️ #cosmology #galactic

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To sharpen a bit: should one distinguish between fractions of electorates that reach for a late politician's close relative in the belief that there will be continuity of policy and those that are drawn to less-close relatives bearing a famous family name but a very different governing philosophy?

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Does this line of thinking apply to incumbency? Those non-term-limited gerontocrats have been re-elected so often, they must know all the tricks / have special aptitude, so let's keep voting them in? And if so, is the immediate succession by a family member quasi-incumbency, rather than Lamarckism?

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The origination clause is an extremely strong weapon in the hands of a large majority in the House of Representatives. It is as close as one can get to a requirement that the executive maintain the confidence of the rep-by-pop house in the U.S. federal system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_sl...

en.wikipedia.org

Blue slip (U.S. House of Representatives) - Wikipedia

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

10 games in a row now, including last years playoffs

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He-Man and the M*A*S*Hters of the Universe

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guhle has been *really* noticeable already in this game, in almost exclusive good ways.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Technical fade-out, or are you pining for the scintillating commentary on the Rogers SportsBet broadcast?

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It'd be nice if they call it anything before midnight in Mtl.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Except perhaps for Garrett Rank & Toronto.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Did Arber & Kaiden do their warm up axe ritual?

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Bah! This is going to be bad. 7 defenders because one of them is going to be "assessed" 32 PIMs, or roughly 8x the PIMs racked up by the entire Detroit roster.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am totally here for this Hutson-Arber Xhekaj shift. Wow.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That 4th line is not a fourth line. Evans is chronically underrated.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People are going to start remembering Cody Beach's name.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Where was this PK hiding in the last game? Wow!

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not really, nobody thought Texier would be great, especially not Mtl when they acquired him for a bag of standard beans. Dach cost CH a 2022 1st and 3rd round pick and there's still some hope in the org that he can play reliably in the top six.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am terrible at predicting who will score first.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Taps sign : bsky.app/profile/ratp...

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(I didn't guess the score, but whatever it is will involve last minute Habs heroics and likely overtime.)

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Habs goalie chaos: 1st Preds SOG, 1:0, and it'll be someone like Kerfoot or maybe Marchessault. (Or Edström getting past Engström, ha!) First Habs goal, Slafkovsky. He wants it more than anyone else, after his bad game. We know how he gets. Bulldozer right through the middle of their defenders.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Engström-Xhekaj or Xhekaj-Engström (or both) will be worth a watch. Not to throw Struble under a bus or to lay all the blame on him, but his pairing with Arber is a millstone around the team's neck, with neither (although most obviously Struble) seeming to have any idea where the other one is.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely wonderful preview of the by-election by @andrewteale.me.uk: really conveys so much of what makes the seat very unusual and I learnt a lot I didn’t know:

andrewspreviews.substack.com

Previewing the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and the four local by-elections of 8th October 2026

“All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order”

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If Mtl wasn't in that corner, you'd have to change its label.

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ratpoison.bsky.social @ratpoison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mtl getting a penalty because Furlatt.

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