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

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

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Earth and Moon from DSCOVR

NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it…

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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THE LONG DARK (Official) @thelongdark.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Episode Five Launch Trailer countdown to 10AM Pacific Time. Join the watch party! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4zY...

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THE LONG DARK-- WINTERMUTE, Episode Five -- "THE LIGHT AT THE END OF ALL THINGS" -- Launch Trailer

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THE LONG DARK (Official) @thelongdark.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Episode Five impressions from Bill Lavoy at Shacknews. ❤️

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So proud to be contributing to this final episode of The Long Dark - Wintermute 😭

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 08/11/2025

Hah yes this. Some of the books I loved as a teen have really not held up, while others did and are clearly excellent. But there were books I was also just not ready to read, and my opinions on them were a waste of space.

Text of a social media post.

Carys-the-ninth: "Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it" an investigative journalism series.

not-your-lawyer: "was this book bad or was I simply lacking enough life experience to appreciate the narrative when I read it" : an award winning followup

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

5yo: “I’m going to befriend a kind wolf and then I’ll tell him to bite Musk and to eat all of his money and then Musk will become a zeronnaire”

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

There's something amazing about game designers at the peak of their careers taking time to share advanced techniques. Because they care. Because they know in their hearts that we are in this together.

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 15/09/2025

Musk has always been open about the fact that Grok is meant to push his own biases and ideologies rather than be an actual source of reliable, unbiased information. It is a tool for controlling and influencing the masses. The number of people unaware of (or uncaring about) this is terrifying.

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∞ ever @everafterengine.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Samaa’s request is extremely urgent. She and her family need to leave the red zone yesterday. She gave birth to baby Talia via c-section just a week ago, and that’s why they haven’t been able to leave yet. Please help. @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

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Donate to Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d, organized by Md ali2

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tel… Md ali2 needs your support for Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

realistic Star Trek

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Literature is when the protagonist is also their own antagonist

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A combination of two alien invasive species, sika deer and rhododendron, are killing this beautiful native forest in Lauragh, Kerry. The trees can't regenerate due to the overgrazing, and as they age and die, only the proliferating rhodo remains. Invasives are a *top* driver of global nature loss.

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Yesterday I saw a small mauve tutu rolling away in the dirt like a tumbleweed It just rolled past me and I didn’t try to catch it Still thinking about it

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.” Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Yeah, that's right... an MIT study shows 95 percent of generative AI products fail to provide any real value. No shit. Sloppers live in vain. Stop the slop.

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Making ghostly space cyanotypes with the kiddo

WiP cyanotype with astronaut and spaceship toys and sugar to make moon craters

Final cyanotype that looks like weird misshapen ghosts on a deep blue paper

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 15th 2025) in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 15/08/2025

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 216: RESEARCH. If you're writing about a time, place, culture, historical figure, profession, etc., it pays to research it properly. That might mean: reading; travelling; going to libraries and museums; consulting archives; talking to people with lived experience.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

will never forget the book set in India by an American author who painstakingly researched everything but then had people across the country flipping light switches up to switch them on when in India you flip down for on and up for off, it's the stuff you don't think needs research that gets you

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“There’s a bit of me that thinks part of the magic is that it is actually this combination of stuff that’s working. And we might be losing something the more we try to pick apart the explanations.” “Nature” is a mysterious mix of systems and experiences that we could never reproduce artificially

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025

Being in nature is great for your brain. Scientists are trying to understand exactly why.

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Why Being in Nature Boosts Your Attention

Being in nature is great for your brain. Experts are trying to figure out why.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I think this is probably the best prediction I’ve seen of what’s going to happen. Because “what’s going to happen” is not best understood by science fiction stories but by economics and “what has happened before in similar markets”.

The pace of development has drawn comparisons with the telecoms bubble in the late 1990s, when companies laid more than 80mn miles of fibre optic cables across the US in a drastic overestimate of the demand required. The glut meant costs plummeted and many companies failed.

Much of the current spending is on data centres capable of training powerful AI models, but as the technology shifts to inference - running those models - the demand for compute will probably drop and assets may become less valuable. Likewise, if power supplies dry up or Al chip supply chains are delayed, returns on investment may suffer.
"We view cloud services data centre build-outs as fairly robust. We are less confident long-term in the Al training-only locations," said one executive at a large developer.
Another banker involved in the sector added:
"In five years, you're not getting a lease renewal at anywhere near the rates you have now. There is a massive overestimation of terminal values."

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

There is a hard difference between People Who Are Rich, who are people that do things with their riches, and Rich People, who are so defined by their riches that every engagement with the world is for their financial advancement.

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Proud of my former colleagues Unionized Workers At Arkane, A Microsoft-Owned Studio, Demand That Microsoft Divest From Israel’s ‘Sinister Project For Gaza’ - aftermath.site/microsoft-az...

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Unionized Workers At Arkane, A Microsoft-Owned Studio, Demand That Microsoft Divest From Israel’s ‘Sinister Project For Gaza’ - Aftermath

"We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide"

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

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Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Great thread. But imho the main similarity is the gender divide: violent men who fucked up the Earth/ women with a child who believe in another world. And the enslavement of fertile bodies as metaphor of what they did to the Earth.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 29/07/2025

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Rhonda gets it.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 21/07/2025

The reality of the market right now is you’ve got to spend less while also being better; and in terms of result for cost voice actors are a steal — they are, in general, very very good and given the right design it can pretty efficient to load a huge amount of joyous speech into a game

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I misread something as Disco Skyrim "Dragons, are they bourgeois?"

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Blue Guy lying in bed with his phone on the opposite pillow.
Blue Guy: I love you so much. This has been the best year of my life.
Phone: I’m leaving you

Panel 2: Blue Guy grabs phone in a mad panic. He yells WHUU?

Panel 3: Close up on phone screen. Phone says Unless…

Panel 4: Phone screen goes black. A pop up appears saying: The No Break Up Expansion Pack. £59.99 per month. Buy Now

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20/07/2025

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

“AI is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it” sounds a lot like “Covid is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it” We’re all being conditioned to accept mass atrocity as normal

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20/07/2025

56 years ago today: The Eagle Has Landed 🤩

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (Neil Armstrong)

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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Cleaning out my parents' house / childhood home has me feeling A Certain Way so I just watched Kore-Eda's AFTER LIFE for the umpteenth time - rentable from Apple or streaming on Criterion. Asks the question: if you could only take one memory of your life with you when you die, what would it be?

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