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A curious squirrel

@skwuirrel.bsky.social
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Interests: astronomy, terrestrial and exo-geology, sci-fi, engineering, transportation, rpdr. NYC-based and biased. Oh and cats, too. Politics are dead, but entertaining.

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus) @mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
ualberta.ca
A jaw-dropping discovery on the badlands
The two possible explanations for the fate of an Albertosaurus found near Drumheller are wildly divergent. But for master’s student Joshua Doyon, presenting the evidence resulted in a breakthrough pub...
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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On 5 October 2026, Perseverance Rover reached 2000 Mars days (sols) on the surface! On that day an unusual sequence of 5 Navcam photos were taken at 30s intervals at local noon. Checking with Stellarium, the reason was revealed: Venus should be visible at -3mag and maybe even Earth at -2mag!
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my gosh!!!!
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow. He was such a good example to the sci fi community back on Twitter and on IG for me. I saw his attention to fellow fans and was always so creative and positive.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
Unlike previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn’t have a toggle for turning off Apple Intelligence, which makes disabling AI features that you may not want a bit more difficult: arstechnica.visitlink.me/wNMd_-
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com · 06/10/2026
Hello from the birthplace of SimCity (which explains some things)
The Orinda theater in Orinda, CA.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Unreal and yet the highlight of enshittification.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is this the queer privilege that the ill-educated elites on the far right talk about?
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026
Futurama - Final Ending: The Last Conclusion “They can put us in a coffin. They can nail the lid shut, but they can’t bury us. We will rise again,” Groening told Variety. “I guess I’m not too worried. The thing about ‘Is Futurama coming to an end?’ Well, we’ve come to an end many times before.” 🤭
variety.com
Matt Groening on the Future of ‘Futurama’ as the Series Gets Another Finale: ‘We Will Rise Again’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Matt Groening on the future of 'Futurama' after Season 14 as the series gets another finale.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a troubling trend that I think was brought by the Russian falsetto macho bravado, whose trumpet was carried on by none other than that instrument’s namesake. What is concerning that this horn’s echo has circumnavigated the world. I am hoping Brasil will be spared 🤞 from the lies.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exactly. (I don’t understand one reference but that’s okay 😌 )
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is lefties that are now against Mamdani saying that they always were against him because he works from within the system and he doesn’t embody the spirit of socialism or whatever (guided by his exaggerations of arresting Bibi and other electoral promises).
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SpaceX full of self-congratulation about their big rocket thingy. How easily we forget that Thunderbird 1 was doing this in 1965.
Thunderbird one heading off through the skies towards space
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 29/09/2026
A galactic house of mirrors 🌌🪞 Webb has captured this spectacular view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Its gravity is warping & multiplying the images of background galaxies, which appear like they have stepped into a house of mirrors! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪
A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Furtak, S. Fujimoto
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean i don’t really have high hopes for democrats especially since so many of them go along with the geno-agenda. When pressing Grace Meng on her ICE collaboration in NYC, all she offered was legislative action, which doesn’t translate to real results while people get kidnapped off the streets. 🤷‍♂️
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🥳🎇 🎉
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agreed. With all the hate rhetoric, combined with Supreme Court rulings against an invisible anti-fa is scary.
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Elim Garak @elimgarak240b.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sustainability
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William Abram Cargo @wac1947.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Crack of Dawn with Great Lakes Ship on Lake Huron.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I thought so too!
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 17/09/2026
While families wait for their loved ones, China is facing accusations of a lack of transparency in hydrological and meteorological data and of not providing adequate disaster‑related information. But Nepal’s government officials and Chinese officials in Kathmandu rejected these accusations.
thexylom.com
How Did The Nepal-Tibet Floods Become This Deadly?
Scientists are piecing together the factors that led to the disaster, which has also exposed gaps in cross-border information sharing on hazards in the rapidly changing Himalayas.
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The picturesque Ingjaldshólskirkja on the north coast of the Snæefellsnes Peninsula in #Iceland, August 2026.
A pretty white church with a red roof with green grass in front and lots of hills disappearing behind under layers of cloud.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ll wait here.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 14/09/2026
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AI agents flood the Internet with slop-infused spam
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”...
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scottsgear.com @scottsgear.com · 14/09/2026
Welcome. I'm Scott from Scottsgear. I collect gadgets from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Nokia, Ericsson, Palm, Psion, and more. Currently over 1100 gadgets in the collection, adding new devices every week.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m about to pull out my own pre out of storage and use it as a clock again. Have any extra batteries that still function? 🤣
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Do we need to mention these are not really New York teams or that’s implied?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14/09/2026
If Xi is a stable person and a steady leader of his nation, he would not have censored Winnie the Pooh or the number 8964
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am not sure if you’re a collector if you don’t have a Palm Pre/Pixi/Vre collection. 🫨
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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
New Chicago exhibit shows what Emmet Till's life would have looked like had murder not happened abc7chicago.com/post/emmett-till-li…
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New Chicago exhibit shows what Emmet Till's life would have looked like had murder not happened
A new exhibit in Chicago uses modern images to explore what Emmett Till's life might have been had he not been killed in a racially motivated murder in 1955.
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All of these things require well-compensated faculty with small enough teaching loads that they can devote considerable time to each class.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🤤🤤🤤
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stand tall so you can piss on fascists.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Period.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
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Jay Stobie @stobiesgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm celebrating Star Trek Day by sharing my new article about the shared history between Industrial Light & Magic and Star Trek! Given my special connections to both ILM and Star Trek, I was incredibly honored to assemble this tribute... and this is only Part One! 🖖🏻 www.ilm.com/ilm-celebrat...
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ILM Celebrates 60 Years of 'Star Trek' – Part 1: From Khan’s Wrath to a Voyage Home
In honor of Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, ILM luminaries Ken Ralston and Kirk R. Thatcher discuss the company’s visual effects contributions and connections to the Star Trek franchise.
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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know it's been a while, but here's what we've been up to and what I'll be doing next. Learn more about New Consensus and follow along on the journey through the links in thread.
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Kal-El, Son Of Krypton (The Art Of Superman) @kalelsonofkrypton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Superman by Kevin Nowlan. www.instagram.com/kevin.nowlan/ #Superman #KevinNowlan #DCComics
Superman by Kevin Nowlan.
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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 06/09/2026
2026... keep Jennie safe!
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
They stopped research into stem cells and were generally anti-science even back then. Their beliefs back then paved for this pedo-presidency.
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Duncan Crombie @the-art-of-web.com · 06/09/2026
Re-visiting this morning's psychedelic style 🌈 `A dramatic thunderstorm sweeping across a corn field, dark, churning clouds` #synthart
textured acrylic and mixed-media painting, contemporary avant-garde impressionist style with chunky layered brushstrokes, palette-knife texture and broken-colour dabs, a dramatic thunderstorm sweeping across a corn field, fractured light breaking through dark churning clouds, luminous saturated colours, layered mountains in background, triadic palette, goldleaf highlights, energetic high-contrast lighting, richly textured painterly composition --ar 3:4 --stylize 200 --v 8.2
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Her wig is terrible. No queer person would ever touch that and it shows. Bigotry is visible in her poor highlights.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These religious leaders were arrested for protesting ICE. Looks like fascism to me. This was in Vermont
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sometimes society needs a dick to stand up to another dick. 🤷‍♂️
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What do you know about Akbar? I thought I was the only one.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Those dimples spell bizneth.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bookshop.org
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A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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A curious squirrel @skwuirrel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
👆👆👆
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage." ~ Robert Reich @billdayart.bsky.social
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