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StanD. @standyck.com · 07/10/2026
The moons!!!
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Doing this a few times has reinforced my opinion that life was terrible until very recently.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026
[Vladimir Harkonnen voice] She who controls the information controls the president.
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Why Natalie Harp is the most important, and powerful, person in Trump’s White House
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StanD. @standyck.com · 19/08/2026
It is time for my traditional "I've finished another Gene Wolfe book" Pringles post. We've now rounded out the 12th book of the Solar Cycle. My second time through, but let's be honest, the first time didn't really take. I quite enjoyed the Short Sun books. It's a cycle so I guess…
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[1 media attachment] It is time for my traditional "I've finished another Gene Wolfe book" Pringles post. We've now rounded out the 12th book of the Solar Cycle. My second time through, but let's be h...
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StanD. @standyck.com · 09/08/2026
Just hangin’ out waiting for someone to remember that it is #internationalcatday
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
D&D has released an official statblock for Jimothy
Jimothy statblock from DnD: You cannot gain XP by fighting him. He has agile and compact frame traits; his action is hurl garbage.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Gigantic jet TLE above Mexico (crop) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2rhxUhJ
On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a gigantic jet from the ISS. These rare upward directed electrical discharges extend ~90-100 km high into the mesosphere. 

The jet originated from a thunderstorm over Northern Mexico, with city lights from South Texas and the green airglow layer visible along Earth’s limb.

I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the color profile, white balance and contrast and applied Lightroom's machine learning denoise with low strength. 

The RAW was provided to me by Frankie Lucena, his analysis of the event, correlating it to measurements from the Geostationary Lightning mapper and ELF-VLF radio signals can be found here: spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=224355

Original image listing in the NASA archive: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&amp...

Credit: Nichole Ayers / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß
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Uncle Space Ghost @unclespaceghost.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Play for Germany
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026
Enjoyed this episode of the always fascinating Rare Earth by @evanhadfield.bsky.social
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Was This The First City of the Americas?
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Which Mariner is most likely to become a manager? Go on Love Island? Have your back in a fight? Teammate superlatives with Julio Rodriguez 👇
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My Gene Wolfe meets AI humanism piece (one of these days I am going to spend a day in the JHU library going through old issues of Plant Engineering to try to validate my guess that Wolfe read Shannon) www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-lang...
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Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung
Gene Wolfe, Albert Lord, machine culture.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Well, at least Tulsi Gabbard now has time to attend Trump's son's wedding
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StanD. @standyck.com · 28/04/2026
I feel that one back there.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear 🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman 📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon
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StanD. @standyck.com · 03/04/2026
Can we request a selfie that has the entire population of the Earth? I want that.
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Kansas City Royals @royals.com · 18/03/2026
He is him. Maikel Garcia is the MVP of the 2026 #WorldBaseballClassic! 🇻🇪
A graphic with a cutout image of Maikel Garcia in his Team Venezuela uniform. Text on the graphic reads, "2026 World Baseball Classic MPV Maikel Garcia"
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StanD. @standyck.com · 18/03/2026
Top of the stairs #cats
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
And we're off! My most favourite telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory, has turned on its public alert stream and boy, were there a lot of changes in the Universe last night. More coming: ~7 million a night 😮: exploding stars, belching black holes, asteroids cruising through the solar system. 🤗🔭🧪
A bunch of coloured dots on a black sky with stars, each one marking a different event in the Universe - supernovae, changing stars (nuclear transient/ cataclysmic variable) or black holes (Active Galaxy).The Vera Rubin Observatory building looking sci-fi and majestic on top of a mountain in a dry arid landscape
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
this is the stupidest thing and it absolutely undid me
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
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dave @daveliepmann.com · 06/02/2026
The developer of a code counting tool ranked popular proglangs by density. I am not surprised that "according to the data, if you want the highest ratio of human thought to keystrokes, the winner is the 60 year old concept, Lisp running as a modern JVM language Clojure." boyter.org/posts/boiler...


Clojure and indeed all lisp style languages are the final boss of density here though. Almost every line is an expression of business logic. I never really got into it myself, but looking at these results are starting to make me rethink that decision.

If you compare Clojure (77.91%) to C# (58.4%), it seems the average C# developer writes 20% more redundant code every single day just to satisfy the compiler. Even with tools like resharper and LLM’s to help thats not a insignificant amount of effort.
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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’ve said before that Trump is the perfect distillation of everyone you hated in high school whereas Vance is the perfect distillation of everyone you hated in college. Vance’s problem is that high school assholes will never identify with college assholes.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Placing a layer of algorithmic recommendation on speech does not make speech less free, but it does pervert it. Algorithmic mediation turns speech into a resource extracted from human behavior. Platforms do not value speech because it is protected, they value the service it provides them.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 14/01/2026
Portishead's Dummy is one of my top ten albums of all time. I am so lucky I discovered it early, when I am usually late to the party on everything (see: The Warning). If you love it like I do, you'll enjoy this video.
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How Portishead Sampled Themselves to Make a Genre Defining Album
YouTube video by El Train | Loop Kitchen
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bowie deschanel @raisingonebrow.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Dry January is asking A LOT this year.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 15/12/2025
I saw a glory on the flight back from Europe last week. This one lasted for a few minutes.
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I saw a glory on the flight back from Europe last week. This one lasted for a few minutes.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 26/11/2025
I'll celebrate the return of the rss feed by posting this little faerie scene I found in the neighborhood the other day. Points for incorporating the mushroom proliferation we are seeing these days.
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I'll celebrate the return of the rss feed by posting this little faerie scene I found in the neighborhood the other day. Points for incorporating the mus…
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StanD. @standyck.com · 22/11/2025
He sees into your soul. #caturday
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He sees into your soul. #caturday
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 10/10/2025
🍞🧵😋
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gosha @gosha.net · 08/10/2025
Damn, Hiromi rocks!! youtu.be/BcXrhELNQtU
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Hiromi’s Sonicwonder - Yes! Ramen!! (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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WereBen! @benimated.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight
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StanD. @standyck.com · 21/09/2025
I said the other day that I had been doing #photoaday for an entire year. I've taken a break for a bit. I might pick it up again because it is a lot of fun and it forces me to pay more attention to my surroundings as I walk around. Regardless, I have the entire set of photos for the year.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 16/09/2025
This is my 365th #photoaday challenge! Today is Fence. I now have an entire year of these.
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This is my 365th #photoaday challenge! Today is **Fence**. I now have an entire year of these.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 15/09/2025
Sunday's #photoaday is Hidden Beauty. Laura called this flower a "death bloom" as the plant is in the process of dying, and as a last little goodbye, it is putting out this flower at the bottom.
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Sunday's #photoaday is **Hidden Beauty**. Laura called this flower a "death bloom" as the plant is in the process of dying, and as a last little goodbye, it is putting out this flower at the bottom.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 14/09/2025
Today's #photoaday subject is A Bicycle Wheel. I was happy to get a stop-action example on my run today.
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Today's #photoaday subject is **A Bicycle Wheel**. I was happy to get a stop-action example on my run today.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 13/09/2025
The #photoaday challenge for Friday is Family Tradition. This is a patch of quilt. The full quilt hangs in our bedroom. All of my siblings received such a quilt from our parents when we got married.
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The #photoaday challenge for Friday is **Family Tradition**. This is a patch of quilt. The full quilt hangs in our bedroom. All of my siblings received such a quilt from our parents when we got marrie...
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StanD. @standyck.com · 12/09/2025
Since Candle is the #photoaday challenge today, I give you my shrine to my cats past (or is it passed?). On the left is Eliot, and on the right is Emy. They are fondly remembered.
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Since **Candle** is the #photoaday challenge today, I give you my shrine to my cats past (or is it passed?). On the left is Eliot, and on the right is Emy. They are fondly remembered.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 11/09/2025
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The NCAA says 13 men's college basketball players from six schools were involved in gambling schemes, including point shaving and game manipulation.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 11/09/2025
The #photoaday subject today is In My Hand. I decided to grab ahold of the Earth.
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The #photoaday subject today is **In My Hand**. I decided to grab ahold of the Earth.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 10/09/2025
The #photoaday subject today is Interesting Door Knob. Let me tell you, people don't have interesting doorknobs anymore. The thing I found interesting about this one is this. They needed 14 buttons; they used 10 digits, but why pick x, y, c and * as the other 4? My guess is the c stands for clear.
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The #photoaday subject today is **Interesting Door Knob**. Let me tell you, people don't have interesting doorknobs anymore. The thing I found interesting about this one is this. They needed 14 button...
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StanD. @standyck.com · 09/09/2025
The #photoaday subject today is Shadows on the Wall. This shadow, made by the Sun, is of a facsimile of the Sun.
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The #photoaday subject today is **Shadows on the Wall**. This shadow, made by the Sun, is of a facsimile of the Sun.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 08/09/2025
The #photoaday challenge today is Sunrise, but we've been having nothing but "marine layer mornings" the last few days. When I took this picture of the Sun, the people on the Maldives Islands saw it as it was coming up. 😁
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The #photoaday challenge today is **Sunrise**, but we've been having nothing but "marine layer mornings" the last few days. When I took this picture of the Sun, the people on the Maldives Islands saw ...
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StanD. @standyck.com · 07/09/2025
The #photoaday subject today is Curves. This is the wading pool down at Green Lake.
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The #photoaday subject today is **Curves**. This is the wading pool down at Green Lake.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 06/09/2025
If you know me at all, you've probably seen me carrying the #photoaday subject for Friday, A Cup of Tea.
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If you know me at all, you've probably seen me carrying the #photoaday subject for Friday, **A Cup of Tea**.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 05/09/2025
I saw a few examples of Playground for the #photoaday subject today. They are much nicer today than the comparitive death traps on offer when I was playing in them.
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I saw a few examples of **Playground** for the #photoaday subject today. They are much nicer today than the comparitive death traps on offer when I was playing in them.
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StanD. @standyck.com · 04/09/2025
The #photoaday subject today is Artistic Selfie. Do I look maybe a little tired?
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The #photoaday subject today is **Artistic Selfie**. Do I look maybe a little tired?
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