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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Coming from a Colorado city where Main Street is literally a state highway which can’t be pedestrianized without support from the state, I envy how European cities can reinvent themselves to accommodate people

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 11/06/2026

Tirana has emerged in recent years as the Balkans’ most ambitious cycling city. What began as a modest effort to introduce bike infrastructure has grown into a broader vision of child-friendly urbanism; combining hardware, software, and orgware into a wholistic strategy for reclaiming public space.🧵

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along protected infrastructure lined with buildings, trees, lighting, and signage in.central Tirana.

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This is what 21st century leadership looks like. Bring it on!

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Made my first Danish kransekage to ring in the new year. This marzipan cake includes just 4 ingredients. Vegan and gluten free!

Stacked layers of frosted cake augmented with tiny Danish flags

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Radical Left Scum Christmas to all who celebrate!

A picture of Trump with a Truth Social Christmas message from him which reads "Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country"

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Amen. So much for those purported NU values…

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Disheartening to witness this capitation by my Alma mater. Profits over principles.

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Quality thread on a precious piece of Americana…

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

What this game needs is a good old suicide squeeze

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

So many runners left on base! Absolutely excruciating for this Tiger fan…

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

As a parent of young adults trying their best to cope in a difficult world, this advice hits home. Staying optimistic is hard but necessary.

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Europe shows that where there’s a will, there’s a way

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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I was humiliatingly forced to say prayers not of my faith in public school in the 60s until SCOTUS ruled it illegal and that's one reason I became a lawyer. There will always be prayers in school as long as there are math tests, but they should be personal and private, not required.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 05/09/2025

You might have heard of this company that wants to put giant reflectors in space to "light up" parts of the earth. It would be catastrophic not just for astronomers, but for...any people or creatures who thrive at night. Have comments? The American Astronomical Society would love to hear from you.

docs.google.com

Assessing Astronomical Impacts of Reflect Orbital’s Proposed Satellite System

This survey is being conducted by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to gather input from astronomers, observatories, and night sky users worldwide regarding the potential impacts of Reflect Orbi...

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Today I happened to be around for the opening ceremony of the Four Days of the Yzer, a 4-day long-distance walk through Belgian coastal towns organised by the Belgian Defence Force, in remembrance of the victims of the World Wars.

Belgian military dignitaries in uniform bearing black-yellow-red flags and walking along a street in Oostduinkerke. There’s an apartment building and a traffic light in the background.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Did anyone else assume that the finale would reveal Kleya to be Cassian’s long lost sister? I suppose that would have been too much like Luke and Leia…

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Age verification? In high school chemistry we used slide rules instead of calculators. And our programming class was FORTRAN…on punch cards

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

True Freedom

one person pedalling a bicycle with another standing on the back on a city street.

Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

BEFORE AND AFTER: Paris returned a roundabout for cars back to human habitat.

Exact same spot photographed by me. Now the roundabout is full of trees and people are walking and scootering.

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Reclaiming our urban centers from cars is possible if we are willing

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

His articles exploring the human causes of disasters from SS El Faro to Air France 447 to the shuttle Columbia were comprehensive, well researched, and impossible to put down. I was hoping he might have one more in the works. Missing him already…

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Excellent point about the need for communities to think beyond the car when planning transportation infrastructure

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Not our fault - an important message! But still a fact we must deal with.

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A great thread explaining why supporting basic research is critically important

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

What if—instead of cars—we filled our streets with people, bikes, trees, and life?

photo of a pedestrian street in barcelona, taken by me. there are people going about their business. two women on bikes are looking behind them.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thank you for funding the NSF grants that helped pay for my graduate research and subsidized undergraduate teaching labs at Berkeley

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

True! The LOBO trail is a slower but safer alternative that is probably not as well used as it should be because (unlike cycling trails in nearby communities like Fort Collins) the signage on the trail is woefully inadequate

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Great to see all the community support

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Thanks @wired.com for sharing & contextualising this news. Research like atomic spectroscopy is foundational to many areas of science & should be supported.

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Stupendous Man @stupendousman7.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Wouldn’t having this option in America be nice?

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Gentle reminder that the quaint European pedestrian streets filling your Instagram feed were very recently just as fucked up and full of cars as most American ones. But they did something about it.

Street full of cars in Valencia, Spain. Tower in the background.

Exact same view but now the street is a pedestrian square with seating and trees. Lots of people are walking and sitting.

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Spectacular. And plus its also gonna be a trip for me to see someone I actually knew minted on currency.

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yay! After retiring the Burrell Schmidt telescope, we shipped back the old school analogue sidereal clock, it even came complete with dead Kitt Peak ladybugs inside! It and the telescope control paddle are now proudly displayed in my office. I loved that telescope... 🔭

Analog sidereal clock in a wooden box, along with a telescope control handpaddle, both from the Burrell Schmidt telescope.

Closeup of the sidereal clock, showing dead Kitt Peak ladybugs inside.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Pikes Peak, it was known as Tavá Kaa-vi — the Sun Mountain. The mountain was named such by the indigenous Nuche tribe, a Numic-speaking people (Uto-Aztecan) known today as the Ute. It is the first Colorado 14er to have the sun hit its peak at dawn. #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #MountainMonday #ir

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Christy Moision @cgomo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“We put in a bike lane but no one uses it. I guess we’re not a biking culture.” (To paraphrase @tomflood.bsky.social 😂)

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I've been reading some old astronomy papers (as one does on a Saturday night), and was surprised to see the term "extragalactic nebula" to describe a galaxy in a paper written in 1941. So I did some digging. 🔭🧪 1/

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I turn 60 tomorrow. I have a lot. 1) All the cliches are true: your lifetime is composed of what you do each day. It’s over before you know it. Friends and family are better than things and money. Yes: even Live, Laugh, Love.

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