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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How your email finds me.
An image from the TV show The Amazing Digital Circus, with the character Pomni - in a jester outfit - giving a ten thousand yard stare.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But what I say, of course, when asked How's Your Day? "Alright"
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Colleagues asking how I'm doing: Saturday- 20th anniversary of a school shooting, while leveled from COVID booster. Sunday- Lost a close relative. Monday- Dog and I get checked out to make sure we weren't shot. AND I have been stressed all day that I was at work while my dog was scared at daycare.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Someone at work saying "flat-bottom humps" and immediately getting Queen stuck in my head with fresh traffic engineery lyrics.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it. n.pr/4y2SrM3
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Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have gone with Option 2
A text reply "Mind your own business!" above a photo of a handwritten sticky note on a counter reading "Please don't defraud charity 💛 "
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dropped off things that had been left at my apartment with a note reading "please don't defraud charity ❤️" My empathic half hopes it's taken to heart & she betters herself And if it isn't received that way my New Jersian half will instead delight in it being taken with offense
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Related: Those who most loudly tout protecting women are often their greatest danger.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
chickenshit don't send himself
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Merit be damned; defending America takes a back seat to glam.
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Irate Scream Kate @pqkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is some Australia-level shit
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My biggest surprise here is that MPD was enforcing traffic or vehicle violations in the first place Especially considering around every station are cars with blacked out windshields & license plates alongside Thin Blue Line stickers and badges sitting atop a white paper pressed against the glass
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My suggestion would be to set your bar low for what you aim achieve. The wall is still blank - this privacy fence could've made the wall! I mean it doesn't do much, but that means you just need to set easier goals.
A daytime photo of the privacy fence poorly shrouding view of the still-blank National Republican Victory Monument.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's only a small part of it 😢
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait I actually need to know what the purple area at the right is because there's this voidspace between NoMa and the western reaches of H Street NE I don't have a satisfying name for. I'm willing to give this roll of the dice a chance.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The scene from Spinal Tap where the band shows off their speakers' volume knobs that go up to 11, except the 6-sided Pentagon has been poorly Photoshopped on top of one of the knobs.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Six-sided pentagons is how we defeat the enemy; they'll never see it coming
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still need to check my scores (I will be impressed ii I was over 50%ile) but 100% the source of this knowledge
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've long used "corgies" much like I use "cul-de-sacs", but now that I've learned that the etymological plural is "corgwyn" I am definitely adopting that because I love it
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do kind of dig the Pittsburghification of Arlington though. Let's get shovels & stones moving
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Required @imgoph.bsky.social ping
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think the dude with the Don't Tread On Me tags replacing his warn-bald tire appreciated it when I quipped "no tread on me amirite"
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At each stop: It'd make sense to shift 1' over for a 12' bus lane and 8' platform… the 12' bus lane is probably critically needed considering it'd be immediately adjacent to opposite-moving traffic & buses are about 11' wide. But 8' is really the bare minimum for a functional bus platform.
A illustrative cross-section of a hypothetical H Street NE corridor, showing a cross-section alongside a transit stop that removes existing on-street parking, converts an existing lane in each direction into a dedicated left-turn lane, and has an unbuffered center-running bus lane adjacent to a 9' wide bus boarding platform without any bus shelter.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Each bus stop is: -Very narrow -Has no shelter -Loses the bus lane buffer -Either serves both the D20 & Gold (which means they have to be low-floor stops) *or* the D20 has to use the general traffic lanes streetmix.net/thisisbossi/... streetmix.net/thisisbossi/... streetmix.net/thisisbossi/...
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H St NE (Existing) - Streetmix
A collaborative civic engagement platform for urban design. Design, remix, and share your neighborhood street with Streetmix.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I continue to wonder how they'll fit this in... Best I can come up with is where they remove all parking & convert 1 lane in each direction into dedicated left-turn lanes. The buffers along the typicals could potentially be eliminated to retain 1 lane of parking.
A illustrative cross-section of the existing H Street NE corridor.A illustrative cross-section of a hypothetical H Street NE corridor, showing a typical section that removes existing on-street parking, converts an existing lane in each direction into a dedicated left-turn lane, and has a center-running bus lane encased within two narrow dividers.A illustrative cross-section of a hypothetical H Street NE corridor, showing a cross-section alongside a transit stop that removes existing on-street parking, converts an existing lane in each direction into a dedicated left-turn lane, and has an unbuffered center-running bus lane adjacent to a 9' wide bus boarding platform without any bus shelter.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every time I walk past this I'm amused that a few weeks after my previous post they put a privacy screen up.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have experienced this at the NoMa 7-Eleven - they charged me $12 for what should've been $4
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🧵 Today, we're going to delve into the remarkable story of James Forten—a Revolutionary War veteran and former P.O.W. He became one of the most influential Black abolitionists in early American history. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are Tholians We'll always save the day And if you think we can't We'll always find a way
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everything in this is actively worse than things were if we just did nothing & didn't elect a temperamental toddler.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Park(ing) Day has already been overly bureaucratic for a long time, but with only five locations it's feeling a bit forgotten this year.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is why staples & nails are so bad in trees. They're not tiny needle pricks into a humongous creature... ...they're huge stab wounds into a small & delicate fabric.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
All these recently sheared off thick branches are a good way to learn that the living part of a tree is actually just a thin ring just underneath the surface. The rest is basically dead.
A daytime photo of where a branch was sheared off the main trunk of a tree, showing the inner wood surrounded by a darker ring.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's a bit more info! www.atlasobscura.com/places/tony-...
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Tony Soprano Statue in Vilnius
A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rar- 18 hrs late but will ping our PL lead - this is unacceptable
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For how much value there is in the homes on Cap Hill it's wild how almost every home looks like it's been decorated either by Moths who care not for decor & only need bright white light Or great-grandmothers living in a deeply piled collection of memories
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't just leave digital patterns like this out on the ground it causes people over 40 to cross their eyes.
A photograph of a small art piece leaning against a streetlight pole. The art is made up of a bunch of seemingly randomly colored pixels, looking like the 3D art briefly popular in the 1990s.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the years that followed I dabbled in police, fire, and medical work + training- I learned how to navigate burning buildings, knock down fires, operate apparatus, perform SAR, perform CPR, work Hazmat & confined spaces, triage, staunch wounds, apply & remove tourniquets... This was my response.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For the students that were there & wanted to at least do something: we wrote stream of consciousness papers, just writing & writing whatever came to mind. I probably still have this paper in my folder for that class.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't remember what compelled me other than perhaps my innate sense of duty to make it to classes, but I did end up at my morning English class. We didn't do much.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And I'd learn of other friends in flight that day, their seeing fighters off the wings; the faces of the pilots looking in through the windows. One vividly recounted when the fighters dropped back behind the plane preparing to fire a missile at the fully loaded passenger jet.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It often feels like if you lived anywhere in eastern PA you're connected to folk on United 93 somehow. All of them are now frozen in time as the kids they were, the details of their faces fading as memories age.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Footage would arrive half an hour later of the Pentagon with its rift in what had always seemed an impenetrable fortress. I'd later learn that I knew several people on Flight 93, which is why to this day I still haven't gotten myself to watch the film United 93.
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bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I forget if I called my mom (who was at work) or if she called me, but we were maybe two minutes into the phone call as the second plane flew into the WTC. I remember what I said as clear as if I said them just now: "Holy shit, we're at war."
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