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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

On the outing of "Chinese operatives".

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Shop local!

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The latest #DrWho ep is creepy as all get-out.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The Zooniverse is a wonderful citizen-science platform and I've participated in many of their projects. I can highly recommend them.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in WW1 and death of her grandson in WW2 obviously profoundly affected the artist. This print reflects the theme of a mother protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

Print featuring a white woman holding her strong arms over the heads of three small children who look out from under with scared faces

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My image from last night of NGC 4565, aka the Needle Galaxy or Berenice's Hair Clip, taken with my Unistellar Odyssey. A large spiral galaxy seen edge-on, it lies about 40 million miles from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). #astrophotography

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Why, I’s practically next door.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Thanks for putting yourself forward once again, sir.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"Ellie" (ELE: extinction-level event) doesn't always come from the sky. ☹️

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I was today years old when I discovered that saffron comes from a domesticated variety of crocus. Actually, it takes a huge number of crocus flowers to harvest (by hand) saffron in any quantity, which is why it is so expensive.

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Silence Dogood @silencedogoodbos.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In the hour of darkness and peril and fear, let’s all channel a little Paul Revere. @hcrichardson.bsky.social #paulrevere #boston250

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

From last night, NGC 3344, a 10th-magnitude barred spiral galaxy in Leo Minor, ~22 million light-years away. Half an hour with my Unistellar Odyssey from Bortle 8.5 NYC. #astrophotography #Unistellar #astronomy

My image of NGC 3344, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor, a 30-minute stacked image taken with my Unistellar Odyssey telescope from New York City.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Image I took Sunday night with #Unistellar Odyssey, 18 min. of 4-second exposures of NGC 3521, a mag. ~10 spiral galaxy in southern Leo. It's called a flocculent spiral because its arms are less well defined than a grand design spiral such as M81 or our own Milky Way. #astrophotography

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My image of the so-called pink Moon from this morning (Oct. 14), taken with my Seestar S30 from my window. #moon #pinkmoon #astronomy

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Image I took last night with #Unistellar Odyssey, 18 min. of 4-second exposures of NGC 3521, a mag. ~10 spiral galaxy in southern Leo. It's called a flocculent spiral because its arms are less well defined than a grand design spiral such as M81 or our own Milky Way. #astrophotography

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Dystopian technology vision of the day: The world lies in darkness, the power grid failed, drained because everyone instructed a chatbot to create their own AI action figure/avatar....which they can no longer even access. Might make a good Black Mirror ep....

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When in Mexico last year for the eclipse, I used my Seestar S50 to image Omega Centauri, the most splendid globular star cluster visible from Earth. In NYC it clears our southern horizon by a few degrees, but I have never seen it from here. #astrophotography #seestar #zwo

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

NGC 4216, a large,edge-on spiral galaxy, lies ~55 million light-years away in Virgo. It's flanked by smaller galaxies NGC 4206 and NGC 4222. 15 minutes of stacked 4-second exposures taken with my Unistellar Odyssey from Queens, NY; tweaked in Photoshop. #astrophotography #unistellar

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"They're eating the nest eggs! They're eating the 401(k)'s!"

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

My review of the #Unistellar Odyssey Pro smart telescope: www.pcmag.com/reviews/unis... It's good at imaging faint objects, colors were bright but sometimes off, and downloading FITS files was problematic. The digital eyepiece nearly doubles the price over the base model.

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Unistellar Odyssey Pro Review

The Unistellar Odyssey Pro is a powerful smart telescope for viewing and photographing deep space, with a built-in eyepiece that offers an immersive digital image of the object it's pointing at.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Good to make new friends in Cusco, Peru! Actually, these ladies, dressed in colorful Quechua garb, let you be photographed holding a baby alpaca in exchange for a small contribution. #cusco #peru #alpaca #quechua #inca #andes

Me in Cusco, Peru, with two women in Quechua dress and two other baby alpacas.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The first royal tomb found in Egypt in more than a century! I believe I saw Thutmose II’s mummy, which had likely been removed from the tomb centuries ago, in the mummy room in the Egyptian Museum.

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

in honor of president’s day, i would like a new one.

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service.

My probation was up next week.

I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it.

Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know.

And now? Just like that, I’m out.

Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

For my Pennsylvania friends. (I enjoyed it, too.)

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Here is a shot of the Running Man Nebula in Orion that I took with the Unistellar Odyssey, 15 minutes of stacked 4-second exposures. It is located just north of the famed Orion Nebula.

Photo of the Running Man Nebula in Orion, taken with my Unistellar Odyssey.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A favorite non-Messier galaxy, NGC 2903, a mag 9 barred spiral in Leo. 52 minutes of 10-second frames with my Seestar S50 from Bortle 8.5 NYC, processed in Siril and Photoshop. The galaxy, around 31 million light-years away, is similar in size and structure to the Milky Way.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It started snowing heavily around 8 p.m. in NYC, and there are ~3 inches on the ground. It's turned into sleet. What’s on the ground is perfect snowball consistency—I threw a couple of them myself, practicing my pitching skills. Some kids nearby seemed to be having a battle royale.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Recognize this song? Here it is performed by the great Chilean singer, Victor Jara. I had never heard it sung in Spanish before. #LasCasitasDelBarrioAlto #LittleBoxes #VictorJara www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU7b...

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Victor Jara - Las Casitas del Barrio Alto

YouTube video by Victor Jara - Música

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Rose is a real power of example to me (I knew her from another social media site from which we have both since left)--although our stories are totally different, we have two very important things in common. It is shameful that her story has been disappeared from the NASA site.

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A PSA from a top photography educator on the importance of digitizing your photo prints to disaster-proof them. youtu.be/d8N7dNBl2tA

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Digitize Your Analog Photos (PSA for Photographers)

YouTube video by Tim Grey TV

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

DOGGO: Department of Gross Government Overreach

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Tony Hoffman @tonyjhoffman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The planet Venus is currently visible in full daylight, above and a little to the left of the thin crescent Moon, in our late afternoon sky. #astronomy #astrophotography #Venus #Moon #iPhone

The planet Venus visible in daylight as a small bright speck to the upper left of the crescent Moon.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/01/2025

This is what peak masculinity looks like in 2025

Me in my pink "Alpha Male" t shirt, with a cuddly unicorn on it!

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump's first 48 hours is such a disaster, FEMA should be called in.

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