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@whatofjed.bsky.social
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Just an old technophobic laborer trying to learn how to get past my limitations and hoping to help democracy survive.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE immediately opened fire at anyone standing nearby. I got absolutely pelted with various munitions (fortunately I came prepared with a mask, many were less lucky).
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
They literally threatened to arrest me yesterday and literally backed down instantly.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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HBO film on Border Patrol coverup teams finally released.
Remember, these are the ICE agents in your cities today kidnapping your neighbors.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/12/2025
The new HBO documentary "Critical Incident: Death at the Border" examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant "beaten to death" by U.S. border agents in 2010. www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/cri…
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
An HBO documentary, Critical Incident: Death at the Border, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in U.S. custody at the border. www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/c...
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Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump’s Current Border Commissioner
An HBO documentary, Critical Incident: Death at the Border, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died ...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
www.livescience.com/animals/dino...
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First-ever 'mummified' and hoofed dinosaur discovered in Wyoming badlands
Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur "mummies" in the badlands of Wyoming, confirming duck-billed dinosaurs had hooves, alongside a string of other discoveries.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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For the first time, James Webb telescope detects 5 'building blocks of life' in ice outside the Milky Way
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around a star outside our galaxy. This cosmic first hints that the stuff of life m...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time – A New Era Begins share.google/m4okpgtccbgS...
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Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time – A New Era Begins
Scientists at Northwestern University have achieved quantum teleportation over active internet cables for the first time, sending quantum information through 30 kilometers of fiber-optic cable carryin...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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'Puzzling' object discovered by James Webb telescope may be the earliest known galaxy in the universe
While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling discoveries" to date.
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Ian Waters @ianwaters78.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Quantum computing 'lie detector' finally proves these machines tap into Einstein's spooky action at a distance rather than just faking it
Researchers developed an experimental method for confirming quantum activity in a quantum computing system.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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New eye implants combined with augmented-reality glasses help blind people read again in small trial
Of the 38 patients with age-related macular degeneration, 80% were able to read again after having the eye implant and using the glasses.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors share.google/uWMrMzrYBD1U...
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The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors
Penn State scientists have unveiled a new theory-driven method to predict superconductors, offering a possible path toward materials that could conduct electricity perfectly. Electricity travels throu...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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“Unlike Anything Yet Discovered”: New Fossil Rewrites Our Understanding of Reptile Evolution
A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the appeara...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Astrophotographer Adds His Adorable Cat to Far Out Space Photos
In space, nobody can hear you meow.
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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Alex Ross - Superman convenes the “war room”, in the classic Mark Waid/Alex Ross tale, Kingdom Come (1996).
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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A Million-Year-Old Skull Just Rewrote The Origin Story of Humanity
An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans.
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulous): The Waxwings that move south from northern Eurasian & N.American forests during the winter frequently appear in towns, cities and urban areas. Cracking photograph taken by Richard Cousens in Yorkshire, UK. #waxwing #waxwings #bird #birds #wildlife #nature
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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30,000-year-old 'personal toolkit' found in the Czech Republic provides 'very rare' glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer
Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single prehistoric individual.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it
By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position without violating Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Martin Gregus Jr. Cinematographer "One of the most unique sequences I filmed this summer was on a day when three to five bears were play wrestling in the water."
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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125-Year Mystery Solved: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Wales
Paleontologists identified a new dinosaur species from a 125-year-old Welsh fossil. The animal was a giant Triassic theropod. Paleontologists at the University of Bristol have confirmed a new dinosaur...
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy
I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west. 

This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes).

The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia).

I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope).

The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used.

I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them. 

In any case, I hope you li...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"She walked like us, but around 3.2 million years ago. For five years now, a life-sized fleshed-out model of a female Australopithecus aferensis known as "Lucy." (note: link below goes to Facebook... ) www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Scientists find best evidence yet that icy moon Enceladus is habitable
An ocean flowing beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing ice that holds the building blocks of life.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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From tool use to warfare — here are 5 ways Jane Goodall revolutionized our knowledge of chimpanzees
Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91. These are her five biggest contributions to how we understand about our closest living relatives.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Harvest supermoon photos: See the moon at its biggest and brightest in pictures from around the world
This year's full 'Harvest moon' was also a supermoon. Check out some of the best images of this lunar event with our worldwide gallery.
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa): 108cm (43in). This is a medium-sized wild cat occurring from the Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into southern China. Total population is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals. #cloudedleopard #leopard #wildlife #nature #bluesky
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Second-farthest object ever spotted by James Webb telescope may be something we've never seen before
Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, astrophysicists have spotted what they say is compelling evidence of a new type of cosmic object called a 'dark star.'
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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New species of deep-sea shark and crab discovered off Western Australia
A single voyage of discovery in 2022 is helping us put more incredible marine life on the map.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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New species of Jurassic 'sword dragon' could help solve an evolutionary mystery
The newly discovered ichthyosaur dubbed Xiphodracon goldencapsis was about 10 feet long and had a sword-shaped snout.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Groundbreaking image shows two black holes orbiting each other for first time
Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Emerald Dragon, Javier Franco Santacreu www.artstation.com/artwork/vbW5LD
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light
For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Incredible Fossil Reveals Two-Headed Creature From The Dinosaur Age
Rare malformations can cause animals to grow two heads – and it seems that kind of thing has been happening for millions of years.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Dragon Head, Soufiane Idrassi www.artstation.com/artwork/bg4Zva
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Dragon Concept Art, Billy Roberts www.artstation.com/artwork/0lqm5e
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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 18/08/2025
🌊 Makana the Day Octopus 🐙 Sculpted from clay 🎨 #ArtYear #ArtGallery #Art #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife 🦑🐡
A flowy octopus sculpture depicting the species "Octopus cyanea", also known as the Day Octopus. Held carefully in the artist's left hand over a black background.

It's leaning back on three arms, the others arms are curled toward its body.

The octopus's arms are fully detailed with two neat rows of carefully sculpted suckers.

The paintwork is a warm ochre brown with creamy pearl spots, based on one of the many color expressions of this species.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It's (well past) time to impeach RFK Jr. You can sign a petition to help! Also: (very) old issues of Scientific American magazine were very, very odd. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/impeach-rf... 🔭🧪
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Impeach RFK Jr.
Also, a jaunt through old issues of Scientific American in search of Neptune
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"The fight," by Wyler Elisabeth www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZq5...
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The fight
YouTube video by Wyler Elisabeth
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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New brain implant can decode a person's 'inner monologue'
A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner speech, which could help people with paralysis communicate.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Rocket-like jellyfish, regal Komodo dragon and harrowing whale rescue — see the stunning Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 finalists
Finalists in the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 competition capture beautiful images of animals and people oceans.
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
www.livescience.com/health/kerat...
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Keratin extracted from sheep's wool repairs teeth in breakthrough
Keratin extracted from sheep wool has been found to help protect human teeth. It could be coming to your dentist’s office soon.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The people who run the tech industry and dominate our world grew up being told they were Very Special Boys and never had the opportunity to learn humility. That’s going to be a big problem. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-proble...
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The Problem With Very Special Boys
What happens when our world is run by people who never learned humility?
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings
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Meet Uranus’s Newly Discovered Moon, One So Small That You Could Walk around It
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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NASA's Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus
The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus
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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Croatian Freediver Shatters Record For Longest-Held Breath
A Croatian freediver has achieved a seemingly impossible feat.
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Romona Youngquist (Californian, born 1960) "Farm Flowers", 2015. Oil on Panel,
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A stunning eruption of filament plasma from the Sun this morning! This size of event can cause strong aurora activity if directed towards Earth, but alas – this one was not. #spaceweather
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