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IT Consultant, ex-small biz owner for libraries, museums & publishers. Dad to teen and cat (FIV+), shelter helper. Astronomy, science, history, jazz, privacy, 007. Will block Nazis, 18+, OF. crypto. No Chats right after follow. Veil nebula by Rob Gendler
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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

Ed Sullivan visits Sean Connery during Thunderball filming www.youtube.com/watch?v=e43Z...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

His arrival was foretold during the Pop Art movement.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

submitted 9 days ago • 508 comments

It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed. International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally. But they can't come without reliable visas.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

...and the Best Buy bag duct-taped to the camera survived. Still worth it. petapixel.com/2025/05/08/p...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Yes: which was pretty much conventional wisdom up until Trump admin said that it wasn't!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I'm tired of seeing people wishing Biden a "full and complete recovery" from his cancer. If only it were possible. Prostate cancer that has spread to bones is treatable and may go into remission or be slowed. Complete recovery is an uninformed canned phrase.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Jim Henson left us 35 years ago today. I loved being on the Muppet Show!! Here’s a video of me with my buddies!

submitted 18 days ago • 417 comments

From 1976 to 2015, 80% of Louisiana death sentences were overturned, and 12 people were exonerated. A political scientist notes the state isn’t alone in facing wrongful convictions, and a system that doesn’t put justice first. buff.ly/oTK7PFl #DNA #DeathRow Austin Sarat, Amherst College

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an intelligent person in possession of a social media account, must be in want of a library.' You can now follow Orkney Library & Archive on Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky. Bonus points if you follow us on all of them. 🏆

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Callie — the only search-and-rescue dog in the Department of Defense — spent six years with the Kentucky National Guard where she deployed six times in support of rescue missions across the U.S.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.

submitted 25 days ago • 138 comments

What have the cardinals eaten at the Papal Conclaves through history? youtu.be/lZCs9aMkzBQ?... #Conclave2025 #conclave

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

submitted 31 days ago • 2269 comments