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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018)

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“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”

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this piece was originally up at this same location during the 92 riots....

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deez nuts dont run

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 6 hours ago • 139 comments

Literally me the entire time at Sequoia NP:

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors. thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

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Marcia McNutt has been saying that the US is doing a huge experiment with China as the control. The global scientific community will still produce knowledge. But not being in the lead has bad implications for US flourishing. My column: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Another day, another spectacular, biodiverse native grassland. This piece of land has never been plowed. The soundtrack is horned lark and chestnut collared longspur song #birds #grasslands

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

It was never supposed to be this way, at least not on the NASA side of things. There was always supposed to be at least two providers to prevent over-reliance on one company. Instead, it evolved into what we got. And now the monster NASA helped create may help destroy the agency.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Japan-based iSpace attempted a 2nd Moon landing yesterday, with Resilience. All was nominal... until the lander fell silent, 90 seconds prior to touchdown. Here’s our post for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social -https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/japaneses-resilience-lander-crashes-on-the-moon/

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WHAT? Home sewing, aside from being out of style, is seen as women's business, it's not considered to be important. But these patterns comprise a cultural, business, and a technological heritage. The patterns with the business records should be held by the Library of Congress or Smithsonian.

submitted 19 hours ago • 51 comments

Watch: What do you do when you see a piece of plastic on the street? For artist Thomas Deininger, this might be the highlight of his day, a spark of inspiration. He takes bits of plastic and forgotten toys and repurposes them into optical illusion

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It's fine. Everything is fine. I'm fine. I'm always fine. I've never not been fine. So, it's fine.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Mira esto, te va a fascinar. Thomas Deininger crea animales hiperrealistas con basura. Desde lejos: aves y peces perfectos. De cerca: un caos de plásticos y objetos cotidianos. Síguelo en IG: @tdeininger Y mira los vídeos en bucle. Arte + talento + crítica ambiental.

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#Musk has NO options to get funds for his #Mars fantasy (est $2T per yr for 10 years), so he's pursuing the US taxpayer (and sale of US sovereign resources). No other countries can afford it (US taxpayers can't either, IMO). www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

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He never cared about the science or exploration or safety aspects of human spaceflight. It was always about enriching himself & “colonizing”. It’s absolutely more obvious now, but if you’ve followed the space industry at all for the past ~15 years, the greedy & petty narcissist was always there.

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New buoys listen for critically endangered right whale sounds off Massachusetts coast

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Just because Jason doesn't like Freddy anymore doesn't mean he's suddenly good for campers, you know?

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9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.

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[mumbles to self] There must be sign in my files that's applicable. Ah, here we go.

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big distinction here between “does the USG need space x?” (Y) and “does space x need elon musk?” (N), and USG has many, many ways to make that second question excruciating for space x if they choose to

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Science in the US is on a damaging trajectory that could take decades to recover from, and it doesn't seem like the nation's leading scientific organization is rising to meet that challenge.

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The entire internet right now.

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I know I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and regret my jokes because the whole thing is gonna turn so sour and so dangerous so fast

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so the private Japanese Hakuto 1 lander crashed into the moon after the computer began ignoring its altimeter data due to a mission profile change and it appears Hakuto-2 has failed as well Moon eats another one

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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

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A reminder that you CAN just go out and donate money to get a species name for yourself from Scripps, and most importantly they have a glamour shots catalogue of the animals you can get for free perusal

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Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

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bsky right now.

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Meanwhile...

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this is very deep lore

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if you are terminally online STAY ON LINE

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"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

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it causes a point defect in the crystalline lattice of the polycule, which is ultimately the mechanism by which you can make things like transistors

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i got a betamax tape digitized by a guy in town, and his garage office gave me the most incredible wave of 80's/90's BBS era copying-disks computer hangout vibes… it was overwhelming and deeply nostalgic. he had a video toaster mousepad. it was $25 including the flash drive and turned out great.

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#OPAG - Final day of the OPAG meeting will monitor some of the sessions here.

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Just got this, looks like LPSC 2026 will be hosted but NOT by NASA as it had since the conference's inception. USRA/LPI will pick up the baton and run with it. www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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