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Interests: astronomy, terrestrial and exo-geology, sci-fi, engineering, transportation, rpdr. NYC-based and biased. Oh and cats, too. Politics are dead, but entertaining.
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Green-eyed Flower Bees on a Devon heath.

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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.

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The transition seems radical and unrealistic because fossil fuel companies have been so good at making it seem so www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I wish Democrats would fight as hard against Donald Trump as they do against Zohran Mamdani.

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Democratic pols have been marching at pride since at least the 1980s. Here's Ed Koch at pride in 1985. The Ed Koch who dithered on the HIV/AIDS crisis for years because he was so deep in the closet you'd need a MTA tunnel borer to get him out. www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/6/...

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Goodnight everyone on #bluesky

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New Horizons is so far away that the nearest stars have shifted markedly from where we see them on Earth. With the NH observed positions for two stars, from NH imagery alone we can figure out where the spacecraft is. This technique would be used on interstellar voyages. arxiv.org/abs/2506.21666

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🤯 100% agreed!

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The Australian giant cuttlefish is a living kaleidoscope of color.

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And then you have Hochul, Jeffries and others who are despicable for not supporting their own party’s nominee, who represents way more than they can imagine for this country.

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Thermal storage works. Stanford University: “Eighty-eight percent of the heating load on campus is generated purely by waste heat.” 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 sesi.stanford.edu/energy-syste...

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Is there any analysis of what this means for the power grid yet? Has anyone had time to run that math yet?

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Finally watching drag race and they really tried to give Ginger the Jinx edit when she’s not a monsoon… barely even a drizzle really

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A less well known work by Soviet space artist Andrey Sokolov.

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