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Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

These Apes Are Matriarchal, but It Doesn’t Mean They’re Peaceful www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Going to college at a public university in the state of Ohio is now a waste of your time, money, soul, and brain. You can't even teach like elementary level history according to this bill. "Controversial beliefs" such as climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, marriage!

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

Australians will head to the polls on 3 May after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, fired the starter’s gun on the federal election campaign. Follow live updates: www.theguardian.com/p/xxjxb...

If you have ever wondered when a dictatorship is a dictatorship or a coup a coup youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

When it comes to the battle of the sexes, new data shows women are still fighting much harder than men on the home front. Here's how some households split their chores.

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I know I should be surprised but this is wild. Blatant actual erasure of history. I am sorry America.

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www.rosedf.space/aboutme Rosa’s information has been taken down from the NASA website to comply with the DEI executive order. What a loss to our science communities that her story is now hidden. Hence me sharing it here.

This is the biggest danger of Trump's EOs. They are not law, and yet Denver Health is complying in advance, ending all trans surgeries under 19 years of age, including chest masculinization - a rare, but much needed surgery for some trans teens. www.9news.com/article/news...

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www.instagram.com/reel/DBRkZnX... Not sure if this shares properly still working out blue sky. Hopefully you are seeing a clip of protactile sign, a language created by deafblind people for Deafblind

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-j... Always was always will be Aboriginal land. We stand in solidarity. Many lives lost in the colonisation of this country and many still affected by colonisation.

The US government, like others around the world, are laundering their fascist politics through the claim of “fighting gender ideology.” Their political goal is to enforce a conservative social order by erasing trans people, trashing migrants, and controlling women’s bodies. We must resist this.

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Keep saying it!

Current internal battle: Should I be terrified of Trump on main, or should I recognize that pretending like he has powers he does not have helps to grant him those powers.

This is why independent media is vital to democracy. Straight from dictatorship playbook is managing the message and propaganda. Keeps talking and sharing around these bounds.

BREAKING | Meta says that people have been automatically left following Donald Trump’s account – and admitted that some of them are unable to stop.

we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide

Sign languages (here ASL) are not the same thing as closed captioning. There is nothing "wild" here, unless you take this rufo who seems to live in an uninformed bubble spouting off on topics he clearly knows nothing about to be wild.

it’s crazy to think that europa has twice the amount of water than all of earth’s oceans combined under its icy crust and we currently have a mission on its way to explore its habitability

The six biggest banks in the U.S. have quit the Net Zero Banking Alliance just before Trump's inauguration. The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.

The EU Court of Justice has ruled that France's national railway company cannot require passengers to select 'Mr' or 'Ms' when purchasing a ticket. The ruling means organisations in the EU can no longer collect gender markers when the information is unnecessary www.ilga-europe.org/news/joint-s...

Two @NASA_Astronauts will venture out of the @Space_Station on Jan. 16 and Jan. 23 to complete station upgrades. Get more details about the upcoming spacewalks from @NASA_Johnson experts in a news conference at 2pm ET (1900 UTC) on Friday, Jan. 10: https://t.co/QKYyrkaIAt https://t.co/CrIBoh6ztv

It's good to see other countries standing up to #Trump. I hope we do too. @AlboMP #Auspol www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Een nieuwe wind #ElonMusk #Trump #beleid #macht

Well, this is horrendous.

A year and a half study to tell us they need another year and a half study. The MSR money and time pit is the new JWST, except JWST eventually happened.

If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey. Link: umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

In his newsletter sent 30mins ago, Robert Reich, who served in Carter's admin, reminds us that Carter was POTUS when the Voyager spacecraft were launched to the outer SS & beyond. Read Carter's immortal words to our fellow galactic citizens, included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record. 📰🛰️🚀🧪🔭✨♥️

Confirmation of the success of NASA's historic closest-ever approach to Sun arrived with a signal from the Parker Solar Probe at 05:00 GMT today. The spacecraft endured temperatures of up to 1,800F (980C), NASA says.

1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters. She's fighting back.