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Professor Imad Barghouti arrested once again by the Israeli military – Scientists For Palestine

Palestinian astrophysicist Prof. Imad Barghouti has been detained by Israel; hundreds of soldiers surrounded his home and arrested him. he is politically unaffiliated and has never participated in violence, and is a father of 5. demand his release!

www.scientists4palestine.com/professor-ba...

Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine. (H.Res. 786) A resolution in the U.S. Congress.

5/5 Here's the resolution. Click the link, click "Call or Write Congress." Type in your zip code, and it will provide the names and contact info of your 2 senators and 1 house representative <3 www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

4/5 [_], support Resolution 786, and speak out now to demand a ceasefire, pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and refuse to send any additional weapons or funding to the Israeli military."

3/5 Gaza's health ministry said at least 5,791 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli bombardments since Oct. 7, including 2,360 children. Their blood is on the hands of every US citizen whose tax dollars paid for the bombs over their heads.

2/5 "I am calling as a constituent from [_], and urge [_] to support House Resolution 786 and call for an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation in occupied Palestine. The Israeli government has been crystal clear that their intent is to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians.

The US gov is /slowly/ changing it's tune about Israeli aggression in occupied Palestine. I've been calling my senators and house rep every day. Here's the call script that I'm using today to call my house rep, in case anyone else would like to use it. #FreePalestine

An image of a beautiful sunset off the coast of the Big Island. Volcanic rock rises out of the water, the waves roll gently against the sand, and the clouds in the distance turn shades of pink purple and orange.

i'm leaving the big island so soon :( who do i have to bribe to get a permanent job here

An image of what should be an exoplanetary system, but which instead looks like if the eye of sauron and a blue jolly rancher got really intimate

again, not what my reduction should look like. maybe it should be hanging on the wall of some college dorm

I'm sending a little money and I'd encourage you to as well -- Lahaina was the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom pre-colonization, and people are hurting both because of the direct damage from the fires as well as the refreshed cultural wound.

i need to block etsy on my browser -- i have ONE GLASS OF WINE in the evening and suddenly i'm adding funky little earrings to my shopping cart

turns out the issue was just file size :)

ah i think my files were just too big, they both posted fine after i compressed them. i just wish it had thrown a filesize warning ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

a thicket of brambles lay across a little trail in the cloud forest north of Kona, Hawaii. A little tunnel has been cut to let hikers squeeze through. the greenery along the sides of the trail is a lush green, and sunlight pokes through the tree cover overhead.

i was on a lil run yesterday and found this super pretty bramble arch! i felt like a little hobbit adventurer passing through :-)

got it, i'll try that then :)

computer! though i'm realizing that i've posted a png successfully before on here, so idk what's going on. is mobile more stable?

why can i not post pictures and also why can't i set my banner image. does bluesky hate me? i just want to share nature pics

on this week's edition of "that's not what my data should look like, but boy howdy is it pretty":

i've been thinking a lot about this -- how when you let capitalists take the reins, they completely cannibalize whatever thing they're trying to mine for profit. it's such a quick turnaround of acquire -> extract -> obliterate. it feels so opposite to being human.

nvm i dont miss twitter /at all/

i'm scrolling through my twitter following list to see how many friends I can find on here and…i'm just a little sad. there are connections that will inevitably drop off. i hope we all find each other again some day.

hi bluesky! i'm following astrotwitter onto a new platform and should probably introduce myself 🔭

i'm a PhD student at UCSC studying exoplanets with high-contrast imaging and building instrumentation! i think a lot about balancing hardware & science and making astronomy more equitable.