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The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

TikTok's algorithm makes it a really valuable resource for connecting with communities you haven't even figured out you want to connect with yet. It can be life-changing, and people dismissing it as a dancing-teenager app are showing their ignorance.

Full moon through a telescope with mars very close by

See you on the other side!

Lunar Occultation of Mars
#FullMoon #Mars 🔭

We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives | John Vaillant We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high

"These fires are only the beginning of a historic reckoning that starts with the question: are fossil fuels liberating us or holding us hostage? There is a clear answer to this... in the ledgers of petroleum and automobile companies." - @johnvaillant.bsky.social
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Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr. (Gift Article) The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation.

The rise of anti-science is depressing and dangerous for everyone.

Dane County judge strikes down Act 10, restoring public employee union bargaining rights Public employee collective bargaining rights have been restored by a Dane County judge, who ruled that several sections of Wisconsin's controversial law known as Act 10 are unconstitutional.

In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law.

The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights.

This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.

The “No to AI generated images” logo - the letters “AI” in a red circle with a red line through them.

‘tis the season for self-promotion. If you’re an artist, illustrator, maker, writer, publisher, creator of any kind who DOES NOT and WILL NOT use generative AI, drop your shop links below so people can support real artists this Christmas.

God as an adult now, I love school, I just love learning new things is that weird??? If I won the lottery I think I'd just go off the grid and get like 3 doctorates or something

Yet another #earthling - Conehead Praying Mantis (Empusa pennata) Pic: Marta Albareda via Facebook. Next time you watch a SciFi flick and think the aliens are improbable - imagine what we'll find on worlds we'll explore on #astrobiology expeditions. Let's get started.

The Andromeda galaxy with bright core at centre. Fuzzy galaxy M110 above and to its right. Numerous star dots.

The Andromeda Galaxy from last month. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California, health officials say California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

U.S. okays organ transplants between people with HIV, expanding donor pool The landmark move is expected to shorten wait times for organs for all patients and reduce hurdles to life-saving care for those with HIV.

People with HIV will be able to receive kidney or liver transplants from donors who also have HIV, federal health officials announced Tuesday.

The landmark move, which takes effect Wednesday, is expected to shorten wait times for organs for all patients.

#DinoJokes make me happy 😊

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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Here’s how the Sun will end all life on Earth Our home star won't go supernova, but the end of its life will be no less spectacular.

Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)

A high resolution image of Mars. Overlaid is the following text: Red Planet Day Nov 28 Fun Martian Facts: 1. Tallest Mountain / Volcano: Olympus Mons 2. Largest Canyon: Valles Marineris 3. Takes about 687 days to make one orbit 4. Once had rivers, lakes, oceans 5. Has two idiot potato rock Moons @cosmicrami

Today (Nov 28) is apparently Red Planet Day - which celebrates the Mariner 4 launch in ‘64, the first successful spacecraft to fly by Mars and give us our first nice images.

Happy Red Planet day to all who celebrate. 🔴

📸 ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW JWST IMAGE!!!

Voyager 1 Just Activated a Radio That's Been Offline Since 1981 Last month, NASA briefly lost Voyager 1 in the expanse of interstellar space, and when the craft reappeared it was communicating with a transmitter it hasn't used in more than 40 years.

Voyager 1 Just Activated a Radio That's Been Offline Since 1981

Post showing precipitous decline of share of deaths in Massachusetts from diseases for which vaccines are now available, from 70% in 1840 to low digits % by 1950-60 where it is stayed. Caption: There are not many places on earth where we have detailed cause-of-death data from before the era of widespread vaccination. Massachusetts is one of those places. From 1842-1877, 70% of all deaths were from diseases which we today have vaccines to prevent.

Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.

Collision frequency of artificial satellites: The creation of a debris belt As the number of artificial satellites in earth orbit increases, the probability of collisions between satellites also increases. Satellite collisions would produce orbiting fragments, each of which ....

Kessler Syndrome was first described in 1978, in a paper by Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais. There were about 300 active satellites and Musk was 8 years old🧪
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The full moon between clouds.

March 2024’s full moon between the sunlit clouds.

#astrophotography 🔭

Here are some higher resolution cropped pics of the soul nebula edit I shared yesterday. I think the first one is my favorite.

#astrophotography #astronomy #space

“Women in STEM don’t face any sexism or harassment any more, stop making up barriers”

Blue Origin just had to take down their video of the 100th female astronaut’s reaction to space because the comments got flooded by men sexualizing her excitement and awe. We face this kind of shit all the time

Voyager 1 artists rendition.

does it blow anyone else’s mind that both voyager spacecraft are still functioning and communicating with earth after almost 50 years of being in space and years of being in interstellar space??

It seems that I have reached 15k followers. I am honestly quite amazed. Thank you for following and for all your very kind comments. I will keep posting and hopefully provide some calm andawareness.

This is one of my favorite photos. We need the feminine energy these days.

Added some more data and did some work on my shot of The Pleiades! It gets even more beautiful every time I revisit it!

Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.

Gift article. "For most of human history, half of all children died before reaching age 15; that number is down to just 4 percent worldwide, and far lower in developed countries, with vaccines one of the major drivers of improved life expectancy." Medsky www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

#astronomy #astro
Moonrise will be after midnight tonight in the waning gibbous phase just after the 3rd quarter moon. The area of the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites as well as the rays of Capernicus Crater and the large maria are visible to the light side of the terminator

these accounts often spread misinformation in the science community and make it so much more difficult for real science communicators to gain people’s trust.

please follow real scientists and science communicators!!