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Benne W. Holwerda

@benneholwerda.bsky.social

Dad, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Louisville. He/Him/hey you. Opinions are my own. As are the typos. Astronomy, datascience, ethics & occasional US/EU politics.

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Remind me again who would benefit from oil prices being high?

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01.03.2026 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of animals are standing next to each other with the words " master of the seas " written on the bottom ALT: a group of animals are standing next to each other with the words " master of the seas " written on the bottom

β€œEpic furry what?”

01.03.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

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β€œOk I need to read a bit about the Herschels” I think to myself as I scroll an infinity of the worst news of the day.

28.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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85 girls

28.02.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

28.02.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5768    πŸ” 1744    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 77
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The only GOP congressman I’ve seen so far saying this

28.02.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

That sounds very fun!

28.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Purty.

28.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

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Republican secretaries of state in Kentucky and West Virginia are telling the Trump administration to get lost on their demands for state voter rolls πŸ‘‡

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That sounds so lovely.

28.02.2026 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

27.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2354    πŸ” 373    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 35
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a cartoon of charlie brown and lucy brown standing in the snow talking to each other . Alt: a cartoon of charlie brown and lucy brown standing in the snow talking to each other .
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this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 18084    πŸ” 4072    πŸ’¬ 1018    πŸ“Œ 165

What is happening and why can I not stop laughing. πŸ˜‚

27.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Practice with SWIFT soon.

27.02.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀒🀒🀒

27.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Small jeep sold separately.”

27.02.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It felt like the professor one β€œFeynman” was just trolling at this point.

So glad people are heavily associating physics with this linear algebra nonsense machine.

27.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes. Saved to photo reel. Because too real.

27.02.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Elke journalist zou antifascist moeten zijn’ De speech die OneWorld-journalist Marte Hoogenboom voordroeg bij een herdenking van de Februaristaking.

Om fascisme terug in zijn hol te dwingen, hebben we betere journalistiek nodig, waarschuwde OneWorld-redacteur Marte Hoogenboom woensdag tijdens een herdenking van de Februaristaking. Want: β€˜Fascisten hebben hun succes van oudsher vaak te danken aan journalisten.’

27.02.2026 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13

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Weird feeling of unburdening before

26.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool.

26.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.

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What’s the typical length of a writing session? Your writing speed is set to β€œsuperhuman”. Any tips for the rest of us?

26.02.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Beyond Ultra-Faint: revealing dark-matter rich globular clusters in the local universe | University of Surrey

Me and @readdark.bsky.social are advertising aPhD position in our lovely group here at Surrey university. We're looking to understand unusual globular clusters and faint dwarf galaxies. Check out the advert and get in touch if you have questions πŸ”­πŸ§ͺ www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

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Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein πŸ§ͺ

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