Justine Jacot 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Image: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing:Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Are NASA trolling us with the teardrop shape or have they not read Liu Cixin's Dark Forest?
#nasa #3I/ATLAS #scifi

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

I'm fundraising for living expenses. If I meet the goal by the 15th of November, I'll release a story that I wrote for Clarion West Writer's Workshop. It's an experimental and philosophical piece about Hypatia of Alexandria called "Knowable, Harmonious, and Good."

ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

Eat the rich.

Finally finished this book (not for a lack of interest, more like a case of life getting in the way) and it was really good. I could see the tangles of the plot pretty soon, but it didn't detract from the pleasure I had reading it. Warmly recommended!

Updating my LEGO White House

Louvre museum robbery: how the thieves broke in, what they stole and what happens next The French culture ministry said eight pieces were stolen – but not the hugely valuable crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugenie

Louvre museum robbery: how the thieves broke in, what they stole and what happens next

Tacky as shit motherfucker is such an apt description!

We should also normalize that one study doesn't a science make. Believing in conspiracies or blindly putting one's faith in misunderstood scholarship are both sides of the same coin of ignorance.

AMPHIFA: Amphibians Against Fascism. Black and green flag of a Portland protest frog.

We are Amphifa.

This is supposed to hurt everyone. They don't consider disabled people are human beings, but parasites. The dehumanizing is strong with these ones, and the cruelty is the point.

Okay, well, guess I'll have to see for myself then 😂

'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt In this excerpt from "Born: A History of Childbirth," author and historian Lucy Inglis reveals records from ancient Egypt that show how female physicians treated issues of "the womb," how men reacted ...

'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt | Live Science
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Just as much as Link was a part of this community- so has Sakher been. Bluesky mods are awful.

That looks amazing! Sick or not, I would wolf that down in no time. Hope it perks you up.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Awesome news! Looking forward to reading your research on this!

Men won all the science Nobels this year. There's an even bigger problem The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science

I see that this article from last year is still relevant 🙄

Glad there's at least one!

Have you watched all the seasons? I only watched the first one and while I enjoyed the setting (and the fact that it was not American haha!), I thought it to be a bit derivative. I'm wondering if the following seasons pick up the pace.

Book cover for "Esperance" by Adam Oyebanji. The cover has a red background with a large, dark, stylized mosquito-like insect in the center. The insect has glowing blue eyes and a long proboscis. The author's name, "ADAM OYEBANJI," is at the top in white text, and the title, "ESPERANCE," is at the bottom. A small blue planet is visible in the upper-left corner of the dark, starry background.

I'm really liking this one so far. I'm a sucker for noir and sci-fi mash-ups, so this is right up my alley.
#booksky #scifi #sff

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

@gilduran.com is doing exactly that.

Cover of The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, showing a dark blue octopus on a pink background. The title, in yellow, is entangled in the octopus tentacles.

Just finished this. I think this is the first time I read sci-fi that takes Davidson's radical interpretation seriously. Of course it also refers Nagel's bat. Even if I didn't like everything in it, I'm quite impressed by this part of the book.
#scifi #books #philosophy #language #consciousness

Jane Goodall and the hand of a chimp

Rest in peace Jane Goodall you made this world a better place

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

Maybe it's time to replace "weak" and "low quality" evidence with terms like "variability", "empirical" and "clinical" then?

This is fascism textbook.

Well, this is fascism textbook...

Well, if we wants to, he can compare Israel to North Korea also.

Poster for the TV show Alien Earth: a dark, blue and green menacing Xenomorph head dripping liquid onto a glowing Earth below. The text "FX" is on the left, above the title "ALIEN EARTH" prominently displayed in the center. Below the Earth, it says "ORIGINAL SERIES" and "8.12 FX | hulu".

I'm enjoying this series, but it irritates me that Boy Kavalier is presented as some sort of genius when he's only aligning platitudes and barking erratic orders. When will billionaires will be shown as what they are, rich dumb fucks surrounding themselves with intelligent people?