Phil Plait

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Bad Astronomer, SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com

I'm self-employed so my opinions do represent my company's.

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Scientific Ghost𝕪 👻

Except www.cnn.com/2023/07/07/p...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Biden’s reelection bid | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she will support President Joe Biden’s reelection bid given the challengers he currently faces in the primary.

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Scientific Ghost𝕪 👻

I'm aware. Hence my point about coalitions.

Yes it would. But if you wait for a unicorn you get a fascist.

Left-wing parties banded together in France, even though they disagree over many policies, to push down the fascist right-wingers and keep them from power. It's a template of sorts for what we should do come November.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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John Rogers

Zoe's music is great! I didn't know she did that show. She's here on Bluesky, too.

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Adam K

Please don't. The whole point of that post was that kids who don't know any better are using it like it's always right.

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Protopod

Nope. Here's the sitch: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/personal-n...

Personal news, and JWST sees Saturn looking infraredly weirdbadastronomy.beehiiv.com Thing are about to change a lot Chez BA, but at least I can show you some extremely cool images of Saturn from JWST

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Schrödinger cat's toy

Wow!

Nice

Wow. Very pretty!

Take it sleazy

I do miss seeing Longs Peak and Meeker out my window. But we don't get Chinook winds here, or blowing dust, so it's kindof a wash.

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Witherbucket

Parhelia and halos are very common! People just don't tend to look at the sky much. I *always* do, so I see lots of things like this.

To everyone pushing "AI", I wish you a very always having sand in your underwear everything tastes like rotten fish always feeling like you're chewing on aluminum foil day

Well this is grim

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StüJoHäz

We keep reeling at how green it is here. And I've lived in VA longer cumulatively than any other state!

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Katie Mack

I think those are just called dispensaries now

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man screaming quietly

So far!

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man screaming quietly

Yeah it's like 96 here and the humidity is roughly the same

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Brian Rieck

You moved *away* from the soft ice cream shop?

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Timothy Clark

Yes yes we've all seen the time Knife

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Phil Plait

Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

Physics Girl LIVE with long Covidwww.youtube.com Dianna is Live streaming a day in her life as someone suffering from long COVID and ME/CFS. The purpose of the Livestream is to raise money and awareness for...

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Marc Postman

It's truly absorbing

My wife and I left Colorado one year ago today. Seems simultaneously like both a long time ago and yesterday, but The Time Knife cuts both ways, doesn't it?

Really nice circumhorizonal arc today! Similar to a rainbow, light from the Sun is refracted by ice in citrus clouds, and the geometry forms a straight line above the horizon.

Damn autocorrect.

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Schrödinger cat's toy

That's a parhelia, or sundog!

Apropos of nothing, I love when a classical music piece slowly builds energy to a frenetic, driving motion; barely constrained chaos that sets my heart pounding and my blood nearly to a boil. Khachaturian's 3rd Symphony starts off languid but oh my, don't be fooled. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCt...

Aram Khachaturian - Symphony No. 3 in C Major 'Symphony-Poem'www.youtube.com YouTube video by invertedninthchord

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Oh daaaaaaaang

I will reposting this until everyone on the surface has seen it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-235-ro...

BAN #235: Rotten to The Corebadastronomy.beehiiv.com 13 July 2020 Issue #235