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Posts by Todd Austin

@apnews.com Dr @kprather.bsky.social, whom you quote in this article, writes that it’s Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social who is blocking effective resolution of the toxic air pollution about you write about. Why don’t you mention this? bsky.app/profile/kpra... apnews.com/article/tiju...

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Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

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They are not - NASA design choice

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It’s important to include that there are serious engineers who feel that this heat shield should not have been flown. It feels a bit like a Challenger moment, where officials overrule engineers.

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The local expression is

In Dusty We Trusty ✊

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The whole shtick, working with Mission Control and NASA TV. It was nerve-wracking as heck, and hugely exhilarating, so kind of like space travel, but without the cool helmets. 👨🏼‍🚀

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Live From the International Space Station, It’s Saturday Morning Physics | U-M LSA U-M College of LSA Astronaut Josh Cassada recently spoke with Saturday Morning Physics from the International Space Station. He answered questions about rockets, orbits, free-fall, and more. At times, his microphone flo...

Having comm-ed with ISS, can verify. It was video down only, for a public event. lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-eve...

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If you actually think that, then you really don’t have the slightest idea what political scientists do.

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Pepperdine isn’t exactly a bastion of liberalism…

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Could you point to one or more broadly credible sources for this figure that folks might quote? ‘“Sher12” said so’ doesn’t sound particularly convincing.

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Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence.

Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.

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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

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Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts

The “What Would Putin Do?” theory of the American presidency remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

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A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Very cool, John! Takes me back to Air & Space. 🚀

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I’ve never heard of them. Could you point us to examples on major platforms?

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The distraction I didn’t know I needed - thanks @benfeist.bsky.social !

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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DOGE Cuts Hobble Office That Would Aid NASA and SpaceX Mars Landings

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/s...

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Do you know the article’s title and/or author?

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Monday demonstrations in East Germany - Wikipedia

These really need to be weekly. Look to the example of East Germans and how they brought about change in 1989: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_...

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My survey response - if you decide to sell clothes, offer tall sizes.

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Wonderful news! I wish you and Brandon a beautiful day and a long and joyful life together. For me, joy has recently come from travel, journeys long and short, to places nearby and far away, some of them brimming with humanity and others brimming with squirrels. (The cakes sound yummy!)

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How to add alt text to images on Bluesky (and why you should) Alt text is far more important than you might think, and Bluesky makes it fairly easy for you to add it to images you post.

ALT text, please: www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

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A Kyiv school declared a week of mourning after 12-year-old student Oleksandra Polishchuk was killed in a Russian strike.

She died at home during the attack, while her mother was hospitalized in critical condition.

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Not opening links to Disney-owned @espn.com, but thanks anyway.

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Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to:
1. Quit baking; or
2. Use an inferior recipe; or
3. Import cake instead of making it

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I was just recalling Kukly today. It did not last long in Putin’s Russia.

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