tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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The image captures the miraculous moment when the rays of sun hit a rare cloud called a pile cloud, and the angle and other subtle conditions are reflected in a divine rainbow color
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No western reporter would dare saying anything like this without losing their jobs and risk life time unemployment
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he premise: Trump can't possibly be racist, not if millions and millions of people support him. The premise I guess being it would be impossible for millions and millions of people to support a racist, because that would suggest that millions and millions of people are racist.
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Israel's longest running paper, Haaretz, just confirmed that Netanyahu actively blocked every hostage deal since 10/7, Netanyahu meanwhile is openly planning to annex Gaza—& the conversation is still "why won't Hamas agree to a deal?"😐
This is how genocide perpetuates. Horrific.
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Don’t say “Twitter is losing active users”,
say “dX is negative”.
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Trollfabriken är inte historia, den drivs fortfarande men såväl regering som opposition och medier har resignerat inför att SD vägrar vika ner sig. I Sverige är vi dåliga på att hantera skandaler när så sker. SD visar att det går att bita ihop och köra på. www.dn.se/sverige/sa-h...
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Galenskap är att göra samma sak gång efter gång och förvänta sig ett annat resultat. Jag har jobbat 21 år på Af så det här är inte min första rodeo.
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En el blog > Regreso de la cápsula reutilizable Shijian 19, un nuevo proyecto espacial chino con raíces históricas https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2024/10/12/regreso-de-la-capsula-reutilizable-shijian-19-un-nuevo-proyecto-espacial-chino-con-raices-historicas/
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But for the space-obsessed, raised on a largely sanitised heroic view of the Space Race (including me as a kid of the 1960s), it is entirely axiomatic that pursuing space exploration & exploration is the primary way for nations & blocs to become "winners" in our future world.
It's a weirdly distorted view of the priorities of a civilisation on the brink of self-inflicted catastrophe, but one they are never ashamed of sharing, berating others for their lack of will, imagination, & cojones.
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More widely, there is a certain religious zealotry in parts of the space community, as if it's entirely self-evident that human destiny lies in the stars & if eggs need to be broken to achieve that omelette, then so be it.
Witness some members of the space industry in Europe today berating EU leaders for allowing the continent to slip behind the US in fighting for this new frontier.
As if it's even slightly evident that this is a priority shared by the majority of the European public 🤷♂️
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It is remarkable to me the degree to which many space bubbleers, mostly sensible & rational people in my experience, are willing to separate their dreams of space exploration & colonising the planets from the reprehensible views & actions of their would-be god.
Of course, some of the cult actively support his worldview & feel that no dissociation is needed at all, but it's the cognitive dissonance of the former which somehow scares me more.
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Your 80-year old reminder of the ethical decision you make if you choose to dissociate your fantasies of space exploration & love of rockets from the politics of the people building & launching them.
Credit: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_141-1879,_Rakete_V2_nach_Start_cropped.jpg
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If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough,
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough,
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis,
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbor,
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette,
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau,
The right way to spell POTATO should be:
GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU
See also: “Ghoti”
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PG&E estimates California utility customers will pay about $7.6 billion to extend Diablo Canyon’s operations through 2030, and state and federal programs are kicking in an additional $1.2 billion
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php
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New virus uncovered in China – is this a sign tick-borne diseases are on the rise?
In addition to discovering new tick-borne diseases, we’re also seeing the distribution of established tick-borne diseases changing. There are several reasons why this is happening, among which is #ClimateChange. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
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After arrival around L2, #ESAEuclid immediately started to produce first images. Both instruments on board worked perfectly. But there were some issues: some straylight in the VIS instrument required survey replanning, sometimes solar X-rays needed to be flagged, and a fix was required for initial guiding problems of the spacecraft.
All this was quickly fixed.
More images and explanations, #Euclid52weeks: https://www.euclid-ec.org/euclid-anniversary
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Happy 10th Anniversary to this absolute legend, Wondermark #1062; The Terrible Sea Lion
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This is Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) passing by the sun while she fires off one CME after the other.
Mercury also makes an appearance on the left.
These images were taken by the LASCO C3 coronagraph on board the
ESA / NASA / SOHO spacecraft.
[EDIT: I added new images from this morning]
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Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby #TidalDisruptionEvent: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02181 -> Black Hole Destroys Star, Goes After Another, NASA Missions Find: https://chandra.si.edu/press/24_releases/press_100924.html and https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/tde/ and https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/black-hole-destroys-star-goes-after-another-nasa-missions-find
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
