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Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. He/Him.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Oct 24

Been a while since an intro & lots of new folks following. So, about me:

1. #RadioAstronomy PhD candidate studying pulsars

2. Started @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social #SciComm

3. Part of @queersinscience.bsky.social fam

4. Live in Sydney with hubby and #BalmainMax

5. Love hiking, astrophotography

A man standing on a raised ledge above a rail track. The track, leading off behind him leads to a large dish antenna radio telescope. The man is wearing a hard hat. He is at a radio telescope interferometer facility.

Man taking selfie and smiling. Perched up on his shoulder is a small white dog who is also looking directly at the camera.

Eight tile image in a 2 row by 4 column grid. In each tile there is a picture of a galaxy, either face on or edge on.

Man, standing at a signpost that indicates it is the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at 5895m above sea level.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 29m

So interesting ... I never knew any of this!

The article goes into detail about how it is not a huge risk, but something to be aware about, due to repeated exposure.

I guess importers don't go to the overseas sites of their supply chains and can't control certain parts of their product pipeline.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 30m

and yes, I am aware that the US is a big place and this is not happening or representative of all of the US, but certain pockets.

When I was there mid-year, life seemed peachy in sunny Pasadena with its lovely green lawns, whilst other parts of LA were having these disgusting raids and snatches.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 32m

The photos / videos coming out of the US are the kind of thing that would have triggered the US into invading other countries to bring 'peace, order and democracy'.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 2h

'The Rings of Chiron' sounds like the next instalment of the Tolkien series 👏👏👏

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The Australian Institute of Physics @aip.org.au · 2h

JOB: Radio Astronomy Spectrum Manager, CSIRO. Expertise in radio astronomy, radiocomms system design or radio frequency interference management? Develop software and build on research to influence how telescopes and satellites coexist.

$114-123k + 15.4% super
Apply by 31 Oct: www.aip.org.au/Jobs

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 3h

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That might not be as far-fetched as it seems ...

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Jan 11

also seen at the Farmer’s Market ….

The question we are all asking.

Why????

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4h

oh yeah, when she tried to both sides the Trans+ stuff, I was fuming.

The moment I saw her land here on BSky, I also blocked her.

There is zero need to be exposed to that stuff.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4h

I didn't realise they also have a podcast together, with episodes as late as just one month ago.

It's a *real* public choice to be standing by that man, let alone creating content with him ....

Christ.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4h

This is a good strategy. I got your back when you need it to happen!

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4h

I don't need another wrist watch, even if this one has a customised face showing the constellations on the date/time of my choice for Xmas.

Don't tell me that I do, as I don't.

Xmas is not about me, it's about others.

Others would want me to have this wristwatch.

I need this wristwatch.

Wrist watch with black leather straps and a face that shows the constellations

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 23h

Shout out to a fantastic artist!

If you happen to be on Insta, go check out Alexandra Badiu's illustrations, in particular her 'Great Scientists' series - lots of nice work here (incl. the JBB illustration below)

www.instagram.com/alexandrabad...

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 6h

Just heard about a 30-yr JPL scientist that was laid off. Had an email from them about one of our projects at 1PM. Three hours later: fired.

Again, if JPL leadership were actively trying to destroy morale, would they be handling the layoffs any differently?

Eos @eos.org · 12h

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

JPL Workforce Decimated - Eos

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., laid off 550 people, a roughly 11% reduction of its workforce.

eos.org

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

lol omg .... I once again *completely* had forgotten Eric Trump existed, until I just saw this.

Do you know how useless you have to be to be forgotten when you're a Trump 🤭

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

To commemorate the Kirk remembrance day garbage and the whole visa thing that Rubio has just come out with, please take some time to check out this excellent collection of artworks that are, erm, dedicated to Kirk.

You're welcome.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17h

We did it, folks! We ran a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest: And here are the results.

(I'll thread some of our favorite entries, but to know who won the grand prize and the two jewelry prizes from @nora.zone you're gonna have to click through.)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trans News Site Remembers Charlie Kirk With a Vengeance — Assigned

Our community remembers Charlie Kirk as the vicious, hateful, divisive, violence monger he was.

www.assignedmedia.org

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 6h

Here is GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, all smiles with the Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Peter Giunta who:

*Said ‘I love Hitler’

*Referred to blacks as ‘the watermelon people’

*Said ‘if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there.’

#NY17

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

I mean we should also be continuing to hammer how Noem is a puppy-killer and Trump is the only pet-hating president ever, too

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

Something like this but using the 2” spectra filter instead of the 1.25” and then somehow building the AD-58 adapter into the solar filter casing from Seestar (the solar filter has a lens diameter of 52mm)

Photo of a DSLR with annotated notes on a filter and adapter attached to the front of the lens

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

Maybe the bigger version of the SA-100 from RSpec (the one that goes on the DSLR lens) could be fitted into the Seestar solar filter as a bit of a hack job.

Actually, if the dimensions of the grating filter and solar filter are close, this should work for spectra!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 7h

But please, tell me again, how we need to be civil and respectful to these people.

How MAGA / Trump voters want minorities tortured and dead, but everyone has to be nice and diplomatic back to them.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 7h

The Jacarandas have started blooming — summer approaches!

A jacaranda tree with its distinct purple flowers covering the tree

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 7h

hi #PortfolioDay ✨

I’m Laci, planetary astrophysicist turned full-time artist. I love merging science + art through vibrant space paintings!

website: stellerarts.com
restocks: stellerarts.myflodesk.com/subscribe

30x30” oil painting of the Pillars of Creation. There is a partial checkerboard pattern across most of the piece, which weaves together 2 JWST images. The red orange squares are mid-infrared light. The purple blue squares add in near-infrared light bringing thousands of stars into view.

Close up of 30x15” oil painting. This section of a star-forming region looks like the skull of a dragon or Leviathan in dark brown set against a lavender background. The background fades into pink and a peachy orange moving from left to right.

24x24” oil painting of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. A vibrant circular-shaped explosion of magenta, orange, lime green, yellow, and light blue against a background of deep teal with peach stars. The painting is based on a composite image of x-ray, visible, and infrared light. At noon, 4 o clock, and 8 o clock are subtle triangles singling each type of light.

A 24x24” oil painting of the Ring Nebula. Most of the piece is a vibrant ring of complex details beginning with a blue-green center transitioning into orange, yellow, peach, then red. Outside the ring is a deep blue and black. This is the planetary nebula from JWST in near-infrared light. At 11 o clock is a small hexagon and 5 o clock has a larger hexagon. The hexagons are from another JWST image in mid-infrared light. The colors are inverted in the hexagons and the center area (now in red) has more structure at longer wavelengths.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 8h

Capital and fascism, bedfellows often and again.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of America's secret police.

Facebook Removes ICE-Tracking Group Under Pressure From Trump Regime

It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of secret police.

gizmodo.com

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 8h

Oh yeah, I don’t buy from there at all (their food / consumables is kinda gross to me tbh!) but I’m now wondering if this is applicable to some plant-based foods I eat from here — e.g., the high-protein NutriGrain Brekky cereal I have uses pea protein. So it’ll come down to their supply chains.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 8h

I get my protein supplements from a local producer, and I think our FDA is a bit more scrutinising that that of the US …. But am sure the folks I use source their supplies (like pea protein) from overseas markets too, so it might be an issue here as well.

This part is also important.

There’s no reason to panic if you’ve been using any of the products we tested, or if you take protein supplements generally. Many of these powders are fine to have occasionally, and even those with the highest lead levels are far below the concentration needed to cause immediate harm. That said, because most people don’t actually need protein supplements—nutrition experts say the average American already gets plenty—it makes sense to ask whether these products are worth the added exposure.

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