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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 22h

This is genuinely cool👏

City and County of San Francisco @sfgov.sf.gov · 22h

San Franciscans with an EBT or Medi-Cal card can enjoy the city’s cultural treasures through the SF Museums for All program.

Get free or discounted admission to over 20 museums. Each cardholder can receive up to 4 tickets per visit, perfect for families and friends.

🎟️ More at: sfhsa.org/museums

Person viewing art in a museum, with overlay text “How to get 4 free or discounted museum tickets for every visit.”

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 1d

Big main character energy here from Gemini South. Sure, the telescope conducts world-class research and captures jaw-dropping images with its 8.1‑meter mirror… but honestly, it knows it’s photogenic too. #astronomy

📷: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Kwon O Chul

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Coffee The Husky @coffeethehusky.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning Blusky!

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 1d

I'll decline all Teams invitations today just to be safe😄

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☾Penelope Pitstop✯ @isispendragon.bsky.social · 1d

Frankie #cat

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago someone wrote that Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons while the US should because Iran couldn't be trusted to not use them to threaten other countries over, say, fishing rights.

Now tariffs and visas aren't nukes, but........
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump threatens vulnerable countries before key shipping emissions vote

American officials have threatened supporters of measure to reduce emissions with tariffs and other retaliatory action

www.theguardian.com

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 2d

Visit our website and send feedback! #astronomy

US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 2d

Want to know more about us? The US NGO is part of the NSF NOIRLab. Our main goal is to support US Gemini users in the phases of the astronomical observing cycle, from proposal preparation to data analysis. More info about us and what we do 👉 noirlab.edu/science/prog...

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 1d

On the way home I stopped at the Polish grocery, and bought a kebab from a Pakistani restaurant.

This post has been brought to you by immigration.

A large pack of egg noodles next to a bag of kielbasa and another of white pudding.

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 2d

👣🌾 Landscapes aren’t just made by humans.

They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet.

Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds.

www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

Multispecies Landscapes Lab - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History

How have humans historically cultivated practices of co-existence with other species? How have these interactions shaped the landscapes where humans have built, worked, lived, migrated, and wandered?

www.hf.uio.no

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 2d

I'd say more but I have to go. I think I see a mountain lion.

Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 2d

Say what you will about the movie 'Birdemic', but it's the reason I know about Half Moon Bay and its annual pumpkin festivities.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 2d

Brandon Dawson of Santa Rosa won the 2025 Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off with a 2,346-pound pumpkin.

🎥: Jessica Christian

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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 2d

First plane of the 2025-2026 Austral summer season landed at #southpole today! Pic by SPT winterover Sim Bash. This flight is an KBA flight Bassler plane, which is just transiting through @NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole, on its way to an Italian base. #Antarctica @UChicago

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UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab @cssl.bsky.social · 3d

10/13/25 9:30am Update:

Not enough #snow for a measurement this morning because we only measure accumulation greater than 0.5 cm (0.2"). Something tells us we'll have enough within the next 24 hours though...

#CAwx #CAwater

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 3d

Outside my childhood house was a small piece of land that my parents wanted to keep things off of so they filled it with Century Plants. Nothing ever went there and nobody messed with those plants.
Downside is that when one dies, getting it out is a royal pain.

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☾Penelope Pitstop✯ @isispendragon.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday❣️

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 4d

It should be obvious by now that what people really want is a new Automan.

Automan, with a rendered glowing blue suit and non-rendered head stands next to a black car with blue highlights.

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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 5d

Benji is Halloween ready 👻

A cat walks through the dark, lit from below by a green light while his shadow is cast on a wall where a skeleton cut-out is hanging.

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✨Starlight @starlightexpress42.bsky.social · 6d

Joy.
I never stopped loving Big Wheels.
The name and style has changed.
We're still the same.
Rolling and drifting.😍
Pedaling hard. 😆

Razor safety green drift trike. It's MINE!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 6d

Rolling into the weekend like a space shuttle wheel in a roll-on-rim test.

A scorched wheel with pieces of tire still attached.

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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 6d

What would you do with a pound of scotch bonnets?

An oval-shaped bowl is filled with small yellow scotch bonnet peppers illuminated by sunlight

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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 6d

Picture of the #sunrise behind SPT and @BICEP_Keck in the Dark Sector from a few weeks ago by SPT winterover Sim Bash #southpole #Antarctica @NSF @doescience

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 6d

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: In this long-exposure photo of Gemini North (½ of the International Gemini Observatory), the streaks of light to the left are satellites crossing the sky, identifiable by the breaks in the star trails. #astronomy

Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

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Master Ninja Theme Song @mscninjutsu.bsky.social · 7d

It's what it should have been😄

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · 8d

Golden hour hits different above 2600 meters. ✨🌅

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory basks in that sunset ✨glow✨ at its site on Cerro Pachón. And with over 300 clear nights on average per year here, that's a lot of sunset basking we get to do! 🔭🧪

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome reflecting orange and golden sunset light atop its rocky mountain site.

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome atop its rocky mountain site, with the golden glow of sunset over the rolling peaks in the distance.

Large boot-shaped observatory on a rocky mountain peak during a vibrant sunset with layered mountain ranges in the background.

Drone shot of a massive teal telescope within an observatory's dome with a vertical opening, surrounded by winding mountain roads and dry terrain.

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