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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 1h

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Winter Landscape, 1903.
Oil on Canvas.

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 4h

These two screenshots together capture a quiet but growing shift among Japan’s conservative and defense-oriented politicians: they are beginning to see Trump not as a reliable ally, but as a transactional nationalist whose “ally-bashing” rhetoric directly threatens Japan’s strategic interests.

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Dr. Julian Lozos @seismogenic.bsky.social · 3h

Looking through the Mt. Wilson webcams, and aurora Los Angeles extremely confirmed (for earlier this evening)!
(But these colors are not clearly there on the webcam now, so it might be over here, sadly.)

Screenshot from the Mt. Wilson north-facing color webcam, 8:46 PM local time. There are clouds at the top of this image and black mountains below, but in the middle, in a break in the clouds, bright red. The same shade of red as in all those other aurora pictures from tonight.

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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 10d

Daydreams by Craig Mooney.
Oil on canvas.

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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 7d

Door into Sunny Courtyard (2024) by Katharina Valeeva.
Oil on canvas.

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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 3d

Blue Interior with Vase, Paris (2025) by Kenny Harris.
Oil on canvas on ACM.

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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 3d

Lyrata (2022) by Hanie Soltani.
Gouache on cardboard.

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Brian @beerandrockets.bsky.social · 6h

Holy wow you guys - the aurora is visible in Santa Fe!

A picture of a dark treeline, with the night sky illuminated in pinks and lighter blues.

Another picture of a dark treeline, with the night sky illuminated in pinks and lighter blues.

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Oct 11

The only class of vessels in US inventory designed to take punishment are aircraft carriers.

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · 23d

KHIT paved the way for the Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) program. This program funded and demonstrated multiple light KKVs. Some of the vehicles tested and developed under this program weighed as little as 7 kg (14 lb)

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · 23d

Long time no post, today I have this rare image for you guys. This is a photo of Rockwell's Experimental Hover Vehicle for the KKV Hover Interceptor Test (KHIT). Following the start of SDI tech development in 1983, the USAF started working on future tech that would go into space-based interceptors.

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Jill @lintstorm.bsky.social · 6h

IT GOT BETTER

📍Central MN

Vibrant red and green aurora over trees in a vortex shape

Vibrant red and green aurora over trees that looks like an explosion

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 7h

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Hmm, this is significantly stronger than forecast, indeed.

This is Northern California as well. #aurora

Aurora visible strongly on a California camera

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8h

A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex

Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free

Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 11h

Dealer René Gimpel recalled Monet’s palette piled with “snowy peaks” of lead white.

Unlike earlier painters who worked from dark grounds, Monet painted outward from luminosity. One artist said: “He paints as if light itself were his medium.”

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 8h

it just keeps getting better

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16h

"the trajectory is really really really good if you look at it." 🤔

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13h

A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18h

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 12h

Free books from colleagues. 😍

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Steve Desch @deschscoveries.bsky.social · 1d

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was born with different and more ancient chemistry, has been more irradiated, and is speeding toward the Sun faster compared to Solar System comets. It's got a unique personality. But since literally Day 1 it was recognized as a comet and has only ever done comety things.

Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 2d

I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.

Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!

Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained

Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...

sites.psu.edu

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 13h

ESP_018709_1445 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/e1LXiV

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 19h

As suspected, there was clear cooperation with Iranian officials in the deportation, and a number of people persecuted on ethnic and political bases.

Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 20h

“For decades, Iranians fleeing persecution have found protection in the United States. But this fall, the Trump administration deported a planeload of people to Iran after making a deal with Tehran.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 1d

New Argentina just dropped.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says the U.S. will provide a “financial shield” as he struggles to win reelection

Meanwhile Trump President said last week “I don’t want to hear about affordability” as health care premiums explode & food/energy prices rise.

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