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Trump Vance et al scapegoating and slandering Haitians mirrors how despots you've heard of scapegoated and slandered other minority groups. These are legal migrants who work in Ohio's factories, pay taxes, and spend money in stores. They deserve exactly none of these lies.
This one’s for you Steve
Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. tomlehrersongs.com/
And when you feel your life ain't worth living, you've got to stand up and take a look around you.
Then you look up, way to the sky. And when your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreaming boy, because when you stop dreaming it's time to die.
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Splashdown.
The @NASA_Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 12:40pm ET (17:40 UTC) as the final major milestone of the #Artemis I mission. go.nasa.gov/3Fl7kzQ
ALT NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. There are three main parachutes trailing behind the vehicle as it splashes in the ocean. The sky is blue in the background.
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I'd be fascinated to read a piece by an #autistic writer on how myths and projections around "savants" helped enable Twitter's owner, who is self-diagnosed, to conceal the fact that he's just a bumbling billionaire asshole with asshole friends and utterly banal far-right beliefs.
Wow. Look at this beautiful place.
This is a live view of the Earth from a distance of 15,000 miles away.
The @NASA_Orion spacecraft is mere hours away from arriving home. #Artemis
Really outstanding. NASA is the best in the world at what they do and it’s not even close.
Splashdown.
After traveling 1.4 million miles through space, orbiting the Moon, and collecting data that will prepare us to send astronauts on future #Artemis missions, the @NASA_Orion spacecraft is home.
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“TWITTER FILES”: The true story of that time Elon Musk bought a company, weaponized internal company documents including the names of uninvolved private citizens, then used that company’s platform to publicize and win over public support for a targeted harassment campaign.
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MUSK: libs have the woke mind virus
NYT ...
MUSK: I'm literally urging you to vote Republican
NYT ...
MUSK: *high-fives every far right account on Twitter*
NYT: ...
MUSK: I support Ron DeSantis
NYT ...
MUSK: *reinstates a slew of Nazis*
NYT: It's unclear what he stands for
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Orcas have 'best friends' 💕 They spend more time interacting with specific individuals in their pod, and tend to choose those of the same sex and age.
These mammals are also known as killer whales, but they actually belong to the dolphin family.
ALT Four orcas in the sea, swimming together
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Dozens of active-duty Black military personnel were believed to have been killed on or near U.S. bases during the World War II era because of their race, but their stories were largely papered over. Now, the Army has corrected the record for one of them. nyti.ms/3FDIE7c
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I made a video about maths in playing (and making) video games for @RhGMBC_FMSPW. Check it out here youtu.be/3TQFuoggR3Q (and look at playlist for more from @stecks @jamesgrime and @ZoeLGriffiths and more)
STOP IT
Breaking News: Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for Arizona governor, is suing Maricopa County and others in an attempt to overturn her loss. nyti.ms/3Pi6BEd
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Galaxy brain 🤯
Preliminary Webb science shows galaxies confirmed by spectroscopy to date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang. Finding and confirming early galaxies is a continuous process, and Webb is just getting started: go.nasa.gov/3uB4npV
ALT On a black background, two white, rectangular outlines are connected at one corner. Within the two outlines are hundreds of small galaxies of all colors. Thin white lines connect to four outlined inset boxes on the right. Each of these boxes contain a blurry central dot surrounded by other specks. The central dots are distant galaxies Webb has discovered that date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang. The featured galaxies are reddest in the top inset boxes and closer to orange and white in the bottom two boxes.
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Because the universe is expanding, the light from distant galaxies is stretched — or redshifted — into longer, infrared wavelengths. We can figure out galaxies’ distances by measuring how much the signatures of elements in their spectra have shifted due to this effect.
He was arrested and murdered for being a Jew
10 December 1895 | A Polish Jew, Isaak Deutscher, was born in Krakow. He emigrated to Belgium. A diamond dealer. He was arrested in France.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 29 July 1942 from Drancy.
He perished in the camp on 30 September 1942.
