Meet a giant and its buddy! This video takes you to the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, where our VLT has obtained the clearest image yet of what likely is a companion star orbiting it: Betelgeuse B. The discovery of Betelgeuse B solved a century-old mystery. 🔭 🧪 1/2
Quanto durerà l’ondata di calore? Il picco di questa nuova fase di caldo anomalo è atteso la prossima settimana, in particolare tra mercoledì e sabato, quando le temperature massime raggiungeranno diffusamente i 38-40 °C in Val Padana e nelle zone interne del centro, del sud e delle isole. 1/4
Wer auf diesem Foto „brutale Invasoren“ sieht, statt überglückliche Jugendliche, mit dem stimmt etwas ganz gewaltig nicht. Und darüber müssen wir reden. 🧵
The world’s biggest eye on the sky is taking shape 🤩 Watch a year and a half of progress unfold in this time-lapse of our ELT — now more than 75% complete! What have been the main construction milestones since 2025? 📹👇 🔭 🧪 1/2
⭕Les dispositifs de vidéosurveillance algorithmique #Flock, déployés aux #États-Unis, détectent les téléphones alentour, aspirent leurs identifiants et tracent les individus. Un militant anti-surveillance en fait la démonstration. #Tribune_Populaire
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
This is a CN rail train driving through the flames. The video is insane. But Trudeau's plans were too expensive and divisive, right? God - I loathe Carney more every day.
Jules Sherred (he/him)@geekyjules.julessherred.com · 3w agoKid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
What I’ll remember most about Herr Hitler was his love for public speaking and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward...
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 4w agoWhat I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.
Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.
VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
UEFA statement on the Balogun case
Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun
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I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
*Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition* is now in TopiCS (@cogscisociety.bsky.social). Out yesterday. So is Croatia from the World Cup. 😅 Received in 2024, accepted in 2026. Feels only fair, since the paper argues for cognition at fungal speed. cogsci.online/wp-content/u... #cogsci #philosophy
Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social
Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/
This Day in Labor History: June 23, 1855. A 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly succeeding in erasing all traces of the crime. Let's talk about the horrors of sex slavery in the antebellum South!!
Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel's violations of human rights eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/
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Now MAGAs need to come up with a split-gender lobster toilet
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2mo agoBlue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates. But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million. This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other. (📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)
today in dystopia watch: all your pokemon go scans helped train a system for killer drones
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026@scherawyss.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
Cartoon dedicating to the coming 37th anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Published with The Age Monday
Ricordiamo quello che è successo a Piazza Tiananmen il 4giugno89 37 anni fa i cingoli dei carri armati dell’Esercito popolare di Liberazione hanno calpestato le pietre di piazza Tiananmen l’Esercito che era nato per proteggere il Popolo dalle vessazioni del precedente governo rivolge le armi 👇
