@Slartybartfast

Artistic uber-geek with a passion for astronomy. @ NVIDIA. Opinions my own. @slartyb.bsky.social

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Joined September 2008
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OK. I'm done. No more engagement. No more monetising from me. I'm off. You can find me at slartyb.bsky.social
Kosher
@koshercockney12 Jan 2025
Seriously? @elonmusk @Support @x
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364 MPs voted against holding another 10 year inquiry, into something that already had an inquiry into it, which released its results 4 years ago and was completely ignored, by the people who are currently calling for another inquiry.
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Michael Szach@michxlai7 Jan 2025
Nvidia just released free AI courses. No payment needed. Here are 9 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:
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Lovelly 📡 and pretty accurate! 🪐
Tate Liverpool@tateliverpool6 Jan 2025
👔 As we head back to school, we're reflecting on how art & science can mix. This drawing is part of a series by Franciszka Themerson that shows human interactions with machinery, including an electricity generator & a still for distilling spirits. bit.ly/4ix0FFK
An illustration of multiple people interacting around complex machinery and a large, geometrical structure resembling a radar or satellite dish in the background.

ALT An illustration of multiple people interacting around complex machinery and a large, geometrical structure resembling a radar or satellite dish in the background.

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To close out 2024: Vaccines save millions of lives every year. Raw milk still isn’t safe. Podcasts aren’t fact-checked. Seed oils don’t cause cancer. Everything is chemicals. The dose makes the poison. Using the word “toxic” without context is a red flag of pseudoscience. 1/
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#HappyNewYear2025 from the crew at Jodrell Bank! We look forward to seeing you in 2025 🎆 📡 We’re closed on New Year’s Day, but will be ready to welcome you from 10am on 2nd January 2025!
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POV LIVE DORM JUNGLE BEATS
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Computer graphics community must be so weird to outsiders. Everybody is just posting literally the same image of the same scene, and everyone else is congratulating them
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NASA Ames
@NASAAmes23 Dec 2024
You’ve heard of the seven dwarfs, but how about the Seven Sisters? 🌟 The Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades star cluster, is among the most recognizable in the sky.
This image from the Spitzer space telescope captures Alcyone, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, Celaeno, Asterope as they shine brightly through the cloud of dust that sweeps around them. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech

ALT This image from the Spitzer space telescope captures Alcyone, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, Celaeno, Asterope as they shine brightly through the cloud of dust that sweeps around them. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech

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To wish you all a happy Christmas here's my photo of the #ChristmasTreeCluster + #ConeNebula. Thanks for all of the likes/comments/RTs, for listening to the #StarDiary podcast & for the amazing support since the release of the Collin's Stargazer's Bible. I'll be back in 2025 :)
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Mick West
@MickWest18 Dec 2024
After my clip on CNN, a reporter uses ADS-B exchange to identify everything he sees in the sky. What's left is stars and Jupiter, which he also correctly identifies. Things are looking up!
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It's a strange job, but look at that stability!
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Neil Stone
@DrNeilStone16 Dec 2024
Surely we can all agree that a safe vaccine to prevent a nasty cancer is a..good thing? Right??
Neil Stone
@DrNeilStone14 Dec 2024
Cervical cancer could disappear from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Because of one thing and one thing alone VACCINES WOW!
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Here’s how a social contagion works: media stories report on “mysterious drones” in the sky. Millions of neophytes go outside at night and for the first time notice all the planes, helicopters, Venus, Jupiter, StarLink and other satellites, etc, report their sightings that leads to more media coverage, then copycat drone operators send up their commercial drones to try to film the “drones” and then those get reported, then the government/military sends up some drones to investigate and those are reported, and so on.
Michael Shermer
@michaelshermer17 Dec 2024
For example, 8pm PT Monday night here is the moon and Jupiter (celestial phone app, iPhone pic moon and Jupiter, just Jupiter.
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For clarity, that’s neither a UFO nor a drone.
Don Pettit
@astro_Pettit17 Dec 2024
Dragon cargo number 31 undocked yesterday and returned to planet Earth carrying the spoils from our research.
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The obesity rate in Japan is 3.6%. The obesity rate in the US is 32%. You can stop pretending that the variance in average age of mortality between Japan and the US has anything to do with Florida or vaccines. Maybe take a look at high fructose corn syrup.
Calley Means
@calleymeans15 Dec 2024
Japan does not fluoridate their water. Japan does not give the Hep B vaccine to babies on the first day of life. The Japanese live 10 YEARS longer than Americans. It is not anti-science to assess and update American public health policies. It is a scientific imperative.
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I've driven 12k miles this year and it's costs me around £422 in charging costs. Only 45% of charging was done at home Intelligent Go - 7.5p per kWh. 19% was at 52p per kWh. 36% was free thanks to SC miles. That's saving of around £1457 compared to fueling a petrol car.
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Replying to @RealCynicalFox
Are there unregistered drones flying around? Yes. Are most of them just civilians not being responsible? Yes. Are some of them nefarious in purpose? Yes. In fact we recently arrested a Chinese spy who was flying one over sensitive sites in the west. Can really bad thing be done with unregistered drones? Yes. Are there thousands of them buzzing around a single state every night? No. Calm the fuck down and stop engagement farming.
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