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grb090423

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Interests: cosmology, astronomy, the sciences in general, wildlife.
Rusty polyglot. Slowly learning Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).
I informally tweet ESA news when I can.
GRB090423 was the furthest Gamma Ray Burst known to us back when I started on social media.
Both avatar and header images were taken by me.
I rarely boost images that don't have Alt Text.
I boost The Vagina Museum posts; please don't be offended... it's good to learn.
I always check your TL - If no posts, I don't follow back.

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grb090423, to Portugal
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This opened my eyes to much of what happened during the revolution in Portugal back in 1974 (my older relatives could not bring themselves to speak about it), and to what's going on there now.

Silva and Ventura are two brave people 💕

A very good read.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/4/no-turning-back-50-years-carnation-revolution

grb090423,
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@ricardojmv

Absolutely! 💪💪💪

futurebird, to random
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Loves to be talked to.
Can't understand words.
Absurdly warm and soft at all times just to burn up cat food.
Desperate and clingy. But also disdainful and superior.
Small but impossibly heavy to pick up. Can pin a grown man to the couch for literal days. But still a "baby"

Imperial ruler, scared of the hallway.

Eats small insects like its a normal thing to do.

Wants so very badly: the world must know. But what is it she wants? She doesn't know.

Cats are so deeply intractably weird.

grb090423,
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@futurebird

...and wonderful.

Minimus, to random
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fabula murina (mouse story) CXLV
Minimus, Minima et Silvius diēs Bellorum Stellarum celebrant (Minimus, Minima and Silvius celebrate Star Wars day).
vis tecum sit! (May the Force be with you!)


grb090423,
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@Minimus

This is brilliant!

Possibly the best May The Fourth post I've seen yet 👏😄👍

(don't ask me to put that in Latin!)

kai_ash, to Starwars Scottish Gaelic
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Darth Bhàdair: "Is mise d' athair-sa."
Lùc: "Chan e. Chan e. Chan eil sin fìor. Chan fhaodadh sin a bhith!"

(A bheil fios aig duine sam bi cò às a tha an dealbh seo?)

grb090423,
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@kai_ash

Chan eil fios agam.

VanessaK, to random
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Happy Chaos with Ed Miliband Day. 😪

grb090423,
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@VanessaK

Just think, we'd probably still be in the EU if we'd got him as PM...

in my dreams

EU_Commission, to random
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📅 On the agenda today → .

👋 Come visit our headquarters at Berlaymont in Brussels!

Explore our villages and find out how Europe is striving to become more resilient, fairer, safer and stronger.

Not in Brussels? There are events taking place across the European Union. Join one close to you!

Ahead of , this is the moment to celebrate our 🇪🇺 Union together!

Explore our website to discover events across the EU: https://europa.eu/!3yR6hX

A photo of a person dancing in front of Berlaymont.
A photo of a boy in front of a mic and two people standing behind him.
A photo of two girls standing in front of an Erasmus+ memories wall where people have shared what this programme means to them.

grb090423,
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@EU_Commission

Can we come back yet (UK)? Ignore what the idiots in government say, they don't represent the majority of our country.

tantramar, (edited ) to animals
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The cat, at the back door, demanding to be let inside first thing in the morning.

I don’t have a cat.

grb090423,
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@tantramar

Ohhh, I bet that was a good ol' stretch.

grb090423, to environment
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Seven ways ESA has cut its environmental footprint.
#ESA #environment

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Seven_ways_ESA_has_cut_its_environmental_footprint

selzero, to random
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One of my birthday presents is "The Rap Yearbook" a hilarious walk through the history of rap music by Shea Serrano.

A section about NWA is in the alt text.

grb090423,
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@selzero

Happy birthday! ✨✨✨🤗✨✨✨

grb090423, to random
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Ariane 6 launches: Exolaunch’s EXOpod Nova.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_Exolaunch_s_EXOpod_Nova

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 31: During at sit-in at Sciences Po in Paris, students chant "We are all students for Gaza"

grb090423,
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@fkamiah17

Interestingly, I am watching the Chinese Chang'e 6 launch on CGTN live tv channel just now and there is a rolling news thread along the bottom and it mentioned France's Science Po uni closes over Gaza protests. It also mentions a lot of other news on Gaza (like Turkiye halting a trade deal with Israel over Gaza).

grb090423, to random
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Watching the Chinese Chang-e 6 Journey To The Moon launch is just amazing!

grb090423,
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@enigma

Yes. I thought there had been other landings but, off the top of my head, I couldn't recall which nations.

This one will be different though in that it will return to Earth with lunar regolith samples 🤞

An interesting mission for sure and with a scientific payload from France, Italy, Sweden and Pakistan, it warrants the hashtag

grb090423,
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@enigma

Yes, definitely 👍

grb090423,
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@enigma

Good question. I really don't know.

I get the impression some (both national space agencies and private) are planning on using the Moon as experimentation for Mars missions... assuming they can successfully land softly and precisely on the Moon first!

junesim63, to politics
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".there’s nothing fair about a system in which a few people, whether born here or not, can buy political influence. In my view, the only equitable system is one in which everyone can pay the same small fixed fee for membership of a political party, and no further private funding can be taken. Otherwise, democracy gives way to plutocracy."

George Monbiot on the shady unincorporated associations subverting democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/cure-democracy-ban-donors-british-foreign-politics-membership-fees

grb090423,
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@junesim63

It makes sense.

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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I wondered if Ralph was short for anything but it's apparently a standalone name. It derives from the Old English Rædwulf and Old High German Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse Raðulfr (rað "counsel" and ulfr "wolf").

I do like the Old Norse names.

grb090423,
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@enigma

Oh! I like that 😄😁👍

MelanieGywer, to random German
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Moin zusammen!

grb090423,
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@MelanieGywer

Moin! ☕☕👍

AnarchistArt, to random
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grb090423,
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@JoCzechowska @AnarchistArt

Lol. I hadn't noticed that.

elizabethtasker, to vr
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A quick box model this morning in ! Anyone recognise the shape?

It needs to be as low poly as possible (for ), and the circles do look a bit blocky. I was thinking of creating a high resolution version, baking the normals, and using these for the blocky version.

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker

Lol, a wide variety of other thoughts but JWST was the first thing in my mind.

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker @futuremeetings

Yes. Not a chance 😂😄

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker @futuremeetings

Yes indeed! 😁👍

anandamide, to random
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omg

grb090423,
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@anandamide

@qotca should see this.

sundogplanets, to random
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No new baby goats this morning (just the 4 from the last few days). The mama who's been gigantic for the last month is due today, so hopefully she'll have lots of healthy babies! I predict 4 (and I predict she'll have them at the most obnoxious time...I have lots of meetings today, but I have even more meetings tomorrow that are way less flexible, so today would be great!)

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

Goodness! Well done all round! 👏👏👏 Fantastic news 🤗💕

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