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NASA’s EMIT Will Explore Diverse Science Questions on Extended Mission nasa.gov/missions/emit/nasas-e… #NASA #EMITEarthSurfaceMineralDustSourceInvestigation #Earth #EarthScience #EarthScienceDivision #JetPropulsionLaboratory

NASA’s EMIT Will Explore Diverse Science Questions on Extended Mission - NASA

The imaging spectrometer measures the colors of light reflected from Earth’s surface to study fields such as agriculture, hydrology, and climate science.
Anthony Greicius (NASA)
#NASA #earthscience #earth #jetpropulsionlaboratory #earthsciencedivision #emitearthsurfacemineraldustsourceinvestigation

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The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: Fall 2024 science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #EarthScience

The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: Fall 2024 - NASA Science

On September 18, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from the GOES-19 satellite, its newest geostationary satellite launched on June 25, 2024 onboard a Falcon Heavy rocket…
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#NASA #earthscience

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Federation: Collaborate without compromise! 🌏

Nextcloud Hub 9 introduces federated video calls, enabling meetings across Nextcloud instances while keeping your data private.

Let's champion decentralization & interoperability together! 🦾

#Nextcloud #Federation

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Federation: a foundational concept for digital sovereignty? - Nextcloud

Learn how federation features in self-hosted apps work and how federation can help businesses and governments achieve digital sovereignty.
Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
#federation #Nextcloud
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

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: "Let's champion decentralization & interoperability together! 🦾" and "without compromise!"

Makes all videos in the blogpost only available via a centralized, non-interoperable surveillance platform.

#Nextcloud #Privacy #Youtube

#YouTube #privacy #Nextcloud

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Summary of Aura 20th Anniversary Event science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #EarthScience

Summary of Aura 20th Anniversary Event - NASA Science

Snippets from The Earth Observer’s Editor’s Corner The last of NASA’s three EOS Flagships – Aura – marked 20 years in orbit on July 15, 2024, with a celebration on September 18, 2024, at the Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Recreational Center.
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#NASA #earthscience

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The latest from Prime Gaming - November 14 edition - lots for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/the-…

#PrimeGaming #Gaming #PCGaming


The latest from Prime Gaming - November 14 edition - lots for Steam Deck / Linux

Here we go again! Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #pcgaming #PrimeGaming

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The article "Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal" was updated, with a statement from Epic Games to confirm it's totally fine gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/clas…

#UnrealTournament #Gaming #PCGaming #EpicGames


Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal

Epic Games announced back at the end of 2022 that they were pulling a whole bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament and Unreal from stores, along with turning off servers, but now it's a bit easier to get them running again.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #EpicGames #pcgaming #unrealtournament

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Minimalismo técnico y ecolobits.
A más localidad, más autonomía, más privacidad y más ecolobits.

#ComunalidadDigital

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Minimalismo técnico y ecolobits

Uno de los criterios comunicativos de Komunikilo hace referencia a la voluntad de minimizar el impacto ambiental de las tecnologías digit...
Komunikilo
#comunalidaddigital

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Temtem: Swarm is a survivor-like bullet heaven with cute creatures to evolve out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/temt…

#TemtemSwarm #Linux #SteamDeck


Temtem: Swarm is a survivor-like bullet heaven with cute creatures to evolve out now

Available now in Early Access, survivor-like bullet heaven Temtem: Swarm is another game entering the crowded but popular genre from developer Crema.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck #temtemswarm
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@Ray_Of_Sunlight it’s the reverse, so you’re the one spamming attacks / bullets against waves of enemies, think like Vampire Survivors
@Ray Of Sunlight
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Gosh, Vampire Survovors This, Vampire Survivors that, i don't even play the game and i'm getting sick of it

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This paper by @ntnsndr looks interesting! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics

This paper outlines a theory of amnesia in the face of innovation: when apparent technological innovations occasion the disregard of preexisting cultural, legal, and infrastructural norms.
firstmonday.org
@Nathan Schneider

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"The Dark Wolf Nebula."

ESO/VPHAS+ team, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#nebula

"The Dark Wolf Nebula." ESO/VPHAS+ team, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
#nebula

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NASA Stennis Secures Grant for Clean Energy Project nasa.gov/news-release/stennis-… #NASA #StennisSpaceCenter

NASA Stennis Secures Grant for Clean Energy Project - NASA

The AFFECT Program awards grants to help the federal government achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by all federal buildings by 2045. More
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#NASA #stennisspacecenter

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I've been thinking back to a couple pieces I wrote last time Trump came to town—reminders that Trumpism is part of broader American pathologies.

The cult of the presidency: americamagazine.org/politics-s…

Inequality is an American strategy: americamagazine.org/politics-s…


How to survive Trump: End the cult of the presidency

The presidency has become a cult to which we are expected to constantly direct our attention; the result is a disenchantment with democracy.
America Magazine

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Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA Telescopes nasa.gov/missions/chandra/astr… #NASA #ChandraXRayObservatory #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #TheUniverse

Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA Telescopes - NASA

A rapidly feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy in the early universe, shown in this artist’s concept, may hold important clues to the evolution
Lee Mohon (NASA)
#NASA #astrophysics #goddardspaceflightcenter #theuniverse #jameswebbspacetelescopejwst #marshallspaceflightcenter #blackholes #chandraxrayobservatory #marshallastrophysics

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NASA Seeks Options for Future Headquarters Building nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #NASAHeadquarters #NASACentersFacilities

NASA Seeks Options for Future Headquarters Building - NASA

As the agency continues to explore for the benefit of all, NASA is in the process of searching for a new headquarters facility in Washington or the immediate
Roxana Bardan (NASA)
#NASA #nasacentersfacilities #nasaheadquarters

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Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/mine…

#VoxeLibre #Gaming #Linux #Minecraft #FOSS


Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads

Originally called MineClone2, VoxeLibre is a free and open source sandbox game that's inspired by Minecraft and it recently hit a big milestone.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #foss #gaming #Minecraft #voxelibre

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Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission Complete, Delivered to Goddard nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-… #NASA #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #Exoplanets #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #TheUniverse

Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission Complete, Delivered to Goddard - NASA

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major
Ashley Balzer (NASA)
#NASA #goddardspaceflightcenter #theuniverse #exoplanets #nancygraceromanspacetelescope

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NASA’s Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy’s Scrape with Milky Way science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #HubbleSpaceTelescope #IrregularGalaxies #SpiralGalaxies #TheMilkyWay

NASA's Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy's Scrape with Milky Way - NASA Science

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky Way galaxy’s nearest neighbors.
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#NASA #astrophysics #astrophysicsdivision #hubblespacetelescope #galaxies #spiralgalaxies #themilkyway #irregulargalaxies

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This cat's name is Peaches and she likes to sit on the office chair and pretend she's the boss (she and her brother really are the boss but we don't tell them🤫 )
#CatsOfMastodon
A white and orange cat, lounging on a mesh office chair, looking very cute an innocent, but with a hint of cat authority. She means business.
#CatsOfMastodon

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Where do jets go when they no longer fly? What happens to shipping containers when they aren’t useful anymore for cargo? The answer is invisible to most of us, but for Cássio Vasconcellos, abandoned trains, planes, and automobiles are far from forgotten.

Photographing and stitching together composites, Vasconcellos condenses details of urban infrastructure like highways and parking lots into sprawling, all-over compositions.

#photography

a very detailed digitally created aerial composite image of numerous shipping containers
a digitally created aerial composite image of numerous disused military airplanes, tanks, and other vehicles
#Photography

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Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/clas…

#UnrealTournament #FPS #Gaming


Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal

Epic Games announced back at the end of 2022 that they were pulling a whole bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament and Unreal from stores, along with turning off servers, but now it's a bit easier to get them running again.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #fps #unrealtournament
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

keen456 keen456
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Awesome! Would love to finally finish Unreal Gold on Linux box- never quite figured out how to get it properly patched and running again.

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Old School Rally gets split-screen support, new stages and a new car gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/old-…

#Gaming #SteamDeck #Linux


Old School Rally gets split-screen support, new stages and a new car

Old School Rally is properly awesome. Bringing back some fond memories for me of playing Colin McRae Rally on the original PlayStation and now it just got a whole lot better.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #SteamDeck

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Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/godo…

#GodotEngine #Godot #GameDev


Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing

An exciting new feature for game developers has begun to land in the free and open source Godot Engine, with the start of interactive in-game editing.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gamedev #godotengine #godot
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If I understood that correctly it will add something like the Unity debugging utility. This is awesome, sometimes seeing the state of the game and beeing able to debug the code in parallel is really helpful
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Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest a remake of the original classic is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/litt…

#LittleBigAdventure #Gaming #PCGaming


Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest a remake of the original classic is out now

Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest from [2.21] and Microids is out now. It's a remake of the original classic with a graphical makeover and modernized gameplay.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #pcgaming #littlebigadventure
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Looks cool but I've just noticed a worrying trend.

One of my browser plugins highlights when a game is excluded from the Family Sharing service and this is the 4th I've seen in the last day or so. It used to be the odd AAA release but now it's a bunch of smaller indie games.

As a Dad with 2 kids starting to get into regular gaming the new version of the family sharing on Steam has been wonderful but it will be seriously kneecapped if Devs are seeing it as a bad thing for them

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Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/trai…

#CS2 #FPS #Linux #PCGaming


Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update

Train! It's back! A fan favourite map returns that was annoyingly missing from the release of Counter-Strike 2. But it's now back and looking better than ever in the latest update to Valve's FPS.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #fps #pcgaming #cs2

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literally who hurt genomics to make you all encode one specific kind of number as the ASCII characters from ! to ~ as an integer input to some logarithm function, but then others of you changed the function but kept encoding it as a single ASCII character ranging from -5 to 62 (???), and then later they decided that -5 to 62 was silly and so they changed that to 0-62 and throwing away half the original range for no reason, except actually it's 0-40 by convention.

did anyone consider "encoding it as a number"

doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137

#DataStandards #FileFormats #Genomics

PHRED SCORES AND THE QUAL FORMAT The PHRED software reads DNA sequencing trace files, calls bases and assigns a quality value to each base called (9,10). This introduced the PHRED quality score of a base call, defined in terms of the estimated probability of error: Q_{PHRED} = -10 * log10(P_e)
ANGER FASTQ FORMAT The FASTQ format was invented at the turn of the century at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute by Jim Mullikin, gradually disseminated, but never formally documented (Antony V. Cox, Sanger Institute, personal communication 2009). The closest thing to an official description from Sanger can be found on the MAQ/BWA website (13,14), but even this is incomplete. Full details of the file format, describing the read title, sequence and quality scores are given later. Here, we concentrate on how the quality scores were encoded into a simple string. Early FASTQ files were used for Sanger capillary sequencing, and it was natural to use PHRED quality scores (described above). Storing PHRED scores as single characters (or bytes) gave a simple but reasonably space efficient encoding. In order that the file be human readable and easily edited, this restricted the choices to the ASCII printable characters 32–126 (decimal), and since ASCII 32 is the space character, Sanger FASTQ files use ASCII 33–126 to encode PHRED qualities from 0 to 93 (i.e. PHRED scores with an ASCII offset of 33).
An important consequence of these equations is for high values the two scores are asymptotically equal, and after rounding to the nearest integer scores of ⋛10 are interchangeable (Figure 1). However, Solexa scores go down to −5 (approximating a random read error probability of 0.75). The Sanger offset of 33 can, therefore, no longer be used. Rather, an offset of 64 was chosen, meaning ASCII 59 to 126 can be used, allowing Solexa scores from −5 to 62 inclusive.
ILLUMINA 1.3+ FASTQ FORMAT Although Illumina initially continued to use the Solexa FASTQ variant, from Genome Analyzer Pipeline version 1.3 onwards (16), PHRED quality scores rather than Solexa scores were used. However, rather than adopt the original Sanger format, Illumina introduced a third incompatible FASTQ variant designed to be interchangeable with their earlier ‘Solexa FASTQ’ files for good quality reads. The Illumina 1.3+ FASTQ variant encodes PHRED scores with an ASCII offset of 64, and so can hold PHRED scores from 0 to 62 (ASCII 64–126), although currently raw Illumina data quality scores are only expected in the range 0–40. The OBF projects refer to this variant as the Illumina 1.3+ FASTQ format, under the format name ‘fastq-illumina’ (Table 1).
#genomics #datastandards #fileformats
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There's no memory advantage to encoding it as a character vs a number, is there?
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Eli Roberson (he/him)
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@grvsmth filesize advantage. Quality as a number would require minimum two characters (single digit plus delimiter) and maximum of 3 characters (two numbers plus delimiter). Fixed width 0 led would still require two characters. ASCII coding makes it one character per quality score. Minimizes cold file sizes.

Now the multiple FASTQ quality ASCII coding specs are an artifact of Illumina choices. Sanger phred scale should have been the standard all along.

@Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

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Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/mesa…

#Linux #Mesa #OpenSource


Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected

The latest update for the open source graphics drivers is here with Mesa 24.2.7 out now. Plus we might see Mesa 24.3 a bit sooner than expected.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux #mesa

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GOG are doubling down on game preservation, and making it easier to see which games run well on modern PCs | Rock Paper Shotgun

GOG harkening back to "Good Old Games".
It's a great way to differentiate themselves on top of "no DRM".

Maybe someday someone will be able to get some lawyer to find the paperwork for who owns "No One Lives Forever" so it can be updated and preserved.
None of my current laptops even have a CD-ROM drive to read my disks and the hacks to get them running still leave them at an ancient, tiny resolution.


GOG are doubling down on game preservation, and making it easier to see which games run well on modern PCs

GOG have announced the GOG Preservation Program, restoring and relaunching over 100 classic games to run smoothly on modern hardware.
James Archer (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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@jerry @Gargron Honestly, how am I supposed to expand this collapsed post without activating the link to another website?

(This is using /deck mode)

I was curious to see the post, but I don't open random links like this. This seems like a security issue.

@Tropical Storm Jerry🌀 @Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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infosec.exchange is running a fork of Mastodon with design and UI modifications. I am not responsible for this. Posts do not collapse like this in upstream.

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#BBCNews - World’s largest coral found in the Pacific
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World’s largest coral found in the Pacific near Solomon Islands

The coral could be 500 years old and is bigger than a blue whale, scientists say.
Georgina Rannard (BBC News)
#bbcnews

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IC 348 and Barnard 3 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241114.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2024 November 14 - IC 348 and Barnard 3

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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Hey! Here is my painting "Tux & Sprinkles: blue (fairy) penguins" You can see it at the Eltham Library as part of the DiversArty exhibition for the next couple of weeks!

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I took my kitty to the vet today. We officially adopted her and found out she’s a boy, so Isabel has become Is-a-boy lol

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets

A fluffy cat with blue eyes stands on a stone surface, surrounded by greenery. The cat has a white and light brown fur pattern.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets
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I had no idea that my favorite French glassware is made by a cooperative. theconversation.com/la-coopera…

La coopérative : une solution contre les faillites d’entreprise ?

Le modèle de la coopérative semble à nouveau avoir le vent en poupe, notamment depuis la transformation de Duralex et son rachat par les employés.
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[new draft post] What does it mean to have no kings? drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/…

What does it mean to have no kings?

drafts @ interfluidity
drafts.interfluidity.com
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Steve Randy Waldman
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@ntnsndr @Hyolobrika on face, that seems like a reasonable hypothesis! maybe in the open source world, we grew too comfortable with “benevolent dictator for life”. and obviously, surveillant commercial platforms.
@Nathan Schneider @Hyolobrika (left)
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Nathan Schneider
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@Hyolobrika And then, before long, the former president becomes a sysadmin and, by teaming up with another sysadmin, becomes president again.
@Hyolobrika (left)

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dog on horse
YeeHAW little doggy!

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"I take ALL of the sunny spot!"
in reply to Muse

Jodi K
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Lucky for the dog there's no cat nearby.

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Our new website is live! Take a look here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/

I've set up a whole lot of redirects so noone should get lost trying to find their favourite story.

A huge thank you to our wonderful subscribers who have made this possible 💖🎉🙌🏻

If you would like to support Inner Worlds you can now subscribe via our shiny new website from just £2 per month

#SFF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #LitMag #ShortStories #ShortFiction


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Speculative stories about our inner lives
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NASA Administrator to Visit, Sign Agreement with Peru’s Space Agency nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-adm… #NASA #OfficeOfInternationalAndInteragencyRelationsOIIR #BillNelson

NASA Administrator to Visit, Sign Agreement with Peru’s Space Agency - NASA

Continuing his engagement to deepen international collaboration and promote the peaceful use of space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to Lima on
NASA
#NASA #BillNelson #officeofinternationalandinteragencyrelationsoiir

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The Guardian is no longer posting on X due to "the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism."

theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…


Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
The Guardian

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A Caribbean Spacewalk nasa.gov/image-article/a-carib… #NASA #CarlEWalz #FormerAstronauts #JamesHNewman #SpaceShuttle

A Caribbean Spacewalk - NASA

In this photo taken on Sept. 16, 1993, NASA astronauts James H. Newman (left), and Carl E. Walz evaluate procedures and gear for an upcoming Hubble Space
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#NASA #spaceshuttle #formerastronauts #carlewalz #jameshnewman

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