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“Venezuelan interim government stands behind Maduro, says interior minister”
This could get interesting…
Https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela-latest-explosions-heard-in-capital-of-caracas-13489831?postid=10796150#l…

White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser
Stephen Miller posted an ominous, captionless threat after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday night. 
“Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant,”
read the screenshot he posted from NYC.gov titled “Family Household Types by Immigration Status”
“Over one million children, equaling 62 percent of the children in New York …

❝The state became neither “free market” nor “socialist” — it became a patronage machine run by insiders.❞
EDIT: Posted the link for the first paragraphs, but man, that article goes off the rails later on. 🧵
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/04/state-capture-corruption-democracy

Milwaukee bike community is good...
Someone posted a photo of the bike that got stolen from their garage and another person replied "I have that same bike, but in a different color, and I don't ride it anymore... you want it?"

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Hahaha, of course I did a server restart after I posted this that is taking forever to finish… 🤪

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Staatliche, gemeinnützige, soziale oder wirtschaftliche Accounts sollten sofort geschlossen werden. Sie würden sonst als Unterstützer zu werten sein.
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effec

There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!

Not sure if Denver Fowler is on Mastodon. He posted a thread on this recent paper about dinosaur reproduction over on bsky. #fossilfriday

Michael Gibson
(Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund)
just posted:
“Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.”
As if he only just thought of this now
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/1…