Nicholas Cross

Nicholas Cross

@wfastronomer.bsky.social

Astronomer, survey data processor. Works in the Wide Field Astronomy Unit at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. Working on WFCAM/VISTA Science Archives and ESA-Euclid. Runner.

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🌕🤝 One lunar lander, many European countries. Argonaut brings together expertise from across the continent to create a new European capability for lunar exploration 🌍.

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Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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Ukrainian defenders completely cleared the town of Lyman of the russian fascist invaders and pushed them back into the forest to the east as far as the Zherebets' River. The Ukrainians are methodically liberating the villages of Zarichne, Yampolivka, Ivanivka (Donetsk) and Novolyubivka (Luhansk).

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Replying to @ashtonpittman.bsky.social

Shoplifting doesn't warrant the death penalty. So, even if the mother was shoplifting that wouldn't justify shooting at her in the first place. So, how tf can fatally shooting a 1 y/o be "justified?!" This AG is an evil POS who just doesn't want to hold a police officer accountable! 😤😠😡🤬

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I hope most Americans are as shocked as the rest of the world is that Trump says Zelenskyy destroyed Ukraine, not Putin and Russia; that he consistently blames Ukraine and ignores Russian war crimes; and that he is trying to force Ukraine's surrender to those who would murder us.

www.maptap.gg October 17 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000 I usually get around 950, have on occasion got into the 990s, but had a set this morning where I knew where all of them were and they had identifyable features: rivers, harbours etc.

maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

I was definitely a little lucky. I wasn’t always sure if I had gone far enough along some river or too far. Some cities show up very clearly (number 3), but others aren’t so clear. Number 4 was a bit of a guess, with some logic to it and possibly a memory from years ago.

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Replying to @dailyherald.bsky.social

Something fishy at Reform? Well, of course, the fish rots from the head and the heads of Reform keep espousing views which are rotten. No wonder they attract all of the worst people in society. So, ITV, BBC and others... call them all out - from the top - instead of amplifying their rotten views.

Or at least until the research council decides that after investigating in the development for 20 years it doesn’t want to continue even with smaller running costs.

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A Reform councillor has been recorded calling for King Charles to be decapitated because he “is a Muslim”, while another one said of Asian people: “drag out of their homes, stick them on planes and **** them off to Pakistan.” It’s part of an undercover investigation by ITV Exposure

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I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

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Zelensky’s approval rating with AMERICANS is already higher than Trump’s. And my guess is the gap will become even bigger. Zelensky here speaking bravely and clearly (both factually and morally)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

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But not Putin? Who has been reducing entire Ukrainian cities to rubble and killing innocent civilians every single day for years? THAT hasn’t gone too far?

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Dear Ukraine, do not stop, accelerate. The only way to respond to bullies is to thumb your nose at them.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️️️️️️️US demands Kyiv halt refinery attacks, threatens to suspend intelligence sharing. During recent talks, the Ukrainians were told that Washington would cut off intelligence sharing that has helped Kyiv identify and strike targets inside Russia, one person present told the Kyiv Independent.

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Oh yes, sure, let's worry about Trump's midterms and not defend ourselves against russia's repeated attacks on our energy infrastructure for almost 5 years lol gtfo you orange f*ck don't you have any more casinos to bankrupt or Epstein files to hide?

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Just thinking out-loud here but, if Russia halted its illegal invasion, maybe Ukraine would stop bombing the refineries?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

Guy who harms global markets by stupidity attacking and then failing to beat Iran 10 times blames country holding out against invasion.

Kyiv Post@kyivpost.com

Donald Trump accused President Zelensky of harming global markets by striking Russian refineries. "He wants to make problems for the world, for our farmers with diesel," Trump said, demanding Ukraine halt drone strikes on Russian fuel facilities. Video: Clash Report

Because this loser never had control of anything outside of America. He is all mouth, which is a winning strategy in US politics, but fails more widely.

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❗️🇺🇦 Operation Vivaldi is even more successful than Kyiv officially reports: Ukrainian troops foiled Russia's plan to encircle Donbas, — Euronews + maps from ISW 📍Ukrainian forces foiled Russia's plan to seize the rest of the Ukrainian-controlled territory of Donetsk region this year.

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Maybe the most amazing aspect of the Russo-Ukraine War is that Russia is getting backing from both China and the USA, the two largest powers of the moment--and Ukraine could still emerge triumphant as long as Europe backs it stoutly.

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Putin has bought Trump with Russian diesel. Just before the US elections. Meanwhile, Russia keeps killing our children while they sleep at night. So Americans are now funding Russia’s war machine? I’m sorry, guys, but WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November ... "

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Donald has lifted sanctions on Russian diesel. We will use the money to help Iran. Who are fighting the USA. Donald is paying us to help kill American soldiers.

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1/26 In August 1942, an island was weeks from surrender, and everything depended on one tanker. She was torpedoed, bombed, had two aircraft crash onto her, broke her back, was abandoned twice, and arrived with her decks awash, lashed between two destroyers. The SS Ohio. A🧵 #maritimehistory

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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

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Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

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I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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Replying to @apowelllaw.bsky.social

Oh, and also, Section 1 of the Terrorism Act defines Terrorism as an action which (amongst others) "involves serious damage to property" and/or "endangers a person's life" and the action is for the purpose of advancing a political cause. Ergo, this is terrorism by definition of UK law.