David Attenborough Happy 100th! What a fabulous career! So many shared adventures #LifeOnEarth50yearsago #PlanetEarth3 #Stewardship vs #exploitation #Nature #WildlifeHabitat vs #Anthropocene #biopic #envhist #documentary #maythe4th

"It could be said that we failed -- due to geopolitical obstacles to a science-based roadmap -- but the window has not yet closed." ~Irene Vélez Torres, Colombia’s Minister of the Environment interview with Kumi Naidoo #DeclineofNature #envhist #environmentalmovement #decarbonization #SundaySermon

story you may have missed: Visiting head of state in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains & Appalachian Highlands. #NationalParkPassport #SupportOurNationalParks #Nature #PublicLands #envhist crossposting from TheOther98Percent @others98.bsky.social

One of the most egregious sources of pollution, with most ship engines fuelled by #bunkerfuel the dregs of the oil refining process, heavy and carbon-intensive diesel too filthy for any other purpose. Shipping produces about 3% of global greenhouse gases. #Seaspiracy #FossilFuelIndustries

Shelf mushrooms up close, for the theme 'Naturnah' (e.g. 'Ein naturnaher Garten', An unspoilt, naturalistic garden), suggested by FotoVorschlag ©TonyNuspl2026 #fungifriday #photography #mushrooms #ShroomScrolling #Mycology #ForestFind #ForestFriday #MycologyMonday #Nature

"The Last KIngdom" (2015-2022) will be the last long-form TV #screenadaptation that I watch on Netflix. It was a good run, but Netflix has priced itself out of the market, IMHO. There will be more time now for books #last4watched 🎥🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #tvsky #filmadaptation #letterboxd #GridArt

"Images like this remind us of the true scale of the universe and our position within it." #nightsky #longexposure

forlorn trees (nature struggling in the city) for the theme 'Natur in der Stadt' #FotoVorschlag ©TonyNuspl2013 Samsung Array SPH-M390 📸 cell phone camera (2 MP 1200x1600) #vintagedigitalphotography #ObsoleteFormats #AmateurPhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #outdoorphotography

Kemmerer, Wyoming, may well the next Chernobyl: Planned, untested U.S. design "lacks a containment structure, is vulnerable to rapid, autocatalytic power increases, and uses a coolant, liquid sodium, that can catch fire"—all add up to #CowboyChernobyl given the lax rollbacks under Trump #downwinders

Cathedral Rock, view from NW, Verde Valley beyond (Yavapai County) Sedona, AZ FotoVorschlag themes 'Weite' (vastness, expanse) & 'hohe Berge' (high mtns) ©TonyNuspl2023 #RockinTuesday #aerial #NotFromADrone #bubblephoto #ArizonaPeakery #landscapephotography #AmericanRegionalism #AndroidOptics

€500m repair needed, after Russian drone punched through secondary, steel & rubber sarcophagus built over primary concrete--and deteriorating--40-year-old sarcophagus. “We are begging the international community to understand. There is a real risk of a new incident.” #PhotoEssay #radioactivefallout

"speaks to the uniqueness of the Sky Islands and the tenacity of wildlife": This cat moved through the landscape in the shadow of border wall construction, mining expansion, and I-11 corridor exploration — all of which threaten the continued presence of ocelots and other wildlife.

Forty years ago this morning, Chernobyl reactor number 4, not far from Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. The worst-ever release of radiation from a nuclear power plant and which affected hundreds of millions across Europe.

@whoi.edu fun video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9uw...

"Day 068, Orbit 1054 — Opening the shutters in the morning: what a beautiful way to start the day! 🌍" – @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot #εpsilon 🎥 NASA/ESA

You may have missed this story: 'We did get a warning message #CabinLeakSuspected astronaut Hansen said in the crew's first live interview from space. #CabinLeakWarning #SpaceDebrisField #LEO #IRL vs #SciFi #StarfieldManeuvers #OrionIntegrity #TLI Artemis II

Is the film "unserious", or is it "a clever extension of real-world physics"? Dr. Becky Smethurst weighs in, with her infectious enthusiasm. Plus, get nerdy with 14 references provided in the notes to her video. #SpoilerAlert A little of the plot is revealed. Film clips used do not give away much

short video on radiation hazards of #astronaut travel in #Cislunar space, leaving Earth's protective magnetic field: exposing them to solar radiation, solar particle storms, solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and cosmic rays #radiationexposure #ionizingdose #biodosimetry #RadiationInjury

"The practical case for human spaceflight gets ever weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation." e.g. James Webb Space Telescope "a sterling example of the complex missions that can be undertaken without space crews." e.g. Rovers on Mars "requiring nothing but sunshine" #RobotsInSpace

Crystallized culture re-enacts 3-parachute rescue nostalgia #writesky #instapoetrygram #haiku #TechScepticism #BlueskyMonday #Groupsof3 'Zahlen: Drei' FotoVorschlag #InspiredByCircumstance

Throwaway Society  ESM recedes from view  spacejunk now Solar-powered craft discarded on high ablates in ignominy #SpaceOpera #NightskyPoets #DarkPoetry #SciFaiku #InspiredByCircumstance #writesky #instapoetrygram prompts: hybrid disassembly #ESA #lifesupport youtu.be/Gy5fTDIcMiY?...

Terran Sphere of Influence fiery re-entry water medicine #instapoetrygram #InspiredByCircumstance #writesky #haiku #ImageAndVerse #SpaceOpera

#Euphemism of the day: 'Entry interface' to Earth’s atmosphere Starts at 400,000ft (approx 122 km, or 75 miles, from the surface) Orion heats to 5,000F (2,760C) during its 25,000mph plunge into the atmosphere. A fiery re-entry. #HaveALotOfBottle #AdjustYourMetric #PlasmaFireball #EarthGravityWell

The bottom half of the conveyor belt: the Deep Western Boundary Current is a cold, salty flow that runs southward along the seafloor off North America as part of AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation). #TippingPoint #Anthropocene #OceanWarming #ClimateCollapse #PlanetaryBoundaries

"Space-focused techno-optimism shades into moral nihilism when it opts for fantasies of colonising new worlds in preference to policies aimed at protecting the one we already have." The Artemis Ii mission distracts. #TechScepticism #EcologicalLimits #BigBlueMarble #Anthropocene #Earthrise #Earthset

High-speed rail project from L.A. to San Francisco : cost ballooned from $30 billion to $120 billion 60 years since Japan's #Shinkansen U.S. still doesn't have a #BulletTrain #NationalPriorities #CriticalInfrastructure vs #spacerace #RailNetwork vs #moonshot #TurboTrain vs #gridlocktraffic

That moment last night just before LOS and we saw Orion / Moon / Earth in one shot - my first thought was that I couldn't wait to see that shot in a better resolution. Ask and ye shall receive 🙏 images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

Earthrise, 1968: Bill Anders' first photo of the phenomenon in B&W, during the Apollo 8 mission #BigBlueMarble #photographichistory #BlackAndWhite #BlueskyMonday #TravelPhotography #SpaceExploration #ClassicMono #monochromephotography #environmentalphotography #envhist #blackandwhitephotography

Contemplative moment looking #throughtheframe #spaceexploration #astronaut 1 of 4 POB #spacecraft Orion/Integrity

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Christina Koch, currently aboard Orion/Integrity on course for the moon, is a seasoned #astronaut Prior to Artemis II: spent 328 consecutive days aboard the International Space Station in 2019-2020 completed 5,248 orbits of the Earth (139 million miles #spaceflight) did 3 #spacewalks aboard #ISS

Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian currently aboard Orion, previously participated in 2 deep-space simulations: ESA's CAVES program in Sardinia, Italy, in 2013, living underground for 6 days and NASA's NEEMO 19, in 2014, living on the ocean floor, off Key Largo, Florida, for 7 days #cavenaut #aquanaut

NASA animation of today's scheduled #TLI (translunar injection). The Orion's engines (the propulsion system that is part of the ESM built by Airbus for the ESA) will burn for just over 6 minutes, to escape Earth's gravity. The TLI burn "sets the spacecraft on an irreversible path to the moon."

Deployment of the solar array wings provides the Orion spacecraft with continuous electrical power throughout its lunar journey. #PVsolar #photovoltaic #solararray

A crewed mission around far side of the moon, with risk of #LOC (loss of crew) Artemis II risk factors on launch: micrometeors and orbital debris (MMOD), aka #spacejunk stress the rocketship is under on launch at #maxQ (maximum dynamic pressure) qv. Challenger Space Shuttle disaster #TechScepticism

Hate how the editorial line is to deny how dirty nuclear power is, using instead the nuclear lobby's catchphrases, 'clean energy', 'carbon free'. Also how PBS uses "nuclear renaissance" instead of #nuclearrelapse Passes over "molten salt" as a coolant for the nuclear reactor, as if it were normal.

"In the Southern Ocean, whalers slaughtered more than 2 million whales during the 20th century, pushing a number of species to the brink." #SixthExtinction #Seaspiracy #overfishing #ecocide #SeaOfSlaughter #Anthropocene #envhist #MarineLifeConservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Eingerahmt' (framed) for #Fotovorschlag ©TonyNuspl2026 #landscapephotography #AmateurPhotography ' #cellphonephotography #AndroidOptics #gridmix diptych comparing #photo with famous Japanese woodblock print

Juan Fernández archipelago, Pacific Ocean: the species Arctocephalus philippi was nearly hunted into oblivion, in the 19th century #SixthExtinction #SeaOfSlaughter #Anthropocene #envhist #MarineLifeConservation #EnvironmentalStewardship www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not quite #Transformers but with fully-autonomous battery-exchanging: “Up to 100 autonomous all-electric mining trucks can automatically have their batteries swapped, with each swap taking just 5-odd minutes.” Plus #regenerativebraking #ProgressWithoutPeople #CapitalismWithoutHumans #bizmodel

in response to the prompt 'Barrieren' for the daily/nightly #FotoVorschlag ©TonyNuspl2022 #urbangaze #SecretSpaces #AmateurPhotography #AmericanRegionalism #cellphonephotography #AndroidOptics

AI heating the planet, and "spewing pollutants" in violation of the Clean Air Act

Rule of thumb: Woody Allen films are a lot more enjoyable when he is not in them #lastfourwatched of films he directed, without portraying a character 🎥🎬 Because as an actor: ick. #filmsky #moviesky #originalscreenplays #letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix

view of Sedona, AZ, for the theme 'Weite' (vastness, expanse) #FotoVorschlag #stunday ©TonyNuspl2023 #ArizonaPeakery #landscapephotography #outdoorphotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #AmericanRegionalism #cellphonephotography #AndroidOptics

It's 1-2 on the podium for Team Jaguar in Madrid, competing with the Jaguar I-TYPE 7 all-electric Gen3 Evo race car, from 0–60 mph in 1.82 seconds, 350 kW on demand, all-wheel drive, and 600kW #regenerativebraking #formulaE www.jaguar.com/en-us/jdx/ja...

Library of Congress, Wash., D.C. 📸 Casio EX-S2(Exilim) 2megapixel compact "slim" digital camera #nationallibrary #indoorphotography #vintagedigitalphotography #ObsoleteFormats ©TonyNuspl2008 for the thread #PalacesandGardens theme of #UpstairsDownstairs #AmateurPhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky

Vintage opulent dining room, in Victoria, British Columbia, set permanently for ghostly guests for the thread #PalacesandGardens theme #UpstairsDownstairs #banquethall #AmateurPhotography #indoorphotography #cellphonephotography #Androidoptics #PhotographersOfBluesky ©TonyNuspl2023

"you cannot claim #digitalsovereignty while allowing your documents to be locked in proprietary formats controlled by a single vendor.” “...open, vendor-neutral document formats are fundamental infrastructure for democratic, sovereign public administrations.” #opensource DitchMicrosoft club #FOSS

"Plastic does not break down like natural materials. Instead it breaks into smaller pieces — microplastics, and even smaller nanoplastics — that are forever plastic. ... Research on plastics in our bodies has hurried forward as concerns over the health effects of micro- and nano-plastics grow."