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Bella Donna retweeted
Thousands Wrote. Julian Never Read Them
Inside the Julian Assange Archive are sealed Belmarsh prison bags marked "DO NOT ISSUE" — letters of support that never reached their intended recipient. #JulianAssange #FreePress
open.substack.com/pub/assang…
🤖 Made with AI
Bella Donna retweeted
David Bowie’s ‘hours...’ album was released (Digitally) 27 years ago today, in 1999.
'hours…' was the first album by a major artist to be made available as a download.
The album was co-produced by David Bowie & Reeves Gabrels.
Bella Donna retweeted
the clock is ticking on 'dalí in america' 🕰️
Explore the special exhibition before it’s gone and discover how the U.S. transformed Dalí from an avant-garde artist into an international celebrity. ⭐️
On view through Oct 18. TheDali.org/DaliInAmerica
🖼️ American Clock (1976)
Bella Donna retweeted
Do you remember when the whole world said “What did he just do?”
Motown 25.
Billie Jean.
Black jacket. White glove. White socks.
The instrumental break.
Pose.
Then he glides backward.
Spin.
Toe stand.
Michael Jackson’s first moonwalk — live.
Music history, in one move.
Bella Donna retweeted
In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race.
Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."
Bella Donna retweeted
Assange Returns to X in Midst of AI Crisis
consortiumnews.com/2026/09/1…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to X on Thursday, more than two years after his release from prison as the AI crisis dominates the headlines. #Assange
Bella Donna retweeted
17 years since Julian #Assange founded @wikileaks
Here is some of what WikiLeaks has revealed and how it changed the world forever:
Bella Donna retweeted
They tried to bury him in a maximum security prison for the crime of telling the truth. He just logged back in. Washington is sweating.
The silence is over. Julian Assange is back.
#Assange #WikiLeaks
Bella Donna retweeted
David Bowie released his ‘Reality’ album on this day in 2003.
Produced by David Bowie & Tony Visconti.
Reality peaked at number 3 in the UK, 29 in the USA.
Bella Donna retweeted
Volume up and get your groove on. A bit of weekend dancing on the @Space_Station to start your week off right. A friend of mine was shocked when she realized that it was possible to dance in microgravity. Seems we can’t keep this from the world for any longer! The power of music transcends Earth and space.
Bella Donna retweeted
VOYAGER 1 JUST CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
Something thought to be broken for more than 20 years has suddenly come back to life on a spacecraft more than 15 billion miles from Earth.
NASA’s Voyager 1, launched in 1977, recently faced another problem that could have threatened its ability to communicate with us. Engineers needed backup roll thrusters to help keep the spacecraft’s antenna precisely aimed at Earth. But those thrusters had been considered unusable since 2004 after their tiny heaters stopped receiving power.
Then NASA engineers took another look at the old failure. They suspected the heaters might not actually be dead, but stuck in the wrong electrical state.
So they sent a carefully planned command into deep space.
The signal took more than 23 hours to reach Voyager 1. There was no instant response and no way to intervene if the spacecraft reacted badly. Engineers had to wait.
Then, more than a day later, the telemetry arrived.
The temperature had risen.
The heaters were working.
A system believed to be lost for two decades had been brought back to life from billions of miles away.
The timing matters. Voyager’s working thrusters are slowly becoming less reliable as fuel residue builds up inside their narrow tubes. Meanwhile, the spacecraft’s nuclear power source loses about four watts every year. NASA has already been forced to shut down instruments to conserve its shrinking supply of electricity. Only two science instruments remain operating.
And Voyager 1 is still heading farther into interstellar space.
In November 2026, it is expected to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth — about 16.1 billion miles away.
A spacecraft built nearly half a century ago is still whispering information back to Earth from the darkness between the stars.
And somehow, every time it seems ready to fall silent, engineers find another way to keep it talking.
Source: NASA/JPL
ALT VOYAGER 1 JUST CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD Something thought to be broken for more than 20 years has suddenly come back to life on a spacecraft more than 15 billion miles from Earth. NASA’s Voyager 1, launched in 1977, recently faced another problem that could have threatened its ability to communicate with us. Engineers needed backup roll thrusters to help keep the spacecraft’s antenna precisely aimed at Earth. But those thrusters had been considered unusable since 2004 after their tiny heaters stopped receiving power. Then NASA engineers took another look at the old failure. They suspected the heaters might not actually be dead, but stuck in the wrong electrical state.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The events described, including the Voyager 1 backup thruster revival, occurred in March 2025 and were announced by NASA in May 2025.
science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/…
Bella Donna retweeted
Dire Straits - Skateaway 🫶
I seen a girl on a one-way corridor
Stealing down a wrong-way street
For all the world like an urban toreador
She had wheels on, on her feet
Well, the cars do the usual dances
Same old cruise and the kerbside crawl
But the rollergirl, she's taking chances
They just love to see her take them all
No fears alone at night
She's sailing through the crowd
In her ears, the phones are tight
And the music's playing loud
Hallelujah, here she comes
Queen rollerball
And Enchanté, what can I say?
Don't care at all
You know, she used to have to wait around
She used to be the lonely one
But now that she can skate around town
She's the only one
No fears alone at night
She's sailing through the crowd
In her ears, the phones are tight
And the music's playing loud
She gets rock and roll and a rock and roll station
And a rock and roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means
And the music make her want to be the story
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was
Rollergirl, don't worry
D.J. play the movies all night long, all night long
She tortures taxi drivers just for fun
She like to read their lips
Says, "Toro, toro, taxi, see you tomorrow, my son"
I swear she let a big truck grease her hip
She got her own world in the city
You can't intrude on her, no, no, no
She got her own world in the city
Because the city's been so rude to her
No fears alone at night
She's sailing through the crowd
In her ears, the phones are tight
And the music's playing loud
She gets rock and roll and a rock and roll station
And a rock and roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means
But the music make her want to be the story
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was
Rollergirl, don't worry
D.J. play the movies all night long, all night long
Come slipping and sliding
Yeah, life's a roller ball
Slipping and a-sliding
Skateaway, that's all
Skateaway
Shala, shalay, hey hey, skateaway
Now shala, shalay, hey hey, skateaway
She's singing, "Shala, shalay, hey hey"
Skateaway
Shala, shalay