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walshfreedom.bsky.social
You can abhor Charlie Kirk & his beliefs and unequivocally condemn murder. You can do both. It shouldn’t be hard. It’s what grown up, civilized, tolerant people do.
September 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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charlespiroth.bsky.social
Noah Verrier, Wine and Cheetos painting and the models
November 16, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
my favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. Cassiopeia A, a circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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jerryjdavis.com
Got results back from my latest test. Cancer is still gone. 🍾
November 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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logicallyjc.bsky.social
My son’s school is not your church.
November 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
harpar.bsky.social
I hope this place does not become an echo chamber for the left. This place does hold promise though.
November 15, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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thebookshepherd.bsky.social
Public Libraries can be wonderful places where children and adults can find books that they can see themselves reflected in, no matter who they are, and books that can introduce them to entire other lived experiences. Both are so valuable!
November 15, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
it’s such a beautiful thing that we as humans can see things like this in space thanks to machines we made on earth
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. Mountain-like structures of gas and dust jut upwards into space. Mostly brown with glowing orange regions, these structures narrow as they grow taller, with jets of gas seen at their tips. The nebulous background of space glows in shades of blue and violet, with a few pink stars scattered throughout. An image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, which appears as an orange donut shape with a dark center. At the edges of the black hole are fine lines. A Juno image of Jupiter showing its swirling bands and storms. Processing: David Marriott
November 15, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
brb trying to explain to the yutes that in fact there was a time in the misty depths of the past when boxing matches featured actual active boxers who were still good at boxing
November 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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lvaces.bsky.social
The Skyline is back up 🙌
a group of women are dancing on a basketball court in front of a banner that says gatorade
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media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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momofgirls.bsky.social
Really diving into the #bannedbooks to ensure my daughters have access to all of the things. I know I’m missing a ton— what else do you suggest?
November 14, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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trouzrschnauzer.bsky.social
Goodnight meme post!
Btw, I'm a Yoshi main 😎
November 14, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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wonderwoman850.bsky.social
We gotta build this mf from the ground up😭
a basketball player wearing a heat 22 jersey runs on the court
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media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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vicmanch.bsky.social
Sorry, I know this is upper level shallow. But I've waited 30 years as a published author to see one of my books in an actual bookshop and today was the day! Thanks Leeds Waterstones. (In distinguished company, too!)
Picture of bookshelf with a copy of Very Short Introductions: The Victorians.
November 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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clareheathmcivor.bsky.social
I kinda feel like this picture is maybe our collective nervous systems before we left Twitter and came over here. Yeah?
November 14, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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jennapark.bsky.social
Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
We need to get back to reading and critical thinking
Because 2024 feels different from 2016.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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simongosden.bsky.social
Cicero was a very wise man
November 14, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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moon1over.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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redditspaceviewes.bsky.social
Pillars of Creation through MIRI | JWST
November 14, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes
The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center. A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image. A circular-shaped nebula with a complex structure. On the circle’s exterior, particularly on the left side of the image, are curtains of material glowing orange like fire. Interior to this outer shell is a ring of mottled filaments in bright pink, studded with clumps and knots. A greenish loop extends from the upper right of the ring into the central cavity. Translucent wisps of blue, green, and red appear throughout the image. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357.
November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM