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I dig vintage shit, photography, strong female characters, and rocks. Also horror movies. I contain awkward multitudes.
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duniagamemaster.bsky.social
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
ltshanks.bsky.social
Adulthood is realizing serving sizing is usually kids lunch box packs.
August 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
Become a jamón expert at our Ham School
June 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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bisonrimant.fr
I made him a brøther
Woodcarved really plump hog on a workbench Seen from behind Another point of view Seen by front
May 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
F*** that nice write-up in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.
"I am loving this boo, I have genuinely laughed out loud when reading this book, which is a big achievement by the writer as I am mostly miserable."
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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joshlukedavis.com
there has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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astronomy.bsky.social
Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space:

Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space: Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds. Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula. Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy with bright star-forming arms and a central bar. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
April 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
HAPPY 35TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST TELESCOPE EVER!! THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SUCH BEAUTIFUL AND ICONIC IMAGES OVER THE YEARS!!! 🌌🤩
Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas tower in the image, interspersed with a few pink stars. Resembling a pair of butterfly wings, two lobes of a nebula stretch out from a central point, reaching to the upper right and lower left of the image. The lobes glow in pink, white, red, and orange hues, against a black background of space dotted with stars. A roughly circular nebula, glowing in bright blue near the left curve, fills most of the image. At the top left corner is a region of gold-brown gas and dust. The "bubble" has bright pink stars seen throughout and is in front of dark blue and brown regions of gas and dust. This Hubble image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace with powerful winds and searing ultraviolet radiation. In this Hubble portrait, the giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef," because the nebulas resemble an undersea world. By contrast, the seemingly isolated blue nebula at lower left (NGC 2020) has been created by a solitary mammoth star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun. The blue gas was ejected by the star through a series of eruptive events during which it lost part of its outer envelope of material.
April 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!
False color image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) in Cassiopeia.A ghostly blue bubble sits among golden orange clouds of gas, punctuated by sharp violet pinpricks – young stars. Spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies. White, blue, and red swirls of stars from two disrupted spiral galaxies captured mid-collision, with messy lanes of dark gas and dust stretching between their bright yellow cores. The globular cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A jewel box of tightly clustered white, blue, and red stars. False color image of the Lagoon Nebula captured by Hubble for its 28th anniversary in 2018. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange clouds surround a region of active star formation, with our view obscured by dark molecular clouds.
April 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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birdhism.com
Again, birds have a lot to teach us.

#birds
Cockatoo removes anti-nesting spikes and throws them away
April 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
If you were wondering what Scooby Doo is in French, it's Scoubidou.
The front cover of my copy of a french book version of a Scooby Doo book!
April 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Nachtgarten (alt version)
this is a photo-composite version of “Nachtgarten“ (from last year) it is more raw and you can see the imperfections of the mask made with metal wires. It’s been a very difficult week and this image feels like a release… cathartic and soothing, exactly what I’m needing now.
April 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
A spotted trunkfish goes SKKRRTTT in slow motion #spottedtrunkfish #swimminghandbag #trunkfish #boxfish #skkrrttt #slowmotion #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
the recent jwst images are some of my favorite space images of all time 🌌
Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout. Webb's view of a region of the Flame Nebula. It contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars. At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies. A spiral galaxy seen close up and almost face on. It is filled with puffy, patchy clouds of hot gas and dust. Red, orange and yellow colours indicate light emitted by different particles. The brightest colours are in the centre and along the two spiral arms, which wind out from the centre. Star clusters hide in the gas along the arms. A few large, bright white stars are prominent in the foreground, near to us.
March 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
Dude has been batting 1000 against these losers over the last 24 hours.
March 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
Who DID they think they were adding to the group chat?
March 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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abbyhiggs.bsky.social
You’re in her DMs. I’m somehow in Pete Hegseth’s war crimes group chat. We are not the same.
March 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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theonion.com
Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers
Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers
March 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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sabtastic.bsky.social
Doodling on an old forgotten art file
March 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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ianfortey.bsky.social
Riding a float in the Black Parade and tossing fun size ennui to the kids.
March 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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horrorculturist.bsky.social
"I'm sorry you couldn't find me. I have been in the woods. I put myself there because I couldn't be good. I have been running with foxes and running with crows and I have found myself a home where no one goes." —Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry (2018)
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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orisghost.bsky.social
overslept
March 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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popbase.tv
Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of the Oscar winning short-film ‘NO OTHER LAND’, has been freed:

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”
Hamdan Ballal holding his Oscar award. Yuval Abraham, co-director of ‘NO OTHER LAND’ via Twitter/X: “Hamdan was assaulted and beaten up, not murdered. My use of 'lynched' was a mistranslation from Hebrew (English isn't my first language). He's injured and being held at a police station in a settlement. They did not let his lawyer speak to him yet so we don't know more.” Updated reply: “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”
March 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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handle.invalid
This aged badly
March 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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allakphoto.bsky.social
6:30am on a Wednesday morning.
Getting closer to winter with colours like these 🌙

#sydney #australia #iphone #landscape #seascape #photography
Distant sunrise over the ocean and a moon crescent in the sky
March 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM