THE Darth Spurious
@thedarthspurious.bsky.social
Amateur astrophotographer, HS & travel baseball coach, Twitter refugee and all-around miscreant
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Might as well start sharing some of my astro stuff here.
M42 in Ha from late 2023. I haven't been satisfied with the results when combining the SII & OIII images, so still a work in progress.
32x900s & 12x300s Ha, HDR processed in PI.
TOA130S, FLI ML16200, AP900GTO
#astrophotography
M42 in Ha from late 2023. I haven't been satisfied with the results when combining the SII & OIII images, so still a work in progress.
32x900s & 12x300s Ha, HDR processed in PI.
TOA130S, FLI ML16200, AP900GTO
#astrophotography
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Imagine trying to explain this to someone in the future "There were these people who talked about free speech in prestigious publications all the time and they promoted the career of a woman who turned CBS into state media."
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Imagine trying to explain this to someone in the future "There were these people who talked about free speech in prestigious publications all the time and they promoted the career of a woman who turned CBS into state media."
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That Bari Weiss thought 60 Minutes needed Stephen Miller's email address isn't disproving my hypothesis that she's 80 years old.
December 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
That Bari Weiss thought 60 Minutes needed Stephen Miller's email address isn't disproving my hypothesis that she's 80 years old.
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As I have said, Bari Weiss is a lazy, incompetent moron with no news experience elevated far above her abilities.
She was never capable of turning a news business into an effective propaganda organ, only of destroying it.
She was never capable of turning a news business into an effective propaganda organ, only of destroying it.
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
As I have said, Bari Weiss is a lazy, incompetent moron with no news experience elevated far above her abilities.
She was never capable of turning a news business into an effective propaganda organ, only of destroying it.
She was never capable of turning a news business into an effective propaganda organ, only of destroying it.
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CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
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Piracy in the Caribbean: Jeremy Paner, a former lead investigator and analyst for OFAC, said Saturday’s action “runs counter to Trump’s statement” that his blockade applies only to ships under US. sanctions. Trump is breaking Trump's own rules. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Coast Guard boards oil tanker leaving Venezuela amid Trump’s blockade
Service members rappelled from helicopters onto the Panamanian-flagged Centuries in the predawn operation. Neither the ship nor its cargo were under U.S. sanctions.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Piracy in the Caribbean: Jeremy Paner, a former lead investigator and analyst for OFAC, said Saturday’s action “runs counter to Trump’s statement” that his blockade applies only to ships under US. sanctions. Trump is breaking Trump's own rules. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
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Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:
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A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance
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Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.
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Homeland Security thinks Christmas is merrier because they’re terrorizing immigrants. These Trumpers are sick, sick people.
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Homeland Security thinks Christmas is merrier because they’re terrorizing immigrants. These Trumpers are sick, sick people.
Absolutely true.
Ransome was great on THE WIRE but his turn on GENERATION KILL was even better
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Generation Kill - Ray Person best scenes
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December 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Absolutely true.
Ugh. Very sad.
Damn, he was also awesome in generation kill
I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.
December 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Ugh. Very sad.
Fucking Nazi monsters
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fucking Nazi monsters
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Looking at this photo I can't decide if it makes me feel like IDSG is irrelevant -- everybody knows what's up now or if IDSG is more essential than ever -- people can see, but do they really understand?
Look who’s hanging out at TPUSA today: it’s Jack Posobiec, the long time cohost of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, posing between a guy wearing a shirt mocking Holocaust victims (Myron Gaines) and a MAGA guy who was (temporarily) kicked off Elon’s Twitter for circulating CSAM (Don Lucre). Very wholesome!
December 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Looking at this photo I can't decide if it makes me feel like IDSG is irrelevant -- everybody knows what's up now or if IDSG is more essential than ever -- people can see, but do they really understand?
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From Wikipedia, re: another guy Trump palled around with who is mentioned in this article. Totally normal. 🤮
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
From Wikipedia, re: another guy Trump palled around with who is mentioned in this article. Totally normal. 🤮
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
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“Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?”
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?”
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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Also, 14 year-old girls are not “barely legal.” They’re children. Megyn Kelly should know this as well.
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Ugh. More on John Casablancas, mentioned here.
“… he was having a public relationship with Look of the Year contest finalist Stephanie Seymour, 16 years old at the time, but who he began dating when she was 14. Casablancas was frank about his preference for girls of barely legal age.”
“… he was having a public relationship with Look of the Year contest finalist Stephanie Seymour, 16 years old at the time, but who he began dating when she was 14. Casablancas was frank about his preference for girls of barely legal age.”
December 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Also, 14 year-old girls are not “barely legal.” They’re children. Megyn Kelly should know this as well.
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Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Video Published by James O’Keefe
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein in a video published by James O'Keefe.
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
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The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
The person charged with enforcing the laws is himself a law breaker. In such a state, do laws even have any legitimacy?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
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'We downloaded everything': Trump legal nemesis drops threat after Epstein files deleted
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
'We downloaded everything': Trump legal nemesis drops threat after Epstein files deleted
A former White House ethics lawyer who has been a persistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump put the president on notice on Saturday over a new report about files released on Jeffrey Epstein.MS NOW ...
www.rawstory.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
'We downloaded everything': Trump legal nemesis drops threat after Epstein files deleted
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
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I don't remember the atomic ensemble time scale failing under Biden.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I don't remember the atomic ensemble time scale failing under Biden.