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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching!

@tealcartoons.bsky.social & I are thrilled to reveal the cover of DEAD ENDS - a kids' book about medicine's flukes, flops & failures!

Pre-order SIGNED copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com: bit.ly/40wADvo

Pre-orders are vital to a book's success. Pls share!

The cover of DEAD ENDS featuring an illustration of a doctor electrocuting a man who is lying in a coffin.

January 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM

Alice

@aliceonwonderdabs.bsky.social

I've finally become one of those pet account people; who IS she!? 😻🤭

-clears throat- anyway, I made an account for the kitties!
Feel free to follow 🩵

honeyandtaz.bsky.social @honeyandtaz.bsky.social · Dec 22

Hii friends! HoneyBee (Honey) & Tasmanian Devil (Taz) here 🩵🐈🐈‍⬛

We are tabby siblings, & our favorite thing to do is zoom around the house! Racecars have nothing on us 🏎️🤭💪🏼

Our birthday is May 12/22 and we love being spoiled by our human @aliceonwonderdabs.bsky.social 😇

This is my sister and I traveling to our new home

Our first day home, we hid under here for a few hours before coming out to explore the new home

December 22, 2024 at 9:23 AM

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social

The slow, backwards slip into the 19th century... Horrible.

Dr 🫥 @draevans.bsky.social · Dec 21

Doctor watched son die of sepsis at hospital where she worked.

If an experienced paediatrician is ignored what hope is there for the rest of us?

Will this turn into another “lessons will be learnt” exercise?

www.thetimes.com/article/0443...

Doctor watched son die of sepsis at hospital where she worked

Deborah Burns, head of paediatrics at Homerton Hospital, says staff gave her 22-year-old son inadequate care despite her concerns

www.thetimes.com

December 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

webb and chandra combined images 🤩

$This is a composite image of star cluster NGC 602, in vibrant and festive colors. The shape of the star cluster strongly resembles a holiday wreath. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Infrared: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeilder, E.Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand$ $In this composite image, a bright, massive star, WR 124, gleams with diffraction spikes, surrounded by a churning wind cloud in reds and purples. With its dusty rose coloring, and the bright, gleaming star at its core, the wind cloud resembles the inside of a delicate flower with opening petals. Dozens of other bright stars surround WR 124, including white dots rimmed with neon purple, and gleaming white dots with cool blue diffraction spikes. The purple dots are stars detected with Chandra. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major$

The is an infrared image with data from Webb. It resembles a rust brown mountain range backed by a hazy blue night sky. The entire image is filled with stars. The right half of this graphic is a large, square composite image combining the two smaller images’ data, Chandra lends its magenta touches to the top right of the original Webb frame.

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. Observ. Munich/T. Preibisch et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

Webb's view shows fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds with rust-colored highlights surrounding a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout. The composite view looks largely the same as the Webb view, but adds in X-ray patches of dark blue and purple overlaid on top of the cavities. The most prominent X-ray cloud resembles an upward pointing triangle in the central area.

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team

December 22, 2024 at 3:03 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

just remember this isn’t earth… it’s a COMET!!

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Dec 15

Treat yourself by watching this loop for a while.

A close-up of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social.

The "snow" is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.

December 15, 2024 at 11:13 PM

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Paul Eric

@pauleric70.bsky.social

Bryce Canyon National Park at sunrise 🇺🇲
Stunning capture ✨🧡✨🧡✨🧡✨

December 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM

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Maisie James Xo 🌈👽✨️

@shopmaisiejames.bsky.social

I made one extra pair of these super cute bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast toasters while making preordered one. They are available in my shop now ✨️

www.maisiejamesco.com/product-page...

December 15, 2024 at 6:49 PM

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Paul M Smith

@paulmsmithphoto.bsky.social

Red Sprites and Andromeda over Missouri lining up perfectly with a lone tree.
Chaos in our atmosphere paired with cosmic chaos.
Nature is awesome.
Single image

December 15, 2024 at 5:40 PM

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DAPPER DON DHARSHI

@dapperdondharshi.bsky.social

The other swans aren't gonna believe this

December 16, 2024 at 12:50 PM

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Maisie James Xo 🌈👽✨️

@shopmaisiejames.bsky.social

Good morning fam 👽🖖🏻

All shapes of Dino nuggies earrings are back in stock!! As usual when I make preorders I make extras!

Only one of each available ✨️🫶🏻

www.maisiejamesco.com/product-page...

December 16, 2024 at 1:34 PM

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Maisie James Xo 🌈👽✨️

@shopmaisiejames.bsky.social

I spy something new coming soon 👀

December 4, 2024 at 3:39 AM

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social

History nerds, rejoice! Award-winning documentary filmmaker, television presenter, and author @alexbescoby.bsky.social is on #bluesky! In his latest series, he recreated one of history’s greatest road journeys - a 19,000 km adventure from Singapore to London through jungles, mountains and deserts.

Alex in a car, smiling to camera, with his arm hanging out the window.

November 24, 2024 at 10:16 AM

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Being Reese

@beingreese.bsky.social

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM

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detune

@xdetune.bsky.social

This is still so surreal

Get your vote in for League of their Own and if you wanna vote for me I’ll be forever grateful

thestreamerawards.com/vote

November 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Alice

@aliceonwonderdabs.bsky.social

Hell yeah! That's our fricken streamer!! 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Go get your votes in! 🥳

detune @xdetune.bsky.social · Nov 12

WERE NOMINATED FOR LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN IN THE STREAMER AWARDS?????

HELLO????

November 15, 2024 at 5:25 AM

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Jubilee ❣️

@16pxl.bsky.social

summer isolation 🧡✨

#pixelart

pixel art showing a soft orange and blue sunset, showcasing glowing powerpoles being lit by the sun, a full moon rising, and various ground foliage turning shades of brown as it dies, preparing for autumn.

November 13, 2024 at 6:44 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@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.