The Swan (Omega) Nebula from the Mogollon Rim! About 5,500 light-years out in Sagittarius. Still getting the hang of nebula photos, but this one was fun—super bright and colorful. 55×13s frames, ISO 3200, on the trusty T3i + Nexstar 8SE.

Camped on Mount Graham a couple weekends ago—went for the stars, struck out on deep-sky, but came home with a Milky Way I’m proud of. 🌌

Plenty of wildlife too (not pictured: a calling spotted owl, mysterious/scary eyeshine 👀). More photos soon.

#MountGraham #MilkyWay

Your reminder to call your Senator now and demand that they invoke the Byrd Rule and strip the transgender medicaid ban from Trump's spending and tax bill.

Call them here.

www.senate.gov/states/MD/in...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

When Roe was overturned and women bled out in ERs, we heard “states’ rights. When guns became the #1 killer of kids, still “states’ rights.” But one protest against injustice? Suddenly there’s federal boots on the ground. They don’t panic when people die, only when they speak.

It is so frustrating when people say that Trump needs a pretext to escalate or a reason to be authoritarian. There is no justification for either and he has already done both without needing an excuse. This is what abusers do. They victimize regardless of what their victims do

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

This is just to say

I am hoarding
the attention
that is on
Twitter

and which
you were probably
craving
for your own enormous ego

Forgive me
it is so delicious
so sweet
and I am so cold inside

This is horrendous. And also purposeful.

RFK Jr. wasn't put in charge of HHS to Make America Healthy Again. He was put in it to control our bodies, spread misinformation, and make our health system even worse than it is.

The cruelty is the point.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I guess it's cool and all that a whole new generation is learning about the concept of a peer-powered panopticon, but yeah.

I hate it here.

Milky Way!

21 15s exposures, combined w DeepSkyStacker. Total 5 min 15s.

We were on the Mogollon Rim & got chased from our spot by rowdy joy-riders. Went to use the "facilities" at our new spot & looked up.

Not a bad view.

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Very 1st, very amateur try at capturing the Orion Nebula!

Several 1-second exposures, stacked. Taken w Canon t3i and 100-400 mm lens, April 6, at a dark-ish spot near our home in San Tan Valley.

Next up: Using it in the actual telescope!
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If NIH can cancel this impactful study there is no study that’s safe. This is beyond disappointing