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🔭 M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center

Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker

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December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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With Alt Text
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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America First was never supposed to mean enriching foreign oligarchs and billionaire insiders. Congress must investigate the sellout of U.S. sovereignty to protect the forgotten Americans. Text SIGN PBSHPY to 50409 or go to: resist.bot/petitions/PB... @resist.bot @campaigns.resist.bot #fucktrump
Investigate the White House Foreign Deals Making Insiders Rich
Text SIGN PBSHPY to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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I am not doing a special sale in my shop this weekend because everything is already at cost, I’m not able to ship until next week, and I didn’t make some of the extra stuff I intended. But cat toys and goat totes are available! Bookmarks! A couple of original paintings!

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Visit OctopusGallery's Shop!
Pay what you can crafts and art. Lots of upcycling and creative reuse but mostly cat toys.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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*endless screaming*
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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In addition, foreign visitors without an annual pass will be hit with a new $100 surcharge each time they visit one of the 11 most-visited parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, and the Grand Canyon, on top of the regular entrance fee.
Department of the Interior Announces Modernized, More Affordable National Park Access  | U.S. Department of the Interior
The Department of the Interior today announced the most significant modernization of national park access in decades, delivering new digital America the Beautiful passes, updated annual pass artwork, ...
www.doi.gov
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The Trump administration announced that starting Jan. 1, the cost of an annual national park pass for non-U.S. residents will jump from $80 to $250 more than triple the current price.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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holy shit this went bonkers I'M SORRY I DIDN'T PUT THE TEXT IN ALT TEXT I DIDN'T THINK OF IT WHEN I MADE THIS it was late and I was tired but here's the original tumblr post which I should have just put in the original post I'M STUPID OKAY. SORRY ABOUT IT www.tumblr.com/modmad/80085...
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💬 251  🔁 52145  ❤️ 58782 · Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power · : You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Firefox are trying to ram their AI stuff too unfortunately bsky.app/profile/modm...
THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🔭 Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas

Image Credit & Copyright: Xinran Li & Houbo Zhao

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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Excellent public health messaging from New York City!!

Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.

How can you do that?

Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.

It’ll help keep you and your community safe.
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 🪶 #birds
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Why, it's almost like having rich people paying their fare share is good for everyone!
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The spirit of winter hops in...
#jackalope #art
November 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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This is a PAINTING of a leaf, not a real leaf! Can you believe it?! 🧶
Autumn leaf 1
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 130 mm.

Suggested musical accompaniment:
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November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates

Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Understand HR22 here, then take action. Never a great sign when a bill has this many GOP sponsors and zero Democrats.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Good morning! 🪶
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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I just love this whole culture of trolling fans.

Reminds me of when I said I tend to bruise myself often and I got a huge bubble wrap package delivered.
WHICH ONE OF YOU DID THIS
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Potential biomarker for risk of SIDS!
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🖋️ “Trump’s FDA Cuts Leave Foreign Food Uninspected — and Americans at Risk” hit 500 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PCBUDQ to 50409
Trump’s FDA Cuts Leave Foreign Food Uninspected — and Americans at Risk
Text SIGN PCBUDQ to 50409 — A new ProPublica investigation and corroborating data from the Government Accountability Office confirm a dangerous collapse in U.S. food safety oversight. Under Donald Trump, foreign food inspections by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have fallen to historic lows — even lower than during the pandemic years. The agency’s own public dashboard and GAO analysis show that the FDA averaged just 917 foreign food-facility inspections per year between FY 2018 and 2023, against a congressional mandate of 19,200 annually under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). That’s barely 5 percent of the target. This decline comes as America has never relied more heavily on imported food. According to the FDA, 94 percent of our seafood, 55 percent of fresh fruit, and 32 percent of fresh vegetables now come from abroad — produced in more than 125,000 foreign facilities across 200 countries. In-person inspections are the only way to verify that these suppliers maintain sanitary conditions, conduct accurate pathogen testing, and prevent contamination. Yet those inspections have been gutted. Roughly one in five FDA employees responsible for food and drug safety has been laid off or forced out since Trump’s staffing cuts began. Investigators who once traveled to inspect foreign facilities are now bogged down with their own travel logistics and unreimbursed expenses, with more than $1 million in backlogged reimbursements reported. Morale has cratered, and institutional knowledge has vanished as senior inspectors retire or quit. The administration’s so-called “efficiency” measures have also suspended the FDA’s quality-control program across 170 food-testing laboratories and scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network to track only two pathogens — salmonella and one strain of E. coli. These actions, combined with inspection collapse, have “decimated basic regulatory oversight functions,” according to Consumer Reports’ food-policy director. Congress established the FSMA after repeated outbreaks linked to imported food, recognizing that inspection and traceability save lives. Those safeguards have now been hollowed out. As one FDA official told reporters, “It’s only a matter of time before people die.” I urge you to hold immediate hearings on the status of foreign food inspections, compel testimony from the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA, and restore staffing and oversight funding to pre-Trump levels. America cannot afford a food-safety collapse born of political neglect. Protect the nation’s dinner tables. Restore the FDA’s strength.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM