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Tonight's shot of the Moon and she's almost full again!
#SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
Settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/10
Exposure time: 1/1600
ISO: 800
#Moon phase: Waxing 97%
#SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
Settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/10
Exposure time: 1/1600
ISO: 800
#Moon phase: Waxing 97%
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Tonight's shot of the Moon and she's almost full again!
#SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
Settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/10
Exposure time: 1/1600
ISO: 800
#Moon phase: Waxing 97%
#SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
Settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/10
Exposure time: 1/1600
ISO: 800
#Moon phase: Waxing 97%
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Split second sunrise. This sunrise had a life span of ten minutes. The clouds moved in quickly and blanketed the sky for the rest of the day.
#scape #forestfriday #sunrise #eastcoastkin #photography #trees #landscape
#scape #forestfriday #sunrise #eastcoastkin #photography #trees #landscape
January 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Split second sunrise. This sunrise had a life span of ten minutes. The clouds moved in quickly and blanketed the sky for the rest of the day.
#scape #forestfriday #sunrise #eastcoastkin #photography #trees #landscape
#scape #forestfriday #sunrise #eastcoastkin #photography #trees #landscape
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Just back from a New Year's pilgrimage to Canterbury on a tip off to find the elusive Cobalt Crust (Terana caerulea) fungi, a bucket list species for me. Mission accomplished! A great find for me, hopefully auguring a successful 2026 of more fungi photography!
January 2, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Just back from a New Year's pilgrimage to Canterbury on a tip off to find the elusive Cobalt Crust (Terana caerulea) fungi, a bucket list species for me. Mission accomplished! A great find for me, hopefully auguring a successful 2026 of more fungi photography!
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"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
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“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact
― Carl Sagan, Contact
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact
― Carl Sagan, Contact
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CNN: We have major breaking news. CNN just learning of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela… We have now have CNN's own teams that have personally witnessed explosions.
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 AM
CNN: We have major breaking news. CNN just learning of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela… We have now have CNN's own teams that have personally witnessed explosions.
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BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.
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Moatley!
It's the drawbridge duelist with a Parapet Pistol and Soaked Cloak! With a barbican battlementality, Moatley dons the pied colors of his heraldic house and can fortify anything with a few well placed rounds from his defensive derringer. Nothing crosses the Moatley!
#0636
It's the drawbridge duelist with a Parapet Pistol and Soaked Cloak! With a barbican battlementality, Moatley dons the pied colors of his heraldic house and can fortify anything with a few well placed rounds from his defensive derringer. Nothing crosses the Moatley!
#0636
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Moatley!
It's the drawbridge duelist with a Parapet Pistol and Soaked Cloak! With a barbican battlementality, Moatley dons the pied colors of his heraldic house and can fortify anything with a few well placed rounds from his defensive derringer. Nothing crosses the Moatley!
#0636
It's the drawbridge duelist with a Parapet Pistol and Soaked Cloak! With a barbican battlementality, Moatley dons the pied colors of his heraldic house and can fortify anything with a few well placed rounds from his defensive derringer. Nothing crosses the Moatley!
#0636
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Now reading the third book of A Song of Ice and Fire, A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin! Another illustrated edition, I think we all know why it's red 😉. I know most of what happens in this one because of the show, but I'm excited to see the differences! #Booksky #ASOIAF #GameofThrones
January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Now reading the third book of A Song of Ice and Fire, A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin! Another illustrated edition, I think we all know why it's red 😉. I know most of what happens in this one because of the show, but I'm excited to see the differences! #Booksky #ASOIAF #GameofThrones
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Someone asked if I could post some more recent work. I have lately been browsing through older paintings but I'll see if I can choose a few more recent ones. 2021 isn't too long ago I suppose. This one sold at a Cambridge drawing soc. exhibition (info in alt txt).
#art #oil #Cambridge
#art #oil #Cambridge
January 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Someone asked if I could post some more recent work. I have lately been browsing through older paintings but I'll see if I can choose a few more recent ones. 2021 isn't too long ago I suppose. This one sold at a Cambridge drawing soc. exhibition (info in alt txt).
#art #oil #Cambridge
#art #oil #Cambridge
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January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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The Pale Blue Dot (Full Speech by Carl Sagan)
YouTube video by ExplainEd
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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The #PaleBlueDot captures the fragility and beauty of our planet. Taken from billions of miles away, it shows #Earth as a tiny speck of light, suspended in the vast expanse of space. It is a humbling reminder of our place in the universe, and a call to cherish and protect our home.
July 13, 2023 at 12:08 AM
The #PaleBlueDot captures the fragility and beauty of our planet. Taken from billions of miles away, it shows #Earth as a tiny speck of light, suspended in the vast expanse of space. It is a humbling reminder of our place in the universe, and a call to cherish and protect our home.
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Earth seen from Saturn, tiny little blue dot.
This pale blue dot contains everything we know and love.
Let's make protecting it our New Year's resolution.
Best wishes, love, peace, freedom, stop terrorism and war...
#NewYear #NewYear2026
contactlight.de
This pale blue dot contains everything we know and love.
Let's make protecting it our New Year's resolution.
Best wishes, love, peace, freedom, stop terrorism and war...
#NewYear #NewYear2026
contactlight.de
December 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Earth seen from Saturn, tiny little blue dot.
This pale blue dot contains everything we know and love.
Let's make protecting it our New Year's resolution.
Best wishes, love, peace, freedom, stop terrorism and war...
#NewYear #NewYear2026
contactlight.de
This pale blue dot contains everything we know and love.
Let's make protecting it our New Year's resolution.
Best wishes, love, peace, freedom, stop terrorism and war...
#NewYear #NewYear2026
contactlight.de
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Hey kids, new Pale Blue Dot just dropped.
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Hey kids, new Pale Blue Dot just dropped.
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Very much reminded of the Pale Blue Dot.
December 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Very much reminded of the Pale Blue Dot.
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“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than a distant image of our tiny world. …it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than a distant image of our tiny world. …it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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NASA's NanoSail-D2, launched 2011, was the first solar sail in low Earth orbit. Its 10-sq-meter sail used the continuous pressure of sunlight for thrust, demonstrating a concept Kepler envisioned centuries ago. It was periodically visible to the unaided eye.
Credit: Ralf Vandebergh
Credit: Ralf Vandebergh
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
NASA's NanoSail-D2, launched 2011, was the first solar sail in low Earth orbit. Its 10-sq-meter sail used the continuous pressure of sunlight for thrust, demonstrating a concept Kepler envisioned centuries ago. It was periodically visible to the unaided eye.
Credit: Ralf Vandebergh
Credit: Ralf Vandebergh
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You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
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@nuclearkatie.com [Scrooge voice] It's not too late! Katie, what day is this?
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
@nuclearkatie.com [Scrooge voice] It's not too late! Katie, what day is this?
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Defended my PhD in nuclear engineering
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Defended my PhD in nuclear engineering
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and is he also backing plans to abolish the fusion center or do we need to put that demand on a snow plow for it to be taken seriously
Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing the name “Abolish ICE" in Chicago's annual snowplow naming contest — and he sparred with Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino about it on social media. blockclubchi.co/4pi3DA4
January 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
and is he also backing plans to abolish the fusion center or do we need to put that demand on a snow plow for it to be taken seriously
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The spectacular conclusion of MOBY-DICK WEEK at @flaminghydra.com just subscribe, it is worth $3/week for about forever
Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING.
flaminghydra.com/lust-for-lif...
Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING.
flaminghydra.com/lust-for-lif...
Lust for life / Recessional
Carrie Frye on the romances of Moby-Dick; a farewell shanty from Joe MacLeod and friends
flaminghydra.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The spectacular conclusion of MOBY-DICK WEEK at @flaminghydra.com just subscribe, it is worth $3/week for about forever
Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING.
flaminghydra.com/lust-for-lif...
Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING.
flaminghydra.com/lust-for-lif...