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Patron saint of plasma.
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movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I photographed this heron in this spot but wasn't happy with the shot. When I went back the next day, the heron was there again.

It's always nice when the wildlife is willing to do a re-shoot.

#birds #nature #wildlife
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A fun encounter with a Yellow-flecked Glassfrog (Sachatamia albomaculata) last night at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#frogs #amphibians #nature
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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oh just muppetizing movie scenes: thread
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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My allonautilus portion of the painting is finish. Now I just need to add three big atomic diagrams before I can call it done.

#wildlifeart #oilpainting #marinelife #nautilus #allonautilus 🐡 🦑 #animalart #mollusks #cephalopods #girlthatgoldenspiralthough
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I used a tool to remove the stars from this photo. So if you're sitting in a spaceship right next to it, this is what you would see. This is the "fossil footprint nebula" because it has 3 toes that look vaguely like a dinosaur footprint.

Image credit: my tiny telescope

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Some more shots of the two gorgeous coyotes I saw a few weeks ago
#mammals #coyotes
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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muppetized horror movie posters: thread
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate.

Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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About to talk with a lovely group of philosophers and physicists at @perimeterinstitute.ca about the century-long debate over the foundations of #quantum physics! Watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/eIXSmhg...
100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future
YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Cuban Knight Anole! Largest anole in the Dactyloidae family. I really love their big heads! 🦎
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Can't take credit for the awesome Amphifa logo, but the one I designed is free to use!

Here's a png with no background. You can buy sticker paper everywhere and use a normal printer to print them out!
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Yesterday @lynda_lambert and I had this superb pristine Red Kite fly right over our heads. A scarce bird in this part of Spain.At the same roadside stop we saw Golden and Spanish Eagle and Marsh Harrier. Magical. #birds #birdsseenin2025 #birdphotography
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday
October 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Happy Ctenophore Day!
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October 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Meetings should be called weetings or even youtings. They should only be meetings if they’re arranged by someone who enjoys them. For example, “I’ve scheduled a weeting” or “I’ve scheduled a meeting” followed by “Is this youting mandatory?”

This could have been a weemail.
October 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A pied flycatcher fledgling taking a look into the big wide world.
#birds🪶
#rspbdinas

#Naturephotography
#birdphotography
#NatureTherapy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
September 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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When not impersonating a jelly donut, the Eastern red bat controls insect pest populations like gypsy moths, cutworms, coneworms, and tent caterpillars.

Therefore: do not eat the crunchy, fuzzy, squeaky donut.
March 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Tylenol caused the end permian extinction.
September 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM