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☆Cira☆

@sacrificalmiqo.bsky.social

121 ! up 109 spots from this years!

wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 14h

the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀

November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM

☆Cira☆

@sacrificalmiqo.bsky.social

been thinkin' a lot about her just going to her mom...

#GPOSERS

November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM

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Ennis☀️

@ennokos.bsky.social

It’s that time of the year again

Printed out photo of ardbert edited to wear a Santa hat, taped to the top of a Christmas tree

November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 Dione and Rhea Ring Transit

Image Credit & Copyright: Christopher Go

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Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons Dione and Rhea are caught passing in front of the gas giant's extensive ring system in this sharp telescopic snapshot. The remarkable image was recorded on November 20, when Saturn's rings were nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. In fact, every 13 to 16 years the view from planet Earth aligns with Saturn's ring plane to produce a series of ring plane crossings. During a ring plane crossing, the interplanetary edge-on perspective makes the thin but otherwise bright rings seem to disappear. By November 23rd Saturn's rings will have reached a minimum angle for now, at their narrowest for viewing from planet Earth, but then start to widen again. Of course, Dione and Rhea orbit Saturn near the ring plane once every 2.7 and 4.5 days respectively, while the next series of Saturn ring plane crossings as seen from Earth will begin again in 2038.

November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Hina ⛩

@rasenkaikyo.etheirys.social

The frontline PvP diehards on my timeline

An older Tumblr post from 2022 where the now-deactivated OP posts KILL DIE THE VIOLENCE GUY with a picture of Bill Nye edited to look malevolent. Two more users reply with "*KILL!! KILL!!! KILL!!! KILL!!! KILL*" and "VIOLENCE RULES!"

November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM

☆Cira☆

@sacrificalmiqo.bsky.social

I have been very mean to myself lately and I hope being able to see my nieces will cheer me up...
My (favorite) niece turns 3 tomorrow !!! I cannae believe it...

November 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM

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Shas’shil Onfrai

@automaton-taco.bsky.social

@sacrificalmiqo.bsky.social
#GPOSERS #RESHADE

November 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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Shas’shil Onfrai

@automaton-taco.bsky.social

~Grand Gravitas~
#GPOSERS #RESHADE
(TW: BodyHorror)

November 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM

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Shas’shil Onfrai

@automaton-taco.bsky.social

#RESHADE #GPOSERS

November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM

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ashley ! @ colossalcon north aa + STORE SALE🩵

@deckitout.bsky.social

HAPPY COLOSSALCON NORTH ITS MOONFIRE METEOR TIME

November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas

Image Credit & Copyright: Xinran Li & Houbo Zhao

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The featured image shows a dark nebula complex involving thick dust appearing brown and making a big

November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Shas’shil Onfrai

@automaton-taco.bsky.social

Practice practice practice. Hand posing/facial expressions, tinkering heavily with lighting. I wanna get back into doing action shots, but Brio is fickle. BUT! I'm proud of the 3 hours I spent.. or was it 4...
#GPOSER #RESHADE #FFXIVNSFW

November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth

Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri

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Now outbound after its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object to pass through our fair Solar System. Its greenish coma and faint tails are seen against a background of stars in the constellation Virgo in this view from planet Earth, recorded with a small telescope on November 14. But this interstellar interloper is the subject of an on-going, unprecedented Solar System-wide observing campaign involving spacecraft and space telescopes from Earth orbit to the surface of Mars and beyond. And while the comet from another star-system has recently grown brighter, you'll still need a telescope if you want to see 3I/ATLAS from planet Earth. It's now above the horizon in November morning skies and will make its closest approach to Earth, a comfortable 270 million kilometers distant, around December 19.

November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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pebbles

@pebbles.gay

i love this 😭

[reposting w alt text]

We Have Enough Dead Friends
BY LENA OLEANDERSON

Come over. The doors are open,
my flat's a mess and
so is my heart
but the doors are always open.
Come over. I will make soup,
probably from frozen but
the important thing is
we will both eat.

You don't have to be dying,
but if you are,
or you feel like you are,
or if living's been hard,
call me, and I will show up.
It doesn't have to be that bad,
it doesn't have to be bad at all,
but if it is, please call.

Do you want me to do the groceries?
Do you want me to mop the floors?
Do you need to be held;
you don't have to be dying to be held.
If you want me to be there, I want to.

I'm on the bathroom floor again,
and breathing is hard,
and eating's been hard, and sleeping,
the world is a laden thing
rolling around on my chest lately.
Just being alive is heavy tonight,
but we have enough dead friends.
Come over.

November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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SIREN

@sillysiren.bsky.social

All of my #FFXIV job prints are now up on my online print shop:

www.inprnt.com/collections/...

I've even organized this set in one collection for easy browsing! 😌

November 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka

Image Credit & Copyright: Aygen Erkaslan

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Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these three blue supergiant stars are hotter and much more massive than the Sun. They lie from 700 to 2,000 light-years away, born of Orion's well-studied interstellar clouds. In fact, clouds of gas and dust adrift in this region have some surprisingly familiar shapes, including the dark Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula near Alnitak at the upper right. The famous Orion Nebula itself is off the right edge of this colorful starfield. The telescopic frame spans almost 4 degrees on the sky.

November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Kyrie Fishingway

@fishingway.bsky.social

Okay I will forgive them for turning Steps of Faith into an instance for this line alone

November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM

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Robin Sinclair

@robinssci.bsky.social

A Long-footed Frog (Cyclorana longipes), one of many, many frogs we encountered at Bullo River Station last week after some of the first big rains if the season.
#WildOz