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Wain Higgins
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Great to hear Uncle Bill speak. The dude had a way with words indeed.
February 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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“ the first felon” has lost his marbles. This shit show sham of a government is a dumpster fire 🔥 gone haywire on steroids. Some one needs to step in and stop this madness before something happens we can’t go back on. The keys to the zoo are now in the hands of the monkeys.
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Awesome
astrojaz.bsky.social Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Feb 5
i LOVE when a new jwst and hubble image drop on the same day
A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colors. A dark line across the center is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the center. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side. A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes, along with one foreground star at left.
February 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Disgusting 🤮
hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Jan 30
Bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac.

The President and extreme MAGA Republicans are blaming women and people of color for the deadly plane crash.

At the same time, they are dismantling the Federal Aviation Administration as we know it.

Disgusting.
January 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
I saw her at the Montreal Jazz Festival 15 years ago. It was a great show. She’ll be missed. RIP❤️🙏🏼
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jan 30
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, a 1960s British pop icon famously associated with the Rolling Stones, has died. cnn.it/3EiV7Pp
January 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Going to hell in a hand basket one day at a time. WTAF WERE PEOPLE THINKING?
January 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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AOC is right again. Hold your friends and family close and don’t let the First Felon get you down.
aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jan 26
Community is the antidote to despair.

Happy to host! 🌹
socialists.nyc NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc · Jan 26
Building the multiracial working class today in the Bronx with @aoc.bsky.social at our DSA 101.
January 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Wow, this is so depressing.
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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simzart.bsky.social SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · Jan 24
Welcome Back. 🐕
Two friends, a witch and a dog, finally hugging again in a sunny day.
January 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Thank you Costco 🙏🏼❤️😎👍🏼
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jan 24
Costco shareholders voted strongly against a proposal requesting a report on the risks of maintaining its diversity and inclusion initiatives, the US company said, sending a message running counter to the intense scrutiny many such corporate policies face. cnn.it/3PQdvlo
January 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This is exciting. 🙏🏼
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jan 24
Yes scientists and doctors can get it right !
globalecoguy.bsky.social Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Jan 24
I was skeptical at first, but Bluesky really is a fantastic platform for scientists who want to engage in broader public conversations.

Thank you @bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team for this amazing resource!
January 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Fuck yes. She’s my hero.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jan 24
it's like AOC is the only person who is expressing an actual emotion here
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jan 24
Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.
January 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I wasn't planning to post today, but this one wanted to be written open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Pathetic Billionaires’ Club
How fuck-you money can become fuck-me money
open.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This is such a beautiful tribute to David Lynch by Kyle MacLachlan. I think I maybe love this part the most because I have always been so utterly dependent on language for my own art, and maybe that’s why I am so drawn to Lynch’s films; he gave us something beyond language, beyond explaning
January 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
my current favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
enceladus over saturn’s rings 🪐
Following a successful close flyby of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this artful composition of the icy moon with Saturn's rings beyond. This view looks towards the trailing/anti-Saturn side of Enceladus. North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 28, 2015.
January 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Not sure how long we can go like this. Denial won’t change anything.
January 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Check this fascinating message from CHaT GPT 4.0……https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FDExCo/
January 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
wainhiggins.bsky.social
Amen Brother ❤️🙏🏼
hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Jan 9
Thank you President Carter for your incredible leadership, legacy and life of service.
January 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of Mycena semivestipes grows out from the moss covered punk of a decaying log
January 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
lots of devastation and negativity on the feed today.

i know this won’t solve anything, but maybe it’ll make someone smile and just forget for a small moment.

the beauty of the cosmos 🌌
Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas tower in the image, interspersed with a few pink stars. A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disk. It has a shining spot at the center from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disk fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars. The Orion Nebula is an expansive and cloudy cosmic landscape. Sweeping clouds that shine in pink, yellow, orange, and other colors are bright against the black backdrop of space. Big stars are forming and glowing within the nebula. Hundreds of stars and galaxies in varying shapes, sizes and colors on a black background. Two of the largest, most prominent stars can be found in the top left quadrant and near the bottom right edge, respectively. They are tinged with blue and have an eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Near the center of this image is the ZS7 system, made up of a merger between two galaxies and their black holes. The ZS7 system is not easily seen by the naked eye in this image, as it looks like very small red dots.
January 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This year should be quite the shit show. The old man going to DC is going to fuck shit up in ways that will blow our minds and not in a good way.....are you ready, folks?
Also, AI is moving ahead, and nobody can do anything to stop it. Things are moving fast, so hold on to your hats.Good luck.
January 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM