Caught in cosmic alignment. This red arc is a distant galaxy, its light bent into a glowing partial Einstein ring by a massive galaxy 2.7B light-years away. A rare lensing gem spotted by a citizen scientist.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri et al.

Fake it till you are totally fake.

*in hell*
Me: excuse me I was told there would be a special place for me here?

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Why do Christians keep going on about "a foundation of morals" etc, when the entire premise of their #religion is not having to be accountable for the bad things they do?

Science: because figuring shit out is always better than making shit up.

Let's celebrate #science — the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through #observation and #experiment

@mattdillahunty.bsky.social I've watched and listened to you for over a decade, and you've been doing what you do for much longer than that. I'm curious, in all of this time have you ever had a single theist present anything that comes close to a "good reason to believe" or are they all the same?

Not already knowing how the universe works isn't an excuse not to learn how it works — #physics for the layman.

If god existed and he wanted to punish me when I die, he would send me to heaven, because I can't imagine anything worse than spending eternity with a bunch of theists.