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Half punk half hippie. Union electrican for life. Democratic Socialist.
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I live for the moments on Tom Waits albums where it feels like he has stumbled to the piano right before midnight just to send us home with something good.
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I live for the moments on Tom Waits albums where it feels like he has stumbled to the piano right before midnight just to send us home with something good.
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Today's tasks include cataloguing several volumes of the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science.
Articles in 1907-1914 were mostly taxonomy, geological features, agrarian interest, etc.
Then came electrical engineering, ornithology, soil surveys, and science pedagogy.
And then we hit 1968...
Articles in 1907-1914 were mostly taxonomy, geological features, agrarian interest, etc.
Then came electrical engineering, ornithology, soil surveys, and science pedagogy.
And then we hit 1968...
December 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Today's tasks include cataloguing several volumes of the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science.
Articles in 1907-1914 were mostly taxonomy, geological features, agrarian interest, etc.
Then came electrical engineering, ornithology, soil surveys, and science pedagogy.
And then we hit 1968...
Articles in 1907-1914 were mostly taxonomy, geological features, agrarian interest, etc.
Then came electrical engineering, ornithology, soil surveys, and science pedagogy.
And then we hit 1968...
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Two immense galaxies colliding 50 million light-years from earth!
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
December 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Two immense galaxies colliding 50 million light-years from earth!
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
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A Rare Gourd
A Rare Gourd - NASA
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017.
www.nasa.gov
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A Rare Gourd
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A mind-blowing photo from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on Feb. 1-2, 2010: the Mystic Mountain, located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. #Hubble #astrophotography
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A mind-blowing photo from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on Feb. 1-2, 2010: the Mystic Mountain, located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. #Hubble #astrophotography
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
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![[pic of woman screaming with her hands up in the air] funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social - satire - Therapists Agree Best Coping Skill At This Point Is Just Loud, Continuous Screaming](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreid3ze57qip7hpiwuikxtlurgdbonxuqwbnllc7fbjjxnb2nt77l3m@jpeg)
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The Heart of the Soul Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871.
This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The Heart of the Soul Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871.
This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871.
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15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳
Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.
Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.
Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026. Here’s what that means | CNN
Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.
www.cnn.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳
Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.
Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.
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"The restrictionists start by talking about foreign rapists and murders. But they always wind up talking about the Aryan race—or 'heritage Americans.'" lnk.thebulwark.com/48sUQWT
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"The restrictionists start by talking about foreign rapists and murders. But they always wind up talking about the Aryan race—or 'heritage Americans.'" lnk.thebulwark.com/48sUQWT
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THE VIEW FROM THE FLIGHT DECK: The storm hasn't even started, but auroras are already dancing around the Arctic Circle. Pilot Matt Melnyk saw them Dec. 7th while flying 37,000 feet over Greenland spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
THE VIEW FROM THE FLIGHT DECK: The storm hasn't even started, but auroras are already dancing around the Arctic Circle. Pilot Matt Melnyk saw them Dec. 7th while flying 37,000 feet over Greenland spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
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The saddest part of the FIFA ‘peace prize’ was how excited Senile Satan got over a fake award.
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The saddest part of the FIFA ‘peace prize’ was how excited Senile Satan got over a fake award.
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