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Globally known chess player, former paratrooper, artist.

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I am a globally known chess player, author, artist, formerly 12 year off grid experienced survivalist, former paratrooper/antiwar activist, AI theorist/researcher, and much more. www.instagram.com/chessmadness960/?…

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Globally known chess player, former paratrooper, artist. @chessmadness960.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
When someone gives you only two options, make a third one. #facts
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Globally known chess player, former paratrooper, artist. @chessmadness960.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You can’t give people what they want, because then they will think they have power.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 11/03/2025
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Maya NH @1mayanh.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Good morning everyone. It will always be Denali. Have a peaceful day.
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Karin B @tinykarin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Each day is still a new day #peace #nature #beach
Calm lacy waves rolling onto a sandy beach. Blue sky with some white clouds. Rocky cliff, boulders  & trees on the left
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Karen Barry-Davies @wheelan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🦋 Good Night Everyone 🦋 ~~~ Sweet Dreams ~~~ #Photography #Nature #Tynemouth 🇬🇧 #Seas #Coastal #Sunsets ENJOYING A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET ~ 🌅 ~
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
camping in b&w
looking outside from inside a tent. There is a bare tree and light snow on the ground.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hubble captures the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, 46 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Its bright core, dust lanes, and blue stars stand out, but fewer emission nebulae suggest lower star formation. Fiery young stars likely cleared the remaining gas. Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, WFC3 Team
Hubble captures the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, 46 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Its bright core, dust lanes, and blue stars stand out, but fewer emission nebulae suggest lower star formation. Fiery young stars likely cleared the remaining gas.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, WFC3 Team
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VermontArtist @vermontartist.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I think I'm adding too much extra stuff to this #AcrylicPainting based on a pic I took a couple years ago , but I am having fun, listening to Baroque music as I paint. I'll keep working on it, adding/removing stuff, and will eventually pull myself away. 🙂 #Art #Painting #Autumn #Fall #Vermont
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Gelena 🤍🏔️ @gelena.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Dzień dobry ☀️ Spokojniej niedzieli wszystkim życzę Guten Morgen 🌄 Kommt entspannt durch den Sonntag 🏔️Tien-Shan, Zailiyskiy Alatau, Kasachstan (Archiv)
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Gelena 🤍🏔️ @gelena.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dzień dobry🌞 Dobrej niedzieli wszystkim życzę Guten Morgen ☕ Wünsche allen einen feinen Sonntag 🏔️Tien-Shan, Zailiyskiy Alatau, Kasachstan
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Globally known chess player, former paratrooper, artist. @chessmadness960.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just outside my home this morning. #february #winter #snow
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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Benton Murdoch Spruance (American, 1904-1967), Philadelphia Orchestra (Study for a Mural), 1941. Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board.
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Jools @joolsandsid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Evening brisk walk as it was cold, wet, and misty #photography #EastCoastKin
A colour photograph of a dark street. There are cars to the left and terraced houses to the right which are in shadows. There is a bright orange glow of the street lamps at the end of the street which highlights the pavement. It was a misty damp night.
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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
An Italian Girl with Doves, 1866 by Raffaello Sorbi (Italian, 1844–1931)
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/02/2025
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San Jose Astronomical Association @sjastronomy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
From member Imran Bader: Deeper in the core of the Rosette nebula, we see several Bok structures. Bok Globules are pockets of dark cosmic dust and gas, usually containing newborn protostars on their way to becoming fully fledged main-sequence stars. 🔭 #astrophotography
A close up and detailed image of the Rosette Nebula, shown in blue and surrounded by orange dust. The center of the rosette is black and full of stars, while the blue nebula has numerous dark structures peeking out of it.
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Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Miles Davis 'It Ain't Necessarily So" Album: "Porgy And Bess" Conductor, Arranger: Gil Evans youtu.be/V96bYcS5JzU?... #Jazz #Jazzsky #JazzMusic #Music #MilesDavis
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/02/2025
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
M33 Triangulum Galaxy, 2021-08-06 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2mgieU9
Imaged with APM 140mm doublet, 0.8x reducer, asi1600mm mono camera, and ZWO RGB filters.
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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Durations - by Tristan Unrau , 2020. Canadian , b. 1989 - oil on canvas .
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★彡 𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓪 彡★ @amordalma.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Good night 🌟
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/02/2025
by Pascal Campion
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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Will Wilson (American,b.1957) Pairs, 1999 Oil on linen
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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Sarusawa Pond" Ito Yuhan ~ 1930s #art
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Karen Barry-Davies @wheelan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🦋 Good Night Everyone 🦋 ~ ~ Sweet Dreams ~ ~ #Photography #Nature #Northumberland 🇬🇧 #Shores #Sunsets ENJOYING THE EVENING SUNSET~~ 🌅 ~~
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/02/2025
by Jeffrey T Larson
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Rick Files Photography @rickfilesphoto.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Good Morning! Female Hairy Woodpecker Takes a Look #Birds #Birding #ArtYear #Photography
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Nature Horizon @naturehorizon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sunset in California. 📸credit: H Manabe Kindly go check out @pdaid.bsky.social @pdaidfoundation.bsky.social and @connectaid.org they are amazing accounts that serve humanity and nature through communication. #nature #photography
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Aesthetics @aestheticspost.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Anna B. @bornforart.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Mount Hood 📷 by Jackiec #Photography #Landscape #Mountains #Lake
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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
JWST observed the Class 0 protostar HOPS-383 yesterday. This data was processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746...
This is a near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument, showcasing a complex and dynamic region of star formation. Bright wisps and filaments of gas and dust, illuminated by the powerful radiation from young stars, swirl and intertwine, creating a textured and ethereal scene.  The image is dominated by warm hues, with areas of intense star formation glowing brightly in shades of red and orange. Darker, denser regions of gas and dust appear as shadowy silhouettes against the brighter background, hinting at the ongoing processes of stellar birth and the intricate structures of the interstellar medium. The overall effect is one of awe-inspiring beauty and complexity, revealing the raw energy and creative forces at work in the early universe.
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KRL Photo @krlphoto.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Took this a couple hours ago on the Oregon Coast. #photography
Big waves crashing on jagged sea stacks on the Oregon coast
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peachiiKim @peachiikimaf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The entire democratic world wishes Zelenskyy was their leader, so I would say he is doing an admirable job. Carry on and Thank you for the example.
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Zandra.Bluesky 420buddy @zandra-b.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Little River Canyon, Alabama
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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
«Yo concibo el espíritu como el olor de una rosa; que siendo ella tan pequeña por mayor que sea, él puede hacer una rosa del tamaño de la luz del día o de la sombra de la noche». - Juan Ramón Jiménez Art by Cy Twombly, Coronación de Sesostris
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/02/2025
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Tommy Farnsworth -- tf PhotoScapes @tommyfarnsworth.com · 19/02/2025
Alta Lakes Colorado. 11,000+ elevation and camping was lonely and COLD! Started snowing when we woke. Sept 2003 #colorado #altalakes #camping #photography #travel #photography #travel #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes #landscape
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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Male Northern Flicker Camera shy...
A black and gold, with a touch of red, Northern Flicker is perched on a branch and facing away from the camera. His beautiful feathers pattern is clearly seen. The white branches of the tree are all around him. The sky is pale blue.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
i feel like we all need another timeline cleanser
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.A concentration of bright blue stars occupies the bottom right corner of the image. At bottom center within them is a small blue bubble. The stars and bubble are part of a diffuse dwarf galaxy that extends beyond the image border. Background galaxies are scattered across the image, with some particularly prominent spirals located at upper left and upper right. The background of space is black.This is a highly detailed composite image of a star-forming region of space known as 30 Doradus, shaped like a bouquet, or a maple leaf.

X-ray wind and gas takes the shape of a massive purple and pink bouquet with an extended central flower, or perhaps a leaf from a maple tree. The hazy, mottled shape occupies much of the image, positioned just to our left of center, tilted slightly to our left. Inside the purple and pink gas and wind cloud are red and orange veins, and pockets of bright white light. The red and orange veins represent energy ejected by supernovas, carried on cosmically strong winds. The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of 30 Doradus houses the most massive stars astronomers have ever found.

The hazy purple and pink bouquet is surrounded by glowing dots of green, white, orange, and red. A second mottled purple cloud shape, which resembles a ring of smoke, sits in our lower righthand corner.This is a composite image of star cluster NGC 602, in vibrant and festive colors. The shape of the star cluster strongly resembles a holiday wreath. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud.

The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/02/2025
William H. Hays Island Universe
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It's The Pleiades @itsthepleiades.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Rho Ophiuchi in all its beauty. The closest star forming region to our own planet at 390 light years away. Brighter stars standing out due to JWST's characteristic pattern of diffraction spikes. Image Credit: #NASA, #ESA, #CSA, STScl, Klaus Pontoppidan, Alyssa Pagan. 🔭 #Astronomy #Space
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Chris Powell @chrispowellartist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Self portrait. Purple pedestrian in crosswalk taking up space. Painting w/ camera again. #35mm #bnw #film #collage 📷 🎨 #portrait #blackandwhite #photography #artgallery #photo #gallery #monochrome 🖼️ 📸 🎞️ #analog #streetphotography
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Islander @dhiislander.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#37 #Maldives #visitMaldives #sunset #sunrise #goldenhour #island #photography #travel #LumixS9 #LUMIX #LUMIXJAPAN
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Gelena 🤍🏔️ @gelena.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sharp summit from the Chamonix Valley… ⛰️⛰️ #photography #bluesky #nature #art #landscape #mountains #sunset
The summit of the Drus, captured from the Index (Chamonix).  The light hits from the side, drawing perfectly the spine of the summit.
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