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Under the Radar Magazine @undertheradar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dum Dum Girls' "Only in Dreams" just turned 15! Released by Sub Pop (@subpop.bsky.social) on September 27, 2011, the album remains a standout of the early 2010s indie/garage-pop revival. Matthew Berlyant looks back at the record. www.undertheradarmag.com/news/dum_dum...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rosette Nebula in Ha and Oiii - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2m8E1rN

Imaged from suburbs of Los Angeles with Orion 110mm ED f/7, 0.8x focal reducer, ZWO Ha and Oiii filters, and asi1600mm camera, approx. 2 hours integration.

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Spinout Nuggets @spinoutnuggets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many thanks to @mickeyundertone.bsky.social for playing The Sinclairs’ ‘Dirty River (feat. Emily Breeze)’ on The Late Show with Mickey Bradley last night. Hear it all here - www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Deep Image of Grand Design Spiral Messier 100 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2pmGwcg

This deep image shows the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 100. Its prominent and well-defined spiral arms are ablaze with pink HII regions and bright blue supergiant stars. In the centre of the galaxy lies an area of intense star formation visible as a small bright ring surrounding the core. A large faint halo extends far beyond the bright spiral arms.
This magnificent galaxy is located in the constellation Coma Berenices, approximately 55 million light-years away from Earth. At 107,000 light-years in diameter it is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.
Close to Messier 100 lies two satellite galaxies; NGC 4322 to the northeast connected by a bridge of luminous matter, and to the east is NGC 4328. Further away to the southwest lies NGC 4312, an edge-on spiral galaxy with a bright central region and a dusty disk. Numerous other smaller galaxies are scattered across the field, many of which are ultra faint dwarf galaxies with no obvious structure.
In the deep background countless distant galaxies appear, many visibly reddened by the cosmological redshift.

On the 27th March 2023, while some of the image data was acquired, the dwarf planet Ceres (mag 6.9) crossed the field of view, passing slowly in front of Messier 100's outer reaches as viewed from our perspective.
Click here for another version of the image which includes Ceres.

Resolution ............... 0.776 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -0.685 deg
Focal distance ........... 1435.75 mm
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Lagoon Nebula in Infrared light - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/egmQmU

This infrared image of the Lagoon nebula contrasts heavily with traditional images taken in visible light. Such images primarily display the striking magenta colour from glowing Hydrogen gas, as well as large dark obscuring clouds of dust.

The infrared part of the spectrum penetrates these clouds better and reveals complex details and thousands of young stars that are otherwise completely invisible. These stars shine primarily in the infrared and appear as golden red in this image. Only a minority of these are visible in traditional optical images.

To create this image I used a special infrared filter. Effectively the band observed is 700-1100nm since the sillicon CCD chip is not responsive to wavelengths longer than that, and this band is called NIR (Near Infrared). One issue arising from this technique is that the NIR band does not have a colour as such, since it lies outside the visible light spectrum.
To create a colour image from the NIR data I have developed a colour stacking technique which has produced promising results so far.
I use the NIR filter together with G and B filters to create a colour composite. The resulting images are assigned to the different channels as NIR->Luminance, NIR->Red, G->Green and B->Blue.

Substituting the R channel with NIR nicely brings out the contrast between the nebula itself and all the young obscured stars that shine primarily in infrared. This colour image is then overlaid with the NIR frame used as luminousity....

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 20/09/2026

This administration's latest attack on the Endangered Species Act is a one-way ticket to species extinction by letting bad actors kill an endangered species if they claim they “didn’t mean to do it.” Don't sacrifice whole species for corporate convenience.

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This evening marks the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. During this time of reflection, atonement, and prayer, I'm wishing all those observing an easy and meaningful fast. G'mar chatima tova.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/09/2026

We cannot let history forget what happens when a federal government uses law enforcement to terrorize innocent people.  And let me say to any agent or administration official who thinks we've forgotten or that their cruelty will go unchecked: Illinois remembers.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Closeup of Shuttle Endeavour flying over Golden Gate Park from California Academy of Sciences - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/dcP4gP

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Layers of Time and Space - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2j6jC4x

Near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah on May 25, 2020

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 15/09/2026

I pushed for independent oversight. Now, for the first time, we have an official glimpse at the damage—and it’s still an underestimate. Resources drained. Munitions depleted. Diplomacy wrecked. Troops exhausted. The American people deserve the full truth. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Iranian strikes have damaged hundreds of structures at U.S. bases, watchdog says

The report by the Pentagon's inspector general also detailed the extent of munitions shortfalls in the first comprehensive public accounting of the cost and military impact of the war with Iran.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy

I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west.

This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes).

The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia).

I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope).

The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used.

I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them.

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

people act like the fight for trans rights only began after gay marriage was legalized but that is completely ahistorical. trans people in 2026 aren't fighting for new rights, we're fighting to not lose rights that we'd already had for decades

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/09/2026

We are opening 51 safe overnight locations for New Yorkers, especially those living in basement apartments or low-lying areas who need a safe place to stay. Locations are listed at on.nyc.gov/SafeLocations and are also available by calling 311. Service animals and pets are welcome.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When you're constantly just trying to keep the lights on and put food on the table, you don't have the time or energy to fight the system. Keeping people hanging on by a thread isn't a policy failure; it's how they keep us too tired to push back.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hubble Servicing Missi#2570 - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/2cjpYNh

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, we are sharing this gallery of images from all five of the Hubble servicing missions.

Astronauts serviced Hubble for the first time in December 1993. Including that trip, there have been five astronaut servicing missions to Hubble between 1993 and 2009.

How did astronauts repair and service the Hubble Space Telescope more than 300 miles above the surface of the Earth? Watch Hubble astronauts as they discuss servicing from the innovative Robotics Operations Center: bit.ly/2EiiNTP

STS103-726-081 (19-27 December 1999) --- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) floats gracefully above the blue Earth after release from Discovery’s robot arm after a successful servicing mission. The event marks the fourth time in history that a Space Shuttle has released the great observatory. Those occasions were the initial release in 1990 and three subsequent servicing missions including STS-103.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wishing everyone a peaceful day

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trout Creek Wildflowers - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2m8oJqv

For anyone who could use a cool breeze or some light in the dark.

Single exposure at Trout Creek, Utah.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Big Bang left a permanent scare in the cosmic background, 5 billion light-years from Earth - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/R8o7w3

The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe. As it was created nearly 14 billion years ago, this light — which exists now as weak microwave radiation and is thus named the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — permeates the entire cosmos, filling it with detectable photons.

The CMB can be used to probe the cosmos via something known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect, which was first observed over 30 years ago. We detect the CMB here on Earth when its constituent microwave photons travel to us through space. On their journey to us, they can pass through galaxy clusters that contain high-energy electrons. These electrons give the photons a tiny boost of energy. Detecting these boosted photons through our telescopes is challenging but important — they can help astronomers to understand some of the fundamental properties of the universe, such as the location and distribution of dense galaxy clusters.

The NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope observed one of most massive known galaxy clusters, RX J1347.5–1145, seen in this Picture of the Week, as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). This observation of the cluster, 5 billion light-years from Earth, helped the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the cosmic microwave background using the th...

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 31/08/2026

Remove the cap on taxable income. Expand the forms of income subject to taxation. Make Congress pay back all the money it “borrowed” from the Social Security trust. It’ll be solvent before you know it. Just stop letting these grifters rip us off.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

𝟔𝟎+ 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐂 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟐. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Happy Jupiter Opposition - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2rRjSK5

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BigTakeoverMag @bigtakeover.com · 24/08/2026

Plus a special guest set by writer/radio host @eklisiewicz.bsky.social!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey man, when I called to schedule an MRI appointment at my local VA last week, they told me there were no openings until NOVEMBER. Maybe work on that before you start calling for more war with Iran. You can't even take care of the combat vets you have. Why are you trying to create new ones?

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mount Etna, an Active Stratovolcano on Italy's Island of Sicily - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/2oraY8w

Mount Etna, an active stratovolcano on Italy's island of Sicily, billows smoke in this oblique photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Black Sea coast of Ukraine.

Image Credit: NASA

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The Catburgers @thecatburgers.bandcamp.com · 17/08/2026

Catburgers in here. "Scottish sublime janglepop". We'll take that! 😊

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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com · 18/08/2026

Review | Robyn Hitchcock - The Confuser by @eklisiewicz.bsky.social "This is an album to savour and sing along to, with its many memorable lyrics and melodies. It ranks as one of Robyn’s best, and he has the vim and vigour of a much younger soul. Bravo!" echoesanddust.com/2026/08/roby...

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Spinout Nuggets @spinoutnuggets.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Moonflower - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/o2wgEW

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for 200+ straight days, and reports say conditions onboard are so bad that multiple sailors have tried to jump off. Our servicemembers deserve better than this. There needs to be an investigation.

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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Mike Luckovich cartoonist:

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.

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