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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

dennis hastert was a mass child Rapist and it's awesome he died. i hope it hurt.

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Criag @criagtime.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Shop local. Shoplift corporate.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also stop the repulsive grandiosity and smug threats about your product. I’m gonna be left behind? What the fuck are you even talking about? I don’t care! I’m old and have plenty to do and don’t want to follow your parade of lazy shitheads! I don’t know enough about it? Yes I do! You failed.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NASA's MESSENGER Satellite Captures Spectacular Color Mosaic of Mercury - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/9uD599

NASA image acquired: January 14, 2008

This spectacular color mosaic shows the eastern limb of Mercury as seen by MESSENGER as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first Mercury flyby in January 2008. The colors of this image are not those that would be seen by the human eye but instead convey information about the distribution of different rock types on Mercury's surface. The different rock types result in subtle color variations across all of the 11 WAC narrow-band color filters. The Caloris basin, visible as a large bright yellow circular area in this image due to its infill of volcanic plains, dominates the northern region. A similar image was published in Science magazine in July 2008, but it only covered the northern half of the region shown here. To create this larger color mosaic, MESSENGER Science Team members had to also devise a method to deal with scattered light in the 11 different WAC filters. MESSENGER has obtained color imaging at this resolution only for the portions of Mercury seen on departure from Mercury flybys 1 and 2.

As spectacular as this color image is, it is just a taste of what is yet to come. In 2011, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury and begin a year-long observing campaign that includes imaging all of Mercury's surface in color at an average resolution of about 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel), a resolution that is about a factor of three better than this already impressive image.

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ah lads @popeurbanfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god grant me a big stick to change the things that can be changed with a big stick

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

Life in the Milky Way Galaxy - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2roeDrA

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I miss my impulsivity sometimes. Being medicated and well adjusted is a lot less fun

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Craftle @cattlecrafts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not shooting every confederate officer and slave owner in the south was probably a worse mistake but sure.

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every drink in the room during my interview is getting pissed in

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

M 83 from SSO - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2iAMe9K

Galaxy M 83. 1st March 2020 (actually, 2nd March 2020, 2:30am - 6:00am) from Siding Spring Observatory. 40x5 min exposures, almost perfect guiding, processed with Siril, color/stretch with Photoshop, using Skywatcher Black Diamond 80 and ZWO ASI178MC. No light pollution filter, no flats, only 2 darks used.

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can tell this couple that lives a couple of doors down thinks I'm insane but they're overly polite to me & I believe they want to stay on my good side. I'm super friendly to them but they saw me talking shit & get in the face of this dog owner who doesn't leash his dog & I think I scared them

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

The Congressional Equality Caucus has released the following statement in response to our story indicating they will not back candidates who "scapegoat transgender people." Kaptur does not appear as of this morning on their endorsed list. Several who took the same vote as her still do, sadly.

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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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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Crazy, my internal temp monitor thinks 86 is fall temperature

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

until we are allowed control of our own bodies, we will never be truly free

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me between ages 17-19 in the bathroom of bars I was able to lie my way into

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I hear another motherboard call themselves an AI engineer I'm going to pour lye into my earholes

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

N132D X-Ray and Optical Composite - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nPcFtT

This is a composite of 7 channels of data. From Hubble, we've got wideband blue, mediumband green, and H-alpha, and wideband near-infrared data. From Chandra, we've got low, intermediate, and high energy x-rays.

These Hubble data are, in my opinion, some of the most difficult in the archive to process because the object is within such a densely packed region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. I've processed them once before with interesting results but I wanted to try again to see if I could get it a bit more natural and I also wanted to take the opportunity to include x-ray data available via openFITS.

The colors undoubtedly look very fantastical and unrealistic to you so I will create a metaphor to help you pretend it is actually realistic. If you were a being capable of seeing in x-rays, you might have a different eye on your head for this purpose rather than a single one. If this x-ray eye could see in color, then the x-rays would be just as colorful as the visible light your familiar set of eyes can see. So imagine you are a cool alien with this extra eye in addition to your two normal eyes and what you see might look something like this.

In fact, you could take color x-rays of your own flesh and bones if it were acceptable and useful to bombard your body with three times as much energy as a black and white x-ray requires and then you would be very familiar with color x-rays. It would be more fun to go to the dentist. Anyway...

The dull, reddish haze comprising the ou...

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great thread but heavy, if you aren’t up for a discussion of genocide (in particular the ways Bluesky is actively enabling the genocide of our community) skip past this one but if you’re up for it it’s important information on why this place isn’t that safe for us anymore and we shouldn’t trust it.

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I found 3 kittens huddled up together at the park this morning. Now they're in my bathroom 🫣

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

when will good happen?

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WAKE UP BABE, NEW JWST IMAGE DROPPED!!!!

A star-forming region. The left two thirds of the image is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thready wisps. The right third of the image is the black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that represent distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center of the scene. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

Had some fun in my backyard last night with my new Seestar S50 Pro 🔭

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

Leo A - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/oYJBRJ

An important dwarf galaxy that you've probably never heard of said to be made of the primordial stuff of galaxies. Taken straight from the proposal (10590) for this image:

"Leo A is the best nearby candidate to be a redshift zero analogue to the major building blocks of the Milky Way."

So, there you have it. If you want to study galaxy formation, I assume that it helps to have data on stuff like this.

I only wish that the composition and chip gap had a more satisfactory solution. The edges of the galaxy didn't quite fit on the detector and some older WFPC2 data was available to fill the chip gap but only half of it. It's hard enough to get people interested in what is most likely the commonest type of galaxy in the Universe without these aesthetic insults to hamper attempts at it.

Still, these data were quite comprehensive and with no less than 8 sets available for both channels, an incredibly smooth and cosmic-ray-free result is possible with minimal effort. It's give and take in the world of limited Hubble time.

Red: Median stack of 8 ACS / WFC F814W panels
Green: Pseudo
Blue: Median stack of 8 ACS / WFC F475W panels

Chip gap filler:
Red: hst_05915_01_wfpc2_f814w_wf_sci
Green: Pseudo
Blue: hst_05915_01_wfpc2_f439w_wf_sci

North is NOT up. It is 12.4° clockwise from up.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

Politicians who throw trans people under the bus: stop asking me for money

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026

The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The problem here is the people who use this tragedy to spread hate, do not actually care about the victims of 911. It's solely seen as motivation for US imperialism to continue

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Black Mountain | Dark Sky Webcam, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument #NPS #NationalParkService #GrandCanyon-Parashant

Elevation: 7,213 Feet
Dark Sky view looking south across the Paiute Wilderness.

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giraffesaredope.bsky.social @giraffesaredope.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you buy a phone with a folding screen you deserve to be scammed

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

James #Webb Space Telescope Stellar Populations and the Interstellar Medium Initial mass function in the lowest metallicity protocluster in the Galaxy - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2paZywk

Initial mass function in the lowest metallicity protocluster in the Galaxy
date_obs: 2022-10-19
targname: #Sh2-284
instrume: #NIRCAM

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

Auchincloss (MA) Frankel, Lois (FL) Mannion (NY) Scholten (MI) Titus (NV)
Castor (FL) Gillen (NY) Moskowitz (FL) Schrier (WA) Torres (NY)
Cisneros (CA) Golden (ME) Norcross (NJ) Sherman (CA) Vargas (CA)
Costa (CA) Gonzalez, V. (TX) Panetta (CA) Soto (FL) Vindman (VA)
Courtney (CT) Landsman (OH) Perez (WA) Stevens (MI) Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Cuellar (TX) Latimer (NY) Riley (NY) Suozzi (NY)
Davis (NC) Lee (NV) Schneider (IL) Thanedar (MI)

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