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the recent jwst images have been insane

$A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Processing: Alyssa Pagan.$

A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the center. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's center; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in color; bright, nearby stars are the same color.

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.

A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the center, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.

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Sandra ✒ SL Gore @gorenielsen.bsky.social · 9h

This jumble of words can be taken different ways. "With the war, oil prices are high, but if we stop them from nuking a couple cities, the price isn't high..."

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OKC405 @okc405.bsky.social · 10h

Whoa - Troy Jackson will mop the floor with Susan Collins tonight. You can watch the Troy Jackson vs. Susan Collins debate live on CBS13, FOX23, and their YouTube, website, and Facebook channels at 7 p.m. ET.

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Man Cleaning Floor with Jmr Mop

ALT: Man Cleaning Floor with Jmr Mop

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 17h

❗ "Stop!" shouts the mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko to the police, attempting to calm tensions in the high school student march in Paris. 📹 Enzo Rabouy via AlertesInfos

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Sandra ✒ SL Gore @gorenielsen.bsky.social · 16h

Here's a list of the US military installations in San Diego that Trump thinks are a small price to pay. Probably 115K service personnel.

sandiego.gov

Military Installations | City of San Diego Official Website

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

“.. San Diego is not collateral damage,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria posted. “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’ Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.” @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 21h

The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen, who figured out how to turn a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. The resulting IceCube experiment is now studying extreme events across the universe. 🔭🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 Nobel prize in physics

Schematic of the IceCube experiment in Antarctica

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Not my president. Clearly, not a president for all Americans. “Let them (Iran) take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” Then Trump called it a “small price to pay.” Millions of us dead. And his audience laughed. Reporting from my local news…

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Germany has arrested former spy chief August Hanning in a suspected espionage and treason case involving highly classified intelligence on Iran’s nuclear programme and the Russian military.

theguardian.com

Germany arrests former domestic intelligence chief over alleged spying

August Hanning served as president of Federal Intelligence Service from 1998 to 2005

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 21h

What I find interesting about this is how its a single person win. Seems usual to see more than one person winning. 🔭 🧪

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BC researchers released an analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal today: Multiple studies back permanent standard time over permanent DST, warning DST could harm health, economic productivity & students’ well-being 🔗 www.cmaj.ca/content/198/... cheknews.ca/clocks-stay-...

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Clocks stay in daylight saving, but analysis backs permanent standard time

Researchers from British Columbia have released an analysis warning of the potential risks to health, the economy and students' well-being with the darker mornings on the way.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Malawi, Theresa Kachindamoto has annulled thousands of child marriages, facilitating girls' return to school. She also sanctions local leaders and works with communities to transform practices harmful to vulnerable women and girls.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his family: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here is some great Democratic messaging created by a group of activists that designed signs in red with simple and yet devastating anti-Republican messaging. You can order the signs on-line.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last Days to register to vote online for the 2026 midterms. Register To Vote here: register.vote.org

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reminder: Voter registration deadlines are hitting TODAY, October 5, in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Please make sure you’re registered to vote!

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State Rep. Gene Wu @genefortexas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Texans!! It’s the last day to register to vote! Check your voter registration & make sure you are set for this November! Let’s go!! #txlege

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A fleet of Chinese AI agents was detected at a “swarmchasers” hackathon over the weekend. A fleet differs from a swarm in that there is centralized control over a large group of agents on the same kind of task, with no sign of communication between them. (swarmcha.se/posts/chines...)

Grove Research
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And last, The Swarmchasers team (including @rogesterone) found evidence of a Tencent agent fleet: swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People like Elon Musk who view human beings as a “biological boot loader for digital superintelligence” should not be in decision-making positions that affect the future of humanity.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence.
Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable
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Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
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Elon was calling it SI in 2014
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. U...
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the British military base at the centre of an incident last weekend.

bbc.co.uk

US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations

A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Science Alert: 'Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons' "Our findings provide compelling evidence that long COVID involves the loss of dopamine-releasing neurons" www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-...

sciencealert.com

Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons

Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does anyone know about ironsmithing ? This is a spike that was found inside the skeleton of a Spartiate killed in an enagement in Peiraieus (403 BCE IIRC). Would this be drawn out from a round bar or a flat billet ? Do you start by making the socket or the square-section spike ?

An iron spike, probably a buttspike, found inside the skeleton of a Spartiate killed in battle (403 BCE IIRC)

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Medical science has long treated Parkinson's purely as a brain disorder. Nagoya University researchers discovered gut microbiome damage from lack of bacterial genes that create vitamins B2 and B7; this damages intestinal barriers, & toxins cause neuroinflammation. en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026

🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com

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Democracy USA @oilgaschemicals.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YES WE CAN YES WE WILL DEFEAT FASCISM VOTE

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026

Just 31 days left in the midterm elections! You can help support close races where your dollar goes further by donating to our Blue Wave Nation impact fund :) secure.actblue.com/donate/mswbl...

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Support the MSW Blue Wave Impact Fund!

Show your support with a contribution.

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

China’s Shenlong spaceplane has reportedly demonstrated repeated satellite rendezvous and recapture operations. Tracking data indicate the spacecraft released, pursued and apparently recovered the same satellite multiple times between June and September. (No actual images of Shenlong exist.)

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Sandra ✒ SL Gore @gorenielsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MUST WIN. PLEASE VOTE! Get everyone you know to vote. Write postcards. Knock on doors. Phone bank. Fight until the last minute.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We cannot let this miserable uneducated administration destroy America VOTE

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICYMI earlier this week, check out my incredible interview with former child bride, Courtney Stodden, who helped end child marriage this week when Governor Newsom signed a bill banning child marriage in California on Wednesday (the day after my podcast posted). youtu.be/lFFeOULGG90?...

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Courtney Stodden Breaks Her Silence: Groomed at 16, Now Fighting to Save Girls

YouTube video by Lisa Guerrero

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Silver Spring Progressive Action @sspaction1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One month left until the election and let’s flip this seat blue. How? On 10/5 at 7:00 pm ET, phonebank to elect Rebecca Cooke to the House. This is a tossup election in an important state - help get her over the top! We'll train you if you're new or want a refresher. Sign up ⬇️

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Phonebank for a Blue Majority: Elect Rebecca Cooke (WI-03) to the House! · Mobilize

Join us to call Wisconsin voters, using an auto-dialer, to help elect Rebecca Cooke to the House. Cooke is in one of a handful of particularly close House races that are critical to our success and hi...

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TEXAS, pay attention: OCT. 5 is the final date to register and verify your address if you are on a suspense list. It takes 2 minutes at Vote411. Tag a Texan. #LetsGetVoteReady social.demcast.com/s/1uP9IWqP

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Check Your Voter Registration

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're gonna need a bigger chart

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oof: The cover of @economist.com this week is devoted to Effective Altruism, which they describe as “the 21st century’s most important social movement.”

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Economist
Time to overhaul tax
Two cheers for China's "six networks"
The nightmare of mirror life
Hit lit: Hollywood's novel obsession
OCTORER 3RD-9TH 2026
THE CENTURY'S BIGGEST IDEA
Effective altruism and the battle over Al

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