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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I imagine Tulsi Gabbard did not expect this part of the movie.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 08/12/2024

Someone just sent me an image of a trapped fox. I asked why's he in a cage Then they sent me a photo of his hide hanging on a barn door. Those are the kinda people we're up against folks That's why we need your voice to join ours We are howling for justice at @altyellonatpark.org Rewild the West

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Assad is now in Moscow, so Tulsi can visit all her friends in one place.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Sure social media followers are great but have you tried gobblecat followers?

Photo of a 47 year old white woman taking a selfie to show that there are two large bronze turkeys following her on the snowy ground.

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Margaret A-Spelle 🎃 @margaretadelle.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

South Korea fought back an attempted coup, a CEO was assassinated, Syria overthrew a dictator. The season finale of 2024 is popping OFF.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Full view of NGC 4490 by MIRI. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

This image, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), showcases the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4490, also known as the "Cocoon Galaxy." The image reveals a vibrant display of star formation, with young, hot stars illuminating clouds of gas and dust in hues of red and orange. The galaxy's intricate structure, including its prominent bar and spiral arms, is highlighted in stunning detail. NGC 4490 is located approximately 65 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/12/2024

Markwayne Mullin on Hegseth’s drinking: TAPPER: Drinking at 10 in the morning, that’s a drinking problem. MULLIN: Yeah & there’s probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too. TAPPER: A drunk reporter who is drinking at 10 AM…is not in charge of the 3 million person defense department.💥

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

jwst’s recent images 🌌

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the center. There is an inner disk that is clearer, with speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy.

Two spiral galaxies take the shape of a colorful beaded mask that sits above the nose. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller, taking up a little over a quarter of the view. The galaxy at right, NGC 2207, takes up half the view, with its spiral arms reaching the edges. IC 2163 has a bright orange core, with two prominent spiral arms that rotate counter clockwise and become straighter towards the ends, the left side extending almost to the edge. Its arms are a mix of pink, white, and blue, with an area that takes the shape of an eyelid appearing whitest. NGC 2207 has a very bright core. Overall, it appears to have larger, thicker spiral arms that spin counter clockwise. This galaxy also contains more and larger blue areas of star formation that poke out like holes from the pink spiral arms. In the middle, the galaxies’ arms appear to overlap. The edges show the black of space, including extremely distant galaxies that look like orange and red smudges, and a few foreground stars.

A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is small white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s center, but it is tightly limited to the core. The rings feature colors of deep red and orange and highlight filaments of dust around cavernous black bubbles.

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"Can you perform under pressure?" No, but I can sing shake it off

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Watching Star Wars and rooting for the empire because it represents law and order

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Justin Gill @justin-gill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I really hope this doesn’t turn into another global pandemic. Hopefully WHO can identify & contain the cause. If we have learned anything from COVID it should be that early action can make a huge difference. RFK, Oz, and other health nominees give me way less hope 😬 www.forbes.com/sites/davewe...

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Mysterious Disease X Kills Scores In Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Scores of people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Researchers from the WHO are investigating the cause of this mysterious Disease X.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The young star cluster NGC 602, by #JWST

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 08/12/2024

Here's few more photons that I found in my driveway photon trap! The Seagull Nebula in on the border of constellations Monoceros and Canis Major. 🔭🧪 #astrophotography

A space nebula in a rainbow color palette. It looks a little bit like a seagull flapping its wings.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I know there are bigger issues to focus on, and I haven’t lost sight of them… But can movies/TV figure out sound so one volume works the whole time? Why is the dialogue a whisper, but a passing car sounds like it just drove through my wall? Rant over 😑

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Curiosity @mcuriosity.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳 📸 yin hao

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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Me watching a film. 1. Start watching. 2. Wonder what I’ve seen one of the actors in before. 3. Google actor. 4. Go to IMDb/their Wikipedia page. 5. Find out every single detail of their entire life. 6. Realise I’ve completely missed the plot of the film and now have no idea what’s going on.

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Astronomy pictures @astronomers.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

“Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA,Hubble

Stars form in large clouds of gas and dust called nebulae that scatter the visible wavelengths of light our eyes can see. The longer wavelengths of infrared light can pass through the cloud relatively undisturbed. Hubble’s near-infrared capabilities and high resolving power make it an important tool in the study of how stars form.

Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust are seen to rise along the nebula’s wall. At the top, a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust is being eaten away by the brilliant light and winds from nearby stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming left and right from the tips of the peaks.
NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I understand hating opinion columns, I say this as an opinion columnist, but reporting is good and if American democracy is going to survive we desperately need reporting to expose corruption.

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