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pixiehatcher.bsky.social

@pixiehatcher.bsky.social

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Don't blame me, I voted for Harris/Walz. Retired InfoSec professional. Good to be retired but hard to enjoy it with so much Trump admin sh*t happening daily.

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pixiehatcher.bsky.social @pixiehatcher.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Any way I can cc: this part to every member of Congress?

Text from court doc: "If our nation is to thrive for another 250 years, each co-equal branch of government must be willing to courageously exert the authority entrusted to it by our Founders."

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pixiehatcher.bsky.social @pixiehatcher.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I just finished my holiday tradition of making homemade antipasto. It's an old recipe from my ex's Italian grandma.

Jars of homemade antipasto; tomato and olive oil sauce with green and black olives, pickles, carrots, celery, green and yellow beans, garlic, and tuna fish layered in the jars.

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pixiehatcher.bsky.social @pixiehatcher.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Stuck on a question in my astronomy lab about classifying a galaxy. Tried various answers and finally did a reverse image search. Found it on esahubble.org. It's actually two galaxies! Any astronomers on here with advice on classifying the edge-on galaxy?

From esahubble.org:
At first glance, this Hubble picture appears to capture two space colossi entangled in a fierce celestial battle, with two galaxies entwined and merging to form one. But this shows just how easy it is to misinterpret the jumble of sparkling stars and get the wrong impression — as it’s all down to a trick of perspective.

By chance, these galaxies appear to be aligned from our point of view. In the foreground, the irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389 — seen here as a cloud of stars — covers its neighbouring galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117, which appears edge-on as a streak. This wide-field image also captures many other more distant galaxies, including a quite prominent face-on spiral towards the right of the picture.
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA
Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola

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