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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is 3:51 pm God's Time on October 5, 2026, and despite entering OU-Texas as a commanding favorite virtually assured of a massive victory over Brent Venables' hapless Oklahoma Sooners, Texas still sucks.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 11h

NEW: The contrasting colors in NGC 7129 show differences in temperatures detected by #NASAWebb. The gold cavity at the left is hottest due to the central star and other embedded stars. The clumpy, red matter is colder and represents jets from less mature protostars: news.stsci.edu/3U8T7Bz 🔭

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

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The show is what you get if you invert the 2011 movie over the twin axes of artistic quality and source material authenticity 😅

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 04/10/2026

Always nice to get back to the mountains to spend some time with beauties like this one. #wildlife #bears #grizzly

A Grizzly Bear surrounded by grass in the foreground and leaves turning to fall colours in the background.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Briscoe's fishing celebration is a good bit 🎣

Chase Briscoe stands on the window of his race-winning Bass Pro Shops car and mimes at reeling in a fish

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A ✨s t a r✨ is born

$Track lighting forms brilliant extended diffraction spikes over a panning shot of Corey Day's No. 17 race car flying past the start/finish line.$ $Corey Day stands on top of his car and pumps his fists. Infield lighting gleams in similar extended diffraction spikes behind him.$

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"I... am an Autumn" — MRNP, probably

The warm sunlight of late afternoon fills an alpine meadow surrounding a small lake. A patch of bright red leaves frame the bottom foreground of the frame, and the faintly visible silhouette of Tahoma (Mt. Rainier) can be seen rising above the far treeline amidst the bright clouds.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

POV: You are watching a movie and a bald eagle is flying across the screen

A red-tailed hawk perches on a bare tree branch and screams.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do not let Dr. Steven Shin anywhere near that thumb

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hendrick sucking all year only for the 5 team to bust out a prime Knaus/Johnson Chase run is a fantastic bit, I must admit

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unironically, these kind of "gray area" day ruiners are exactly what the field needs to hand the 77 for a while if they want Spire to reign him in 🤷‍♂️

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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 27/09/2026

I think a lot of online leftists need to internalize that Zohran is a successful socialist is because he's not a hostile dickhead

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A bunch of our OU friends were supposed to come over for a tomato fest of various tomato-inclusive dishes after the game, but I’m not sure we’re going to have any left for cooking after throwing them all at John Mateer

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s so rude that we immediately have to watch the offense again after this

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cool to see NASCAR fans referenced in the new Taylor Swift songs

Screenshot of lyrics for Taylor Swift’s Babylon that read “Nostalgia as a weapon to hurt yourself”

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All She Wrote ⛈️ Scenes from last night’s season finale for the Seattle Storm. Admittedly, I’m still working on figuring out the best way to tackle shooting from the overflow section — and indoor lighting generally — but I think I got a decent set! #wnba #basketball #sports #photography

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s only way that actually works. They have to organize and ask for it. I can’t do that for them, and neither can friendly academics, lawyers or even lawmakers IMO. It’s really fucking hard and unfair but I can’t see a union that can bargain worth a damn that wasn’t built by the labor itself

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the one hand, I’m sure Trump got taken to the cleaners in these talks On the other, I do love having pandas in our domestic zoos

A giant panda clambers over some wooden structures in its San Diego Zoo enclosure

A giant panda makes its way down a grassy hillside at the San Diego Zoo

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

do we think 600mm is overkill for covering a basketball game

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Idk man I think everyone dramatically posting “But I’ve never heard this song!” might just be telling on themselves a tad You can realize you live in a bit of a bubble without it being some Big Thing™️ about modern media consumption patterns or shifts in popular culture

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Consequences of the flood of AI manuscripts: "An early-career researcher at an unbranded institution loses the one mechanism that ever let them be read on merit — anonymous review of the work itself, however badly it functioned in practice.

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shy guy who go to gym @coolideas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

eagles fans burning the rebel flag in nashville go birds

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Barren landscape? Nah, buddy. Bear in landscape.

A large brown bear stands on an Alaskan riverbank. He is dwarfed by the scenery, however, with coastal grasses and trees filling most of the mid-frame, and far-off mountains fading into an overcast sky at the top of the image.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is opening day for the Oklahoma State Fair! Nine of my photos earned ribbons in the photography competition, with 1st places in the categories of weather, international, and aerial, and 2nd place in birds. #Photography

A photo of a white lighthouse with a black top standing among green trees and palm plants during sunset. The sky features strikingly layered, wavy clouds with shades of blue and yellow.

A waterfall (seljalandsfoss) flowing over a cliff, shot from behind the waterfall (between the water and the cliff), looking out toward a vast open landscape and the setting sun. The sun casts a vibrant orange glow on the landscape and water, with clouds and blue sky above them. A single bird flies across the scene, light reflecting off its wings.

Drone image of a large butte sticking up from the landscape just before sunrise. The sky is mostly cloudy, with a beam of light painting distant cliffs. In the foreground, golden ridges reach out from the butte. Upon close inspection, one can see numerous tire tracks along the ridges from ATVs/bikes. Sad to see the landscape ruined, but it does look like it would be fun!

A male and female scissor-tailed flycatcher immediately next to one another attempt to land on the two bare twigs at the very top of a tree. The birds both have their wings spread wide open, with their exceptionally long tail feathers forked outward into 'v' shapes. The birds have a white head/body, black and white tail feathers, and orange-red accents under their wings. The background is simply blue sky.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Y’all wanna see over 25,000 NASCAR photos from the past five years and change of racing?

pjvphotography.com

Motorsports

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

no actually it's perfectly reasonable to spend time lining up the horizons in your photos on your decorative "my research ecosystem is pretty, see?" slides

Three photos of rolling grassland hills at Konza Prairie Biological Station in Northeast Kansas USA, all lined up so the top of the hills match in the photos

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs

Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“I had that dream again. The one where I could have sworn I felt the wind as it shifted off the water. The sun began to warm the distant slopes and light the tops of nearby trees. I had that dream again, where I felt completely free.” "Remnants: Tranquility" #Watercolor, #gouache, #coffee #dragons