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Starry @starrys.uk · 15h
Dreamy 😍
Close up of Xiao Zhan's face
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Starry @starrys.uk · 29/09/2026
listening on repeat, while it lets me 《异想天开》专辑 真的很好听,推荐给你们!(来自 @酷狗音乐 海量曲库,极致音质)https://t1.kugou.com/album.html?id=7bFmTb4G5V2
Screenshot from Kuguo of Xiao Zhan's new EP. With QR code to listen
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Starry @starrys.uk · 28/09/2026
Went to school for a meeting, came back with a virus. Then eldest came back from Europe with a virus. So now I have two viruses competing to see which can make me most ill. So glad I can work at home cos ugh... not enjoying this
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Starry @starrys.uk · 23/09/2026
Can't wait!
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Starry @starrys.uk · 23/09/2026
Sobbing 🥹❤️
Screenshot from Kat's Instagram stories, with Kat, Matt, Alberto and Tessa in the audience at Dancing with the Stars for HarryRepost by Harry of Kat's story. Added text "My ShadowhuntersTV fam!!! ❤️❤️❤️"
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Starry @starrys.uk · 16/09/2026
Eldest has gone to Europe for a few days with friends. Lost wallet before even leaving the UK. I will not be sleeping till Friday 😓
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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You may know the American Robin. But have you seen this one? That bright pink chest belongs to a pink robin. Australia’s robins come in a surprising range of colours. #birds #australia #animals #robin
A pink robin perched on a branch, dark grey head and back with vivid pink breast and belly.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hubble's Wide View of 'Mystic Mountain' in Infrared - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/7VDifk
NASA image release April 22, 2010

This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared-light image of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image marks the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth.
The image reveals a plethora of stars behind the gaseous veil of the nebula's wall of hydrogen, laced with dust. The foreground pillar becomes semi-transparent because infrared light from background stars penetrates through much of the dust. A few stars inside the pillar also become visible. The false colors are assigned to three different infrared wavelength ranges.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar in February and March 2010.
Object Names: HH 901, HH 902
Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

To read learn more about this image go to:  www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble20th-img....

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026
Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.
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Starry @starrys.uk · 27/08/2026
Had an email at work this week, asking for advice. "I asked Google AI but it answered for Europe not the UK" sigh. Google is useless for everything now, even worse when its an "AI" generated reply. Ask real people,you'll get a proper reply
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Starry @starrys.uk · 24/08/2026
Advertising you go away every time there's a festival near your house on a major news site..... what could possibly go wrong
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Lee @aliasmarionette.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Na Ying and XZ banter about their meeting on Our Song 7 years ago at her Beijing concert and she promises to show up at his concert. (Na Ying is known for being blurt and saying exactly what she thinks and being hilarious and lovable while doing so as you see here.) #XiaoZhan
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Starry @starrys.uk · 23/08/2026
Tiktok kills kids. Many of these "challenges" end in fatalities. So much for regulation. I can't DM anyone unless I give my ID, but they can easily find these videos. Absolute joke
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Starry @starrys.uk · 22/08/2026
Is there some social media "challenge" for kids driving the wrong way along a motorway going on at the moment? 3 fatal crashes in a few days is very concerning, especially when I have kids that age
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Starry @starrys.uk · 20/08/2026
We've had a day and a half of rain. Apparently, that's enough 🙄 Most of the rain is in the drain cos the ground's too hard to absorb it, but yeah... no more. I swear intelligent people are getting more ignorant by the day
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Starry @starrys.uk · 19/08/2026
Basically every medical condition ever: caused by or worsened by stress and anxiety The world: *piles on stress* Me:
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Starry @starrys.uk · 17/08/2026
Not impressed with Viki. Absolutely no need to do what they've done. I hope they rethink
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology
The photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. The stylus is octagonal in shape, with a dot-punched inscription along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:

'ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf (e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna darlelt quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus'

Translated as

I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.'


This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.
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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need a serious reckoning about the British press. We've had too many tragedies. And this whole saga was nothing but appealing to the worst, most prejudiced instincts of their writers and readers. They turned this into a cruel, relentless spectacle until a terrible outcome.
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Starry @starrys.uk · 15/08/2026
People can bleat on all they want about how the UK's not racist. Facts speak for themselves. Racism here is only getting louder, and fuelled by the media it will continue to do so
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Starry @starrys.uk · 05/08/2026
My youngest child will eat almost anything I make and put in front of them, even if they don't particularly like it, just because it's there to be eaten. My eldest will not eat anything unless it's on a very small, specific list of items. The joys of parenthood!
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Starry @starrys.uk · 04/08/2026
It's raining!! Proper rain. I'd almost forgotten what it sounded like. Half tempted to go stand in it, but that would be very bad for my health lol
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Milky Way over SSO - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2h7b8NE
The Milky Way over Siding Spring Observatory on Friday 23rd Aug 2019, 9pm local time, during a Stargazing event as part of a tour for Australian Geographic.

10 x 30 seconds exposures taken using a  camera is a CANON 5D Mark III in a tripod (no tracking). The lens was a Samyang 14mm at f2.8.

RAW to TIFF conversion in Photoshop, star alignment and median stacking with Siril software.

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University) + all participants.
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Starry @starrys.uk · 24/07/2026
This tree is like a giant dot-to-dot. If you're related to any European nobility/royalty, you're related to them all 😅 Still haven't found a link though 😮‍💨
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Starry @starrys.uk · 24/07/2026
My @mu.social is now purple! Love it 😆
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Starry @starrys.uk · 23/07/2026
According to my kid's dad, all news media except GB News is left-wing lunatic, communist news. All of it. Even the right-wing stuff. Says a lot about him...
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Starry @starrys.uk · 16/07/2026
Men* are happier in relationships. Women* are worse off. Ergo, men should be in relationships with each other and women should stay single. There we go, I've solved the male loneliness epidemic! *not all, obvs
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Starry @starrys.uk · 13/07/2026
I need to move house for my sanity, but I cannot afford to move house. Perpetual dilemma brought on by bad choices I made in my early 20s. Trust your gut, kids. It's always right
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Starry @starrys.uk · 11/07/2026
We're supposed to learn from history so-as not to repeat it. Seems too many would rather live through it
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Starry @starrys.uk · 11/07/2026
Loving the 2/n of threads on Mu. Now I know how many posts I need to scroll to read everything!
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Starry @starrys.uk · 09/07/2026
I will laugh so hard if Farage loses to a bin
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Starry @starrys.uk · 09/07/2026
I need chocolate, but all the chocolate is melting from the heat 😤 even our chocolate isn't up to heatwaves
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Starry @starrys.uk · 27/06/2026
Opened all the windows this morning and managed to get the house under 25°c for a while. Nice while it lasted
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Starry @starrys.uk · 20/06/2026
Just what I've been waiting for! 😄
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Starry @starrys.uk · 17/06/2026
Donated to Wikipedia for the first time - I've been using it a lot recently. The little butterfly instead of a bird or x on the thank you page made my day!
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Starry @starrys.uk · 15/06/2026
Kids need 3rd spaces. We all do, but kids especially. What are they going to do when they can't hang out on street corners or hang out online? They're gonna get inventive, and not in a good way
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
More seriously, if the government was really intent on doing something substantive to get kids off social media (as opposed to being seen to be doing something), there would be a simultaneous announcement of a massive investment in youth clubs and services.
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Starry @starrys.uk · 15/06/2026
Banning under-16s from using social media. How exactly do they plan on doing that... demanding people give their ids to random scammy corps no doubt
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and NGC 2023 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/rhRRAz
In the Shadow of the Horsehead - Deep 26 Hour Version

Link to full resolution image (3.8MB): goo.gl/mXsTKe
Link to large 'X3' size image: goo.gl/DnMTZA
Link to large 'X3' size greyscale version: goo.gl/fXA2fZ

I recently added a Ha filter to my collection and promptly put it to the test by soaking up a decent amount of data on the Horsehead nebula. I wanted to improve on my initial attempt on this target from 2014. One of the issues was that I'd like to show the delicate 'curtain' structure of IC 434, the bright glowing hydrogen emission that the Horsehead is silhouetted against.
This also prompted me to add more data to the LRGB channels as well in order to bring out the faint dust details better, so all together with last year's data I ended up with over 26 hours of data which I completely reprocessed and assembled into this updated version. 
I'm pleased that the result has higher resolution and more depth than last years' effort. The colours are also richer and more refined and in particular the Ha curtains now stand out above and around the Horsehead.

About the image:
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is without doubt one of the most recognized and fascinating objects in the sky. This iconic feature is formed by the sharp outline of a dark dust cloud, with a remarkable likeness to a horse's head, silhouetted against a brightly glowing patch of ionized Hydrogen (IC434) that is being energized by the hard ultraviolet radiation from nearby Sigma Orionis, a...
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Starry @starrys.uk · 11/06/2026
Mu.social lets me see chat, cos I told it I was over 18 and it believed me without having to show my id. I like that 😁 People can dm me again!
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Starry @starrys.uk · 11/06/2026
This would be great if I didn't live in the UK 😅
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Starry @starrys.uk · 11/06/2026
Trying out mu.social Saved as a webapp so it opens like an app instead of a webpage. Like that. Like that posts are editable too! Would like to be able to change the colour scheme though. Can't please everyone, heh
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Post editing on mu.social
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Muve to the beat. Muve the conversation. Muve mountains. Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖
Purple banner with the 'mu' logo in the middle in white with a black drop shadow
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Starry @starrys.uk · 11/06/2026
Phone updated to UI8.5 Had to turn off 3 new "ai" things and an invasive Now bar I don't want. Stop putting invasive, unwanted things everywhere
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green is carrying Blue on top of his head. Blue looks wide-eyed and stunned, completely wrung dry and shriveled, hanging limp like a rag.
Narration: How to revive an oversocialised introvert:
1. Gently remove from crowds.

Green gently lowers shriveled Blue into a metal stock pot. The pot's lid is leaning against the pot on the side.
Narration: 2. Place in a chilled, dark and quiet place, away from strong smells and sounds.

Sitting down to wait next to the now lidded pot, Green reads a newspaper.
Narration: 3. Let simmer until normal.

Green turns to look towards the pot as Blue peers out, still not fully recovered but now looking much more like his regular self.
Green: Feeling any better yet?
Blue: A little.
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Starry @starrys.uk · 08/06/2026
I don't remember what I planned for today, but I'm not feeling good so I'm not doing any of it 😅
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Starry @starrys.uk · 01/06/2026
It's so funny to me how my dog, who is a labrador/spaniel cross, hates rain so much she won't even go out for a pee until she literally can't hold it anymore. Like, it's in her genes to like water. But not my dog 😂
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