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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 6h

Diane Keaton by Diane Keaton
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Albumism @albumism.com · 6h

Minnie Riperton's sixth & final studio album ‘Love Lives Forever’ (1980) was posthumously released 45 years ago this week | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @markchappelle.bsky.social here: album.ink/mripertonLLF

Minnie Riperton’s ‘Love Lives Forever’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

One listen to ‘Love Lives Forever’ disabuses any notion that these compositions didn’t deserve a chance to run into the arms of a heart-wounded fanbase waiting to embrace them.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12h

Diane Keaton directed this banger music video on top of all her other achievements, RIP to a legend

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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

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Gareth Murtagh @garethmurtagh.bsky.social · 8h

What a story!

Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 2d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

#MSH45 | Sept. 24, 1980
Join the U.S. Geological Survey on an afternoon observation flight around Mount St. Helens.

You'll see highlights such as the steaming crater, the August dome, Spirit Lake, "The Steps," and the debris avalanche-buried North Fork Toutle River valley.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 8h

#MSH45 | May 18, 1980
"Now that's an ash cloud."
— Paul Hogan, "Crocodile Dundee," when looking at a photo of the mammatus clouds of volcanic ash over Richland, Washington.

Volcanic ash clouds from the eruption of Mount St. Helens form mammatus-like patterns in the sky over Richland, Washington, more than 180 miles east of the volcano. Photographed by Don J. Easterbrook, University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections (Donald J. Easterbrook Photograph Collection, PH Coll 797, image EAS1008).

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 12h

Recently on Instagram, someone associated with a local St. Helens institution contacted me with an image of what they had from Landsburg's car.

Incredibly, these cards survived the pyroclastic density flow in good condition. The thermal qualities of the blast are fascinating.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 12h

Another famous Mount St. Helens photographer from May 18, 1980, albeit with a much sadder ending than Richard Lasher's story.

Finding the January 1981 issue of National Geographic in my school's library was a moment I'll never forget. Landsburg's photos, even to a kid, felt uncomfortably close.

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#MSH45 | June 4, 1980
Seventeen days after the eruption, the 304th Air Force Reserve found Robert Landsburg three miles west of Mount St. Helens. In his ash-covered bag: camera, film, and ID—all shielded.

Published in National Geographic in 1981, his photos became iconic records of the eruption.

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 11h

Should Brazil have a west coast?

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 13h

Kevin Whately as PC Evans in Juliet Bravo - Coming Back (11th October 1980).

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 13h

Steptoe & Son - Crossed Swords (11th October 1965). For once, Harold comes up trumps when he buys a Meissen figurine for a song. But in the end, greed proves to be his downfall ...

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Gareth Murtagh @garethmurtagh.bsky.social · 21h

Sadly means that Justin Hayward is the last survivor of the “second classic line up.” Denny Laine was the last survivor of the original

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Porridge - Men Without Women (10th October 1974). A classic confrontation between Fletch and Mr. Mackay.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD in 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b (now officially named Dimidium), the first definitive detection of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star.

Artist's impression of 51 Pegasi b (center) and its star (right).
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 1d

Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, was discovered by William Lassell #OTD 1846 just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, an orbit in the direction opposite to its planet's rotation
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Neptune's moon Triton, seen in images captured by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989. Approximate natural color.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Voyager Imaging Team/Jason Major

William Lassell (1799–1880), an English astronomer, the discoverer of Triton.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 1d

Venera 15, the first of two Soviet radar imaging orbiter designed to make detailed radar maps of Venus' surface at a resolution of 1 to 2 km, entered orbit around Venus #OTD in 1983. Last contact was made with the spacecraft on January 5, 1985.

Venera 15 or Venera 16 spacecraft during tests. Credit: NPO Lavochkin

Fragment of the Venera radar map of Venus with Anahit and Pomona Coronas. Credit: NPO Lavochkin

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 1d

October 11, 1968
NASA launched #Apollo7, the first manned flight of the Apollo Program and the first live network television broadcast from space. It was also the
first test of the command and service module in Earth orbit!
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 1d

Rendezvous in space
S-IVB stage in Earth orbit
October 11, 1968
signed by Walt Cunningham;
#Apollo7

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Old UK Christmas Catalogues @oldukcataloguesxm.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 1988: Confectionery from Cadbury

(+1.5 lb Gift Flower and 1.5 lb Single Layer)

This page showcases two Cadbury's Milk Tray chocolate assortments. One is a single-layer box, while the other is a double-layer gift box with a fabric flower. Both feature different designs on their packaging.

(+1.5 lb Gift Flower
and 1.5 lb Single Layer)

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 1d

Margaret Weis - You choose to go voluntarily into the fire....

#Apollo7 / Saturn 1b launch
October 11, 1968

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 1d

#Apollo7 Saturn IB blasting off from LC-34 on October 11, 1968, while a Saturn V undergoes testing at LC-39A to support the Apollo 8 mission later the same year.
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 1d

Launch Day #Apollo7 - the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. October 11, 1968

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 1d

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge has died at the age of 82. Formed in 1964, Lodge joined the Moody Blues in 1966. They went on to sell more than 70 million records worldwide and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues during classic era, dies at 82

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of The Moody Blues, has died at 82. His family announced Friday that Lodge died suddenly and unexpectedly.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 4d

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍

Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Gareth Murtagh @garethmurtagh.bsky.social · 1d

The actor in the shot here was actually one of Ridley Scott’s sons, he and his brother and another boy stood in for the real crew in that scene to make the Space Jockey seem even bigger

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