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Urban Farmer Madison, WI System Science / Structuralism De-Growth / Post Scarcity Steady State Economics ALL GROUP IDENTITY IS BIGOTRY. The most powerful form of social control is limiting people’s sense of possibility.

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Humans…a “superior form of life” lol

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18h

Farm workers are knocking on doors in WA state to get out the vote.

To learn more about UFW WA endorsements go to: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

#GOTV #VOTE

Washington State yard signs in a yard visited by UFW farm worker volunteers

UFW farm worker volunteers going door to door getting out to vote

UFW farm worker volunteers going door to door getting out to vote holding up door handle signs

UFW farm worker volunteers going door to door getting out to vote talking to someone in his driveway about the election

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

"the real reason Republicans are doing this is so they can cheat the election process and rig themselves into permanent majority rule at both the state and federal level." prospect.org/2025/11/03/r...

The Republican Plot to Turn Pennsylvania Into Hungary - The American Prospect

Judicial retention elections are normally pretty sleepy, but the Pennsylvania Republican Party, led by right-wing megadonor Jeff Yass, who is also the richest person in the state, is conducting an all...

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

youtu.be/8uTv4IAqUAQ?...

Peter Joseph en Vivo: "Zeitgeist: Requiem for One" | Zeitgeist Media Festival 2011

YouTube video by Andres Delgado

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Chris Jensen @brisbaneastro.bsky.social · 1d

Messier 27, often called the Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula about 1,360 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. This image maps light emitted by Sii, Hα, and Oiii gas. The shock-excited structures expanding at roughly 30 km/s. #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Messier 27, often called the Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula about 1,360 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It marks the final evolutionary stage of a sun-like star, which has expelled its outer layers after exhausting its nuclear fuel. The exposed core — now a white dwarf with a surface temperature near 85,000 K — energises the surrounding gas, causing it to glow in distinct emission lines.

This image maps light emitted by ionised sulphur (S II), hydrogen (H α), and oxygen (O III). The outer filaments trace slower, cooler ejecta rich in sulphur and hydrogen, while the inner lobes shine strongly in oxygen, revealing shock-excited structures expanding at roughly 30 km/s.

Imaging details:

Telescope: 800 mm Newtonian Reflector

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro

Filters: ZWO S II (7 nm), H α (7 nm), O III (7 nm)

Integration time: 4.5 hours per channel (13.5 hours total)

Acquisition: N.I.N.A.

Processing: PixInsight

The Dumbbell Nebula offers a glimpse of what awaits our own Sun in several billion years — a fading ember surrounded by the beautiful debris of its former self, slowly dispersing into the interstellar medium.

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Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 17h

Belted Kingfishers sounding off #birds

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

2nd highest payroll in the league vs. the 5th highest payroll in the league
Rigged

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 17h

The unfolding tragedy in Sudan reminds us in Gaza that wars, hunger, and destruction are not isolated events.

From Gaza to Sudan: “Their Pain Is Ours”

Our writer in Gaza recognizes the fear and hunger in the faces of the people of Sudan who are coping with unthinkable tragedy.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d

NGC 45 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/phBH5s

This could be the poster child of low surface brightness galaxies if the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) didn't take that place already. I find it to be exceptionally diffuse, even more so than M33, but it also has a clear spiral structure and is also large enough that amateurs can also easily observe it. A lot of LSBs are simple irregular dwarfs amounting to nothing more than the faintest of nondescript smudges. See: Rob Gendler's, James Foster's, and Bernd Flach-Wilken's. There are more but I just picked the first three in the result list. Hubble's version provides a lot of detail but the amateur images are perhaps more pleasant to view, capturing the whole galaxy and not being riddled with cosmic rays and noise like this image.

I actually tried working on these datasets a long time ago thinking it was some glorious, missed spiral galaxy in the archive because the thumbnails at the HLA (Hubble Legacy Archive) are deceptively bright. When you open the FITS file expecting this grand design to illuminate your screen, it's a pretty big letdown to be confronted with this strange, dim creature. Now that I understand low surface brightness galaxies a little better, I am interested in them and I want to share them with everyone so it was time to revisit the data. It's still a bit ugly but it's not the galaxy's fault. There just aren't enough exposures to easily remove the cosmic rays and it's really quite noisy as well because of this. There's not much that can be done to fix the noise...

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Rooting for the Dodgers is like going to a casino and cheering for the house to win.
…and…lol…so much for the BS trope of Americans pulling for an underdog. Turd

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 1d

This could be a game changer for us, and wildfires 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Derp

Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Mark my words, if Donny Boy is ever seriously implicated over his relationship with JE, MAGA will simply pivot to Epstein being a victim of the MeToo movement.

Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Say it with me please…
Social Darwinism
Cause that’s what it is

Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Hypocrisy means nothing to disingenuous people

Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Rooting for the Dodgers is like going to a casino and cheering for the house to win.

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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 18h

A trio of monster active regions have rotated into view over the Sun’s eastern horizon. Whilst the front of the Sun has been quiet for a while, these regions were producing significant activity on the Sun’s backside. They will rotate to face Earth later this week. #spaceweather

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 1d

i firmly believe everyone needs to experience a planetarium show at least once in their lifetime. it puts EVERYTHING into perspective 🌌

A planetarium with a galaxy on the screen

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 17h

“Mattingly! How many times have told to trim those sideburns?!
Go home, you’re off the team, for good!”
“Fine. Still like him better than Steinbrenner.”

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 1d

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (121.96058, 56.69347).

28 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 28 volunteers.

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 19h

The Red Spider Nebula gets its JWST glow-up

The US Government may still be shut down, preventing NASA from releasing, well, anything.

Good thing the ESA, a #JWST partner, is still functioning, because now we get to see this.
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#space #astronomy #astro #science #physics

The Red Spider Nebula gets its JWST glow-up

When dying, Sun-like stars have binary companions, spectacular sights arise from the ionization. JWST spots the Red Spider Nebula in action!

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Lightbulb Sun @msr1977.bsky.social · 18h

IMO
Cats are better pets
Dogs are better companions
Also…
Cats are better if you live in an apartment
Dogs are better if you live in a house with a yard

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 19h

Trump regime: "You don't seem to understand. We WANT people to go hungry. We have the power to make sure people go hungry and we want to use that power to make sure people go hungry. The beatings will continue until morale improves."

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 20h

This is about as sick and cruel as it gets. This policy is in place to stop grocery stores from OVERCHARGING people using SNAP.

The Trump administration, while it illegally withholds SNAP benefits, is telling grocers they can't offer discounts to people on SNAP.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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