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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 1d

A reprojected view of Jupiter centered near the border with the Northern Filamentary Region. This uses image data taken by NASA’s JunoCam during the Perijove 26 flyby in April 2020. I created a simulated terrain relief to provide a sense of vertical scale to the cloudtops.

flic.kr/p/2jyhVD8

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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Subsapient 💀 @subsapient.bsky.social · 1d

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 4d

Reposting my hooded crow from this time last year because I love his little fall vibes.

(Ref photo by Akbar Nemati)
🦢🐡 #art #birds

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space_vermin @spacevermin64.bsky.social · 5d

Last thing you see before you're tied to a railway track

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S.M. Pritchard @smpritchard.bsky.social · Sep 30

A cold rocky world languishes in the feeble glow of a brown dwarf, itself part of a distant binary pair whose partner can just be seen as a small magenta speck just over its limb. Perhaps a view like this exists around the real-life brown dwarf binary Luhman-16, the closest brown dwarfs to Sol.

An image depicting a rocky landscape bathed in deep red light. In the center, a brown dwarf dominates the scene, with alternating bands of incandescent cloud layers glowing various shades of magenta, red, and orange. From our vantage point the cloud bands are oriented roughly vertically. Over the north-eastern limb of the brown dwarf, a distant second companion is visible only as a tiny magenta dot.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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D @vampireartistd.bsky.social · 8d

The Crime of Human Virtue by A. R. Moxon

"Why do this? I'd argue it's because human progress exposes the truth, which is that when you open up the ledger and start the historical audit, that supremacists, fascists, Nazis, Republicans—whatever you want to call them—actually have contributed nothing of value. The best they can claim is that they enslaved those who built it for them as they watched, and now possess the booty that they stole from somebody else's safe. Certainly it's true of these modern fascists. Contra Miller, they build nothing except concentration camps of enslavement and other engines of punishment and oppression and false narratives of self-justification and premeditated violence. What has been built of value has been built from human virtue, and human virtue, like human progress, exposes the Republican project like it exposes any supremacist project, as a project void of virtue, opposed to human progress, and even to humanity, and even to humans."

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 9d

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 10d

Join stream to see this piteous soggy worm get a hug. www.twitch.tv/jayrockin5858

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 10d

frank is working very hard on his numbers comprehension

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Frank: eight THOUSAND DOLLARS
Frank: do you know how much money that is
Anna: eight thousand
Frank: what
Anna: eight thousand dollars

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✨🐟🦐Kitsugambas🦐🐟✨ @kitsugambas.bsky.social · 11d

One more

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Skwigg, public universal choom @bigskwigg.bsky.social · 11d

Smash the looms.

This is pure unfettered madness driven by blind greed and total disregard for consequences. Incinerate capital, labor, and the planet in hopes you can get in on the bubble why it's good and damn the long-term.

Smash the looms.

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 12d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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space_vermin @spacevermin64.bsky.social · 11d

No I think that makes sense, the other names are confusing without context

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quoth the snow leopard, "nevermorg" @apoapsis.bsky.social · 15d

End of an era… I remember the early years and thought he’d never make it!

BlaizeV @blaizev.bsky.social · 16d

14 years after leaving spawn KurtJMac made it to the far lands. I was in my mid 20s when he left. Many musings and chats on space travel since and he's finally there.

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quoth the snow leopard, "nevermorg" @apoapsis.bsky.social · 16d

if i were Q i'd just appear one day, hand picard this, and disappear without a word. if he tosses it i set every replicator on the ship to keep making copies

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18d

The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.