Benji 'Captain' Kirk
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Level 37 🎂
Peterborough, UK 🇬🇧
Level 37 🎂
Peterborough, UK 🇬🇧
Benevolence by Tony Hoagland.
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Benevolence by Tony Hoagland.
"SaTuRn iS wOkE." - Nigel Farage. Probably.
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
"SaTuRn iS wOkE." - Nigel Farage. Probably.
Sweet Jesus, the volume of evidence-free hooey I've heard from my colleagues today is just too damn high. It's like working in a never-ending episode of the Alex Jones Show. 🙃
January 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Sweet Jesus, the volume of evidence-free hooey I've heard from my colleagues today is just too damn high. It's like working in a never-ending episode of the Alex Jones Show. 🙃
Reflections on the Thames, Westminster by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1880).
January 15, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Reflections on the Thames, Westminster by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1880).
At the Park Gate by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878).
January 15, 2026 at 10:33 AM
At the Park Gate by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878).
Sonnet XVI by Pablo Neruda.
January 15, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Sonnet XVI by Pablo Neruda.
Reposted by Benji 'Captain' Kirk
Quick and dirty M42 shot last night.
SV555, Canon R6 (Unmod), SkyWatcher GTi, 20x90s. PI and PS.
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SV555, Canon R6 (Unmod), SkyWatcher GTi, 20x90s. PI and PS.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Quick and dirty M42 shot last night.
SV555, Canon R6 (Unmod), SkyWatcher GTi, 20x90s. PI and PS.
🔭
SV555, Canon R6 (Unmod), SkyWatcher GTi, 20x90s. PI and PS.
🔭
Moonlit Landscape with Bridge by Aert van der Neer (c. 1649).
January 15, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Moonlit Landscape with Bridge by Aert van der Neer (c. 1649).
Landscape by Moonlight by Jules Dupré (1852).
January 15, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Landscape by Moonlight by Jules Dupré (1852).
Those high redshift LRDs are young SMBHs enshrounded in cacoons of ionised gas. The black holes consume the gas, generating a huge amount of heat, visible through the cocoon, giving the LRDs their distinctive colour.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Those high redshift LRDs are young SMBHs enshrounded in cacoons of ionised gas. The black holes consume the gas, generating a huge amount of heat, visible through the cocoon, giving the LRDs their distinctive colour.
Galle crater, Mars.
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Galle crater, Mars.
Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church (1860).
January 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church (1860).
Moonrise by Stanisław Masłowski (1884).
January 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Moonrise by Stanisław Masłowski (1884).
The Windmill by Jules Dupré (c. late 1850s).
January 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The Windmill by Jules Dupré (c. late 1850s).
Upnor Castle, Kent by Henry Pether (c. 1850).
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Upnor Castle, Kent by Henry Pether (c. 1850).
The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you don't know you're in the Dunning-Kruger Club.
January 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you don't know you're in the Dunning-Kruger Club.