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Jeff Tiedrich

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frankly, I'm shocked that the guy who went broke running casinos would turn out to be shit at running an economy

April 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Pets Fun House

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December 11, 2024 at 10:47 PM

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Astronomy pictures

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Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex by JWST

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom centre, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its centre. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave three groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the centre, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At the top centre of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.] Credit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI) NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)$

December 12, 2024 at 1:15 AM

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Who is interested in reading books?

December 10, 2024 at 5:34 AM

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Seth Abramson

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This is... actually a fairly reasonable takeaway from this year.

December 10, 2024 at 4:25 AM

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Astronomy pictures

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Our Sun, a main sequence star, emits a strong solar flare flashes in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Astronomers call stars that are stably undergoing nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium main sequence stars. This is the longest phase of a star’s life. The star’s luminosity, size, and temperature will slowly change over millions or billions of years during this phase. Our Sun is roughly midway through its main sequence stage.

A star’s gas provides its fuel, and its mass determines how rapidly it runs through its supply, with lower-mass stars burning longer, dimmer, and cooler than very massive stars. More massive stars must burn fuel at a higher rate to generate the energy that keeps them from collapsing under their own weight. Some low-mass stars will shine for trillions of years – longer than the universe has currently existed – while some massive stars will live for only a few million years.

December 4, 2024 at 1:14 PM

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics)

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December 4, 2024 at 6:47 AM

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🧘🧘🧘

December 3, 2024 at 8:11 AM

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Viral Memes

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A meme showing Homer Simpson lying on a couch, lazily petting a cat. The text reads, 'So what do you like to do for fun? Me:' The image humorously portrays a simple, cozy pastime of lounging and petting a cat.

November 29, 2024 at 10:00 PM

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Bluesky

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We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

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