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the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 14h
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Jannock [JAN-uk]
(adj.)
- Honest; straightforward, fair and generous.

Used in a sentence:
“Though his speech was unadorned, he was known throughout the village as a jannock man, whose presence put others at their ease and whose word carried more weight than any written contract.”
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December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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HiPOD: Possible Sulfate Deposits in West Melas Chasma

This image shows many interesting features that are common to Melas Chasma, including salt-bearing deposits that indicate water was present in the past.

More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_044892_1695
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Gilravage [gil-RAV-ij]
(v.)
To eat or drink intemperately; to indulge in high living; to act extravagantly; to indulge in noisy merry-making.

Used in a sentence:
“The travelers learned too late that those who gilravage at another’s table may themselves become the final course.”
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December 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Pour one out for Jim Moylan
RIP The Guy Who Put The Little Arrow On Your Fuel Gauge Though I Think There Was An Earlier One - The Autopian
If there’s one car fact or Easter Egg or detail (or whatever you want to call it) that seems to delight non-car-obsessed people more than any other one, I think it has to be this one: fuel gauges tend...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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🔭 Apollo 17's Moonship

Image Credit: Apollo 17apollo17info.html), NASA, (Image Reprocessing: Andy Saunders)

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Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. Digitally enhanced and reprocessed, this picture taken from Apollo 17's command module America shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. Small reaction control thrusters are at the sides of the moonship with the bell of the ascent rocket engine underneath. The hatch that allowed access to the lunar surface is seen at the front, with a round radar antenna at the top. Mission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular window. This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the Moon and returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module in December of 1972. So where is Challenger now? While its descent stage remains at the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the ascent stage pictured was intentionally crashed nearby after being jettisoned from the command module prior to the astronauts' return to planet Earth.
December 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Funny Numbers

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Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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HiRISE 3D: The Draping Dunes

We are looking to capture as much of the dune field as possible to investigate seasonal dune monitoring.

https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_089947_2110_ESP_090092_2110_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #NASA #science
3D image shows a large dune field that is draped across a steep ridge on the surface of Mars. The scene is less than 5 km, or 3 miles, across.
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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joegarrity.bsky.social
Season's greetings, Bluesky! 🎄
I captured the Christmas Tree Cluster in time for the holiday. Hope you have a Merry Christmas this season.

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #christmastree #starcluster #christmas #eastcoastkin #photography
December 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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HiPOD: In Search Of...Channel Heads

Do channels found within Newton Crater resemble subglacial channels? Are these channel heads consistent with sapping? Our observation can help to get slope measurements of the channel.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076545_1405
#Mars #science #NASA
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Ramraketting [ram-RAK-et-ting]
(n.) Christmas gambols.
(v.) Running or jumping about.

Dialectical. Horae Subsecivae, 1777

Used in a sentence:
“Aunt Mildred tolerated no more than three minutes of ramraketting before threatening the withholding of figgy pudding and Christmas crackers.”
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December 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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have a merry Christmas or else
Have a Merry Christmas Or I Will Kick Out Your Organs
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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🔭 3I/ATLAS Flyby

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

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Attention grabbing interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS made its not-so-close flyby of our fair planet on December 19 at a distance of 1.8 astronomical units. That's about 900 light-seconds. Still, this deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo about 4 days earlier, on the night of December 15. Though faint, colors emphasized in the image data, show off the comet's yellowish dust tail and bluish ion tail along with a greenish tinged coma. And even while scrutinized by arrays of telescopes and spacecraft from planet Earth, 3I ATLAS is headed out of the Solar System. It's presently moving outward along a hyperbolic trajectory at about 64 kilometers per second relative to the Sun, too fast to be bound the Sun's gravity.
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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kevinhearne.bsky.social
This finch represents life goals

He bold
He gold
He stay out of the cold
#birds
A male goldfinch from the summertime in a maple tree.
December 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
A lovely and quiet mourning dove. 😊🕊️☮️
December 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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decervelage.bsky.social
A very merry Christmas from the Nick & Nora Charles.
December 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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uahirise.bsky.social
HiRISE 3D: Light-Toned Exposures on the Floor of Coprates Chasma

“We are exploring the geology in Coprates Chasma, including deposits of hydrated materials and early crustal exposures in valley walls and floor units.”

https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_090057_1645_ESP_089780_1645_RED
3D image shows a steep, extruded part of a canyon wall. There are bedrock layers here as well. The scene is less than 5 km, or 3 miles, across.
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The next time someone tells you Coca-Cola invented modern Santa, you can lay one helluva WELL ACTUALLY on them.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

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HARPERS WEEKLY. JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION Vor. VII.-No. 314.] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1863. GELCOM SANTA CLAUS SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6] Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts. This was the moment that Nast conceived and introduced our modern image of Santa Claus. Combining European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany, he created the jolly gift-giver now associated with Christmas that here offers cheer to soldiers far from home. He distributes boxes of necessities such as warm socks, copies of Harper's Weekly, and entertains the crowd with a jumping jack dangling from a noose, its chest lettered "Jeff" in reference to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the background, soldiers chase an escaped hog, roast meat on a spit and play fairground games such as climbing a greased pole. This image on the title page of the journal was supported by a two-page spread within the journal that shows Santa visiting sleeping children in New York (see 33.35.26 and 29.88.4(8)).
December 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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🔭 Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree

Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Kalika

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A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen toward the celestial equator and near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the seasonal skyscape mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. Where the otherwise obscuring dust clouds lie close to the hot, young stars, they also reflect starlight, forming blue reflection nebulae. In fact, bright variable star S Monocerotis is immersed in a blue-tinted haze near center. Arrayed with a simple triangular outline above S Monocerotis, the stars of NGC 2264 are popularly known as the Christmas Tree star cluster. Carved by energetic starlight, the Cone Nebula sits upside down at the apex of this cosmic Christmas tree while the dusty, convoluted pelt of glowing gas and dust under the tree is called the Fox Fur Nebula. This rich telescopic frame spans about 1.5 degrees or 3 full moons on the sky top to bottom, covering nearly 80 light-years at the distance of NGC 2264.
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This needs no explanation.
This needs no explanation.
December 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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frasca.bsky.social
Backyard #Astrophotography
A Merry Xmas nebula!
The Flame Nebula resides right next to Alnitak, the eastern-most star in Orion’s belt. Alnitak is a massive, super-bright blue giant that radiants a huge amount of UV light that makes the nebula around it glow. The Horsehead nebula is below the star.
A flame shaped nebula next to a bright star. A drak horse head shaped nebula is below it. 30 minute exposure with a 50mm F5 250mm focal length quadruplet refracor and a dual-band filter.
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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uahirise.bsky.social
HiPOD: In Search Of...Fluvial Erosion

Our science goal is to observe possible fluvial erosion that could help us to understand the climate history of this region of Phlegra Montes.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076480_2195
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #science #NASA
Image shows a large mound with a section of flatter terrain at the base that extends into rougher, less flat terrain. There are several very old and eroded impact craters also in the scene.
December 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - Rosetta - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/RmwTum
Rosetta OSIRIS-Wide Angle Camera view of Comet 67P taken during a far excursion on April 11, 2015. When this image was taken, Rosetta was located about 140 km from the comet's center, at a 90 degree phase angle, allowing the spacecraft to observe a half-lit comet. The day side of the comet experiences intense outgassing activity, forming the bright jets of gas and dust that face sunward. The material in these jets eventually spreads out into a diffuse cloud called the coma. The presence of the coma allowed Rosetta to observe the comet's shadow. Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team (MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA) / Justin Cowart
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM