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Eric Swalwell

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It’s Back-To-School Month! Remember, reading is fundamental for ages 5 through 79!

August 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Jane

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We get it, you vape

A Dwemer centurion from Skyrim. Steam is coming from its armour

August 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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CAKE

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Ahem

August 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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I'm Uni :3

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Yay! Let'eat! :3

A black and white cat with flattened ears and a tiny bit of tongue sticking out, sitting in front of a bowl of dry food, about to eat.

April 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Space Telescope Science Institute

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This new #NASAWebb image shows a dying star in unprecedented detail. Mid-infrared light highlights tangled patterns in the rings and holes in the pink interior. This scene was produced by two overlapping stars that “pop” with blue spikes at center: bit.ly/424Lygw 🔭 🧪

$What looks like a single large, bright star but is two shines with bright purple diffraction spikes at the center of a large, diffuse cylinder of gas and dust that is tipped to the right. At the center is a bright pink clumpy cloud that takes up about 25% of the view. The pink region has some holes. Beyond that are two large rings tipped at a 60-degree angle that mark the ends of the cylinder. They appear joined at top left and bottom right. The edges form shallow V-shapes that go inward. The rings appear orange at top left and bottom right, and are blue at bottom and center right. There is diffuse orange material around the body. The black background of space is speckled with tiny stars and galaxies mostly in blues and yellows. A bigger blue star with spikes is just below and to the left of the central stars, but it is slightly smaller. Areas Webb did not observe appear black along the top edges, a thin vertical near the nebula at top left, and at the bottom left and right corners.$

April 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM