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Maddie
@maddiephoto.com
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Photographer. Gardener. Reader. Writer. Lesbian. Video game player. Software Engineer. Outdoors enjoyer. Trans. Astronomy looker. Cat mom. Lava lamp gazer. Tea drinker.
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astrojaz.bsky.social
i’m still thinking about the fact that for the first time in nasa history, the newest class of astronaut candidates is MAJORITY women.

this is for all the little girls out there who are dreaming big, it is possible 🥹🚀
NASA's ten astronaut candidates, wearing blue flight suits, stand behind, on, and around a four-foot-tall red structure of the NASA "worm" insignia. They are in a large room with various spaceflight art and artifacts behind them. Credit: NASA
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.
August 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I love the glistening light in the tiny spring raindrops. May 25.
A foreground of small green and red succulents, interrupted only by the wet gray form of a small branch laying on the forest floor, gives way to a field of tall, fern-like, vibrantly green plants. All are adorned with the tiny crystalline droplets of a gentle spring rain, shining with the light of the gray skies overhead.
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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nickyjames.bsky.social
So much truth. Lol

#booksky #books #booklover #bookaddict
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Vivian Wilson is Teen Vogue’s special issue cover star. The 20-year-old estranged daughter of Elon Musk discusses her modeling and TV aspirations, unusual extended family, and what she describes as the “cartoonishly evil” Trump admin. Read the full interview here: www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Speaking to Teen Vogue for our March special-issue cover, @thevivllainous.bsky.social insists she isn’t frightened that her estranged dad — the richest man in the world, and one of the most powerful people in the current presidential administration — could retaliate against her.

Read more ⤵️
Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Is Not Afraid of Her Dad
“He's a pathetic man-child.”
www.teenvogue.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
As a bonus, the museum includes THE WORST SHEEP (I love it so much!) which is also the worst artwork I’ve ever seen made and sold by a professional historic artist, which I keep a picture of near my desk as a reminder that sometimes mediocre is, in fact, good enough. 7/?
Small painted ceramic bowl (the technical term is majolica) painted with a sheep that looks like a small child did it. The body's wool is represented by a bunch of weird ovals with squiggles in them, its head is twisted backwards with a derpy expression, its legs are way too long and skinny like sticks, and its cloven feet look like claws. A circle around its head and a stick behind it with a cross indicate that it's supposed to be the common Renaissance image of Jesus as a sheep. As a bonus, it's supposed to be standing in front of a staff with a cross on top, but the top part of the cross above the sheep totally doesn't line up with the bottom half under the sheep. Weird green smears give hints of color.
January 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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panic.gay
I can't believe I went from begging partners to be nice to me and not yell at me to having a partner that reads me to sleep every night and happily reassures me any time I need it.

🥰

Being with someone who actually likes you is life changing.
January 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
My takeaway from today’s Supreme Court hearing on TikTok is that they’re gonna have to shut down on the 19th. But… it’ll be back to send our data to China soon.

My latest in @thenation.com

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tiktok-terrible-day-supreme-court/
January 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I just can’t get enough of that particular golden glow that the sunset paints over the landscape. Oct 22. #photography #landscape #nature #sunset
A mostly overcast sky, with banding of grey and white clouds, is lit by a golden glow from the horizon. The setting sun, just above the autumn treeline, paints the world in an amber glow. The trees, stretching across the frame, separating the sunset from the foreground wetlands, are a mixture of green, yellow, orange, and red. The tallest reeds in the foreground are clumps of dried amber in the sun, while a carpet of still-verdant green grasses covers the wetland beneath them.
January 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
diffraction spikes? you mean telescope astigmatism?
A spherical collection of stars which fills the whole view. The cluster is dominated by a concentrated group of bright white stars at the center, with several large yellow stars scattered throughout the image. Many of the stars have visible diffraction spikes. The background is black.
January 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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chloepink.bsky.social
That moment when you realize you like watching Ms. Frizzle, but what you really want is to BE Ms. Frizzle...
Ms. frizzle and the Magic School Bus
January 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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It’s so relaxing to be out on the glassy water in the beautiful spring weather!! Looking forward to this again in a few months!! May 24. #photography #landscape #water
Glassy water fills the bottom third of the frame, with the prow of a green-striped vessel just visible at the bottom center. Trees rise on all sides of the water, with verdant green spring foliage, just their top leaves illuminated by the last rays of the setting sun. The sky is full of wispy clouds, and the sunset is gently tinting them into a blue-to-amber gradient over the treeline.
January 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Winter does subtract some colors from the natural world, but that just means the colors that are still there are easier to appreciate. April 23. #photography #water #landscape
Framed by leafless trunks and branches, a small park bench sits on the shore of a large, glassy lake. The sky above is deep blue, scattered with alternately puffy and wispy white clouds. Separating the sky from its near-perfect reflection in the lake, a thin band of winter-denuded trees wraps the horizon.
January 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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It’s so special when you can gently approach a tiny creature and they stay still long enough to get a great picture. July 22. #photography #nature #macro #bee #flower
A yellow flower fills the frame, the petals streaked with maroon and orange. In the center, amidst the ruby-red seeds and the orange tendrils of pollen, a bee rests. The bee is still, and the fuzz on its torso, and the stripes on its abdomen are clearly visible around and through its transparent wings. On its back legs, collections of waxy orange pollen are clumped up.
January 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Spring walks right after rain showers are some of my favorite times to take photos. Something about the grey skies just brings out the flowers colors all the more vibrantly! May 22. #photography #flower #nature
A closeup of a frilled yellow tulip in the center right of the frame. In the background, punctuating the verdant green leaves of the early spring bulbs, more tulips in pink, white, yellow, and cream create a softly out-of-focus mosaic.
December 29, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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If you approach everything with curiosity, the world is an infinitely interesting place! Oct 24. #photography #cat #nature #portrait
A cat’s level view of a sunlit, weathered red balcony, with a blur of verdant green leaves and blue sky adorning the background. A black cat, only the side of her head and her paw visible, watches the scene through the gap between the rails of the balcony spanning the top and the floor of the balcony, so close to her chin. The greenery is reflected in her eye, a tiny mirror of the world she sees.
December 23, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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Golden hour is one of my favorite times for color, especially in the early fall when the drying grasses turn that beautiful shade of amber in the light. #photography #landscape #nature
A trail of short-cropped grass leads away from the bottom center of the image, curving away to the left and disappearing in the taller grass. The foreground is a mix of dried grasses, made golden by the setting sun, and the still-green plants of early fall. In the middle distance, a tan, building stands invitingly, its covered porch lit by the amber sun. Behind the walls of the building, a wall of trees rises, dividing the waves of grasses from the waves of clouds with the just-yellowing leaves of a verdant fall. The sky, a pale blue where we can see it, is largely the canvas for light waves of cloud, shadowed here, lit there by the sunset, and together, a mosaic of amber, azure, and grey.
December 21, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Trilliums and crocuses are always the first sign of spring that comes with its own little pop of color, and I love them so much! April 23. #photography #flower #nature
In the lower left, a white trillium rises from the forest floor. The only objects in focus are its three verdant green leaves and three streaked green-white petals surrounding a tiny yellow cluster of pollen. In the background, the dead leaves of winter stretch away, punctuated by dots of green shoots popping up. In the top right, another, out of focus trillium stands sentinel before the base of a tree trunk.
December 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Sunflowers are my absolute favorite, and sometimes I get lucky and find a beautiful specimen like this on a walk after the rain! July 22. #photography #flower
A closeup of a sunflower; the petals, each a beautiful gradient of orange and yellow, are strewn with raindrops. The only visible background, between the petals, is a few glimpses of verdant green leaves and blue sky. The center of the flower is a series of concentric rings, a fuzzy, velvety ring, surrounding a smaller circle of yellow-black seeds, and in the center, a pointed cluster of shiny, fully formed, silvery-black seeds.
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 AM