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mentatim
@mentatim.bsky.social
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Writer, musician, born in '78, living in Dayton, Ohio.
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mentatim.bsky.social
My 2024 last.fm music review. #MusicSky #Music
January 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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thevinylvault.bsky.social
What album would you tell your teenage son/daughter/relative to listen to that might change their music taste?

#80s #90s #00s #music #musicsky #album #vinyl
a man says i 'll really appreciate that
ALT: a man says i 'll really appreciate that
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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gregmorosoff.bsky.social
By Guy Denning
@guydenning.bsky.social

at Helix Gallery, Sheffield... "there isn't a storm coming", conte and pastel on paper, 32 x 39 cm
January 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
First Full Moon of 2025 is 2226UT 13 January. 🔭 🧪
January 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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stellaris.paradoxinteractive.com
If you were stuck on a deserted island and had only a PC, a generator, and a copy of Stellaris that allowed you to play one origin... which origin would you choose, and why?

Our Devs answered, too! What did they pick?
📺: youtu.be/CcE1r7NUy1o?...
An image from the game Stellaris of a planet with a star rising above it, and spaceships in the foreground. Overlaid text reads "If you could only play one origin, which would it be?"
December 31, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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james65.bsky.social
Happy 2025! Early morning walk, cold. Ground is frozen, a mix of fog and sunshine. My first #birds photo's of the new year. #heron takes flight. Have a great day today! 🪶
January 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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design-law.bsky.social
I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
January 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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popbase.tv
What’s the first song you played in 2025?
January 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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briansmith-photos.bsky.social
I love the colours in the golden hour calm waters, none better than when there is a Great Blue Heron standing at the shoreline in profile. #birds 🪶
A Great Blue Heron in profile, head looking down for something in the water. A large grey-blue bird with very long legs, neck and bills. Black above eye and white crown and cheeks. Lighter wavy feathers on front. Standing in profile on the water's edge. beige-blue reflections off the calm waters. Weed and barnacle covered rocks in the foreground hiding the heron's feet.
December 31, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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IC 342 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, located relatively close to the Milky Way. 🔭💫
"IC 342 (also known as Caldwell 5) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, located relatively close to the Milky Way. Despite its size and actual brightness, its location behind dusty areas near the galactic equator makes it difficult to observe, leading to the nickname "The Hidden Galaxy" though it can readily be detected even with binoculars" (wikipedia) #astrophotography #space
January 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
my favorite hubble images from 2024 🌌
Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Piotto (Universita degli Studi di Padova), and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat, blue background toward the bottom, and become thicker and smokier toward the top. Stars on one side light the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the bottom-right corner of the image toward the top-left corner. It begins as a dark and obscuring cloud at bottom right and gradually becomes brightly lit by many stars at the upper left. Other large, foreground stars lie between the nebula and the viewer. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top. Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Boyer (Space Telescope Science Institute), and J. Dalcanton (University of Washington); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
December 31, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Sometimes I and others post strange results from Google Gemini AI summaries. AI enthusiasts try to dunk on this, re-running the query and saying "it works for me", as if we had photoshopped our original screenshots.

It's not quite the dunk one thinks.

Search and retrieval should be repeatable. 1/2
December 31, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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matthewjdowd.bsky.social
On this day in 1818 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is first published, by 20-year-old Mary Shelley, the world’s first science fiction novel.

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine...
January 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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aaronsimages.bsky.social
Tricolor Heron
San Diego River Estuary

#photography #birds #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #sandiego #birdphotography #birdsky #birding
A portrait of a cresting Tricolor Heron
December 31, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
The Red Emission nebula NGC-2014 and it's smaller blue neighbor NGC-2020
The Cosmic Reef
Image credit Hubble
Constellation Dorado
Distance 163,000 light years
Discovered 1826 James Dunlop
The blue in NGC 2014 is the glow of oxygen, heated to 20,000°F by blasts of ultraviolet light.
January 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
mentatim.bsky.social
2024 in review:
January 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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dreamcatcher01.bsky.social
Black Rooks

Agree to disagree...
Two black Rooks on a snow-covered roof top, looking in opposite directions away from each other.
December 31, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
space fireworks to celebrate the new year 🎆
Taking up the central area of the image is the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190, which is made of intricate tendrils of cosmic material glowing in shades of purple, yellow, orange, and blue. The edges of the image are black and scattered with red and purple-ish stars. Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars. The giant nebula NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy, about 20,000 light-years away. Within its core is nestled a stellar "jewel box" of thousands of sparkling young stars, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The cluster is surrounded by purple clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw material for new star formation. This bubble provides an unobstructed view of the cluster and reveals stages in the life cycle of stars. A prominent, eight-pointed star shines in bright white at the center of this image. A clumpy cloud of material surrounds this central star, with more material above and below than on the sides, in some places allowing background stars to peek through. The cloud material is a dark yellow closer to the star, and turns a pinkish purple at its outer edges. Combined together, the central star and its cloud resemble the delicate petals of a cherry blossom. The black background features many smaller white stars scattered throughout.
January 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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socal-miked.bsky.social
Looking ahead to 2025 like a great blue heron

Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, CA

got the idea for this angle from @banditelli.org 😊

#birds #birding #birdwatching #birdnerd #photography #heron #wildlife #nature
January 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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birderbro.bsky.social
Reddish Egret wishes you a Happy New Year
( #fromthearchives: San Diego River Estuary, January 2024 )

#birds #water #seabirds #egret #heron #nature #photography #naturephotography #happynewyear
January 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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cardiffbirder.bsky.social
Let's start the day by wishing everyone all the best for 2025, not an auspicious start with heavy rain here in Cardiff. My first photo of 2025 is actually one of the last from 2024 - taken yesterday on Cardiff Bay barrage - when I had another encounter with the pair of Ravens #birds #birdingwales
The Raven looks black from a distance but seen close the feathers have a beautiful blue sheen A Raven glides close to the ground with wings outstretched and the wing tips curling up from the air pressure
January 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
happy new year
January 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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mementomorty.bsky.social
🥺
December 31, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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bonerkiller.bsky.social
who else listens to audiobooks while reading physical/digital books?

bcuz i started doing that recently and i enjoy reading far more than i did before

i still love reading the books and i read faster on my own, but the audiobooks make things more immersive imo

#booksky 💙📚🌶️
December 31, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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arielraeauthor.bsky.social
Goals for 2025?

Reading, writing, or otherwise?

🌶️📚
📚💙
January 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM