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ByronB

@byronb-art.bsky.social

"A New Age of Heroes" – a MvC2 tribute debuting at EVO 2025!

July 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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God

@thegodpodcast.com

Canada, Panama, and Greenland are not enemies of the United States.

Fascists are though, both foreign and domestic.

January 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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Ultra Deluxe

@ultradeluxe.bsky.social

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Stone Cold Jane Austen

@abbyhiggs.bsky.social

I’m done dating humans. I’ve got a better idea—

Book entitled: how to date buildings (an easy reference guide)

January 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

January 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

my current favorite jwst images 🌌

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

$An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣$

January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM

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Chy

@chyaway.bsky.social

LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:

Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)

Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)

Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)

Bé Ù (Silver Lake)

Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)

Oy Bar (Studio City)

Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)

Dudley Market (Venice)

LaSorted's (Silver Lake)

January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Happy New Year to all! Let’s smash some fashy faces in 2025!

January 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech?

We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

December 28, 2024 at 9:28 PM

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Twonks

@twonks.bsky.social

Fairytale Wedding

December 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM

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Haus of Decline

@hausofdecline.bsky.social

A man walks into his apartment and says "glad to be home from work. time to change." He undergoes a Sailor Moon-like magical girl transformation, where a star pendant erupts into pink ribbons that cover his body and turn into his home clothes, a tattered Ween shirt and dirty sweatpants.

December 18, 2024 at 3:11 PM

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Dammit Doug Smith

@dammitdougsmith.bsky.social

December 17, 2024 at 2:36 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Trump thinks he just invented DARE

November 28, 2024 at 5:39 AM

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Chris Kamler

@chriskamler.bsky.social

I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.

November 27, 2024 at 4:08 PM