THE Darth Spurious
@thedarthspurious.bsky.social
Amateur astrophotographer, HS & travel baseball coach, Twitter refugee and all-around miscreant
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Might as well start sharing some of my astro stuff here.
M42 in Ha from late 2023. I haven't been satisfied with the results when combining the SII & OIII images, so still a work in progress.
32x900s & 12x300s Ha, HDR processed in PI.
TOA130S, FLI ML16200, AP900GTO
#astrophotography
M42 in Ha from late 2023. I haven't been satisfied with the results when combining the SII & OIII images, so still a work in progress.
32x900s & 12x300s Ha, HDR processed in PI.
TOA130S, FLI ML16200, AP900GTO
#astrophotography
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Looking at this photo I can't decide if it makes me feel like IDSG is irrelevant -- everybody knows what's up now or if IDSG is more essential than ever -- people can see, but do they really understand?
Look who’s hanging out at TPUSA today: it’s Jack Posobiec, the long time cohost of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, posing between a guy wearing a shirt mocking Holocaust victims (Myron Gaines) and a MAGA guy who was (temporarily) kicked off Elon’s Twitter for circulating CSAM (Don Lucre). Very wholesome!
December 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Looking at this photo I can't decide if it makes me feel like IDSG is irrelevant -- everybody knows what's up now or if IDSG is more essential than ever -- people can see, but do they really understand?
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From Wikipedia, re: another guy Trump palled around with who is mentioned in this article. Totally normal. 🤮
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
From Wikipedia, re: another guy Trump palled around with who is mentioned in this article. Totally normal. 🤮
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
“In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl.”
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“Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?”
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?”
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
If you think about it, there really are no good answers to this question. Creepy as hell.
#Epstein #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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Also, 14 year-old girls are not “barely legal.” They’re children. Megyn Kelly should know this as well.
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Ugh. More on John Casablancas, mentioned here.
“… he was having a public relationship with Look of the Year contest finalist Stephanie Seymour, 16 years old at the time, but who he began dating when she was 14. Casablancas was frank about his preference for girls of barely legal age.”
“… he was having a public relationship with Look of the Year contest finalist Stephanie Seymour, 16 years old at the time, but who he began dating when she was 14. Casablancas was frank about his preference for girls of barely legal age.”
December 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Also, 14 year-old girls are not “barely legal.” They’re children. Megyn Kelly should know this as well.
bsky.app/profile/thev...
bsky.app/profile/thev...
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Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Video Published by James O’Keefe
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein in a video published by James O'Keefe.
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
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The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
The person charged with enforcing the laws is himself a law breaker. In such a state, do laws even have any legitimacy?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
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'We downloaded everything': Trump legal nemesis drops threat after Epstein files deleted
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
'We downloaded everything': Trump legal nemesis drops threat after Epstein files deleted
A former White House ethics lawyer who has been a persistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump put the president on notice on Saturday over a new report about files released on Jeffrey Epstein.MS NOW ...
www.rawstory.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
'We downloaded everything': Trump legal nemesis drops threat after Epstein files deleted
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
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I don't remember the atomic ensemble time scale failing under Biden.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I don't remember the atomic ensemble time scale failing under Biden.
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Epstein backup 👇👇
Since there seems to be files getting deleted from the Epstein release, I've made all four dataset zip files available for download. These are the files as they were originally released. (Downloaded within minutes of them being made public)
~3GB in size
drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...
~3GB in size
drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...
Proton Drive
Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.
drive.proton.me
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Epstein backup 👇👇
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Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled.
You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf
You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf
Data Set 1 Files
web.archive.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled.
You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf
You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf
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Melania got her start with serial child rapist Jean-Luc Brunel.
Serial rapist Brett Ratner is directing her documentary.
Here are Ratner and Brunel from the latest Epstein files drop.
So many convenient suicides.
Melania knows.
Serial rapist Brett Ratner is directing her documentary.
Here are Ratner and Brunel from the latest Epstein files drop.
So many convenient suicides.
Melania knows.
Director of Melania Trump film exposed in Epstein files drop: report
Brett Ratner, the director of “Melania,” the new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, was spotted in the Justice Department’s Friday release of thousands of files on Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fai...
www.rawstory.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
HOLY SHIT.
Trump's corrupt DOJ just went and REDACTED an already released document to remove his name!
THAT'S what they've been doing with those 16 files, I bet....
Trump's corrupt DOJ just went and REDACTED an already released document to remove his name!
THAT'S what they've been doing with those 16 files, I bet....
December 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
HOLY SHIT.
Trump's corrupt DOJ just went and REDACTED an already released document to remove his name!
THAT'S what they've been doing with those 16 files, I bet....
Trump's corrupt DOJ just went and REDACTED an already released document to remove his name!
THAT'S what they've been doing with those 16 files, I bet....
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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Here's a thread with more information on one of Portland's leading antisemitic fascists, Grace Wick, who was totally not an antisemite because she voted for a Jewish guy once. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Gonna add one story to this great thread on the history of people wearing barrels. One of Portland's most obnoxious and notorious fascists, Grace Wick, got her start in the 1930s wearing a barrel around downtown Portland sporting an array of anti-New Deal slogans.
December 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here's a thread with more information on one of Portland's leading antisemitic fascists, Grace Wick, who was totally not an antisemite because she voted for a Jewish guy once. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Here's a 1941 letter that a "heritage American" named Grace Wick wrote to FDR complaining about the "alien, Jewish refugees" flooding into the country and replacing "native stock" Americans like her. She says FDR is inviting a Hitler to emerge in America to deal with this problem!
December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here's a 1941 letter that a "heritage American" named Grace Wick wrote to FDR complaining about the "alien, Jewish refugees" flooding into the country and replacing "native stock" Americans like her. She says FDR is inviting a Hitler to emerge in America to deal with this problem!
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"The time is long overdue...to stop the flood of aliens, or we are going to have another Civil War to help free the white slaves. I am referring to the Americans who are being squeezed out on all sides by the alien "refugee" jews who are buying mortgages & property right over our heads." --G Wick
December 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"The time is long overdue...to stop the flood of aliens, or we are going to have another Civil War to help free the white slaves. I am referring to the Americans who are being squeezed out on all sides by the alien "refugee" jews who are buying mortgages & property right over our heads." --G Wick
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Wick was a proud "America Firster" from the early 1940s up through the approach of VE day...the "V" she took to mean, in 1945, the unfortunate (to her) victory of Jews over Christians.
December 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wick was a proud "America Firster" from the early 1940s up through the approach of VE day...the "V" she took to mean, in 1945, the unfortunate (to her) victory of Jews over Christians.
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So much winning.🙄
I wonder if people in Kentucky realize how many of their problems are a direct result of voting for Republicans?
I wonder if people in Kentucky realize how many of their problems are a direct result of voting for Republicans?
Jim Beam is shutting down its distillery for 2026. They blame a "glut" on the market even though the industry produced 55 million less gallons this year than last.
Some glut.
People aren't buying MAGA whiskey.
Score another one for the Canadian boycott.
whiskycast.com/beam-to-shut...
Some glut.
People aren't buying MAGA whiskey.
Score another one for the Canadian boycott.
whiskycast.com/beam-to-shut...
whiskycast.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
So much winning.🙄
I wonder if people in Kentucky realize how many of their problems are a direct result of voting for Republicans?
I wonder if people in Kentucky realize how many of their problems are a direct result of voting for Republicans?
Impeach. Them. All.
Top to bottom.
Top to bottom.
NEW: After months of the government telling the court under penalty of perjury that the US Attorney alone made the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego with a crime, there is now EVIDENCE tying Todd Blanche to the decision. More to come on Substack... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#272 in United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE of Defendant's Supplemental Brief on United States' Motion to Quash (Redacted) by Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (Hecker, Sean) (Entered: 12/19/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Impeach. Them. All.
Top to bottom.
Top to bottom.
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This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
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Although the Epstein files are incomplete and heavily redacted, Donald Trump barely appears in any of the documents that his personal lawyer/deputy attorney general released. Case closed.
by Marc Thiessen
by Marc Thiessen
December 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Although the Epstein files are incomplete and heavily redacted, Donald Trump barely appears in any of the documents that his personal lawyer/deputy attorney general released. Case closed.
by Marc Thiessen
by Marc Thiessen