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Kyle Clark

@kylec.bsky.social

Someone on Twitter/X told me inclusive playground are "woke." That's nonsense. Playgrounds aren't political. Inclusive playgrounds are purpose built so kids of different abilities can play together. Let's build another one. I'll match the next 50 $5 donations: www.coloradogives.org/story/8wxbze

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March 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

Cat's Eye Nebula - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7GLbNG

The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye.

The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula is revealed in this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows a bull's eye pattern of eleven or even more concentric rings, or shells, around the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky -- that's why it appears bright along its outer edge.

Observations suggest the star ejected its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals. These convulsions created dust shells, each of which contain as much mass as all of the planets in our solar system combined (still only one percent of the Sun's mass). These concentric shells make a layered, onion-skin structure around the dying star. The view from Hubble is like seeing an onion cut in half, where each skin layer is discernible.

The bull's-eye patterns seen around planetary nebulae come as a surprise to astronomers because they had no expectation that episodes of mass loss at the end of stellar lives would repeat every 1,500 years. Several explanations have been proposed, including cycles of magnetic activity somewhat similar to our own Sun's sunspot cycle, the action of companion stars orbiting around the dying star, and stellar pulsations. Another school of thought is t...

March 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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Dcat

@dcatty.bsky.social

I'm rewatching The Wire. A character in the episode I'm watching says, "A lie ain't a side of the story. It's just a lie." For some reason, that speaks to me these days (as do a million other lines from the show.)

March 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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@unruleyjulie.bsky.social

February 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline.com

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE.

We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

February 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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News Eye

@newseye.bsky.social

BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them.

It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday.

And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff.

Incompetence will be deadly.

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

www.nbcnews.com

February 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party

thx in advance

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 19

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"