Margaret Silvers

Perseus Molecular Cloud (PerMCld) has dark, reflection,and emission nebulae plus star clusters. This photo covers part of the cloud and contains Omicron Persei Cloud (IC 348) on the left and the Embryo Nebula (NGC 1333) on the upper right. Updated to highlight cloud details 02/17 Exposure 7 hours, 12/17/2025 Skies: Bortle 3-4 (moonless dark sky) Equipment: Telescope: SVBony SV555 Camera: ZWO ASI2600mc pro Mount: ZWO AM3 FIlters: SVBony UVIRcut Processed in SIRIL and Photoshop

Perseus Molecular Cloud (PerMCld) has dark, reflection,and emission nebulae plus star clusters. This photo covers part of the cloud and contains Omicron Persei Cloud (IC 348) on the left and the Embryo Nebula (NGC 1333).

Updated to highlight cloud details 02/17

#astronomy #astrophotography

A meteor with nice persistent ion train today at 4:27am in Crestone, Colorado USA. Full timelapse to follow.

#timelapse #astronomy #astrophotography

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

Sure feels like the 'AOC is a foreign policy lightweight' would be a more interesting argument if every president since George H.W. Bush hadn't also been a foreign policy lightweight when not actively a Dunning-Kruger disaster.

"KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: RECORDING FEDERAL AGENTS IN PUBLIC. You have the right to photograph or film anything in plain view, including federal buildings and law enforcement, so long as you aren't trespassing or violating a lawful order.If you're not under arrest, law enforcement needs a warrant to confiscate or search your device.If you're arrested, officers still need a warrant to search your device's contents.The government may never lawfully delete your photos or videos.While the Constitution protects your right to record and helps you defend against unjustified retaliation or arrest, the exercise of this right can still carry risks. ACLU."

The First Amendment protects your right to record government officials performing their duties in public.

This applies to ICE agents, police, FBI, National Guard troops, and any other government officials.

Learn more at aclu.org/kyr_record-

Poster that says: "Charlottesville's a Union Town. Collective Bargaining for all Town Hall and Community Panel. Whether you're a UVA worker, student, or Charlottesville resident, come learn how you can use collective bargaining to get more of a say in UVA's impact on your life and raise the standards for all of us! Saturday, February 21, 2-3:30pm. Charlottesville Middle School Cafeteria. 1000 Cherry Ave. Child care and refreshments provided." At the bottom is a QR vode to RSVP and the UCWVA logo.

Hey #Charlottesville #cville folx. This weekend, Sat Feb 21 from 2-3:30 (with social time afterwards) UCW is hosting a town hall about collective bargaining and keeping UVA honest. Flyer below with an RSVP QR code with more information. Let your folx (esp other unionized folx) know! Tags incoming.

How IHS is Responding to Terrifying Changes at Amazon - I Heart SapphFic How IHS is Responding to Terrifying Changes at Amazon - TB here. This is going to be a long post, but it's worth reading. The gist of it is that Amazon is up to a bunch of terrifying nonsense, and IHS...

If you're using Amazon Affiliates you may have noticed that some books, specifically erotic and erotic romance titles, are no longer eligible for affiliate income.

@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.

Y'all remember #AmazonFail?

NEW: A federal immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings against our client Mohsen Mahdawi, who was detained for his protected speech.

This is good news, but the government can still appeal or refile their case. We won’t stop fighting until he is free for good.

Black graphic with a photo of a young Rev. Jesse Jackson in a suit speaking into a set of microphones with his fist in the air and white text reads "Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive." The quote is attributed to Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist

We mourn the loss of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who played an extraordinarily consequential role not in only advancing our nation’s civil rights, but also strengthening our democracy.

TONIGHT | 8PM ET

Viewers voted to have Mary Jo & Chris watch the made-for-TV movie LIVE AGAIN, DIE AGAIN for the very first time along with all of YOU for an all-new Movie Jo Night!

Watch on Twitch w/ ads: twitch.tv/dumbtelevision
Watch ad-free in The Dumb Clubhouse: dumb-industries.com/clubhouse

Sad to have missed this news earlier — a lararium north of the Alps!!! We have so much more to learn about domestic religious practices in the Roman world

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

YouTube video by ACLU Making Sense of Digital Privacy with Policy Expert Chad Marlow, Part 2 | Making Sense | ACLU

In our latest episode of Making Sense, policy expert Chad Marlow shares how we can keep tech companies and the government out of our business. Watch it now at youtu.be/eg8gcla-Wj0

Limiting location sharing on your devices is a great first step to protect yourself against prying eyes.

People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities.

We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico

Also posted a video explaining why he couldn't broadcast the interview.

I have to say I don't watch the Colbert show (nothing personal I don't really watch talk shows) and it got me to watch.

Hand-drawn map of the US, labeled "Pancake Time Zones, with an inset showing Britain with the label "Shrovetide Exclusionary Zone." The US is broken into time zones, with each time zone labeled and colored thus: EST: colored orange and labeled "Dinner" Central Time: colored teal and labeled "Lunch" Mountain Time: colored blue and labeled "Brunch" Pacific Time: colored red, and labeled "Breakfast" Britain in an inset box in the lower right corner, colored pink (as it traditional) and is labled: "Isle of Shroves" Now...you can disagree with this all you like, but it's right there on the map. So who should we trust? Your intuition about when pancakes should be eaten? Or the world's only authentic pancake time zone map?

It is Shrove Tuesday! Again!

And, as is tradition here at Surprised Eel History & Maps, here's your map of established pancake timezones in the US, and your reminder that the UK is in an exclusionary zone meaning that griddle cakes of all sorts are acceptable at all hours today.

Very unlikely I would have watched this unless they Streisanded themselves. Oops!

NIMBY Americans don't want human warehouses as neighbors. Weird! | Opinion Hello, I'm from the government, and I'd like to see what it's going to take to get your community into one of our new immigrant detention facilities!

Turns out not every community in America wants a patriotic detention facility, which is weird, because they’re really cool and not at all the physical manifestation of a barbaric federal effort to racist-ly reshape the demographic makeup of America.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

3D image shows mounds of uplifted bedrock within Ritchey Crater on Mars. The scene is less than 5 km, or 3 miles, across.

HiRISE 3D: Ritchey Crater Central Uplift

This image completed a stereo mosiac of the central, uplifted bedrock here.

Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_037968_1515_ESP_037691_1515_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #NASA #science

"The dramatic reversal in the case came after the Trump DOJ last week dropped criminal charges against the wounded man, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and his Venezuelan friend, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna. Both men had both been accused of assaulting the ICE agent who opened fire"

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money

She's with the Banned: Texas librarian shares battle over book bans in PBS documentary Documentary The Librarians shows public servants on the front line of a national battle against conservative groups fighting to ban books from public schools.

“Removing the books, rather it denies them access to materials that promote empathy and serve as a guide for their own lives during challenging and confusing times.”

Twin Cities Tenants — March 1 Rent Strike Pledge to withhold rent with 10,000+ neighbors. ICE out, eviction moratorium, rent relief, solidarity.

Hello MINNESOTA.

A Rent Strike is planned for March 1st. This has UNION SUPPORT, and a number of sympathy strikes are also planned that day.

Need more information? Have questions? Here's the explainer.

Sign the pledge! Withhold your labor and capital!

twincitiestenants.org

A tree house sits on tall wooden pilings above a smooth sandy beach. High up, a woman rests her arms over the window sill as she looks out. The window is set in the roof with a haphazardly constructed, asymmetrical overhang. The roof is shingled on one side of the window while the boards beneath are weathered and exposed on the other. The siding of the structure resembles an old water tower, with long vertical boards restrained with thin metal bands long since rusted. The sky is a wash of yellow and gray. The light has a dusky quality as clouds obscure a sun that sits low in the sky. A path of pebbles meanders river-like from the foreground in a loose zigzag until it reaches a puddle of water at the base of the watchtower. The ruined remains of a ladder stick out of the sand near the pilings.

WATCHTOWER (1999)

Acrylic on Panel - 28" x 22"



While the figure in the tower was watching her TV, the tide came in and then receded, taking her boat and ruining her ladder in the process. 1/2

#art

Meme. Painting of a medieval abbot. He's standing and holding a little red book, which is open in his hand. He has a long white beard, and the hair on the side of his head sweeps over his ears like the tide sweeps over a sandbar. He is bald, and there is a fine patina of light dancing across his head. He is wearing a dark grey robe, with the hood thrown back, and next to him is the staff of his office. Behind is head is a yellow halo, so you know he's esp. holy. He is looking down towards the book, but not actually at it. It seems like he was reading, but got distracted by something on the floor a little in front of him. His expression is calm, so it's not anything wild like a group of rabbits ritualistically sacrificing a sparrow. More like he's seen a piece of cheese, and the abbot can't quite recall when last he had cheese. Later, idly, he'll pick it up and realize that it's lint from his socks. Meme text reads: "I'm a medieval monk Everything's about sex, really"

Lent begins this week. And if you're a medieval English abbot that means one thing: eel-rents!

At the start of Lent tenants all over England came to pay their yearly rent in eels. Hundreds of thousands of eels.

But how? Why?

Well...it's about sex & availability, you see. 1/7
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The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.