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He seems pretty despondent. That makes me very happy.

I like the universe. It's home, but nature is pretty horrorshow most of the time. It'll kill ya pretty quick if you're not on your toes.

If it's so good, why does it constantly need corretion?
I mean, if you think about it, it's a pretty crappy design.

Naw, it made in Quebec, so you mostly just start speaking gibberish.

Different rules for the hoi oligoi.

Weird they won't stand up for their colleagues in the White House press room though.

Well, that wasn't the actual quote from Tucker. The implication was from the other guy. Tucker just said Israeli Intelligence is running porn sites, and they are. And so is everybody else.

So.. porn websites are probably the most effective jihadi honey pot ever devised. If the Israelis aren't running porn sites they're dumb.

We should all relax and not make assumptions about slightly ambiguous statements. Unless the guy has a Nazi tattoo. Then he should explain himself.

If you really don't know what a nuclear submarine was doing there, maybe look at a map of the polar regions. Implying the US was threatening Greenland with nukes makes you look kinda dumb.

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Took a quick picture of IC405 too. But it is back to cloudy skies and snow for the weekend.

We had a little clear sky in Maryland for a change.

ICE Out of Baltimore demonstration marching down Gay St.

Marching pas the War Memorial in Baltimore.

Marching dwon Gay St. In Baltimore
#ICEOut of #Baltimore

A man with a sign that says No American Gestapo and a woman with a sign letting us know what she thinks of ICE

Fuck ICE, No American Gestapo

#ICEOut of #Baltimore

A man with a drum, on Pratt Street in Baltimore.

A woman with a sign that proclaims we have the power.

Beating the drum for justice, We the People have the power
#ICEOut of #Baltimore

ICE out of Baltimore, Justice for Renee Good.

ICE out of Baltimore at McKeldin Plaza in Baltimore. @freestatecoalition.bsky.social

Justice for Renee Good. We the People are the resistance.
#ICEOut of #Baltimore

ICE out of Baltimore demonstration on Pratt Street in Baltimore,

#ICEOut of #Baltimore

Four stars in the center of a dim cloud of gas. A few more scattered about.

You can't see it in the image above because the center is overexposed, but it's the four stars in the center here that are lighting everything up. It's called the Trapezium.

The Orion Nebula (M42) A bright emission nebula in Orion. Dark dust and wispy reddish brown clouds surround a bright central region where stars are forming. There is a second bright region and cluster of stars above separated by a dark lane of dust. It is set in a relatively sparse field of mostly dim stars with a couple brighter ones.

Triangulum Galaxy (M33) A large diffuse spiral galaxy with loosely wound arms and a relatively dim core. You can see compact clusters of stars in the arms and if you look closely there are a few small pinkish regions of ionized hydrogen in star forming regions. There's a few brighter bluish and reddish stars in the foreground.

Waxing crescent moon in the dark sky. Large dark maria are visible and some large craters in the shadow along the terminator.

Christmas Moon

It's called the Christmas Tree Cluster.

NGC2264, a cluster of stars with the brighter ones sort of in the shape of a Christmas tree. There's a few bright blue stars in the center, S Monocerotis and others, surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. there are dark patches of dust obscuring a very dense star field.

Merry Christmas

Soviets weren't exactly a bunch of liberals. But yeah, most of history's monsters were arts and humanities people.

Full Moon on a black sky. Several maria (dark flat areas) and large craters are visible. Tycho is quite prominent in the lower right. It's a large crater with bright rays extending out from it.

It's cloudy tonight but the Super Moon is bright enough to shine through. We won't see anything else in the central Maryland sky tonight though.

Full Moon seen through silhouette of trees. The moon is obscured by clouds and has a reddish halo.

Last full Moon of the year.

Image of the Sun on a black background. A large group of irregularly shaped sun spots in the lower left. Actually, three groups 4298, 4294, and 4296. A couple of smaller groups above an on the right.

The #Sun this morning. The large #sunspot groups are working their way across the face. Just some C-class and B-class flares and no earth-directed CMEs so the chances of a light show on Earth are pretty low.

They say it's the same group from last month that gave us the nice aurora, so maybe we'll get lucky.

Image of the Sun with a large group of irregularly shaped sun spots on the lower left. A few smaller spots on the left and right sides and a pair of very small ones near the center. They are dark brown with lighter areas surrounding. The Sun's surface is granulated deep orange with a few lighter areas throughout.

There's a new big group of Sun spots coming around, producing some X-class flares. At least one this morning anyway. Doesn't look like we'll get any auroras from it yet though.