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Two ring-like galaxies. On the left is a galaxy with a bright core surrounded by a yellow ring. There is a gap between the core and ring where the black background of space shows through. The galaxy is tilted so that the circular ring appears oval-shaped. On the right is a another circular galaxy, made mostly of a ring of bright blue dots, which are star clusters. On the bottom left part of the ring is a haze of white stars and orangish dust. The center of the ring is empty and the black background of space shows through. This galaxy looks a little like the writing of the aliens from the movie Arrival.

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 147, also known as IC 298.

The clumpy, blue ring in the galaxy on the right likely formed when the companion galaxy to the left crashed through its center.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
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A man leans against a pumpkin and reads. His husband watches. His husband's cat wonders when it'll be dinnertime.

At #Ebooks Direct, our Spooky Season #sale is on! ebooks.direct/pages/our-sp... #ebooiks #ebooksky #spookyseason
#Halloween

im saying this as a colorist who definitely stayed in their own lane when I worked regularly in comics, but I saw a book recently from one of the big 2 with sfx like CATCH! And FLING! And I havent been this peeved from a craft point of view in years

Remote control crud transmission

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

So for the two people who might be wondering why I haven’t posted any fanworks lately it’s bc I’m 58k deep into the queer shapeshifter regency romantasy novel rewrite and I hit the part of the story today where our hero, in a sheer fit of hyperfixating has figured out The Nefarious Plot

Easily the coolest project I've ever worked on!
and with friends no less 🥹🥹🥹

YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT IN FULL ITS AMAZING!!

My Story is a double daffodil for the ages! Truly memorable, double blossoms of 3¾" top dwarf plants that look amazing in groupings both large and small. Greenish-white petals surround fully double, salmon-pink corona cups, producing a highly unique color scheme.

@theonion.com is right. Buy my book about a guy who fucks a jacked centaur, coincidentally out today: bit.ly/4lBNKDj

If y'all don't know the legend of Ben's anus.

Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

Two drawings and two small photos of the cat, Pyaari. The drawing on the left is wearing a blue dupatta. The drawing on the right is in a gold sari with a dupatta on the head.

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

A screenshot of the first section of Blake's poem titled "A Memorable Fancy", taken from the Project Gutenberg webpage linked in the post.

"In the third chamber was an eagle with wings and feathers of air; he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs."
— William Blake: "A Memorable Fancy" (an excerpt) ( www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4... )

#BookWormSat

Walkin' on sunshine

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

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I have invented A Delicious Wrap for the Lazy:

- Wrap
- Handful chopped cucumber
- Roast capsicum (slimy!)
- Hummus
- Tzatziki
- Fried chickpeas (fry in olive oil with 1 tsp cumin, 1/2 paprika, 1/4 garlic powder, 1/4 onion powder, 1/2 salt, 1/4 black pepper)

IT IS YUM no pics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxU...

just guess

How I draw hair!

Other artists??? Show me yours!

Art by • Yuriko Ohno

New ‘artificial plant’ uses solar power to clean radioactive soil Researchers have created a game-changing device that purifies radioactive soil using nothing but sunlight.

Cool.

"Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days"

interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

YouTube video by Brandon Acker “The Mad Lover” – A Hauntingly Beautiful 300-Year-Old Masterpiece

Timeline cleanse!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtB...

Get more from AJ Vanderpoel on Patreon creating art and writing

New on Patreon! New eldritch noir with Crow[n] of Crow[s], a Gallowglass update as we barrel towards the conclusion of that in First Draft Theatre AND! A FOXCOUNT UPDATE! (hint: we've passed the halfway mark!)
www.patreon.com/c/ajvanderpoel

Fox's Happy Hikin Club 🦊🍂

This is why I am so fussy about silent film restorations, computer colorization and AI.

It took us DECADES to degunk CALIGARI because some mid-century fool changed the aspect ratio.

You never know what is going to survive.

Library Extension (for web browsers) Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local library

For book lovers: I just finally got around to setting up Library Extension on my browser and now I feel like I'm thwarting capitalism. You tell it your favorite libraries and then when you look for books online it'll hook you up with library copies.
www.libraryextension.com

Kelly Turnbull

It’s my birthday today and this has been the worst and most miserable year of my life but if you want to do a nice thing for me you could buy one of my comics coelasquid.itch.io