Em

Aerials from the desert badlands. You can never have too many drone batteries out here!

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Happy 1st October! 🍁

The brilliant reds, oranges & yellows of autumn leaves aren’t just a seasonal show, they’re the result of clever chemistry.

A perfect reminder that chemistry always leaves us impressed. 🍂

Many thanks to @compoundchem.com for the fabulous graphic.

#ColourChemistry

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

A massive U.S. study of >460k kids found a 2nd Covid infection doubled the risk of long Covid despite vaxx status.

Leaders must act now to reduce reinfections in schools & communities

"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

"Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

Keith @keetmuise Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying… Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety Keep it going in the comments 1:02 PM · Sep 27, 2025 · 46.1K Views

By Keith @keetmuise

Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying…

Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety
Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety
Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety
Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety

Keep it going in the comments

Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.

It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.

But it's us.

It's Earth.

From Mars.

My chuckle for the morning…

the nyt has become the onion and the onion has become the nyt and that about sums up how it feels to live, during these times ...

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America.

By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

"If we give Hitler Austria, surely he'll be satisfied and won't try to take more territory."

Cute lol

Morning…

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

Not everyone can participate in boots on the ground resistance.

Protesting is a privilege.

Boycotting is a privilege.

Many forms of resistance are privileges that are out of reach for the most vulnerable.

If you can’t be boots on the ground, here’s a community action item that needs support!

A good visualization to challenge your terracentricism CC: @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

please be conscientious of the way you talk about “masked people” these days; some face coverings are poor excuses for protection as they are used as vehicles for oppression, others—respirators—are themselves tools of liberation. act like it. mask up & support maskblocs.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgaeMAa/

DO NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR PEACE.

١٤٠غ١١٨ also cran 阿 m- "Violence" in Social Movements • 111 They Will Call You Violent If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because "violence" is an elastic term of. ren deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of im-Prisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to "peaceful protest," they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

“The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence.”

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Which birthday only lasts for one minute?

Your 62nd birthday 🎂

#Dadjoke #Joke

Screenshot of the First Memorial Celebration that honored the Black Soldiers who died defending a country that doesn't Defend nor Protect them Rest in Power!

Thank Black Americans for your off day

😎

Holy feck USA…look at these maps.

Wildfire country in California now has no overnight forecasters on deck.

Much of Kansas tornado alley not covered at night time.

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

A “BirdCast” map of the USA reads: Night of April 13, 2025 129 million birds predicted Generated 13 Apr 2025 at 06:00 UTC (13 Apr at 02:00 ET) Bird migration forecast The map colors show the highest intensity in the southern US, spreading northward and gradually fading in intensity in that direction.

Gif of radar map. A 24-hour national mosaic animation of radar imagery featuring large numbers of birds taking flight. Circular blue and green features represent bird migration; precipitation appears as irregular bands. (Base reflectivity radar imagery from October 16th-17th, 2017, 12pm-12pm EST.)

Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration.

Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers.

Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶

Learn more: birdcast.info