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This image shows an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate, orange-hued plume of gas and dust. It is located some 460 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), near to the young, tumultuous star HL Tau. In the first few hundred thousand years of life, new stars like HL Tau pull in material that falls towards them from the surrounding space. This material forms a hot disc that swirls around the coalescing body, launching narrow streams of material from its poles. These jets are shot out at speeds of several hundred kilometers (or miles) per second and collide violently with nearby clumps of dust and gas, creating wispy, billowing structures known as Herbig-Haro objects — like HH 151 seen in the image. Such objects are very common in star-forming regions. They are short-lived, and their motion and evolution can actually be seen over very short timescales, on the order of years. They quickly race away from the newly-forming star that emitted them, colliding with new clumps of material and glowing brightly before fading away. ESA/Hubble & NASA NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find...

Hubble Sees a Glowing Jet From A Young Star - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/dX2drC

"It's actually good that all the pretense is gone and we know where we stand!!" is a bad take when leftists make it to play into their accelerationist fantasies, and it's a bad take when liberals make it too.

Another good 🧵

Again, another way you know this place has the juice & the bLuEsKy iS dYiNg discourse is mainly motivated reasoning is that you can follow world events in real-time, & find the smart experts' 🧵s like this, here, just like you could on Twitter c.2015-23, before it became the Nazi Bar.

Bluesky should pin this to every feed

(Apart from the usual Russian bots, MAGA cheerleaders, and the usual tankies and vatniks, that is. Those are hardly representative.)

*Are* a significant number of them defending the Iranian regime, though? From what I've seen around here at least, people are pissed off because this is a war for Twitter content more than anything, and Trump is likely to chicken out before inflicting serious damage on those monsters...

Trump’s self-serving made-for-TV war with Iran.

Taking a page from Netanyahu’s war-crimes playbook.

A THREAD.

It is with great joy that i can say Project Hanuman is shortlisted for best novel
In the BSFA awards @bsfa.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

i also have a story in the short listed anthology, Creative Futures

If you’ve not yet read either now is the time!

Congrats to all the finalists.

Oh, and to avoid misunderstandings: The above (team X) is not meant to in any way suggest those people are the "leaders". They're the current proxies. The tendency for people to personalize political currents is one of the reasons we're in the current mess. Cthulhu protect us from People of Destiny.

And I've probably missed a few.
Trump won because he somehow built a coalition out of these. But their interests are too divergent. It'll get even uglier, especially since Trump is clearly on his way out and is trying to install a dynastic succession.

I mean, we have
* the white supremacists (team Miller)
* the techno-fascists (team Musk and team Silicon Valley)
* the warmongers (team Hegseth)
* the mercantilists (team Rubio)
* the opportunists (team Vance)
* the end times/rapture religious nutbags (various, I never looked into these, because ew)

Same team when their interests happen to align, but fascists are factional as *fuck* -- unsurprising given that the core of the "ideology" is simply "me murderking, you do what me say or me hurt you". One of the reasons they self-immolate. And burn their people down in the process too, sadly.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

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I have *absolutely* no idea. All I know that we're having one faction of the MAGA fascists fighting with one faction of the techno-fascists, so I'm sitting on the sidelines and cheering.

Oh, I personally would be happy to see them go up in flames. OpenAI to follow.

Given how fast the OpenAI deal was in place (same day! that's absolutely *insane* speed even for a competent administration, which is... not the case...), I'd speculate more along the lines of "ok, you're going with OpenAI, let's cosplay you yelling at me".

"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.

One way you can tell that it's not about ethics, but likely about some business aspect gone wrong: They're referring to "DOW". If they wanted to *defy* them, they would use the legal name, which is DOD (Trump can call it DOW until he gets blue in the face, renaming it takes an Act of Congress.)

I'm having a very hard time being sympathetic to Anthropic here. Them facing consequences from defying one tribe of fascists is *not* divorced from their own ethics. There are no good guys in this story, just different tribes of evil.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

The bombing is happening after we learned of progress in the nuclear talks.

The lesson continues to be that you can never trust Americans.

Any state threatened by the Americans will have concluded by now that their only safety is to develop nukes asap, surely?

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.

You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

I really really strongly condemn Mark Carney's yappin abt how Canada stands with the US

we really, really shouldn't. not now. not for this.

did we not learn from the last time??

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War People will die and nothing will be accomplished

My thoughts

open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

YouTube video by Gorillaz Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God

This was so sweet and fun, and so beautifully animated: youtu.be/ucRulNQsuYQ

Screenshot of New York Times website February 27, 2028. Highlighting the headline: In Trump's Case for War With Iran, a Series of False or Unproven Claims: Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up. With red underlines under "False or Unproven Claims" and "do not hold up."

Good job, New York Times. Directly calling Trump's case for war with Iran based on "false" claims that "do not hold up." In the headline, top of the homepage. And no hedging with "critics say."

I don't think they ever did that in the lead up to Iraq, and rarely do anything like it for Trump's lies.

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead