Chris Newsom

An image of the scorpion core of the milky way above my home town of Dunedin NZ across a harbour. A multi exposure blended image showing an orange glowing city & a magnificent cluster of stars. The dark bits aren't where stars aren't, it's dust clouds in the galaxy.

#FlashbackFriday

A year ago I played with exposures to see if the switch to LED lights in Ōtepoti Dunedin had made it more possible to see the Milky Way above the city lights...

A bit of exposure tomfuckery & sure enough, in August our galaxy appears horizontal & low to the horizon.

Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ Enjoy Your Saturday 🫶

6 months down 3 years to go 🥴

I can’t believe we are catching up.

She's right....

I went for a day trip with Ferg Campbell to the Starth Taieri, we knew it was cold, but was treated with fog & a hoar frost down in the valley. Ferg shot the grain silos, I went for a wide angle tussock & grain silo composition. He might be right, it might be a little too busy - but I couldn't resist

3 silos outside Middlemarch Ōtepoti

(or 3 tussocks outside Middlemarch)

Strath Taieri hoar frost, Taiari Ōtepoti Dunedin

#GreatNZRoadie #Nikon #Winter #Photography

Poster advertising our 2025 astrophotography exhibition

An aurora above a coastal inlet

The Milky Way above a harbour with a city in the background

the Milky Way above Otago Peninsula with light trails from passing cars below

If you're in the area (Arrowtown / Queenstown) you should come & see our @winterstellar.bsky.social exhibition, it's out best ever & we are very proud of it. I have 3 pieces in the exhibition & every image is beautifully printed.

(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)

so I've seen that clip and I think Thiel was trolling the way that I troll about how the Star Wars prequels are actually about women's health. Star Wars is great fodder for revealing the things you care about. Like I think reproductive healthcare should be free; Thiel wants to put everyone in debt

Random q - how much are they pricing per ton?

Ocean plant cell discovery might revolutionize farming A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

I was quite surprised to hear a story about nitrogen fixation when listening to the news on NPR. 🌊

This has long been my conviction about LLMs. They're going to get worse! For the same reason the information environment in general is getting worse. There's just vastly more misinformation out there, and trustworthy information is harder and harder to find and verify

It’s important to always ask yourself “why am I working so hard?” and question the tradeoffs you are making before it’s too late.

I now have this mental picture of A & E departments and all the folks who thought they'd try a scooter in the snow ! Safe travels !

Best driving choice in my life was driving to Park n Ride Oxford & walking into town amidst 5cm-10cm snow.
It's all the drivers who have no clue how to drive on snow that is both understandable and remarkably messy. Only takes 2 to block each street 🫣🫣

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong. Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.

This article should be a much bigger deal for the US (and other countries).
You can't have intelligent policy or political positions on the economy if you're measuring the wrong things
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Yoga for Writers | Yoga With Adriene This session invites you to choose a soft and easy approach that welcomes you to show up as you are. This 30 min video also offers you an opportunity to rejuvenate the brain and body. This supportive ...

If you are a writer (or someone who sits at their desk/somewhere even less comfortable all day) then this is my favourite yoga workout and it feels like a massage after!

All of @yogawithadriene.bsky.social is amazing, but this one is a great one to do regularly.

yogawithadriene.com/yoga-for-wri...

Looking on the positive side
1. He's united Canadians and Canadian states (near miracle)
2. Made Trudeau popular (Def miracle)
3. Canadians & Mexicans still pretty united (hat trick !)

It's getting really hard out there for @bencollins.bsky.social - what's left for parody ?

Tim of Onion fame was having a bit of a laugh at what was negotiated - pointing out the $100m (US) would buy a medium level hockey player 😅🫣

Quite important that Canadians don't laugh too hard at the size of the very big deal that DJT has negotiated.

Ah...never thought about EVs and fording. Are their engines sealed up neatly enough to make them superior at all this ?

The United States are exceedingly disunited on this issue 😁

Unfortunately the dismemberment of USAID is likely a test run of vandalisation across the US govt.

Respectfully biscuits and gravy does look a bit like prison food.
Maybe they could jazz up its appearance a little ?

The $50m condoms farce was a bit of a tell.

Took a glance - Jack has been a plonker but I reckon a model of civility given the roasting he's had.
I'm hoping he's got kids who are rolling on the floor by now 😂

You can't look too silly if pointing out that the branch on the river that the US is paddling towards is chock full of rocks 'n' rapids.
It's just good to note there are forks that allow for an exit to calmer waters & the paddlers have form deciding that grade 3 water & some bluster is better.

You two could run an online course for Americans on understanding what happens when folks in autocratic countries decide they want to bend the levers of power 🥴🥴🫣🫣

Probably an expensive fortnight for the US - in a few years who's going to price US commitments on climate change as reliable after 2 treaty withdrawals ?