John Nichols: Mandela Barnes knows that in order to form a more perfect union, Wisconsin and the rest of the nation need to reckon with the past.
07.12.2025 11:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@jsgjames.bsky.social
Retired 30-year IT guy (at two large public universities). Living my best life with two cats, family, and friends. Yes, I took these eclipse photos. #Wisconsin #Astronomy #Cosmology #Hiking #Music #Opera #Cats #LiberalAF #Photography
John Nichols: Mandela Barnes knows that in order to form a more perfect union, Wisconsin and the rest of the nation need to reckon with the past.
07.12.2025 11:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Legal challenge to birthright citizenship revives Korematsuโs warning on who counts as an American โ mkeind.com/4oHzDx8
07.12.2025 11:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Chilly Saturday morning in Port Washington Wisconsin #photography
07.12.2025 11:45 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฆ #photography
07.12.2025 11:48 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0For the 211th time today.
07.12.2025 12:51 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you've never seen Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants...it absolutely gives Da Ortiz a run for his money (and it was directed by Mamet!)
Not sure if there's an HD version available, but wow.
youtu.be/z7InE1zXAY4
I got to photograph the Kamokuna ocean entry eruption in 2016, watched the coastline expand more directly, as it were. :) www.myhawaiianimages.com/Home2/Recent...
07.12.2025 06:51 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)
07.12.2025 06:55 โ ๐ 93 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0gasses compose the Sun. Helium, for example, was first discovered in 1868 on a solar spectrum and only later found here on Earth. Today, the majority of spectral absorption lines have been identified - but not all.
07.12.2025 08:00 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0emits light of nearly every color, it appears brightest in yellow-green light. The dark patches in the featured spectrum arise from gas at or above the Sun's surface absorbing sunlight emitted below. Since different types of gas absorb different colors of light, it is possible to determine what
07.12.2025 08:00 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun
07.12.2025 08:00 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Colors from red at the top to blue at the bottom occupy this spectral image. In the midst of the colors are some dark spots indicating missing colors. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
๐ญ The Sun and Its Missing Colors
Image Credit: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF
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How the solar storms that cause the Northern Lights can wreak havoc on Earth. ๐ญ ๐งช www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
07.12.2025 08:34 โ ๐ 79 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1Eek! ๐ฌ Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain โ and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
Considering adopting a "Land Grant University Service Extremist" Ideology and not resting until the Bayh-Dole Act is repealed, startup-ism is expelled from the academy, and any whisper of "running it like a business" from an administrator is grounds for firing them....
07.12.2025 09:09 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Plus ca change
07.12.2025 09:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Jersey's Centre Stone.
The Omphallos of the Island, a block of granite 3km from its northern outcrop at Mont Mado. Only a small cup-marl attests to use in prehistory. Maybe once part of a now-lost Dolmen.
#StandingStoneSunday
#MiddleEarth
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Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet โ and AI is their next frontier
theconversation.com/far-right-ex...
There were a lot of things I was going to have to get over.
07.12.2025 10:00 โ ๐ 55 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1choo choo, motherfucker
07.12.2025 10:06 โ ๐ 1126 ๐ 234 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 1Iโm on the BBC talking about taking photos of the Moon, translated into Turkish.
Avustralya'daki Monash รniversitesi'nde astronomi doรงenti olan Michael Brown, "Genellikle รงok karanlฤฑk bir arka planda kรผรงรผk bir Ay gรถrรผyoruz, bu nedenle telefon gece vakti iรงin fotoฤraf รงekmeye รงalฤฑลฤฑyor" diyor.
History teaches us that fair skinned men in the West often thought they had victory in their grasp and then the Great Khan rode forth to face them
07.12.2025 10:22 โ ๐ 144 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Flash Gordon movie poster
1936. It's supposed to be better than the 1980 version (I haven't seen it)
07.12.2025 10:17 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0does this guy genuinely not understand how much he looks and sounds like a villain from a Dickens story
07.12.2025 10:43 โ ๐ 175 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations up to a half inch. * WHERE...A portion of southeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until 8 AM CST this morning. * IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
Winter Weather Advisory issued December 7 at 6:20AM CST until December 7 at 8:00AM CST by NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
Additional Details Here.
Once again, we are learning in real time how many of our colleagues, institutions, & university leaders are simply not actually interested in education:
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โThank you,โ she said. It was like she could see me through my visor, which was a terrifying enough thought that my performance reliability dropped 3 percent.
07.12.2025 04:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This kingdom is built upon the guiding principle that the love of money is the root of success.
07.12.2025 05:14 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Isnโt it interesting that conservatives are NEVER concerned that someone might cheat the system when it comes to school vouchers?
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