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NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

Black River — near total destruction.

A series of wispy, blue strands emanate from the centre of the image, which is glowing orangey–red with a little pink. The background is FESTOONED with stars, all set against a black backdrop.

Another STUNNING image from JWST, this time of the Red Spider Nebula—the vast, wispy, gaseous remains of a now-dead star, the white dwarf core still glowing in the centre.

Reagan goes 2-0 against Trump's vision of America's greatness.

The New Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary 12th Ed.

Technically, this is a book of spells.

100% a toddler tantrum because over 7 million people told him loud and clear, "We don't like you and we don't want you here!"

Maple leaves in colors from yellow to orange to red, on the ground, with bits of green peeking through.

Woodland with trees in green, yellow, orange and red against a gray sky.

A sugar maple tree in full flame-orange autumn color. The sky is light blue with puffy white clouds.

A wetland surrounded by trees and grasses in greens and browns.

#Autumn

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I absolutely love how the inflatable costume is taking off for protest! It offers protection in so many fucking ways but if they go into battle, we will need to level the costumes up for extended dancing in tear gas smoke. Let’s talk 🧵🧵🧵🧵

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

📣Protesting is important. It is a visible reminder that we are not alone and that we are not powerless. It sends a message to those weak men in DC: that we will not give up our freedoms without a fight 🇺🇸

See you on Saturday. Bring friends 💪

#NoKings 🚫👑

www.nokings.org

A fuzzy caterpillar, brown in the middle, black on both ends, a Woolly Bear, travels across the sand among fallen autumn leaves.

It Is Time 😃🍂
Soon ❄️

#WoollyBear

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Morning sun dissipating the overnight dew.

#Sunday

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Currently circling in place, like a spinning compass needle 🧭

@coralcitycamera.bsky.social

A very tall, narrow tree with its leaves still mostly green, but beginning to change toward yellow for the autumn season. There is a small splash of red, down low, where a Virginia creeper vine has climbed the tree. All of this is against a startlingly blue, blue sky.

Cottonwood Poplar

#ThickTrunkTuesday

coal tit mid-takeoff from my hand, wings swooshing outstretched like very professional cape work in a paso doble. another coal tit about to land behind

another takeoff shot - this time the coal tit is going away, giving us a show of delicately white-edged flight feathers. Honestly, for such a teeny bird there seems to be a LOT of wing

two coal tits on opposite edges of my hand. frankly they do not seem to be the best of friends

what am I, applying to be wildlife photographer of the year or something?

Sunset on Hurricane Humberto.

A Category 5 monster.

Lovely, ethereal.

Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.

Got 2nd dose of shingles vax. I had no side effects for 1st dose. 2nd dose side effects feels like the flu, so am taking it easy today.

TOTALLY WORTH IT, tho. Would far rather get these side effects than shingles. Also, interesting study re: lowering dementia risk: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Yellow flower blossoms (daisy shaped with 8 petals) and buds on tall spindly stems with thin, narrow leaves. The background is blurred mud, water, sticks and other leafy plants.

Coreopsis in the wetland

#PureMichigan
#Wildflower

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Open it! 👀

#jwst

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

This is a photo of a rock called Cheyava Falls on Mars that *might* host an alien biosignature.

Those small, white spots surrounded by thin, darker halos are termed "leopard spots"—and on Earth are characteristic of chemical reactions caused by microbes.

You know how we'd find out for sure?

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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

Gray branches with clusters of small red berries tucked between green leaves, against a blurred green background.

The winterberry holly is prolific this year!

(Ilex verticillata)

#Berries
#PureMichigan