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@wheatb.bsky.social

Half punk half hippie. Union electrican for life. Democratic Socialist.

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Black-and-white photo of a roadside sign mounted on wooden posts in front of a fence and trees. The sign reads in all caps: “WHATEVER YOU DO TODAY DO IT WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A 4 YEAR OLD IN A BAT MAN T SHIRT.” The background shows a street and a traffic light in the distance.

Black-and-white photo of a roadside sign mounted on wooden posts in front of a fence and trees. The sign reads in all caps: “WHATEVER YOU DO TODAY DO IT WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A 4 YEAR OLD IN A BAT MAN T SHIRT.” The background shows a street and a traffic light in the distance.

Before bills.
Before doubt.
Before the world got loud.

I’d burst into a room like I owned gravity.

That kind of clarity is dangerous.
And I kind of want it back.

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A #butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary #nebula NGC 6302 roughly 3800 light-years away in the constellation #Scorpius
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Link for more info: esahubble.org/images/heic0...

12.02.2026 22:30 — 👍 1889    🔁 319    💬 32    📌 21
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This is Mars. 140 million miles away.

Original post

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DeAdder cartoon
Gordie Howe "elbows up"

DeAdder cartoon Gordie Howe "elbows up"

#CanadaSky🇨🇦

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Ha ha ha

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Whatever you do first thing tomorrow morning…remind yourself to flood social media with at least 3 rave reviews/comments about the utter brilliance of the Super Bowl Half-Time performance.

Does it really matter? Oh yeah.

09.02.2026 07:36 — 👍 992    🔁 219    💬 32    📌 8
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Same data as earlier shot, but with processing.

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Photo of M101 a pinwheel shaped galaxy

Photo of M101 a pinwheel shaped galaxy

07.02.2026 07:47 — 👍 753    🔁 71    💬 8    📌 2

Luge is a deathwish. Would I do it? Probably. Would I scream the whole way down? Probably. Would I die? Probably.

07.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 34    🔁 2    💬 8    📌 0
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A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.

It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.

“ICE GTFO OF MN”

Minneapolis February 4, 2026

04.02.2026 23:07 — 👍 8329    🔁 2255    💬 96    📌 109
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For those keeping score at home:

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tmprs.jpg

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🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (URANUS). RGB Filters: 444, 356, 277
PI: El Moutamid, Maryame, program 06379. CRVAL: 50.546041, 18.249746
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

02.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 1305    🔁 165    💬 18    📌 7

I know there are MAGA idiots in the Union & wonder why no one calls a tip line to ICE. I wonder if Meta, Amazon, MS, Apple, etc are using their bribes to allow the data centers to be ICE free? Because I know for DAMN sure they would get the quota daily on sites around the nation!

02.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, after being sent to Cedar Rapids IA to help build a data center & seeing the non union chaos of what's now immigrant completely unskilled labor. We have Police presence in the lunch tent after at least 2 stabbings! I'm Union electrician and seeing our work go to, yes, Venezuelans, and others

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Brilliant

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My God that is brilliant!

29.01.2026 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

imagine getting this material off in person and knowing he had to hear it. i would die with a smile on my face man

29.01.2026 23:36 — 👍 259    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 1
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Almost choked on my beer laughing at the bar!

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We still have the rights to smartphones! Guns? We'll see in next weeks episode of anarchy

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I want to give extreme respect to all of the citizens of Minnesota. Continue to film these dastardly deeds! Keep it public and share! The shots have been fired and it's from the Government. It's a media front line for us. We now know we have to risk our lives as citizens exercising our rights.

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Iowa’s full schedule 👇

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Single frame. Top left fade-out vignette of Alex Pretti; bottom right fade-out vignette of the ICE agents crowding (from recent footage of them murdering Alex Pretti). Text in seriffed font: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Hand corrected in red pencil to say: “The only thing that stops a good guy with eyes + a phone is a bunch of armed federal goons with absolute impunity.”

Single frame. Top left fade-out vignette of Alex Pretti; bottom right fade-out vignette of the ICE agents crowding (from recent footage of them murdering Alex Pretti). Text in seriffed font: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Hand corrected in red pencil to say: “The only thing that stops a good guy with eyes + a phone is a bunch of armed federal goons with absolute impunity.”

Bad guys with guns.
My @smh cartoon.

27.01.2026 21:01 — 👍 640    🔁 222    💬 14    📌 6

There may be some niche examples somewhere, but I cannot think of any system, natural or human-made, that isn't strengthened by more diversity. Ecology, biology, economics, politics, agriculture... am I missing anything?
This lesson is reflected everywhere and in everything.

26.01.2026 04:55 — 👍 1456    🔁 259    💬 79    📌 13
A stylized illustration shows four wide-eyed, cartoon-like musicians seated on curling, wave-shaped ground beneath a dramatic, cloudy sky. From left to right: one plays a stringed instrument resembling a mandolin, another stands playing bagpipes while wearing a kilt and top hat, the third plays an accordion, and the fourth beats a hand drum. The landscape around them twists into dark, spiraling shapes, giving a surreal, ominous feel despite the whimsical character designs. At the bottom of the image, decorative text reads: “The Four Musicians of the Apocalypse.” BY UNKNOWN CARTOONIST

A stylized illustration shows four wide-eyed, cartoon-like musicians seated on curling, wave-shaped ground beneath a dramatic, cloudy sky. From left to right: one plays a stringed instrument resembling a mandolin, another stands playing bagpipes while wearing a kilt and top hat, the third plays an accordion, and the fourth beats a hand drum. The landscape around them twists into dark, spiraling shapes, giving a surreal, ominous feel despite the whimsical character designs. At the bottom of the image, decorative text reads: “The Four Musicians of the Apocalypse.” BY UNKNOWN CARTOONIST

Then God said, “And behold, when the fourth seal was opened, there arose four upon the crest of the storm: pipes skirling doom, bellows wheezing famine, strings twanging conquest, drum thundering regret. Power given to afflict the earth with cursed reel forever.”

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A political cartoon by Christopher Weyant for The Boston Globe depicting Donald Trump standing before the rows of white headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.
​Trump is drawn in profile with a somber, exaggerated facial expression. Two speech bubbles emerge from him: a thought bubble reads, "WHAT A TRAGEDY. SO SAD..." while a larger spoken speech bubble says, "THIS WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT GOLF COURSE." To the right, a brick pillar marks the entrance with a sign that reads "ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY."

A political cartoon by Christopher Weyant for The Boston Globe depicting Donald Trump standing before the rows of white headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. ​Trump is drawn in profile with a somber, exaggerated facial expression. Two speech bubbles emerge from him: a thought bubble reads, "WHAT A TRAGEDY. SO SAD..." while a larger spoken speech bubble says, "THIS WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT GOLF COURSE." To the right, a brick pillar marks the entrance with a sign that reads "ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY."

#military #Arlington
This one's from 2024 but just as valid, if not more so now.

25.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 32    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

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