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No one could have predicted this.

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

-22C here

You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news.

For the Irish for a start.

A New Lens into the Archive You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation

The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...

A big beautiful sprawling spiral galaxy is shown. The galaxy has well defined spiral arms with bright blue star clusters and dark red dust. The center is a bright white. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center

Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...

Near full moon rising over La Paloma glacier as seen from Santiago, Chile

#photography #astrophotography 🔭

After the equivalent of a 16-hour day coming back from Potsdam yesterday, my main aim is to focus entirely on staying conscious if possible today. ☕☕☕

Too bad this isn't my next ride for crossing the Atlantic. Stuck on a boring 777 instead.

A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind

This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.

Read all about it!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...

🔭 🧪

Martian sunset: the sun, low on the horizon, settles on the planet's dark, rocky profile like a huge, brilliant, whitish disk. Its outline, like the background, is greenish.

Completely fascinated by this Martian sunset, captured by the Navcam aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover on May 2, 2024 (Sol 1137).

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

➡️ science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

🔭 🧪 #planetsci #science #Mars #NASA #Perseverance

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I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.

Charles de Gaulle Terminal F glass ceiling reflections

Charles de Gaulle Terminal F glass ceiling reflections

CdG reflections.

I seem to stumble at the putting water in the machine step, and not discover it until much later.

Cigars, obvs...

Agreed

Just looked at the top 10. At least Monty Python and the Holy Grail is there, but other than that, wow.

If Death of Stalin isn't number one it doesn't count.

Brings a tear to von Moltke's eye...

Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied

And here I thought it was Die Hard.

Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.

The moment Kaitlyn Lawes has to reset her shot because at noon local time, every day, across the street, they FIRE A CANNON

Never change, Halifax

#curling #cbccurl #milanocortina2026 #olympics

22 Singers,
one microphone.
Back in the garage ...

Wonderful photos.

No one could have predicted this.

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

A steam locomotive that has suffered a boiler explosion. The piping inside the boiler has sprayed out the front of the engine, making it look like if Cthulhu had merged with Thomas the Tank Engine

Seeing as a pressure vessel designed to deal with steam can look like this when it fails, bringing up Cthulhu seems appropriate.