This might be my favorite JWST image from the nearby Universe so far. You’re seeing the late stages of evolution of a star like the Sun, after it’s exhausted its nuclear fuel. This is a transient phase where it’s ejected its outer gas layers, which are then irradiated by the hot stellar remnant.

Page 217: "If you’re currently looking at this page with a sense of betrayal, wanting to throw up your hands and give up on the entire scientific endeavor, believe me, I sympathize." #HowToBuildAUniverse

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

i rarely ever overhead-press 65 pounds and I've been lifting for over a decade. weights simply don't want to be lifted overhead and i've learned to respect their boundaries

literally WHAT do people without pets do about strange noises in their house at night? have anxiety until they get up and investigate?? instead of brushing it off as some shenanigan or other and rolling over back to sleep??? couldn't be me

Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky. More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154... #Astronomy

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

The Chandra observatory is adding a pop of pink to our day! X-ray light shines through these #NASAWebb images of merging galaxies and star-forming regions. Chandra released a collection of images that showcase how it complements other observatories: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/cosmic/ 🔭 🧪

oh no, someone tell Greg Davies

sorry for the milquetoast democrat on your feeds, I just gotta reward my local guy when he actually says something lol

Donald Trump is tearing down the White House to build up his own ego — this is what authoritarians do.

me after two days in a row of playing beat saber for 2.5 hours followed by dumbbell arm exercises: damn why are my shoulders sore this morning

Genuinely one of the most indecipherable things I've seen in a while is the range of political alignments defending the tattoo guy. Like why is the entire horseshoe playing here

Here's what I don't get: why is this reporting so hard to do? "According to a photograph obtained" like, what? That's the fuckin people's house, why are photographs of it being treated like some rumored collectible limited edition labubu?

I feel like my gay milf porn on AO3 is too obvious an answer, so.... probably those photos from college where I was badly experimenting with a 3 piece suit and fedora 😬

Eric Berger always words his space articles very cautiously, but the subtext here is terrifying: NASA is gonna very possibly get astronauts killed because Trump wants a moon landing before his term is done. arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

@sarken.bsky.social 👀

Your quarterly nag to share your delicious bio juices with strangers in a socially acceptable way!

found tumblr's preferred gas station

Mirroring police tactics for humor. Sound on!

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

block this shit

block this shit

the white house is on bsky. y'all know what to do. whitehouse-47.bsky.social will be the most blocked account on here by the end of the weekend

Said it recently but I'll say it again: exit aisle seats on planes should be cheaper or max the same as regular economy seats, but you *must* actively watch a safety video and demonstrate your understanding before takeoff, and stay awake without headphones the whole flight.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Did a $99 pack of index cards write this

An important message to the people of New York City. More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

related: I just gave blood with zero side effects for the first time in my life and it's 100% thanks to lifting and gaining muscle. and it turns out I have blood that's good for babies, so: lift heavy, eat protein, save babies 💪

my brand is on the good list. I may be a meathead but the only heavy metal damage I'm getting is from dropping a plate on my foot 🙌

We did it, folks! We ran a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest: And here are the results. (I'll thread some of our favorite entries, but to know who won the grand prize and the two jewelry prizes from @nora.zone you're gonna have to click through.) www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

peanut butter jelly time

well my interest in playing Ghost of Yotei just skyrocketed

They're singing your song @johnrogers.bsky.social

Okay this is a good headline

my hot take is it shouldn't be an extra-fee worthy privilege to sit in the roomier exit row. it should be at most the same price as the other seats, but you have to sit there awake no headphones the entire time, watch a safety video, & demonstrate your understanding of evac procedures before takeoff

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

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

I know that nobody ever believes this, but legally, the Vatican City is a sovereign nation, and the pope is the absolute monarch of it and could absolutely invite JD Vance there and kill him, and it wouldn't technically be illegal, although it would probably cause some difficulties down the line

the alt text on this is worse than not adding any alt text why is it so hard for people to copy and paste text that they're screenshotting

He texted me back 🤸

This silly edit by @reginasbread.bsky.social about my gangbang fic was deemed too pornographic for tumblr. I wonder if the auto labeler here is as pathetically incompetent. Let's find out!

You can now be banned for "Being disruptive to other users" yeah thats definitely going to be enforced consistently