How many Steely Dan characters are in the Epstein files?

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This quiz will guess your favorite rock with just one simple question ("what's your favorite rock?")

Backyard #Astrophotography NGC2174--aka the Monkey Head Nebula--is an emission nebula in Orion. The young stars in the middle of the cluster make the hydrogen gas glow red. Their strong stellar wind and radiation also blows away the gas leading to swirly shapes of glowing gas and dark dust clouds

Back home from #Capricon46 and it's pizza and a movie night! Pizza: DiGiorno Rising Crust sausage and pepperoni Movie: #MST3K riffing on Girls Town "I'm epiphanying like crazy here. I gotta sit down."

Cartoon ✍️: Cool runnings By Clay Jones More here 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

As "Sinners" becomes the most Oscar-nominated film ever, revisit our extended interview with director Ryan Coogler, who discussed the movie's finances, the importance of Delta blues music, his own Mississippi roots and more.

#Capricon46 Panel: Frankenstein On Film Frankenstein (1931), Young Frankenstein (1974), Rocky Horror (1975)... Some other noteworthy versions: - The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (d. BJ Story 2023) - I, Frankenstein (d. S Beattie 2014) - Penny Dreadful TV series (2014) @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

Somehow my digital assistant got changed from Google Assistant to Gemini. I discovered it while trying to one handed turn on my phone flashlight something Google Assistant does easily. Gemini told me it cannot control my phone's functions. Then I asked it the current temp. ⬇️🤦‍♀️🤣 WTF Gemini?

#Capricon46 Panel: Comfort Fiction Macaroni and cheese in book form. Some suggestions: - Legends of Latte by Travis Baldree - Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard - Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

> Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "What is your birthday."

How does Columbia only have one athlete in the Winter Olympics? They have all that snow!

#Capricon46 (1/2) The dealer's room, sometimes called the huckster's room, is sort of like Shakedown Street without the veggie burritos, drum circles and nitrous. Books, movies, jewelry, clothing, and games; lots of good stuff to browse and buy. @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

#Capricon46 Panel: Fifty Years Ago: SF of 1976 Items of note: Novels: - Triton (Delaney) - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Wilhelm) Film - The Man Who Fell To Earth (Roeg) - Logan's Run (Anderson) TV - Nothing exciting @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

#birds #nature #pelicans #wildlife Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Serenity, serene bird captures. Here are some American White Pelicans and other assorted ducks and water birds enjoying a quiet day on the lake. 🙂

True beauty is on the inside. In your case, that's a truly beautiful government tracking device.

#Capricon46 Panel: Welcome To Capricon: An Introduction by Anecdotes Fun stories: - phantom programming in the Phineas Taylor B and Lake Woebegone rooms - why you are not allowed to cook ramen noodles in the hot tub - A Klingon Christmas Carol featuring Tiny tImHom @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

#Capricon46 Panel: The Movie Was Better Some selections from panel members: The Muppet Christmas Carol - (A Christmas Carol) Blade Runner - Director's Cut - (DADES) The Thing 1982 - (Who Goes There) My choice: Doctor Strangelove - (Red Alert) @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

#Capricon46 At most SF/F cons there are folks lobbying for their city to win a bid to host a future WorldCon. After this year's WorldCon in Los Angeles, it moves to Montreal in 2027. After that almost all the bids for the next several years are not in the US. I wonder why?

"The Washington Post deserves a better owner than this." Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.

Q 3. Yacht vs. newspaper. Compare and contrast. #WaPo

This year's music festival schedule is starting to take shape. We just got our tickets for ShoeFest which is held over the Labor Day weekend. #ShoeFest #OldShoe #FESTIVAL

‘Do You Speak Billionaire?’ and Other Stories From the Fall of the Washington Post @talkingpointsmemo.com @joshtpm.bsky.social #WaPo #DieInTheDarkness

Throwback Thursday ---- Sixteen years ago on February 5th, 2010, I was hanging out with Jennifer and Melissa at Cloak bar in New York City. tinyurl.com/458u43ph #NYC #365Bars

While the Trump administration is trying to subvert free and fair elections in the US, my Congressman, Darin LaHood (R IL 16th), is working hard to ensure free and fair elections...in Lebanon. I'm sure Congressman LaHood will vote "aye" on the SAVE Act. LaHood has forgotten the face of his father.

Narcissistic injury.

Do you check any of the boxes? Then a Vague, Yet Menacing Government Agency will be there shortly to take you away for imprisonment, re-education, deportation, and/or Mental Refreshment™. Today's Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling. @rubenbolling.bsky.social

Day 5 of #Februarty prompt is #forgotten. From my files... Father and daughter grave sites not far from my property, a teddy bear and an old bottle of Coke left long ago in the woods near my home. All seemingly forgotten...

Our #DrivinAroundMusic for the trip up to Chicago and #Capricon46 is the #GratefulDead just released Dave's Picks Volume 57: January 31 - February 1, 1978 at Chicago's Uptown Theatre. The '78 Midwest winter tour represented a transition to the semi-scripted setlist syntax of the 80's and '90's.

My wife and I are heading up to Chicago for the Capricon 46 SF and Fantasy convention at the O'Hare Marriott. Looking forward to filking, panels, the con suite, costumes, and, of course, the hucksters room. See you there! #capricon46 @capriconsfcon.bsky.social

Backyard #Astrophotography M38 is an open cluster of stars in Auriga that is 3500 light years from Earth. NGC1907 is the small open cluster to the right of M38. It is 4500 light years away.

sunrise sidewalk alignment, 3 missing eagle wing feathers, hawk in evening

Everything Trump touches, he destroys. Gift article.

Backyard #Astrophotography (1/2) ❓A 'questionable' sunspot group has erupted in the past two days with several massive Class X flares. It also belched out one coronal mass ejection (CME) which just skimmed the Earth yesterday. Will it belch out more?.

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

Once in a while, even a blind squirrel finds a passageway to an underworld dimension.

Everything Trump touches, he destroys. @talkingpointsmemo.com

I just finishing uploading the nine Phish shows I was lucky enough to get taper tickets for from 1996 to 2000. This includes the epic 1998-07-29 (Riverport) Bathtub Gin. Here is the link to that show. #Phish

> what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? Up On the Hill Where They Do the Boogie

I thought maybe Bluesky would like to see this. It's the pass that my paternal uncle used to enter Nuremberg Prison where he was one of the guards for Rudolf Hess. The back has the emblem of the 26th Infantry Regiment of the First Division, famously nicknamed "the Blue Spaders."

Backyard #Astrophotography M 79 in Lepus is another distant globular cluster may have been part of the Gaia Sausage, a small dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Gaia Sausage is also a great name for a funky jam band.

The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

Happy book birthday to @justinkey.bsky.social , whose first novel comes out today! The Hospital at the End of the World is thrilling, but it's also a thoughtful character-based meditation on AI and medicine and the human costs. And also makes it clear that I could never have handled med school.

*me, playing a stupid game* yeah but I bet the prizes are really smart though