Meanwhile in #Portland

M20, The Trifid Nebula, is an HII region located about 4100 ly away in the constellation of Saggitarius. An HII region is a cloud of gas and dust with large amounts of ionized hydrogen gas. Stars are often formed in regions like this.

Be grateful. Express that gratitude in tangible ways. Forget about those who promised to help but never really did. They may have meant well. Hug the ones who showed up. Remember their names.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

100 Ma old crater Tycho and its extensive bright ejecta ray pattern dominate the southern hemisphere of the nearly full #Moon. #astronomy

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Jane Goodall: An Inside Look An intimate portrait of Jane Goodall's groundbreaking chimpanzee research 🎥 National Geographic Documentary directed by Brett Morgen youtu.be/d3b6zSpy7P4

Well don't I feel stupid

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

END OF THE WORLD FAILS AGAIN

You don’t say

If you take health advice from a serial philandering mummified ham who likes to swim in shit, then you will rapture yourself ❤️

Yesterday, @hcrichardson.bsky.social published a video simply entitled "The United States Constitution." If you haven't watched it yet, you should go watch it now.

periodic reminder that there are better sources of recipes and your local drugstore will sell you a book of crossword puzzles for five bucks

Not many people know this, but one of the powers that the Framers of the Constitution came THIS close to granting the President was the ability to decide who would host late night television shows. It's only thanks to Ben Franklin's last minute intervention that this was taken out of Article II.

There is, what appears to be, a massive BOAT chase going on (cops & robbers? Or cops & smugglers? Smugglers & robbers?)- in the DARK - right in front of my house (which is a river, btw). all my friends are asleep. The amazing W is asleep... But I really needed to tell someone. It's freaky.

A simple way to help reduce obesity and stroke? Stop the shifts in our clocks twice a year www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Dangerous automobile stunts in Canada ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Join the community science project “Flu Watchers” (🇨🇦 wide). public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/r... Help track common viruses like flu, RSV, & COVID-19. Each week you get an email asking if you’ve had a cough or fever. It takes 20 seconds, max.

Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."

I am so sad. RIP.

I not only visit & revisit & dream about living in Libraries, but they were also the first places I worked (which never felt like work). My favourite (bc it was there I learned to love them) was the one at my elementary school, in St. Catharines, Ontario - Woodland Public

I don't know if half of the shit in here is actually true, but this is a hilarious thread

Commercial LLMs freely fabricate quotations from public figures. It's worth thinking about why. They tend to fabricate quotes that are generally in line with what the person might have said. If it weren't for the quotation marks, this would be not be a particularly notable sin. An example:

Are there really enough people currently working at the Smithsonian or out there who know how to competently mount a museum exhibit willing to create like “the robber barons were the REAL American heroes” and “1921 Tulsa nothing at all happened” displays

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? Mine... I don't think she's really ready to help me at the moment.

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

Okay. You all ready for a feel-good thread? Because one literally fell out of the sky for us last week and it's only fair we share this heartwarming tale with you. 1/?

important thoughts...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

We added more pollinator friendly perennials to our garden. I am so happy to see them enjoy it as much as we do! #pollinators #nature #garden #flowers #perennials

This is delightful - and also very poetic, poignant, and thoughtful... ❤️

Given the FLOCK of bats we just saw scrambling as sparks and shit and cataclysmic noise showered all over the wee Glen... I don't think the wildlife likes it much, either.

Honest to god, regular people should NOT HAVE ACCESS to fireworks.

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.

The sky in the Glen showing off this eve...

Wow, Bluesky, it's been quite a week. Why don't you join me on the Friday night ride-along, and let's see if we can find some fun people out there in the Florida night. Smash repost, and let's get moving!

I’ll have more on this later, but over this weekend my colleagues and I brought 50 Comanche teens to Colorado to see some of their homelands for the very first time. Thank you to the Nation, the parents, and the kids for this gift of your presence. I cried harder today than I have in years.

Cala Murta is an inlet on the secluded south side of the rocky Formentor peninsula of Mallorca, this area was a recurring source of inspiration for the Spanish painter Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa who used bright colours to capture its dramatic geological features. This is from 1933.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

IYKY🇨🇦 🪵

Buttercups and chives. 🌱

These are so, so, so good... cannot wait for my own cherry tomatoes to ripen

An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia

/4 Except that’s manifestly not true. It’s just wrong on its face. Witness testimony is evidence. Mr. de Gonzales describes an explicit hate crime. You can decide not to believe him, but if you say there is “no evidence whatsoever” of a hate motive, you’re just lying.

And while I don't usually photograph telephone central offices if they don't have a payphone, I made an exception for the Bell Canada one in Harrow, Ontario. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak TriX)

Amazing photo!