Sometimes it's fun to go back to old #astrophotography data with new tricks. There was so much color hiding in Rho Ophiuchi that my previous processing attempts missed. Best picture I've ever taken and it continues to give. 📷🔭

Astrophotography is really great if you grew up on early computers and miss clicking a button and waiting on an INCREDIBLY long process, often with no progress bar.

Pictured: A permanent ban from all of Reddit. "Harassment" they say. I think the Reddit admins need a fucking dictionary.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

Hey parents, are you in the market for a school with integrity? Pick the school in your district with the highest number of books in their library that these dickweeds want to ban and send your kids there. Nice of them to give us this resource.

Here is the satellite pollution from my imaging of the C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) comet, from 7:58 pm to 8:57 pm, one minute shy of one hour. Photo: Barb Barton

I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size

3 more nights worth of data added, and you can really start to see the clouds now! #Astrophotography is definitely a hobby for patient people. Super grainy, I didn't have the SNR to actually stretch it this far but I really wanted to see the clouds. 🔭📷

Apparently #owloween is a thing, so here are some shots of the time a friend leaned against a dead tree and a Northern Saw-Whet Owl angrily informed us that this log was occupied.

I live in an incredibly light polluted place and got into a habit of only doing #astrophotography when I traveled to dark sites - but I started here with worse equipment and fewer skills so... Returning to my roots. Orion Nebula, M42. 3 entire nights of data under Bortle 9+ skies. 🔭📷

I think it's safe to say that last night's VR work session was slightly derailed by my discovery of music visualizer environments

I would love to have Merry and Pippin just feed me like a normal hobbit for a day. Not even anything special, just the usual 14 meals

Attention everyone old enough to remember Mr Rogers telling you to look for the helpers: You are the helpers now. Don't stand by while bad shit happens. The world can only burn if enough people give up on putting out the fires.

The "political polarization" people basically just mean that people who have basic empathy should try to understand sociopaths and be more like them

Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

underrated

the idea of a "personality disorder" is so funny to me. if a doctor told me that I was being a person wrong, I would buy myself a cake

@profanity.accountant I'm scared

I prefer Law NAND Order because it's functionally complete, meaning you can make any other TV show out of some arrangement of LNOs.

Daytime shot of the moon earlier from @observatory.herts.ac.uk 🔭

Can the dictionary dance if the mailbox forgets its favorite flavor of sunlight?

And this is why all of the cis-hetero poly people and kinksters are at Pride waving flags. We don't necessarily think our things are the same as yours, but these assholes don't see the difference, so we ARE in a very similar boat. They will take your rights over my cold, dead, straight, body.

Did Vihart take down (almost) all her videos?

Me when I 3D print something myself: "It's a careful and patient process and it can't be rushed" Me when I order a HeroForge mini, checking my order status 4x/day: "WHERE IS MY PRINT OMG HURRY UP WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE"

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

💐 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

This is what I saved, may not be everything. tinyurl.com/mv8yxz44 - torrent direct link tinyurl.com/kxw8s29s - limewire/file.io link

Fixed URL github.com/DevrathIyer/...

They describe BallotProof as a methodology built for faster, smarter, and more secure validation of ballots. But you only have to dive into the script to know what it really does. This is the link to the Devpost page, detailing the program & all the tools used web.archive.org/web/20250204...

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2020 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones

We had aurora borealis about a month ago... in Las freaking Vegas. Absurdly far south for Aurora! Barely visible to the naked eye but long exposure photos of it looked damn pretty.

Haven't been on here in a while, looks like things are finally kicking off! To the newcomers, I gift some of the best pictures I've ever taken: 📷🪶 This Northern Saw-whet Owl got spooked out of its hollow log and absolutely posed for me. Such a great encounter!

Today's #astrophotography image, the Wizard Nebula from 8/14/24. It was the 2nd time I imaged and processed stars separately. I love how this nebula has a wizard's conical hat, a star eye, a pointy nose, and a glowing spell emitted from the mouth. But the 5-fingered gesturing hand is the best!

I know temptation and old habits call us, but remember friends: when an anon rando with no platform has a weird bad take You can just block them I know, the optimists amongst us think that surely a person wearing the trappings of reason can be reasoned with Don't do it Be free

I must not dunk. Dunks are the time-killer Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation I will ignore bad takes I will allow them to pass, or block them And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter And where the takes have gone there will be nothing Only I will remain

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

Could someone who speaks the language or has the right social knowledge tell me WTF is going on here? Google Translate says Austria has banned the female orgasm after firing the "Orgasm Pope" and I have so many more questions now than I had before that translation...

Another great morning on the other app.

Important skeet: 🛰️🧪🔭

This is probably the first time Trump has been upset about the number 14. He must feel so betrayed. If only we had an 88th amendment to throw at him too...

Filed a bug report with a popular web framework. They gaslit me, claiming the bug didn't exist, then called me names and berated me, then blocked me when I responded to snark with snark. Yay open source.

Oh hey, my Twitter account has been unbanned. I suppose it'll be nice to have better seats from which to view the collapse...

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

Someone just murdered several people about 5 miles from my work at the college my GF is transferring to next year, and it will probably happen again in another place tomorrow. Hooray America. What an exceptional place.