#FensterFreitag Stained glass and the shadow of a staircase. #photography #window #windows #WindowFriday #lightandshadow

#FotoVorschlag “Texturen” / Textures #photography #plants #texture #green

Real photos of sharks upside down 🦈👹😳

I finally wrote up my experiences about migrating to a Blacksky server. Hope it's helpful! And big high fives to @rude1.blacksky.team @sharpiepls.com @aliafonzy.blacksky.app @bisprout.writes.fyi and @bradwenner.photo, whose resources & info helped me so much! gregpak.net/2025/11/13/h...

Some post-election pumpkins on a New York stoop for #Doorsday. #photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #autumnvibes #pumpkins #pumpkincarving #ZohranMamdani #brooklyn #nyc

One more for #FotoVorschlag “Schaufenster” / Shop window The window display of a yarn shop in my neighborhood, after the news of Prince’s passing in 2016. “If de-elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy. Punch a higher floor.” #photography #windows #windowdisplay #shopdisplay #Prince #nyc

#FotoVorschlag “Schaufenster” / Shop window The #windows of the Cafe Apartments in Ho Chi Minh City, #Vietnam. Previously a residential building, it’s now home to boutiques, restaurants and cafes, with balconies overlooking the wide avenue below. #photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography

#FotoVorschlag “Schaufenster” / Shop window Our favorite chocolatier in Brooklyn. #photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #windows #windowdisplay #shopdisplay #brooklyn #nyc #jacquestorres #autumnvibes

#FotoVorschlag “Schaufenster” / Shop window Two views of Veniero's Pasticceria & Caffe in the East Village, NYC. #photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #windows #windowdisplay #shopdisplay #nyc

#MeerMittwoch Approaching shore. Boracay Island, Philippines, January 2020. #photography #seawednesday #sea #beach #boracay #philippines

There’s a heart-shaped feature in the Sun’s corona - seen in a recent SDO’s A193 filtered image, which captures the hot solar atmosphere. ❤️☀️ The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅

Kinuko Y. Craft, beautiful art has graced the works of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, now offers a selection of her best paintings in fine art edition giclees that will never be available again. colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.

And here's the spotlight - all 63% of her! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Earth, 11 minutes ago as seen from Space 🌍

#FotoVorschlag “Joker, Freispiel” / Free play, as you please I’ve never known what to do with this photo of sunlight streaming through the street grates above the 59th Street station in Manhattan, so here it is. #photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #lightandshadow #subway #nyc

#ThickTrunkTuesday #TextureTuesday #photography #autumnleaves #autumnvibes #urbannature #trees #tree

The wind in the willows. For #FotoVorschlag (“Ruhelosigkeit” / Restlessness) and an early entry for #ThickTrunkTuesday. #photography #urbannature #tree #trees #wind

#FotoVorschlag “Ruhelosigkeit” / Restlessness #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #whitetaileddeer #deer

#MonochromeMonday #FotoVorschlag “Ruhelosigkeit” / Restlessness #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #horse

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” — Carl Sagan For #CarlSaganDay I’m sharing my latest processing attempt for my #astrophotography class, the Andromeda Galaxy. Details in the alt text. #photography #andromeda #galaxy

Tethys, Saturn & Rings [updated] - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/oBN6o

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

#CarlSaganDay Happy birthday, Carl. youtu.be/GO5FwsblpT8

#FotoVorschlag “Quartett” / Quartet #photography #lowkey #lightandshadow

#SilentSunday #photography #autumnvibes #brooklyn

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️

an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.

Photography is also the art of omission. If you want to capture a bit of serene natural beauty while crossing a loud, traffic-clogged expressway, just tilt the camera up.😁 #photography #trees #clouds

A cozy #Caturday memory. #photography #cats #catsofbluesky #monochrome #blackandwhite #lightandshadow

#FotoVorschlag “Orientalisch” This is a highly loaded term in the US (see the Wikipedia article on “Orientalism” and the book by Edward Said). Anyway here’s a war poster from the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi, which reads “Nixon must pay a debt of blood.” #photography #Vietnam #illustration

#FensterFreitag On an elevated subway station somewhere in Queens. #photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #windows #WindowFriday #nyc

Autumn leaves in Brooklyn streets. Not the parks, not the botanic gardens. Just moments of beauty everywhere. #photography #streetphotography #fall #fallcolors #fallfoliage #lightandshadow #autumn #autumnleaves #autumncolors #autumnvibes #brooklyn #nyc

#Fotovorschlag "Nicht ganz scharf aber trotzdem gut" / Not quite sharp but still good The moon (and its ghostly reflections) through my telescope, before I get it into focus. #photography #moon #fullmoon #supermoon #beavermoon #clouds

A non-negotiable for Democrats in the 2028 primaries is that they must promise to expand and reform the court. The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy to rule and it needs to be completely overhauled. Nothing less would be an abject failure and acquiescence to Republican ratfucking of the court.

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

Luna behind the veil. #photography #astrophotography #moon #fullmoon #supermoon #beavermoon #clouds #cloudscape

This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪

Moms for Liberty (aka racist Nazi moms who need to get a life) went 0 for 32 last night. Every single one of their candidates lost. All of them. Teeee heee! 🤣🤪

Don't talk to the New York Times about trans issues. They will betray your trust and use your story to undermine access to care. That's exactly what Azeen Ghorayshi did with families of trans kids in Missouri.

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

#FotoVorschlag “Mitternacht” / Midnight I’ve been sharing full moon pics recently; by coincidence, the photos I’ve taken close to midnight are also of full (or almost full) moons. Here are the moons of June 10 in Brooklyn and September 9 in Idaho. #photography #astrophotography #moon #fullmoon

A second night of viewing the Beaver Moon, with the clouds adding a mood of mystery. #photography #astrophotography #moon #supermoon #beavermoon #clouds #cloudscape

Hey uh Pete, aren't you forgetting someone?

The most consistent feature of the Trump era is that Republicans cannot win when he isn't on the ballot. They will have a major problem in 2026 and 2028. They're going to double down on voter suppression, gerrymandering, and political prosecutions of Democrats. We cannot be complacent.

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website. Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.