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@stellarplexus

Give me Space! Astronomy nerd, animal friend, sketcher of things, recovering research librarian, writer, reader, night owl, former island hopper, aspiring forest witch

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Baturday
Bat World Sanctuary

07.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 5451 πŸ” 1289 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 310

Update: They are up over 50,000 videos now, and besides the decade-by-decade playlists, they have channels for MTV2, VH1 Pop-Up Video, MTV Spring Break, 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, and more.
wantmymtv.vercel.app

07.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 12

The meaning of precision in geographical degrees.

Β±100Β°: You don't know where it is.
Β±10Β°: You know it's on a specific continent.
Β±1Β°: You know it's within about an hour's drive.
Β±0.1Β°: You could bike to it.
Β±0.01Β°: You could walk to it.
Β±0.001Β°: You could probably see it.

07.03.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Narrator: β€œIt was, in fact, the worst theory in the world.”

07.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and especially A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest. Those two are so vivid and imaginative. But they’re all great.

05.03.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe koi continued to bloop hopefully for food.”

The real-life drama I’m here for.

05.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

(If ten thousand bees texted me I would already be outside trying to make ten thousand new friends, so… ok. Yes. 🐝 )

05.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starting to think passing an Isaac Chotiner interview should be a formal prerequisite to entering American public life.

04.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Come on now, some of us live not in Portland but just *near* it. So that’s probably another 5% of us you can tack on right there

04.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

04.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 2270 πŸ” 365 πŸ’¬ 199 πŸ“Œ 497

Oh hell no. Best wishes for your near-future legal excoriation of these ethicless hacks.

04.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as β€œcut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

04.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 2184 πŸ” 745 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 63
The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

04.03.2026 04:22 πŸ‘ 8791 πŸ” 1862 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 71
4-panel comic: Astronomers asking researchers from different departments to help them identify the β€œlittle red dots” in JWST images: (1) Entomologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 2 with shoulder-length hair.] PERSON 2: Clover mites. (2) Computer Scientists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 3 with beanie.] PERSON 3: Stuck pixels. (3) Dermatologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 4 with ponytail.] PERSON 4: Cherry angiomas. (4) Graphic designers [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 5 with short hair.] PERSON 5: No, those are vermillion, or maybe jasper. Can I see your color settings?

4-panel comic: Astronomers asking researchers from different departments to help them identify the β€œlittle red dots” in JWST images: (1) Entomologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 2 with shoulder-length hair.] PERSON 2: Clover mites. (2) Computer Scientists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 3 with beanie.] PERSON 3: Stuck pixels. (3) Dermatologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 4 with ponytail.] PERSON 4: Cherry angiomas. (4) Graphic designers [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 5 with short hair.] PERSON 5: No, those are vermillion, or maybe jasper. Can I see your color settings?

Little Red Dots

xkcd.com/3212/

04.03.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 2963 πŸ” 368 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 15

It was too cloudy to even tell where the moon was here. This lovely shot makes me feel better about it.

03.03.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards
Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards YouTube video by Netflix

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

02.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 6218 πŸ” 1448 πŸ’¬ 292 πŸ“Œ 216

This is SO CUTE. And the sense of movement, it’s so expressive. Adorable.

03.03.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually there was one of these little guys in my place when I moved in a few months ago, and this makes me feel like maybe he was my official Washington welcome committee and I didn’t realize it. Good thing I was polite and didn’t let the cat eat him.

03.03.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s so very friend-shaped.

03.03.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My version, on a really rough day, is Too Much Cereal but instead of milk, On Top of Ice Cream

03.03.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what if online sports betting funded universal healthcaβ€”[THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED]

03.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 329 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 1

This is just so inappropriate and unprofessional and stupid and none of these adjectives do justice to my bewilderment.

Straying so far from the light, etc. etc.

03.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ffs. What new societal cancer is this

03.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... πŸ§ͺ

02.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 335 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 9

It looks so good 😍

02.03.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very bad post perfection. Chef’s kiss, Jerry

01.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is wonderful.

01.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me too. I know everything going on is really important, I get it, but I’d originally curated my feed to be all cool space and nature stuff and art and writing because I craved one tiny happy place to go to, without all the Horrible(TM). But now the Horrible is everywhere anyway. Sigh

01.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), a composite of two images. February 21st 2026 #astrophotography

28.02.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Solargraph showing the path of the sun with snow in the foreground and trees on the horizon in the mid distance.

Solargraph showing the path of the sun with snow in the foreground and trees on the horizon in the mid distance.

1 week Solargraph in Hokkaido, Japan. I’ll try to set another up in this location for a year. This was made with an empty Fanta can, pinhole, ILFORD photographic paper and black tape. πŸ”­ β˜€οΈ 🌞

01.03.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1