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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 13h

The Wizard Nebula (Sharpless 142) in the constellation of Cepheus. This region of star formation is being energized primarily by a massive spectroscopic binary system called DH Cephei. The stars in this system are young, near the start of the main sequence and are a source of X-ray emissions. 🔭

A bright nebula of colorful gases, with a cluster of bright stars that are ionizing it. The primary star system ionizing the gases is a massive binary system named DH Cephei. Cold molecular pillars and bok globules are evident and indicative of star formation. This is the Wizard Nebula or Sharpless 142, 8500 light years distant in the constellation of Cepheus. Six hours of imaging, evenly split over SHO filters. 840mm, cropped.

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 7h

even stuff on my list, i'm like...

a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it

Alt: larry david, old white man, frowning and clearly weighing the options and deciding neither. he is in existential pain.

media.tenor.com

🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 7h

not protein powder being our Roman Empire 😭

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 18h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 7h

and the poem doesn't have to be great! here's my fave from a joke book i read when i was a kid

curious fly
vinegar jug
slippery edge
pickled bug

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 8h

writing tip: if you’re stuck, take a walk. if that doesn’t work, read a poem. if that fails, place your manuscript gently in the freezer for 2-3 business days to let the spirits possess it

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 8h

god that was a beautiful time on twitter: 'get your daily vote for kiri in!!'

glad we had that before the nazis took over

also the TODOROKIS ARE SMILING!!!

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 8h

mmmk but what about the criminal commander in chief who is descended from immigrants and keeps killing folks from the other americas by sea?

no obligation to make that mofo king, that's for sure lol

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.

US revokes six visas over Charlie Kirk death amid social media crackdown

The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.

bit.ly

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 8h

the watch loneliness epidemic

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11h

This thread is…concerning.

(I get more understated the more alarmed I am.)

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 1

In a two week period:

Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste.

Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.

Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...

www.wkms.org

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

FOR THE LOVE OF PETE

HE IS A WHITE WORKING CLASS MILITARY VET

with a stunningly sharp media package

They can’t update their website with a plan but they can kick the knees out fo somebody whose making waves form someone older than my momma !

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21h

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 11h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 11h

truly, people's ability to ignore COVID-19 and its dangers ... I don't understand it at all. I really do not.

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 17h

It continues to amaze me that so many peers who would go to the mat for facts & science on virtually every other Trump-era issue—who rightly rail against the injustices & the empathy gap seen in this epoch—blithely reject public health & pandemic precautions as soon as it gets in the way of brunch.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 10h

So it’ll be part “who gives a shit” and part “so what”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 11h

so excited for inflatable costumes in horror in the upcoming years.

it's like the clowns that one year but wholesome and for humanity instead of terrifying.

gonna need the Final Girl to be in a t-rex costume that doesn't deflate no matter how many too close escapes she has

🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 11h

oh my god it's beautiful

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 11h

since i'm now legally bound...

once when the exwife asked what i wanted to eat while i was either high or tired, i replied with 'i think of soup'

because i love soup

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 11h

dear god that looks delicious

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 11h

Pep talk time.

How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 11h

Sometimes being an activist can feel defeating.

But then I remember that humpback whales were considered so endangered that an entire Star Trek movie was made about them in the 80s.

Now, because of the work of thousands, humpbacks are now a classified as a ‘species of least concern’.

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 11h

I STILL BELIEVE 🎶

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 12h

IN OUR TIME OF NEED!!!!!!!

Okami 🔜 PAX Unplugged @keichiokami.itch.io · 13h

OMFG! They are doing a Lost Boys Musical!!

www.lostboysmusical.com

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys is the killer new musical based on the 1987 Warner Bros. film. Broadway performances begin March 27, 2026 at the Palace Theatre. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden and featuring...

www.lostboysmusical.com

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 13h

All I have to say about white people worried that protesting this weekend won’t be safe: this is the safest it will be until this problem is handled. Gather thine gonads and get your ass out there (appropriate exceptions aside ofc)

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 12h

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 13h

Evening Update: $1200 needed by Friday, 10/17, so I can catch up on my rent payments and avoid another eviction. I have until 10/23 to get my entire back balance down to zero. #MutualAidRequest

Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 16d

GoFundMe: gofund.me/083af9ca
CashApp: $charlotteirene
PayPal: PayPal.me/charlotteirene
Venmo: charlotte-irene8

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