Ben Pounds
@wildlystrollingben.bsky.social
Reporter for Courier News. Co-author of Wildly Strolling Along
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❄️ With the winter holidays around the corner, we’re unwrapping a cosmic gift early, Westerlund 2 🎁✨
This glittering star cluster is host to some of our Milky Way galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
This glittering star cluster is host to some of our Milky Way galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
❄️ With the winter holidays around the corner, we’re unwrapping a cosmic gift early, Westerlund 2 🎁✨
This glittering star cluster is host to some of our Milky Way galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
This glittering star cluster is host to some of our Milky Way galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
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Almost 15 years after a catastrophic spill of coal ash from TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Roane County Commission adopts measures to honor the workers who cleaned up - many of whom were sickened as a result.
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Roane County to honor clean up workers of 2008 TVA coal ash spill – Tennessee Lookout
The Roane County Commission will fund a marker to honor the workers who cleaned up the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal ash spill.
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December 12, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Almost 15 years after a catastrophic spill of coal ash from TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Roane County Commission adopts measures to honor the workers who cleaned up - many of whom were sickened as a result.
tennesseelookout.com/2023/12/12/r...
tennesseelookout.com/2023/12/12/r...
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Reminds me of the 2008 TVA Coal Ash Spill incident at the Kingston Fossil Plant. The contractor doing cleanup at assured workers that the sludge was “safe enough to eat daily.” Of course, it wasn’t, and many of the cleanup workers ended up with health problems tennesseelookout.com/2022/05/18/6...
6th Circuit shoots down immunity for TVA coal ash spill contractor Jacobs Engineering • Tennessee Lookout
A federal appellate court on Wednesday struck down a last-ditch appeal by a Tennessee Valley Authority contractor accused in the mass poisoning by radioactive coal ash waste of the utility’s Kingston ...
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April 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reminds me of the 2008 TVA Coal Ash Spill incident at the Kingston Fossil Plant. The contractor doing cleanup at assured workers that the sludge was “safe enough to eat daily.” Of course, it wasn’t, and many of the cleanup workers ended up with health problems tennesseelookout.com/2022/05/18/6...
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Acrylic on Canvas
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Prints 11x14 60$
Acrylic on Canvas
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Prints 11x14 60$
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Acrylic on Canvas
18x24
Prints 11x14 60$
Acrylic on Canvas
18x24
Prints 11x14 60$
#Futurama Season 2 episode 4 is a class in how to write a Christmas (or Xmas) story. You can subvert every important element, up to and including Santa Claus and the holiday's name, while still telling a heartfelt story about characters who genuinely love each other (Fry and Leela in this case). 1/
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#Futurama Season 2 episode 4 is a class in how to write a Christmas (or Xmas) story. You can subvert every important element, up to and including Santa Claus and the holiday's name, while still telling a heartfelt story about characters who genuinely love each other (Fry and Leela in this case). 1/
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Dec 18 #BatMas: Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) 🦇🌎🧪
Living up to its name, this species feeds on fruits - like mangoes and avocadoes, but mainly figs (making up to 78% of their diet). When eating, they fly to new locations, sometimes carrying up to 50g of fruit!
📸: Leyo
Living up to its name, this species feeds on fruits - like mangoes and avocadoes, but mainly figs (making up to 78% of their diet). When eating, they fly to new locations, sometimes carrying up to 50g of fruit!
📸: Leyo
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dec 18 #BatMas: Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) 🦇🌎🧪
Living up to its name, this species feeds on fruits - like mangoes and avocadoes, but mainly figs (making up to 78% of their diet). When eating, they fly to new locations, sometimes carrying up to 50g of fruit!
📸: Leyo
Living up to its name, this species feeds on fruits - like mangoes and avocadoes, but mainly figs (making up to 78% of their diet). When eating, they fly to new locations, sometimes carrying up to 50g of fruit!
📸: Leyo
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Day 17 #BatMas: Egyptian mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma cystops)
A species found in North Africa & Middle East, these bats form groups of a few individuals or about one thousand bats. They roost either in caves or human-made structures & have been reported roosting in pyramids!
📸: Bruce Thomson
A species found in North Africa & Middle East, these bats form groups of a few individuals or about one thousand bats. They roost either in caves or human-made structures & have been reported roosting in pyramids!
📸: Bruce Thomson
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Day 17 #BatMas: Egyptian mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma cystops)
A species found in North Africa & Middle East, these bats form groups of a few individuals or about one thousand bats. They roost either in caves or human-made structures & have been reported roosting in pyramids!
📸: Bruce Thomson
A species found in North Africa & Middle East, these bats form groups of a few individuals or about one thousand bats. They roost either in caves or human-made structures & have been reported roosting in pyramids!
📸: Bruce Thomson
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Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪
#BatSky🧵
#BatSky🧵
a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf
ALT: a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let me clue you in about Trump: he's always going to keep doing things intended to annoy people. That's his thing. But we can choose which of those things we get most annoyed at. And right now, I think the war he's starting with Venezuela is more annoying than whatever he did with plaques.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Let me clue you in about Trump: he's always going to keep doing things intended to annoy people. That's his thing. But we can choose which of those things we get most annoyed at. And right now, I think the war he's starting with Venezuela is more annoying than whatever he did with plaques.
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My teacher taught me:
Some old hippie Caught another hippie Tripping on acid
I was shocked when I learned during my education degree that this was not the most inappropriate way to teach trig.
Some old hippie Caught another hippie Tripping on acid
I was shocked when I learned during my education degree that this was not the most inappropriate way to teach trig.
Okay, this is definitely offensive, but this paragraph made me laugh out loud
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My teacher taught me:
Some old hippie Caught another hippie Tripping on acid
I was shocked when I learned during my education degree that this was not the most inappropriate way to teach trig.
Some old hippie Caught another hippie Tripping on acid
I was shocked when I learned during my education degree that this was not the most inappropriate way to teach trig.
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While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most.
Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most.
Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
Trump still thinks enough people watch over the air TV that he can “interrupt“ it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Trump still thinks enough people watch over the air TV that he can “interrupt“ it.
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Spectacular morning ashore on Macquarie Island among the seals and penguins... thanks so much to #saef_arc #aurora_expeditions #sydney_science 🧪🦑 #marineexplorer
December 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Spectacular morning ashore on Macquarie Island among the seals and penguins... thanks so much to #saef_arc #aurora_expeditions #sydney_science 🧪🦑 #marineexplorer
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From Will Golay: Light is composed of an electromagnetic wave, encoding information about its orientation. Learn how observing polarized optical light from one of the most extreme types of events in the universe enables us to study the origin of its light! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Variable polarized optical emission from a tidal disruption event
Light is composed of an electromagnetic wave, encoding information about its specific orientation. Learn how observing polarized optical light from one of the most extreme types of events in the unive...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
From Will Golay: Light is composed of an electromagnetic wave, encoding information about its orientation. Learn how observing polarized optical light from one of the most extreme types of events in the universe enables us to study the origin of its light! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/12/16/v...
astrobites.org/2025/12/16/v...
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No he has several but he rotates. Sometimes it’s Haitians. Sometimes it’s Somalis. The one thing all his scapegoats all have in common is that he likely thinks they’re too small of groups to fight back effectively. But he’ll still lose anyway.
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
No he has several but he rotates. Sometimes it’s Haitians. Sometimes it’s Somalis. The one thing all his scapegoats all have in common is that he likely thinks they’re too small of groups to fight back effectively. But he’ll still lose anyway.
We have so much we could fight for.
Clean water.
Clean air.
Shelter.
Food.
Health.
Civil liberties.
The list goes on.
I don’t have the answers.
But I know I don’t want to build a movement around quid pro quos and I told you sos.
Clean water.
Clean air.
Shelter.
Food.
Health.
Civil liberties.
The list goes on.
I don’t have the answers.
But I know I don’t want to build a movement around quid pro quos and I told you sos.
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We have so much we could fight for.
Clean water.
Clean air.
Shelter.
Food.
Health.
Civil liberties.
The list goes on.
I don’t have the answers.
But I know I don’t want to build a movement around quid pro quos and I told you sos.
Clean water.
Clean air.
Shelter.
Food.
Health.
Civil liberties.
The list goes on.
I don’t have the answers.
But I know I don’t want to build a movement around quid pro quos and I told you sos.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Then how did the side that retreated to TruthSocial and Gab end up regrouping and winning?
December 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Then how did the side that retreated to TruthSocial and Gab end up regrouping and winning?
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Yet, the people who caused that "time of danger" are long gone. We are still here.
We will keep lighting up Hanukkah.
With our hearts and minds going out to the families of those killed, and are with the injured -
We are taught, light from within darkness shines brightest 💔💞
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We will keep lighting up Hanukkah.
With our hearts and minds going out to the families of those killed, and are with the injured -
We are taught, light from within darkness shines brightest 💔💞
4/4
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yet, the people who caused that "time of danger" are long gone. We are still here.
We will keep lighting up Hanukkah.
With our hearts and minds going out to the families of those killed, and are with the injured -
We are taught, light from within darkness shines brightest 💔💞
4/4
We will keep lighting up Hanukkah.
With our hearts and minds going out to the families of those killed, and are with the injured -
We are taught, light from within darkness shines brightest 💔💞
4/4
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We will worry of anything and everything out of the ordinary. This Hanukkah will be different.
Yet, I also know that we will not give up on shining the light of Chanukah. Already over 1500 years ago there are discussions on how to light Chanukah candles "in times of danger."
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Yet, I also know that we will not give up on shining the light of Chanukah. Already over 1500 years ago there are discussions on how to light Chanukah candles "in times of danger."
3/4
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We will worry of anything and everything out of the ordinary. This Hanukkah will be different.
Yet, I also know that we will not give up on shining the light of Chanukah. Already over 1500 years ago there are discussions on how to light Chanukah candles "in times of danger."
3/4
Yet, I also know that we will not give up on shining the light of Chanukah. Already over 1500 years ago there are discussions on how to light Chanukah candles "in times of danger."
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Brutally targeted, murdered and injured just for being openly Jewish, and openly celebrating our beautiful holiday.
I know that over the next 8 days, all of us who plan to attend public Chanukah celebrations, as we should be able to do in safety and security, will be worried.
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I know that over the next 8 days, all of us who plan to attend public Chanukah celebrations, as we should be able to do in safety and security, will be worried.
2/4
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Brutally targeted, murdered and injured just for being openly Jewish, and openly celebrating our beautiful holiday.
I know that over the next 8 days, all of us who plan to attend public Chanukah celebrations, as we should be able to do in safety and security, will be worried.
2/4
I know that over the next 8 days, all of us who plan to attend public Chanukah celebrations, as we should be able to do in safety and security, will be worried.
2/4
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Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action
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רָעוֹת שָׂבְעָה נַפְשִׁי / בְּיָגוֹן כֹּחִי כָּלָה 😢
My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔
As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney.
At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭
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My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔
As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney.
At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭
1/4
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
רָעוֹת שָׂבְעָה נַפְשִׁי / בְּיָגוֹן כֹּחִי כָּלָה 😢
My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔
As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney.
At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭
1/4
My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔
As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney.
At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭
1/4