Kelly
@kellywhelan.bsky.social
Native plant enthusiast, nature lover, humanist, community builder, recovered attorney. She/her
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The Wizard Nebula, a.k.a. NGC 7380, is an open star cluster embedded within a vibrant emission nebula.
Integration Time: 17 hours
My Portfolio:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #nebula #photography
Integration Time: 17 hours
My Portfolio:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #nebula #photography
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Wizard Nebula, a.k.a. NGC 7380, is an open star cluster embedded within a vibrant emission nebula.
Integration Time: 17 hours
My Portfolio:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #nebula #photography
Integration Time: 17 hours
My Portfolio:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #nebula #photography
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I don’t know a lot.
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I don’t know a lot.
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
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Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
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Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
![Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made.
— Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreiajgzfaixqslnz2oftyxfcz2htgwbfisxfeyoospb5o6f3arqwfgu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Hey you. YES YOU. Super persnickety astronomer. You know who you are.
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hey you. YES YOU. Super persnickety astronomer. You know who you are.
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
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An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court.
A Border Patrol agent bragged about shooting someone, texts show
"Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court.
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Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.
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The Biden administration eschewed theater and wonked their way into fascist Trump. We aren’t going to wonk ourselves out of this.
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Biden administration eschewed theater and wonked their way into fascist Trump. We aren’t going to wonk ourselves out of this.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price www.openculture.com/2025/10/edga...
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price
Edgar Allan Poe’s classic moody-broody poem “The Raven,” none is more fun than The Simpsons’, in which Lisa Simpson’s intro transitions into the reading voice of James Earl Jones and the slapstick int...
www.openculture.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price www.openculture.com/2025/10/edga...
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As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps, far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps, far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
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This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
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The US has a $5B contingency fund to cover SNAP benefits in the event of shutdowns or other events... and they refuse to use it.
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The US has a $5B contingency fund to cover SNAP benefits in the event of shutdowns or other events... and they refuse to use it.
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Is anyone doing a running tally somewhere with people who say Nazi tattoo bad versus people who say Nazi tattoo not a dealbreaker?
I need to make it a permanent bookmark in my phone
I need to make it a permanent bookmark in my phone
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Is anyone doing a running tally somewhere with people who say Nazi tattoo bad versus people who say Nazi tattoo not a dealbreaker?
I need to make it a permanent bookmark in my phone
I need to make it a permanent bookmark in my phone
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Let me tell you something about having some weird 💩 going on…
If you got some weird 💩 going on and i defend that weird 💩 it’s probably because i got some weird 💩 going on
Because that’s how that weird 💩 works
If you got some weird 💩 going on and i defend that weird 💩 it’s probably because i got some weird 💩 going on
Because that’s how that weird 💩 works
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Let me tell you something about having some weird 💩 going on…
If you got some weird 💩 going on and i defend that weird 💩 it’s probably because i got some weird 💩 going on
Because that’s how that weird 💩 works
If you got some weird 💩 going on and i defend that weird 💩 it’s probably because i got some weird 💩 going on
Because that’s how that weird 💩 works
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Die USA unter Trump in einem Bild
It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Die USA unter Trump in einem Bild
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this story about the early response timeline in NYS is pretty damning
www.propublica.org/article/two-...
www.propublica.org/article/two-...
Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.
California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
this story about the early response timeline in NYS is pretty damning
www.propublica.org/article/two-...
www.propublica.org/article/two-...
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Forgot to include the conclusion. This is one of those "you know whatever you say the newspaper is going to print" and she swung for the fences. I respect that, even if I don't respect her wealth. And probably anything else about her.
October 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Forgot to include the conclusion. This is one of those "you know whatever you say the newspaper is going to print" and she swung for the fences. I respect that, even if I don't respect her wealth. And probably anything else about her.
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I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall.
(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)
(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)
October 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall.
(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)
(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)
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Anyway, a petty narcissist who attacks the people who he serves isn't doing out of strength. He's doing it out of weakness. He is dangerous for the same reason a rabid raccoon is dangerous when cornered. But between his polling, Epstein and economic numbers... he's cornered.
October 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Anyway, a petty narcissist who attacks the people who he serves isn't doing out of strength. He's doing it out of weakness. He is dangerous for the same reason a rabid raccoon is dangerous when cornered. But between his polling, Epstein and economic numbers... he's cornered.
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Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.
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“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether
‘The new family separation crisis’: More than 100 US citizen kids left stranded by ICE enforcement actions, CNN finds | CNN Politics
Children across the US have ended up in the care of relatives, neighbors, friends, coworkers and even strangers after ICE detained or deported their parents.
www.cnn.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether
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It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
www.rollingstone.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies