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Single Senior Gay Man living in Austin TX.
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Liberal AF. Obviously.
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circlesspinning.bsky.social
Yesterday in Austin....
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
This hit so fucking hard today.
CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
The biggest draw-back of working from home is not getting the day off when there's a snow day or ice-storm.
January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) in Near Infrared - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/eaDxth
This image shows the Great Nebula in Carina (NGC 3372) in infrared light. This majestic nebula is one of the largest nebulae in the sky and lies about 7,500 light years distant in the Southern constellation of Carina, The Keel. Several star clusters containing some of the brightest and most massive stars known are found here, including the extremely luminous hypergiant star Eta Carinae - one of the prime candidates for the next supernova explosion in our galaxy. Traditional images of the Carina Nebula taken in visible light primarily display the striking magenta colour from glowing Hydrogen gas, as well as large dark obscuring clouds of dust. But infrared light penetrates these clouds better and allows for a deep peek into the heart of the nebula, revealing complex details and thousands of young stars that are otherwise completely invisible. These stars shine primarily in the infrared and appear as golden red in this image. Only a minority of these are even visible in traditional images. The infrared region seems largely unexplored by amateur astronomers. But using a filter that only allows infrared light (>700nm) to pass through allows for obtaining an image of these hidden features. Effectively the band observed is 700-1100nm since the sillicon CCD chip is not responsive to wavelengths longer than that, and this band is called NIR (Near Infrared). One issue arising from this technique is that the NIR band does not have a colour as such, since it lies outside the v...
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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hrnews.bsky.social
CTV News did a segment on Hudson and the Old Spaghetti Factory in New Westminster where he worked right before getting the role of Shane.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
January 22, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Herbig Haro 49/50 - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qUL3JG
Full size in 5k: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54418306900/sizes/o/ See license below Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY NASA/ESA JWST Webb Space Telescope Title: Multi-band imaging of protostellar jet Target: Herbig-Haro 49/50 Distance: 625 light-years Time: 2024-08-06 Instruments: NIRCam, MIRI Filters: F200W, F335M, F444W, F470N, F770W Colours Assigned: Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red Proposal ID: 6558 www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/program-information?... Image created processing data from: mast.stsci.edu/ PI: Macarena Garcia Marin PI Institution: STSI - ESA - JWST Image created using data processed from: mast.stsci.edu/ Product IDs: jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f200w jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f335m jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f444w jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f444w-470n jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f770w Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original media on Flickr: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
January 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
This is such great news to wake up to (in a world that rarely gives you good news to wake up to anymore). Every one of these nominations is richly deserved. Easily my favorite movie of the last year.
discussingfilm.net DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 6d
‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations

See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 PM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
I'm glad so many people are enjoying a three-day weekend.

I've never in my life had this day off from work though.

Just another workday for me.
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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kuntieplopkins.bsky.social
U.S. House and Senate have Secured the Necessary Votes to Pass the Bipartisan NATO Unity Protection Act, Explicitly Blocking Donald Trump From Using Military Force to Seize Greenland, a Danish Territory Under NATO Protection
January 18, 2026 at 12:31 AM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
The only thing that got me through last week was the thought that this weekend I get to watch "Heated Rivalry" again.

And that is literally my only plan for this weekend.
January 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Starless Eagle Nebula and The Pillars of Creation - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2nxreCe
www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Nebula... This image shows the famous Pillars of Creation region of the bright Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) in Serpens. Constructed from monochrome exposures in two very narrow wavelength bands of ionised Hydrogen and Oxygen, the data has been combined into a colour image to reveal this highly detailed and very dramatic scene. The bright colours are due to emission from the ionised gases, energised by light from nearby stars. The stars were removed during image processing to fully reveal the intricate structure of the nebula. Orange-red nebulosity corresponds to H-Alpha emission, and the blue areas are OIII. The core area of the nebula was made famous in 1995 as the "Pillars of Creation" by images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are giant columns of gas and dust, approximately 9 light-years long, that are slowly being eroded away by intense radiation pressure from nearby young stars. The nebula lies 6000 light-years distant in the Sagittarius arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Image details: Date: Sep-Nov 2021, June 2022 Exposure: Ha OIII: 450:690 mins, total 19 hours @ -25C Telescope: Homebuilt 12.5" f/4 Serrurier Truss Newtonian Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha/OIII Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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This was originally published in 2010, so it is not in fact based on the current resident of the White House, no matter how well the title might fit him. Also, the White House in the story is run rather better than the one we have at the moment.

Read the story here: reactormag.com/the-presiden...
January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
historically accurate☑️
January 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
I may have just re-binged the entirety of season one of Heated Rivalry in a single evening.
January 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
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January 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
Finished my re-watch/binge of "Heated Rivalry".

Holy shit that's a good show. Can't wait for season 2.
January 4, 2026 at 4:48 AM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
The sky as I left my parent's house over Ohio on my way back home last Sunday...
A picture of puffy clouds and a sun getting ready to set, taken from an airplane window over Ohio.
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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✨️💫🤍💖✨️💫🤍💖✨️💫🤍💖✨️💫🤍💖
January 1, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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mcpli.bsky.social
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
seriously.

what is going on?!
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December 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
"Stupid fucking Canadian wolf-bird..."

Gets me every time 😂🤣
#HeatedRivalry
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
pmbaustin.bsky.social
She's no longer with us, but here's a picture of my parent's last cat from a couple of Christmas's ago, curled up under the Christmas tree:
December 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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introvertproblems.bsky.social
I just need 8 to 10 hours of peace, quiet and alone time in the morning and then I am recharged and ready to tackle the day
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
If there was ever a time to abandon joy, it would be now.
If there was ever a season when despair was justifiable, it would be this one.

And yet, I am fighting not to let the darkness around me steal the light from within me.

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These are Dark Days. Don't Lose Your Light.
There’s no other way to say it: these are dark days here in America.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM