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wgYOW 🇨🇦
@wgyow.bsky.social
Progressive, dabbling backyard astrophotograper, currently hailing from Ottawa, Canada.

Gobsmacked by what's going on with our neighbours to the South.

🇨🇦 is not for sale
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Sh2-142, the Wizard Nebula, and open cluster NGC 7380 are located about 8500 light years away in the direction of Cepheus. The red glowing emission nebula is primarily heated by the massive binary star system DH Cephei

5.4hrs, #Seestar S50 🔭🧪
Siril, GraXpert, Starnet, GIMP
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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"In The #Sky There Are No Limits"

Orion Nebula With Stars
March 15, 2024
Composed of 258 stacked shots
Taken with a Canon 90D and 18-135mm lens at 135mm
#BlueSkyArtShow #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Photography #NightSky
December 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Nova Scotia is taking the fight to MAGA.
Last March they pulled all the booze off the shelves. Now they are selling it all off in a Xmas firesale-with proceeds going to the food bank.
And then they are done with US purchases.
@meidascanada.ca Lisa Blackburn explains.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIM0...
THE MAGA BOOZE BOYCOTT - NOVA SCOTIA STYLE !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Decades of conservatives mocking the idea that everyone is a winner — and now this.
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I love soccer and I remember each World Cup with great intensity and always so much look forward to the next. But FIFA that was disgusting, even more disgusting than usual, and now I just can’t. And won’t.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Similar skin colour.
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Victor Orban is a member of Stephen Harper’s IDU

pressprogress.ca/stephen-harp...
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The suspense was killing me
Donald Trump said it was 'one of the great honours' of his life to receive Fifa’s inaugural Peace Prize on Friday. on.ft.com/4piJZVf
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This needs a click on your phone.

The Heart and Soul nebulae this evening battling with a full 'Super' Moon!

Nearly 4 hours of 60 second exposures to produce a 4 panel mosaic so they both fit.

#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I repeat 🔁 :

It isn’t hypocrisy.

It’s a coup.

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December 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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🚨👇🏽THIS THIS THIS👇🏽🚨
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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“This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in its perpetuation.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Irish broadcaster explains its reason for pulling out of Eurovision over Israel's participation.
"It is unconscionable... given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there.”
Good to see a broadcaster putting humanity ahead of dollars.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Under a dark sky, the Milky Way looks like a bright band interrupted by black rivers.

Those rivers are not empty space; they are curtains of tiny dust grains that swallow nearly all the starlight trying to reach us.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25111...

🔭 🧪 #galactic #science #MilkyWay

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December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A Canadian publisher has called out the United States for using the image of a children's book character to brag about murdering unarmed people in international waters.
This is a decrepit gangster state.
This is the world of Donald Trump.
This is demonic.
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM