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Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
Image date: 11 January 2006, 16:00
This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, represe...
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"What makes someone a good student is almost the opposite of what makes them a good consumer. Knowledge isn’t a product. It’s a discipline."
I wrote about AI in schools, mostly to get my head into the space. My kid is in a district where they're not saying "if" but "how." Almost an exact quote. WE SHOULD BE ASKING IF!? Especially since the evidence looks like this is being forced on kids with little evidence and even less thought.
As an answer to the classic “What would Jesus do?” question, “start robot wars” would be an unconventional response, to put it mildly.
And yet, here we are.
I think RFK jr is rabid.
Gestures at everything
I caught a little aurora and SAR arc in my #timelapse this morning, April 17-18, 2026 from Crestone, Colorado USA
The full video is at youtu.be/fykc6siQYRY
#astronomy #astrophotography #aurora #northernlights
I think there's a good chance we leave on Wednesday given wind forecasts for Moab area, the closest thing I can get for the Swell.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Yes! Hoping to catch the comet rising before dawn, and some of the Lyrid meteor shower while out there
Heading to the San Rafael Swell tomorrow for a camping adventure. It's been too long since I was last in the canyon landscape!
"John Carpenter is going to direct Melania II"
"John Carpenter is going to direct Melania II"
"Kash and Pete are going to be accountability buddies in rehab"
"I have explosive diarrhea and won't be holding any more press conferences this week."
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.
The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.
The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.
The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.
Here's my #timelapse for April 15-16, 2026 from Crestone, Colorado USA
Wind Meditation by Yuri Megis is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.
#astronomy #astrophotography
Huh, turns out the Vatican made a movie of his origin story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_yh...
Father Paul, played by Hamish Linklater, in Midnight Mass. I liked his character in Legion too.
![The 1987–88 season was the highest-scoring season of Bird's career. Aided by a new weight training regimen along with a shorter hairstyle after years of sporting a mullet, Bird would average nearly 30 points on 53% shooting, as the Celtics topped the Eastern Conference with 57 wins.[67] In Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Atlanta Hawks, Bird](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kmz2drpglruwrvrtitthyw43/bafkreif4tilavxvqjre2gmrhagydqqcsfnxubez6ia56qe2usqg75x5ziy)
The 1987–88 season was the highest-scoring season of Bird's career. Aided by a new weight training regimen along with a shorter hairstyle after years of sporting a mullet, Bird would average nearly 30 points on 53% shooting, as the Celtics topped the Eastern Conference with 57 wins.[67] In Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Atlanta Hawks, Bird
LOL.
Our Book of Delights Arielle Hebert All our windows open, steady drizzle on the kudzu’s broad backs, birds making their music like this isn’t North Carolina, but a tropical rainforest, and we’re somewhere deep in the palms and vines. But it’s our own ferns and fiddleheads, evergreens and sugar maples, trillium blooming, or on the verge, for no one in particular, for everyone in particular, as if to say, Go on, enjoy it. Rain, flowers, time on earth. The apple I hand-picked at the market. Braiding my friend’s hair, silver in my fingers, how I tie a tiny bow gently at the end just as the sun comes out. I want to believe this is true power, that kindness is the only weapon worth wielding, and I wield it, land blow after blow to my enemies, without mercy. Mercy. Bring the wine. Set the table for surprise guests. No matter the plates don’t match and we’ve run out of chairs, only that there is bread and laughter, enough to go around. Parades, in spite of—Pride, in spite of—Please, someone answer all my questions about hummingbirds and the little futures we are reaching for, the ones rising above the horizon right before our eyes, such intoxicating visions, our truest selves, with nothing to hide. Go on. Trust the child standing barefoot in the rain, her face turned up to the sky. Trust that crescendo building in your chest is your voice, singing what you need to hear, the stone-heavy echo welled from darkest springs. Go ahead. Open the door. No one can explain how to love the world. It doesn’t happen all at once. But you can start here. Tonight, with yourself. Someone near you. Let it go zigzagging town to town. Look, there. It’s already coming back around. Copyright © 2026 by Arielle Hebert. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 15, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.
Black and white photo of the poet. She has long black hair, a tattoo on her right shoulder, and wears a necklace. There is a large plant behind her. CAPTION: Photo credit: Scott Krier Hebert is the recipient of the Claire Keyes Poetry Prize from Soundings East and the Lit/South Award for Poetry from Charlotte Lit Press. Note: the emailed copy of this poem has an expanded bio: Arielle Hebert is a queer poet and the author of Bottom Feeders (Black Lawrence Press, 2026). She is the recipient of the Claire Keyes Poetry Prize from Soundings East and the Lit/South Award for Poetry from Charlotte Lit Press. The 2025–26 fellow at Hellbender Gathering of Poets, Hebert lives in North Carolina.
About this Poem “I aspire to be more hopeful, in poems and in life. This poem started as a catalog of recent bright spots I was clinging to in dark times: braiding my friend’s hair, watching another friend’s daughter play in the rain, the vibrant green of spring in North Carolina. The abecedarian’s form helped propel the poem forward and allowed the catalog to grow into a call for more kindness, more love in the world and for it.” —Arielle Hebert
Our Book of Delights by Arielle Hebert is the Poem-a-Day on April 15, 2026 from the Academy of American Poets
poets.org/poem/our-boo...
According to Morgan Stanley, every $1-per-gallon increase in gas prices results in a $450-per-year increase in fuel costs for gas-powered vehicles, assuming 27 mpg and 12,000 miles driven per year, increasing consumer anxiety.
"range anxiety"
Jack Links MR. Beast original beef mini sticks.
Mr. Beast doesn't seem like he has enough meat on him to support this product line.
