Very sharp image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula showing protuding narrow jets emerging from the rounded tips of the gas clouds.

Zoom in on a clump of a nebula showing a grainy, fuzzy thin line that has a white arrow annotated to it. This is the jet from the protostar. Image is fuzzy taken with my telescope

Ohhhhh ... love doing these.

Left: Hubble Telescope image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula. That's a thin stellar jet from young stellar object buried in the cloud

Right: same, but from my backyard telescope. Can just see jet!

Original: @esa.int - www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🔭 #Astrophotography

Iran’s Supreme Leader has given the green light for the Iranian negotiating team to travel to Islamabad. -Axios

defective

So awful.

One batch of essays this semester featured about 80% of papers with the exact same introduction, regardless of the topics tackled.

From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: Race for Riches Eli Squinch storms out of a house, Mickey, Horace, and Clarabelle watch with amusement. Eli: I'll git even with ye, some day, Mickey Mouse! Just see if I don't! Mickey: More likely you'll choke yourself to death, hatin' people!

Screenshot of a text. +1 (720) 828-4916 › Text Message • SMS Today 10:26 AM Don't forget our plan to visit the orphanage tomorrow. I'II be waiting for you in the office.

That’s a new one.

Under PM Goldman Sachs, Canada is a corporation.

“So, if we don’t have a trade agreement with them, or, if there (isn’t) some resource that we want to extract from that country, then we’ll just be a lot less interested in doing development aid there.

Poster reads: TAFSIK ORGANIZATION & STOP ANTIZIONISM PRESENT: WORLD SYMPOSIUM AGAINST ANTIZIONISM SUNDAY MAY 17TH Toronto // Ontario WSAA 2026 * KEY NOTE SPECIAL GUEST: BEN SHAPIRO Other guests listed: GAD SAAD RAWAN OSMAN JAMES LINDSAY ABRAHAM HAMRA EMILY AUSTIN JACOB SMITH NICK MATAU ALEX PIERSON LOAY ALSHAREEF MARK GOLDFEDER LEORA SHEMESH JESSE BROWN (I circled this in red bc lol) EYAL YAKOBY BRANDY SHUFUTINSKY CASEY BABB RONA KAUFMAN MATTHEW SCHWEBER ANASTASIA ZORCHINSKY EVE BARLOW NAYA LEKHT PAMELA PARESKY ANDREW PESSIN BEN COHEN ALI SIADATAN

Hahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahagahahhahahahagaghahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha

Is rebounding good?

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

“Plans”

Pink blossoms on trees along a short walking plaza.

False Creek and environs looking glittery, plus dragon boats.

I have a T-shirt that says VANCOUVER IS PRETTY GOOD.

#vancouver

The best pope ever remains a pope.

Unbelievably silly.

I have a wide English vocabulary and like fancy and fun language but it absolutely means that I confuse people (even people for whom English is their first language”. I have to be aware of that and be considerate in various settings.

The NHS should keep Palantir for patients’ sake The US technology company is opposed by some employees but its software is getting results https://www.ft.com/content/4ceee73c-b816-490c-a2ca-fc3896f5f51b?syn-25a6b1a6=1

This from three days ago has aged well, hasn't it

Palantir is a nazi organization, this is not news, but it's still insane for a publicly traded company to just put out a full throated Turner Diaries-ass "manifesto"

Crazy that we have some sort of machine that can move faster than a human being now

Obviously this is bad but considering the amount of jobs that I am overqualified for based on my work experience that won't consider hiring me because I don't have bachelor's degree, well...

Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

Laser Cannon Deth Sentence YouTube video by Metalocalypse: Dethklok - Topic

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DIE!

Ridiculous old black and white magazine ad: I'll Make You a Master of CHINESE KVNG-FU •..the Oriental ART of INSTANTANEOUS DEATH that is applied with NO Bodily Contact 道怎常 WHO IS THIS MAN? Behind the blindfold is the Hon. Master "Kung-Fu." That's the Chinese method of Attack and Self-Defense kept so secret that it has been handed down in China only from father to son because of its DEADLY power to disable or kill! Now these devastatingly brilliant secrets that require NO PHYSICAL STRENGTH OR EXERTION are revealed to you in the English language by a KUNG-FU Master who dares to teach you AT HIS RISK! There is much much more.

"Sudan is facing a clear example of a multifaceted, manmade hunger crisis, driven by violence, mass displacement, destruction of infrastructure, restricted access to resources, and high food prices," writes @foodwater.csis.org.

More: https://www.csis.org/analysis/sudan-war-10-charts

You might think, if you remove parking entirely, won't drivers complain more? No, because drivers complain all the time, about everything. Parking, traffic, etc. They can't complain more than they already do, so might as well give them something to actually complain about. While they take the bus.

Donald Fagen – New Frontier (Official Video) [HD Remastered] YouTube video by Donald Fagen

The key word is survival on the new frontier.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

He can’t understand why he isn’t the boss of everyone.

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

The kooks and crackpots form an entire government.