I am not yet on Gander Social, but looking forward to its public launch

So. Much. Winning.

Really, this ought to be more concerning for Americans:

This needs to be noted

I think I need to read this

The war with Iran delayed Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial.

The war with Iran got people to stop talking about Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

So both men had corrupt motives for colluding to start a senseless war. Because they only care about themselves, not the people they kill.

This planetarium at U of T was created as a gift to citizens. Decades later, it’s being demolished The Royal Ontario Museum opened the McLaughlin Planetarium in 1968, welcoming more than six million visitors in its 27 years of operation.

For the past 30 years, every time Conservatives have been elected to govern Ontario, they start vandalizing cultural institutions. Mike Harris destroyed Sam McLaughlin’s gift of a planetarium.
Doug Ford destroyed the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Place.
Next?
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Jeremy and his colleagues made it back safely... yay!

I can't access it -- either been deleted, or not accessible to me because I am not ion the test group

I will provide WhatsApp details to you privately on Model Mayhem. As I said in my reply, I am unable to work with you on this trip.

Trump Fans Furious That NASA Is Allowing a Canadian on the Moon Mission NASA's decision to bring Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on its Moon mission seemingly had MAGA in a tizzy.

Are we at all fucking surprised?

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April is complicated. Let me get back to you.

Yes, but did Baldwin vote for Trump?

Fabulous photo!

Comets often break apart when they pass close to the Sun, but we've never seen the process in this kind of detail.

By serendipity, the Hubble Telescope was watching closely as Comet K1/ATLAS (the *other* Comet ATLAS) fragmented into 4 major pieces last autumn. 🧪🔭

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1. Graphic showing asteroid 2024 YR4’s potential locations on December 22, 2032, estimated last year on June 3, 2025. 2. Graphic showing new estimate of asteroid 2024 YR4’s potential locations on December 22, 2032. The locations now lie on the far side of the moon.

Sorry, new data from NASA JWST indicates that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not crash into the moon on Dec. 22 2032, as predicted earlier with 4.3% prob; instead, it will fly by 21,200 km away on the far side of the moon.

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Yes -- Clonezilla would be my first choice also. Rescuezilla is another possibility.

Some political careers age badly YouTube video by Tod Maffin

"Yellow girl"??!?

The Cone Nebula This is the iconic pillar in NGC 2264, ~2,500 away in Monoceros, rising from a fiery red sea. It looks dark and monstrous against a glowing crimson hydrogen backdrop, blue crest shining with scattered stars. Hits me hard every time—how stars savage the gas cloud to shape it, yet spark brand-new suns in the exact same chaos. Total proof the cosmos is raw, alive, and insanely gorgeous. Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0206f/ Credits: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA.

Mystic Mountain in the Carina Nebula This picture never fails to mess with me—like I’ve accidentally stepped into some brutal, jagged fantasy landscape that’s actively on fire. Hubble snagged it in 2010: a rough spike of gas & dust lost in the insane storm that is the Carina Nebula, sitting about 7,500 light-years out. Tiny new stars are losing their minds inside, shooting Herbig-Haro jets everywhere like they’re trying to escape. At the same time the monster stars right next door are sandblasting the whole thing with radiation, eating the edges away. The palette is ridiculous—sharp electric blue oxygen, warm green-gold from hydrogen and nitrogen, angry red sulfur glowing through it all. Feels straight-up like a Tolkien mountain caught in an apocalypse, pure violent energy. Just stars being born the hard way, screaming into existence. Wild. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hubble-captures-view-of-mystic-mountain/ Credits: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI).

The Veil Nebula This pic always creeps me out in the best way—like catching the faint leftover smoke from a star that blew up around 8,000 years ago. It was a heavy one, roughly 20× our Sun, and now we’ve got this huge expanding shell called the Cygnus Loop, about 2,100 light-years out. Spreads over 110 light-years and still racing away at insane speed. When Hubble gets close you see these thin, wispy threads curling everywhere: soft blue-green oxygen, red hydrogen, some sulfur mixed in—looks like torn lace or drifting cosmic smoke. Quietly brutal. All that’s left of a massive star, yet those threads are basically planting the seeds for the next round of planets and suns. Eerie, gorgeous, and kind of humbling. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/veil-nebula/ Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Cosmic Reef) Way out in the Large Magellanic Cloud—163,000 light-years from home—you see this big angry red patch (NGC 2014) getting blasted bright by a bunch of really heavy stars, 10–20 times our Sun’s size. Then, right next to it, that perfect electric-blue bubble (NGC 2020) carved clean by one single Wolf-Rayet monster throwing out 200,000× the Sun’s light. The reds/oranges scream hydrogen + nitrogen; the sharp blue ring is oxygen going nuts. Looks exactly like some underwater coral reef… except the whole scene is only about 5 million years old. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/cosmic-reef/ Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI

"...it's a mysterious and marvelous fact that our universe obeys laws of nature that always turn out to be expressible in the language of calculus as sentences called differential equations."

— Steven Strogatz, 'Infinite Powers'

🔭 🧪 #Hubble images' description, sources, credits in the ALT text

This really isn’t okay :( YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

Mainstream media can behave in slimeball ways:

New year, new rules: You may need more carbon monoxide alarms for your home | CBC News Changes to the Ontario Fire Code coming in the new year will require carbon monoxide alarms on every level of a home in a bid to better protect people from the deadly, odorless gas.

More detail:

PSA (Province of Ontario)

Wow! Hope this goes somewhere...

In 2025, we worked to make Canada stronger — and had some fun along the way. YouTube video by Mark Carney

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Season's Greetings!

Merry Christmas, Canada.

No, don't do this if you are in the USA

Astroturfing where the skies are blue How an alleged "enterprise-grade Web3 platform" briefly promoted itself on Bluesky with the aid of thousands of spam accounts

A recent astroturfing attempt was given short shrift here on BlueSky:

www.conspirator0.com/p/astroturfi...

You will find a couple of my photos in old issues of Locus Magazine!