‘Tis the Season to Be Folly 2: LCDP relents, allows Williams to speak at banquet
By Arthur K. | CATALYST

November 19, 2025

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Tech students host virtual teach-in, speak out against classroom censorship of gender
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LONG LIVE THE BEVEL! Texas Tech reverts logo
By Gil Caley | October 10, 2025

It isn’t just Texas Tech University policy that is moving backwards 75 years. This Tuesday, October 4, Texas Tech Athletics announced a controversial change in branding for the University and its athletics department: 1/?

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the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Lubbock.social Social media for the Lubbock underground, run by Texas Catalyst Media.

Anybody in/from Lubbock want an account on lubbock.social? 🙂 This is a Twitter/Bsky alternative just for Lubbock.

THE CATALYST Volume 4 Issue 2 is OUT NOW!

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There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

THE CATALYST Volume 4 Issue 1 is OUT NOW!

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I still think it ought to be possible to create something like a public, open-access social media site, just for the purposes of keeping up with people & tracking unfolding events.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣

my current favorite jwst images 🌌

happy sunday 🫨