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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

Israel the pioneering nation already did at least one quadruple tap btw. If you’ve heard of double taps and how much of barbarian practice it is, you double that and you get Israel

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Comparing old & new images of the Trifid Nebula, we can see how this gas cloud has changed over three decades. Newborn stars are shooting out jets of plasma, stirring the nebula, and the stars are drifting through our galaxy.

Cosmic evolution before our eyes! 🔭🧪

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This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The colors in Hubble’s visible light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the mission's launch on April 24, are reminiscent of an underwater scene filled with fine-grained sediments fluttering through the ocean’s depths. Several massive stars, which are outside this field of view, have shaped this region for at least 300,000 years. (See them in a wider view.) Their powerful winds continue to blow an enormous bubble, a small portion of which is shown here, that pushes and compresses the cloud’s gas and dust, triggering new waves of star formation.

For Hubble's 36 anniversary, NASA has released this image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region in the constellation Sagittarius.

It's a beautiful image, one that also calls up a lot of emotional history for me (a short thread). 🧪🔭

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There are universities named after places, and there are universities named after people. But TIL of a university named after a date: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Decem...

…counter-prooftext against those who use it a prooftext for their own malevolent ideology. Iron Age texts don’t map well onto modern progressive values (even those that seem obvious to us, like “don’t commit genocide”)

I mean, unironically, yes. Lev 18 is specifically about regulating sexual activities, but Leviticus is also concerned with ritual purity and the conducts of priests.

The narrative these laws are embedded in famously endorses and even orders genocide. It’s a losing game to use the Hebrew Bible as a…

A sure indication that a physics talk is going to be good is when the presentation is in comic sans

May I introduce to you some really impressive Libyco-Berber monuments? In Bordj Hajar, close to Chemtou in Tunisia, three fragments of massive obelisks have been found. They have been reconstructed in the Chemtou museum (thanks, wikipedia!). Their original height was probably around 3.5 meters 🤯

What is this about?

Unless you’re in South Arabia or East Africa, in which case you can blame another guy named Halaħam

Bookmarked!

The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

Expected online publication date: 15 June 2026.

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Whatever you think of Ukraine, it is objectively fighting an actual defensive war, it has never ever had unlimited or unconditional support from the US, and it never will. Our relationship to Israel is extremely irrational to boot and that's before getting into Israel being an apartheid state.

"What do I worry about? I think everyone who's a supporter of this relationship needs to be wary of the manner in which sometimes it's not going to be about - Israel is going to be about congressional versus legislative tussling, but Israel is going to be caught in the crosshairs. And I'm worried about that with these executive holds," Stroul proclaimed. I'm worried about it with things like the [Bernie] Sanders joint resolutions of disapproval, even if he doesn't force a vote this time, we're not getting through four years without him forcing a vote. And it is not good for Israel and for this relationship to make members constantly have to vote on it, even if they pass. That's not the point. The point is to not have to debate every time."

For those who are skeptical as to why these votes in the Senate matter, it's important to remember that AIPAC, DMFI, and WINEP people hate them and hate when the senators are forced to take a public position, because Israel is politically toxic. They want low salience because that benefits them.

Incredible work done to achieve this historic vote. Soon it will be 51 and perhaps, dare one say, even more.

One of the ways we search for objects in the solar system is to take an image, wait for a period of time, then take another image and see what moved.
This GIF animation shows Pluto on two separate nights. See if you can find it. #astronomy

Me when I help a friend 🏴‍☠️ a handbook on ethics

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime

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From Tamer el-Laithy’s dissertation “Coptic culture and conversion in medieval Cairo, 1293–1524 A.D” www.proquest.com/openview/9d6...

…his ruse backfired, and he needed a note of absolution from the pope to avoid punishment for abandoning his (insincere) vows. The monks who accepted him into the monastery were instead reprimanded for swearing him in without the proper procedures

Unsurprisingly, the frustration of lonely youth unable to find a partner is nothing new either. In 16th century Egypt, an 18-year old Copt struggled to find a wife. In an act of desperation, he took monastic vows to motivate his parents to “rescue” him and arrange a marriage. Unfortunately…

Apparently I look Indian enough to get mistaken for one not just by white Americans, but by Indians too

Makes me glad my supervisor isn’t on Twitter or Bluesky

Depends on who we’re talking about. Liberal voters (at least those who know anything about Palestine or Israel)? Sure. Politicians? 100% lying

Spare a thought for the pundits racing to get their "how Iran won the war" think pieces out before the ceasefire completely collapses...

“It’s giving [off] war crime [vibes]” (i.e. “it smells of war crimes”)

All civilizations except Lebanon it seems…

A good Talmudic story: A bunch of rabbis are arguing over the law. One invokes God to support his opinion, and God's thundering voice confirms it. Another rabbi points out that by to God's own logic(!!) a divine voice does not beat the reasoning of a rabbinic plurality and God should stay out of it

Of course those people deserve the right of return too. Stop projecting your own racism onto your opponents