You should never feel guilty for talking about books. The world is on fire, but we still need to educate and enrich ourselves. Books can make you a better person. Books are the answer. #BookSky
Evening views of Bamburgh beach and castle from across the rocks. Partially cloudy sky gave some muted sunlight colours in the clouds
Evening stroll and dog walk at Bamburgh Beach, Northumberland. Started off relatively cloudy but the clouds started to break up a little aand give some lovely soft light in the sky across the beach and rocks. A worthwhile wander.
#Northumberland
#sunset
#uk
#evening
#Castle
Breaking news; New evidence shows that it was a USA bomb that blew up the school with upto 200 little girls. Motive not known yet. In Iran some people are saying the Epstein Class hates little girls they are either sexually abuses or killed.
UNICEF is deeply concerned about the deadly impact the ongoing military escalation in Iran is having on children. Approximately 180 children have reportedly been killed and many more injured.
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
"a matter for the United States" is now Wong's standard response whenever she wants to avoid accountability.
And thanks to Wong, Albanese and Marles, Australia's sovereignty, security and foreign & defence policy is also now "a matter for the United States". #auspol
You’ve heard about Jim Crow, but how about Tim Crow? ‘Tasmanian Stories’ takes a look at Hemp Harvests, the island state’s only hemp processing facility, and the man who founded it. #HempHeals
tasmanian.com.au/stories/tim-...
Bombs away boys more pointless murder by US and Israel
Strikes are now extending beyond Tehran, with reports of hits in the holy city of Qom. Iran's civil aviation authority has closed all Iranian airspace. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been moved to a secure location outside Tehran.-Reuters
“Imagination is a vital tool that any writer must deploy to access aspects of the past.”
Our latest, from Ben Nadler.
"The majority of decent people in Denton and Gorton voted to overwhelmingly choose hope over hate and simultaneously reject the F@s©️ists like Reform"
via Expose Racism
Nice way to finish the day. An unexpected break in the clouds and Orion in a good position for me tonight. Been wanting to catch a decent image of the 'Running Man' nebula aka NGC1973 for a while. 🙂🔭
From Annika Salmi: Not just the right temperature for water, but the right chemical recipe: only planets formed in a narrow nitrogen-, phosphorus-, and oxygen-balanced “Goldilocks” zone may keep life’s key ingredients available at their surface. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/02/19/g...
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Notice how the Department of Homeland Security has changed the look of its concentration camps? It's so drones can't fly overhead to take videos of emaciated inmates covered in their own filth.
1/2 ICYMI.
Appears that the poster causing most 'offence' was the one depicting Netanyahu.
Dissent bar manager: "the [hate speech] law is set up to enable anonymous complaints from Zionists.
...it seems we are marching slowly but surely into an authoritarian regime." #ZionistMcCarthyism #auspol
Legend, science or just colonialism? Dragon of Africa.
"Of course, the okapi was new only to European eyes. To people from Central Africa, the okapi had been known for millennia. But to the British, it did not exist until Europeans could see it—or at least its corpse. Even then, African facts were far less appealing than European 'discoveries.'”
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
I've posted a handful of my original Power Lines Drawings for sale at my store
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/pow...
Emu taking my measure.
At the Shortland Wetlands.
#birds A very nice-looking cardinal pair. We usually have 3-4 pair at any one time.
There goes Gordo, the Great Blue Heron of Lynx Lake, flying away from the little cove that I just shot his session in. The dam is at the other end of this little gem of a lake.
🌿 Cheetah piss. 🌿 #FridayVibes
That's right. IYKYK. Have a sweet #FlyDay! 🤘😶🌫️
📸 The ass end of Gordo, the Great Blue Heron of Lynx Lake
#BirdOfTheDay
#WingsOverWater
#BirdInFlight
#Scape
#GETOUTTHERE
#GreenTherapy
Linocut portrait of Queen Seondeok of Silla with elaborate medieval Korean crown and heavy beaded necklace in gold, red and blue robes, at night with starry black sky with white and grey moon and the grey Tower of Cheomseogdae behind her.
Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture and science and built the Cheomseongdae moon and star-gazing observatory. 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬🔭 #histsci This is the anniversary of her death.
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A high-resolution image of the planetary nebula IC 5148. The nebula is a vibrant, glowing sphere, predominantly electric blue and pale turquoise. At its center is a tiny, bright white light, which is the progenitor star. The nebula is surrounded by a wispy outer halo of darker blue gas, and the entire nebula lies in front of a background of distant stars and galaxies.
This week’s image is of IC 5148! Gemini South’s GMOS was used to observe this planetary nebula, whose cloud of gas is expanding outwards at a speed of 180,000 km/hr! Check out the 🧵 for more papers involving GMOS data!
#Astronomy
A reddish nebula is centered on a black background dotted with stars. The nebula has several strong dust clumps that block out the background light and give the appearance of a person wearing a pointy hat with arms raised and hands outstretched.
I've been playing around with some new processing tools. Here's NGC 7380, the Wizard Nebula. First discovered by Caroline Herschel and located in the direction of Cepheus, the nebula surrounds an open cluster of young stars.
5.4hrs, #Seestar S50 🔭🧪
Siril, SyQon Starless, Veralux, GraXpert, GIMP
NGC 1977, the Running Man Nebula, is a luminous patch of Orion where starlight and dust put on a color duel. In this LRGB rendition, the nebula’s cool blue glow is a classic reflection nebula signature: fine interstellar dust is scattering the intense light from nearby young stars (most notably 42 Orionis) like a cosmic fog caught in headlights. Woven through that blue are crimson H-alpha emission arcs, where energetic ultraviolet radiation is ionizing hydrogen in the surrounding H II region, causing it to fluoresce in deep red. Dark, smoky lanes and curled wisps carve through the glow, revealing denser dust clouds that both sculpt the nebula and hide parts of it from view. The starfield is sharp and lively, with bright, white-blue stars anchoring the scene while fainter pinpoints recede into the Orion backdrop, giving the whole frame that “window into a busy stellar nursery” feeling. Credit - Astronight - Telescope Live - BMillerData
NGC 1977, the Running Man Nebula, is a luminous patch of Orion where starlight and dust put on a color duel. #astronight #astrophotograph #astrophotography #space #stars #runningman #ngc1977
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind." – Justice Thurgood Marshall
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