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He had failed, and that wasn’t the saddest: he had seen Alec fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.

Maurice, E. M. Forster

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NGC 300

Credit: Mark Sansom

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

George Orwell, 1984

01.02.2025

📺📖🐀🌾😒

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Every morning I wake, I expect to see him. Every time we round a bend. Every snap of stick in this forest is one that he is breaking just ahead of me.

Andrew Krivak, The Bear

12.14.24

🐻🦅🍯💘😩

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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

👑🏇❤️‍🩹🌳⌛️

12.04.2024

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酉の市に行き、熊手を買いました。美味しいお団子を食べました。

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Yeah, it’s hard to not really have friends.

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Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, now called X, the Biden administration was directing Twitter to censor or cancel different accounts by name, including those of everyday Americans, members of Congress, small business owners, veterans, journalists, and nonprofit leaders. After all I’d experienced, it didn’t surprise me in the least to see my name on the list. I noticed a common thread among many names on the list—we were all in some way critical if or challenging the Biden administration’s positions and actions.

Tulsi Gabbard, For Love of Country

11.09.2024

🇺🇸🌺🍦🗳️🎓

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Walgreens leaving NYC due to theft while the city kills a squirrel. 😂😂😂

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Potter’s Choclate Frog Card

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yea whatever anyway *animates yoshi doing a break dance*

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NGC 1566 (Hubble + Webb)

Face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 1566, is split diagonally in this image: The James Webb Space Telescope’s observations appear on bottom right, and the Hubble Space Telescope’s at top left. Webb and Hubble’s images show a striking contrast, an inverse of darkness and light. Why? Webb’s observations combine near- and mid-infrared light and Hubble’s showcase visible and ultraviolet light. Dust absorbs ultraviolet and visible light, and then re-emits it in the infrared. In Webb's images, we see dust glowing in infrared light. In Hubble’s images, dark regions are where starlight is absorbed by dust. 

In Webb’s high-resolution infrared images, the gas and dust stand out in stark shades of orange and red, and show finer spiral shapes with the appearance of jagged edges, though these areas are still diffuse. 

In Hubble’s images, the gas and dust show up as hazy dark brown lanes, following the same spiral shapes. Its images are about the same resolution as Webb’s, but the gas and dust obscure a lot of the smaller-scale star formation.

[Image description: Two observations of the galaxy NGC 1566 are split diagonally, with Hubble’s observations at top left and Webb’s at bottom right. The galaxy’s core appears centered and the galaxy’s arms rotate counterclockwise. In Hubble’s image, two prominent spiral arms are a mix of dark brown dust lanes and some bright blue and pink star clusters, and the center is pale yellow. In Webb’s image, the spiral arms are shades of orange, with prominent dark gray or black “bubbles,” and there is a blue haze surrounding the core.]

Image and information from NASA.

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