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the colors of the sunrise

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just knoooow yanks are going to start with the “foreigners can’t comment on american politics, it doesn’t affect you” cunt your country runs a secret spy base (plus at least 127 other spy&military bases globally) out of my country and the last prime minister who talked about closing it got removed from office by the cia

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“i think those latinos were tricked!” no ur white peers are the reason he won. thats like. common sense i fear

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i'm going to throw up it's just not fair

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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Is she genuinely losing?! How are the democrats so good at losing

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what if every Tumblr user suddenly looses their mouse?

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The more I know, the more the Simpsons are right

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Twitch is gonna start kinda censoring queer people and it would be really helpful if you could read the next few sentences and then also go to a link and click the word vote.

They're implementing a new rule where if you discuss "sensitive social issues" at all you have to flag your streams as such, these issues include things like war and political unrest but also any lgbtq topics (once again our existence is political).

Essentially a streamer will have to choose between never ever mentioning anything queer (or even just discussing their own life if they're queer themselves) or flagging every stream with "sensitive social issues" and scaring away 90% of viewers.

If you have a twitch account you can go here and log in and click vote. They do listen. Please vote.

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Starfleet Science/Medical’s version of the Kobayashi Maru is the Hypospray Maru. You’re left in a room containing just a random hypospray, told its use has the potential to stop someone’s suffering but it’s never been tried before, and if you inject it into yourself to see what it does, you’re officially crazy enough to lead a department.

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A bunch of my best comet shots from the other week, collected together. These were taken over a couple different nights up at Mushroom Rocks in Rocky Mountain National Park (elevation ~12,300).

You can see Venus in close to the horizon in quite a few shots. In the second, here, it's peeking out between the rock outcroppings. I really love the balance between the twilight/sunset colors and the brightness of the comet in that one.

Taking a long 4 minute exposure makes the mountains in the distance look so bright. And the moon was in its waxing gibbous phase, so it was very bright out, overall. No need for a headlight to see.

It was such a neat place to view from, with some really cool rock formations where two different layers of granite meet. Several really do look like mushrooms.

The ones with more clouds are the first night we were out, and the comet was a little dimmer (or seemed like it was) because it was lower down in the sky closer to the sun. This was also shot a little earlier to catch Venus, too.

The colors and clouds of the first night do add some near contrast, too. This first shot is more akin to what our eyes were seeing, as far as the brightness of the terrain and ground.

I collected a few more photos that include some non-comet sky stuff in another post, too. You can find it under my #astrophotography tag.

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I know I've said this a hundred times but if you're worried about palestinian fundraisers being scams at least consider donating to MSF. It's a highly reputable organization which has broken its long-standing neutrality to denounce Israel in front of the UN. Here's all the aid MSF is providing to Gazans (documentation available in multiple languages).

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