Chris Turchin

"I don't do politics" Because the news upsets me. Because I'm trying to "keep things positive!" Because it's bad for my mental health. Because I don't have time. Because I don't have energy. Because I don't want to offend you. Because it doesn't affect me. Because I have enough on my plate. Because I can see them coming, outside my window, I can see them coming, but they're not coming for me. Alex Dawson

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Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."

"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Today marks 15 years since Gabby Giffords was shot at a constituent meeting, in an attack that killed 6 and wounded 13.
I am proud to cosponsor a bipartisan, bicameral resolution to honor the victims and their families today, and recommit to ending gun and political violence.

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

This meme has so many layers to it. The works.

Chasing the Elusive Southern Lights in Tasmania

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/t...

My mate Ben got his latest article published in the @nytimes.com

Unlocked version here for my followers

#astro #aurora #astronomy #tasmania #milkyway

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

Here we go where?

Here we go?

Yeah where are we going?!
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People are interacting at Salt Hank's café, with Hank himself in a red and white cap and shirt engaging with seated patrons.

Salt Hank’s is officially OPEN!

Jones at Bleecker St in the West Village, NYC

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident.

He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.

When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

He threw his own birthday party, spent millions and millions of the American people’s money, and they still didn’t come.

Shameful. Heart breaking.

Y'all gonna need volunteers the way this government is ruining everything they touch. 😳

Holiday in Cambodia?

“The air raid alarm lasted almost nine hours. This is what Putin’s ‘sincere desire for peace’ looks like.”

You forgot the vampires.

NGC 4395 is a nearby low surface brightness spiral galaxy located about 14 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Captured Thursday night before the weather changed.

Pinwheel galaxy. Lovely stretch of clear, dark nights this past week.

#astronomy #astrophotography

Messier 106 the accompanying galaxies and starfield, taken last night in Mollenberg. #astrophotography #astronomy

Taken Saturday before Easter. About 3.5 hours of OSC RGB data, Explore scientific ED80.

Great globular cluster in Hercules. Maybe half a million stars all looking back at us 😊
#astrophotography #astronomy

/me currently clean on OPSEC

I'm Afraid Of Americans V1 (2022 Remaster) YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic

music.youtube.com/watch?v=UHh7...

A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

Rough itelescope data so ended up doing pixel-level editing in gimp which I almost never do (because I'm too lazy). But result is a pretty nice flame and horse head nebula. Original image was huge, like 6000 pixels wide, scaled down for the socials, to better hide defects 🤣