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A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 54 volunteers.
A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.090 (lookback time 1.22 billion years) with coordinates (154.98068, 0.54545).
54 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
Map showing track of balloon RSONDE-CR
RSONDE-CR silent 2026-03-12 01:22:28Z after 83 mins. Ele 16965m→33210m→12136m. Dist 57km https://balloon.gladstonefamily.net/map/271671
fucking chuffed
If you don't understand how insurance works, you do not understand how commerce has worked for the past 400 years, or how it functions today. It's absolutely fundamental stuff. It's probably OK for *you* not to understand that, but for the *White House* not to understand that is Very Bad.
There's understanding insurance, and then there's understanding Lloyd's. The U.S. has no say in how shippers evaluate risk. But Lloyd's sure does.
Does he say one true thing in this word salad?
Impeach and remove this toxic, vile, tyrannical embarrassment.
Ossoff: "Trump has a problem with every side of his coalition ... they see this guy and his family raking in billions from all over the world while the cost of living crisis in America gets worse. It's infuriating people, and not just Democrats."
"Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma) — who is [..] Trump's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security — profited from stocks in oil and security companies that he invested in just days before U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and Iran."
#USA #Venezuela #Iran #Military #FossilFuels
This is like watching Trump bankrupt a casino in real time. Except this time we are the casino.
"Fuck ICE"
Seen in Portland, Oregon
No government should ever concern itself with whether its people "appreciate their sex". Fuck off.
omg
#IslandMan
Imagine if $383 million was spent on places to live for those in Arizona who need it instead of for buying and renovating a warehouse for an ICE detention center.
This is an obscenity. We have to flip Congress.
Great, another proxy war.
like I really would feel better having someone go "ha ha jk those photos are fake" than believe that everyone in the White House is willing to walk around all day every day in physical discomfort, looking like a fuckass, rather than politely wear shoes of their own choosing. mad tyrant king shit
in a stunning departure from my usual approach to everything, I think I would feel BETTER if the whole shoe thing was AI and we just got duped
the thought of it being real paints such a horrifying picture of these people's complete inability to push back on even his most transparently bonkers whims
While our military personnel are risking their lives overseas over a war of choice, this is what is happening to them at home.
There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus—by disrespecting immigrants and queer people and feminists and their rights and views. And you reinforce that constituency’s sense that they matter more than other people when you pander like this, and pretty much all the problems we’ve faced over the past four years, to say nothing of the last five hundred, come from this sense of white people being more important than nonwhites, Christians than non-Christians, native-born than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, cis-gender than trans. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained that “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Now it’s considered bigotry.” This is a standard complaint of the right: the real victim is the racist who has been called a racist, not the victim of his racism, the real oppression is to be impeded in your freedom to oppress. And of course Alito is disingenuous; you can say that stuff against marriage equality (and he did). Then other people can call you a bigot, because they get to have opinions too, but in his scheme such dissent is intolerable, which is fun coming from a member of the party whose devotees wore “fuck your feelings” shirts at its rallies and popularized the term “snowflake.”
When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
Still naive enough to believe the USA can be relied on to come to our aid if we were under threat, @albomp.bsky.social? South Korea, with a hostile nuclear armed neighbour and a similar belief, has suffered a rude awakening. #auspol #CancelAukus www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
NY Times screenshot: "All of this is simply to contrast what might have been with what plainly is: a presidency in terminal decline, if not outright collapse. Consider the big picture. Trump is nearly as unpopular now as he has ever been. His average approval rating ranges from a net negative of about 13 points to a net negative of nearly 20 points. He is underwater on every issue of consequence. The Supreme Court nullified his signature economic program and his immigration enforcement actions are so toxic with voters that they’ve forced him to fire his head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. He has wrecked the coalition that brought him into office with major reversals among Latinos, young men and Black Americans, and he is treading water with his core supporters, white voters without college degrees. Trump insists, of course, that he is as popular as ever, but even Republican lawmakers see the writing on the wall. There has been a historic number of retirements from Congress, led mostly by Republicans. Last, but far from least, is the president’s foolhardy, reckless and immoral war in Iran, which was started with neither public buy-in nor congressional authorization. It didn’t take long after the bombing began before it destroyed an elementary school, killing more than 175 people, most of them children. Nearly two weeks in, the conflict has already grown beyond its initially limited scope, involving other belligerents and threatening the global economy. It is no surprise, then, that this is also the most unpopular war in modern American history, with few supporters beyond the president’s fellow partisans."
it is "what plainly is: a presidency in terminal decline, if not outright collapse." @jamellebouie.net
🎁⛓️💥 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...
So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.
Trump has been giving his cabinet his favorite Florsheim $145 dress shoes and guessing their size. “Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a White House staffer said. So here’s Marco Rubio in January actually wearing shoes that have to be at least 2-3 sizes too big. Fascism = discomfort
Can't imagine why the US Constitution doesn't leave the decision to go to war to the whims of one man.
Back to politics. Gather around, it’s time for everyone’s favorite show.
"The majority of likely voters believe President Donald Trump launched the war on Iran at least in part to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a new poll." www.newsweek.com/epstein-file...
Nobody voted for this!
No one!
Reskeeting with alt text written by @finalgirlboss.bsky.social bc everyone needs to be able to appreciate this image that made me cackle
A+ job meeting people where they are, like oh I get it now lmao and having grown up in Maryland, I am delighted
