Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Here's a triple green flash I photographed a few years ago from ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile, with the #Sun setting over the Pacific Ocean.

The atmosphere was strongly layered that day, creating this awesome effect. In fact, if you look closely you’ll see some horizontal bands in the #clouds, due to the way the light is refracted by these layers of air.

#Canon 6D + Tamron 100-400 at 400 mm, f/11, 1/4000 secs, ISO100

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #sunset

@georgetakei I’ve said it a million times. I will never understand how his campaign didn’t end when he mocked a disabled reporter.

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My son and I made a quick run to the Puget Sound seaside to take advantage of the 20 meter band this morning. Sitting here in Seattle we made a contact in the Czech Republic using less power than you'd use to light a lightbulb. #hamradio #amateurradio #ft8

Big Journalism and its hangers-on still believe Twitter (now called X by its sociopath owner) is where they have to be. And as he launches insult after insult to the press and what it does, they just stay there and support him. Today's case in point:

https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-plans-remove-headlines-news-articles-link-shared-on-x-twitter/

It's clearly a combination of cowardice and calculation on the part of news orgs and the people who run them. Journalistic integrity doesn't even begin to factor into it. Which is sad, if not pathetic.

11,780 votes. They were in his pocket the whole time.

#FoundInPocketsDuringBooking
#TrumpCrimeFamilyArrestWeek
#HashTagGames

D.C. Attorney General is probing Leonard Leo’s network

The Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser has utilized nonprofit groups to collect more than $1 billion for conservative causes.

in March that one of Leo’s nonprofits — registered as a charity — paid his for-profit company tens of millions of dollars in the two years since he joined the company.

#LeonardLeo #Leo #FederalSociety

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

Yo #Seattle I need to give you my Mid-century modern 1935 Baldwin Acrosonic upright piano. Boosts appreciated as it is hard to unload pianos these days.

Full details https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/msg/d/seattle-mid-century-modern-upright/7657211141.html

Source sadly unknown.

Steller’s jay

Right, because that's been going so well...

#USpol

President Jimmy Carter is said by his family to be in his final days. My heart goes out to his loved ones and to our nation as a whole, who will have lost a good and decent man. Let his example be a beacon of hope, and let us all exhibit the kind of selflessness, compassion, and kindness he exuded all his days.

Hi. If you see "Biden only gave {tiny amount} to help {issue X} while spending millions on Ukraine" in any of your social media, that is propaganda. It's from Putin's disinfo shops aimed at convincing the west to stop supporting Ukrainian defenses against the Russian invasion.

You can and should report and block those accounts.

#Ukraine #Disinformation

#Elmo is going to demand a selfie and a copy of your ID and an Israeli company will be handling the data. I can't possibly stress enough how strenuously you must refuse to do this...if you still for some ungodly reason wanted to remain on Shitter but this means leaving, LEAVE.

It. Was. Not. A. Dispute.

It. Was. A. Murder.

A. Terrorist. Attack.

A. Hate. Crime.

Breaking: California opts to have all natural disasters on one day to clear rest of week.

The Republican oligarch class and their very well-paid lackeys do not understand that Trump has totally destroyed the brand of the Republican party with its own voters.

Once Trump dies of whatever cause, the Republican party is going to tear itself apart.