I’m Jimi.
I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.
#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.
Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.
We call them gym shoes round here.
| Human | Not Immortal. Really. |
| Location | In far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that. |
| Banner Image | Fall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky. |
| Toots | Toots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least. |
This Hubble image reveals a star-forming cloud of gas and dust in M20 being torn apart by radiation from a massive nearby star, just beyond the top of the frame. Two thin, finger-like jets protrude from the head of a dense cloud in the upper left of the image, which might be forming new stars at their tips. The jets, each roughly three-quarters of a light-year long, are being eroded by the radiation from the massive star. The red in this image represents hydrogen and sulfur, while green represents oxygen.
CREDIT
NASA/ESA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)
#space #nebula #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #physics #nature #NASA #ESA
As a 65yo, I have achieved a certain hard-earned wisdom that may have eluded you. I will share:
1) Just get up and go pee, it's not goin' away.
2) Start the fitted sheet at the hardest-to-reach corner.
3) If you get a cold drink, only to discover that you already had one, drink the coldest one first.
4) Work and feel shitty, or don't-work and don't feel shitty. Don't-work and feel shitty is a lousy choice.
5) Being weird is, in fact, a perfectly normal thing to be. *Everyone* does it.
2025 July 9
A Beautiful Trifid
* Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Cipolat Bares
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrobares/
Explanation:
The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection nebulae produced by dust reflecting starlight, and dark nebulae where dense dust clouds appear in silhouette. But, the red emission region roughly separated into three parts by obscuring dust lanes is what lends the Trifid its popular name. Pillars and jets sculpted by newborn stars, above and right of the emission nebula's center, appear in famous Hubble Space Telescope close-up images of the region. The Trifid Nebula is about 40 light-years across. Too faint to be seen by the unaided eye, in this deep telescopic view it almost covers the area of a full moon on planet Earth's sky.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-20/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080424.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifid_Nebula
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/the-trifid-nebula-stellar-nursery-torn-apart-by-radiation-from-nearby-star/
#space #nebula #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #physics #nature #NASA #ESA
Eastern Cottontail stretching his legs for a bite to eat at Mass Audubon's Allens Pond Sanctuary.
#photography #mammals #sillyrabbit #nature #fairhaven #massachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 has just released its shortlist of remarkable images for this year’s competition. See them now:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/zwo-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2025/
#nature #photography #science #space #landscape #astronomy #astrophotography #comets #moon #plants #stars #sun
When life gives you Dumpster Fires, knit an adorable toy Dumpster Fire based on the memes with this free knitting pattern. Use as a stress squeeze toy when you're reading the news.
Designed by Lea Pin Llamas, the free pattern is on Ravelry.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/no-sew-dumpster-fire
@davefischer @alyx @catsalad @dan nice O2, and nice cat. Proves the "slightly elevated warm" attractor theory.
Here's my old man when he was younger, sitting on a shitty D-Link
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