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The Orion Nebula (M42, center left), De Mairan's Nebula (M43, center right) and the Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279, right) // Mariusz Golebiewski

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NGC 672 (left) and IC 1727 (right) // Scott Badger

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The Crab Nebula, M1 // Munetaka Hirose

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Betelgeuse, α Orionis // Joe Matthews

Betelgeuse (α Orionis) is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion, the Hunter. It is the second-brightest star in Orion and the tenth-brightest in the night sky. It has a mass of around 15 times the Sun's, and a radius around 700 times the Sun's. That means that if it were at the center of our solar system, its surface would lie beyond the asteroid belt and would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars!

The name Betelgeuse comes from the Arabic phrase Yad al-Jawzā’ meaning "hand of al Jawzā' [i.e., Orion]". An error in the 13th century reading of the Arabic initial yā' as bā' led to the European name.

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Fishing minigame be like-

This took me a bit, but it's finally done! If you want more stuff like this, then check out the fic it's from! It's really funny, I loved it

Real fishing by wyvernlordminerva on AO3! ^^

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Fishing minigame be like-

This took me a bit, but it's finally done! If you want more stuff like this, then check out the fic it's from! It's really funny, I loved it

Real fishing by wyvernlordminerva on AO3! ^^

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Danny Request for @littlebadger

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Behold, a meme

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AI art is theft.

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context, if it helps:

again, to be clear, this is not an endorsement of radicalism or extremist violence from settlers, but it is a fair question, and, hauntingly, it’s one that could be asked about many cities other than Hebron (as Jews scattered across the diaspora were also massacred or expelled and now cannot return to places they called home for centuries). Hebron bears a particular distinction for this due to its location and ancestral history.

why exactly are there places where it’s not safe for Jews to travel freely, much less to live?

if you believe that a brutal pogrom driving out an ancient community means those people should never be allowed to safely live there again, don’t pretend to have principles about a decolonial mindset.

something striking in this piece from 2009:

one wonders what would happen—what would be the reaction—were such an attack to be perpetrated against the Jews of Hebron today.

we don’t have to wonder anymore, because of 10/7 - the Jews in the kibbutzim, who were peaceniks, should, by whatever twisted metric is put forth here, be seen as the innocent civilians they were/are, in their own country. the Jews of Hebron exist much more controversially by that same metric. but the residents of the kibbutzim have been smeared as occupiers and genociders regardless, their deaths cheered and justified, so if Hebron were to happen now…we know what the fervent response would be.

Back in 1929 the Jews who called themselves “settlers” were the relatively secular Zionists who lived on the Mediterranean coast and in northern Eretz Israel. The Jews of Hebron had dwelled there intermittently for thousands of years and continuously since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. In the 1920s there was an influx of young scholars from a Lithuanian yeshiva, Knessett Israel. Their arrival coincided with rising tensions throughout Palestine. By August, trouble was sensed by the one British police officer in the town, Raymond Cafferata. He was told by both Arabs and Jews in Hebron that “any trouble” was “out of the question.”

Yet that same week a Jewish teacher named Haim Bagayo was warned, “This time we are going to butcher you all.” Earlier that day, there had been clashes in Jerusalem, in which three Arabs and three Jews died. The Jews of Hebron, Auerbach writes, “refused to believe that their Arab neighbors, with whom they had lived in relatively peaceful coexistence for four centuries, meant them harm.” Cafferata noted that in Hebron “everything appeared normal.” But before the day was out, Arabs began to attack Jews with clubs, and Jewish shops were quickly shuttered.

(graphic descriptions of the massacre follow in the article)

[…] In the years after the establishment of the Jewish state, when Jordan ruled Hebron, the vestiges of Jewish presence were obliterated. The ruins of the Avraham Avinu synagogue were razed and its site given over to an animal pen. Houses of Jewish learning were converted to Arab schools. The ancient Jewish cemetery was torn up.

One of the world’s most ancient Jewish communities, composed of some 800 people before the massacre, was decimated, along with centuries of coexistence that had made Hebron a model of peace between Jews and Muslims. In the aftermath of the attack, the British authorities that ruled Palestine forced the Jews of Hebron to evacuate, turning them into refugees.

Jews had lived in Hebron since biblical times, their lives centered around the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah are believed to be buried. Much like the Jews who were killed on Oct. 7 were not settlers, the Jews killed in Hebron in 1929 were not Zionists. They did not need to be. They just needed to be Jewish.

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I'm confusing myself thinking about how age works in Star Wars, especially across different systems. Because like, a year on Coruscant (so, a standard year) is 365 24-hour days. A year on Mandalore is 366 19-hour days. A year on Tatooine is 304 34-hours days, and a Naboo year is 312 26-hour days.

So children from each of these planets on their tenth birthday (according to their home planet's calendar) would be the same age but would not have been alive for the same length of time.

Is there an explanation for this that I haven't found yet? Like, for most of the galaxy's population this wouldn't be a problem, but for those who leave their homeworlds frequently, you can imagine it would come up quite a lot.

So do people from Republic systems (like Padmé, Bail, Mon, Riyo, etc.) have a home-planet age and a Galactic Standard age? But then how would this work for people from planets outside the Republic?

Because I'm imagining someone from Coruscant asking, say, Anakin or Satine how old they are and they just pull out a fucking calculator like "gimme a minute..."

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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

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I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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Belted Kingfisher I know you don’t care but you mean everything to me girl

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The next time you want to call a sequence “Well animated” do yourself a favour and rewatch it with the sound muted. Often times ir’s only after you remove sound from something that you can truly see if the animation underneath is actually good or not, or if the music/acting is manipulating you.

….but on that same note, “Well animated” does not mean “Fluidly animated”. Because something can be VERY well animated and have few frames if those frames are in the right place, or have a shit ton for frames and be badly animated because it’s over-animated and moves way too much.