lavanerd
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Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea,
From Etchohuaquila, Mexico, Fernandomania took baseball by storm. Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands, breathing through your eyes to throw the nastiest of screwball, the world wasn't ready.
For years, he was the voice to so many around the world. I'm so glad you became immortalized with your number retirement.
Even without being in the hall of fame you'll always be a cornerstone to Dodger history
We will forever miss you.
"If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!"
RIP, "El Toro"
this means something to me
they are everything to me
LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!!!
cutest first pitch ever
You can be beautiful but it doesn't mean you have a soul .
Rachel Zegler is living proof of that !
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Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary
These images, which all include data from Chandra, demonstrate how X-ray astronomy explores all corners of the universe. By combining X-rays from Chandra with other space-based observatories and telescopes on the ground, as many of these images do, astronomers can tackle the biggest questions and investigate long-standing mysteries across the cosmos.
On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit carrying Chandra, which was then the heaviest payload ever carried by the shuttle. With Commander Eileen Collins at the helm, the astronauts aboard Columbia successfully deployed Chandra into its highly elliptical orbit that takes it nearly one-third of the distance to the Moon.
X-rays are an especially penetrating type of light that reveals extremely hot objects and very energetic physical processes. Many fascinating regions in space glow strongly in X-rays, such as the debris from exploded stars and material swirling around black holes. Stars, galaxies, and even planets also give off X-rays that can be studied with Chandra.
NASA/SAO/CXC
So much for representation matters…
Marvel execs: An Israeli character is too controversial. With everything going on, we just can’t show any kind of support for that country.
Also Marvel execs: Let’s make the character Russian!
"Two weeks ago [mid-June, 2024], Yellowstone National Park made headlines when a mother grizzly bear was spotted out and about with five cubs in tow — the biggest grizzly bear cub litter ever seen in the park.Â
Grizzly bears in that region of North America typically only have one to three bear cubs a litter.Â
Frank van Manen, the leader of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, said it was possible that an “adoption” event had occurred, in which two mothers give birth in the same year, and one ends up taking on the sibling’s cubs.Â
In an interview, van Manen told Wyofile that if the bears had all been born in the same litter, it would be the first five-cub litter “recorded in the history of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.”
“Whether it was an adoption or whether it truly is a five-cub litter, it just amazes me that every year there’s some new surprise to us, even after intensively studying this population for more than 50 years,” van Manen said. “I just think that’s cool.” ...
On top of this record sighting, [Grizzly watch Bill] Hamblin is baffled by the sheer number of cubs that have been spotted so far in 2024.Â
Since they started emerging in the spring, the total count of unique grizzly bear cubs spotted has ticked up to a whopping 18 — triple the average number.Â
“That’s more than we’ve ever seen,” Hamblin said."
-via GoodGoodGood, July 3, 2024
Welcome to Friday. You made it. Here's a good one for ya.
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"Grizzly Bear" by YellowstoneNPS is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, September 2023
The striking colors of Grand Prismatic spring come from thermophile bacteria that thrive on the heat around the edges of the pool. The colors are so vivid, they are often reflected in the steam.
An Epic Vantage - Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River from Inspiration Point
(c) riverwindphotography, May 2024
I painted a book box I've had for a very long time. It may not be to the same standard as Rick Perry and the art department, but I'm proud of it
@quiddie please enjoy your and Lou's legacy ;)
Volcanic Eruption l May 2024 l Iceland
Volcanic Eruption l Iceland l May 2024 (x)
I'm absolutely appalled by David Tennant saying that he wished Kemi Badenoch "didn't exist anymore" while picking up an award . You can defend trans rights all you like, but a white, privileged man wishing that a black woman didn't exist anymore? Black women are the most likely to get killed, harassed and discriminated against. He has completely lost the plot and I'm sorry I ever admired him.
David Tennant saying he wants a black woman politician to "shut up" and not exist anymore because she believes in the reality of biological science.
He said this during his acceptance speech at some Alphabet Soup award event. The entire video is below. Prepare yourself for a steaming pile of bullshit.
He was referring to Kemi Badenoch. She's the Minister for Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom. She's stated that the UK must accept the Cass Review, that men cosplaying as women should not be allowed to be naked in front of little girls in locker rooms, changing rooms, and in female sports.
Of course Tennant has now become extra famous for Good Omens, and has fully embraced the TQ+ community because they've made him even richer than he was as Doctor Who. So he's effectively turned on anyone who says there are only two sexes, including JK Rowling, in whose work he got a part when he was pretty much unknown in the U.S.
After this speech became known . . .
There's a helluva backlash, as this post shows.
As a reminder for those who are gaga over Gaiman for Good Omens, the man from Menominee wrote Snow, Glass, Apples, in which a 6 year old is raped by a monk, and later she's necrophiliacly raped by an adult man. But she's some sort of vampire, so that's OK, innit?
Mauna Loa (Hawaii), the world's largest volcano, awakens with earthquakes and lava after a 38 year slumber, Nov 2022 (source: NBC News, USGS)
Fagradalsfjall, Icaland 2021 l jvn.photo
Yosemite Valley, Thunderstorm, Ansel Adams, 1949
October seventh hasn't ended.
And I don't mean the traumatized headspace many of us have been since then. I mean the literal attack.
October seventh continues with every rocket launched towards Israel. October seventh continues with the fire in the north. October seventh continues with each day the hostages aren't free.
October seventh is also in the diaspora. October seventh continued when Paul Kessler was killed. October seventh continued when Benjamin Harouni was killed. October seventh continued with the cases of rape in France. October seventh continued with the "day of rage" and Nova riot in New York. October seventh continued with the pogrom in LA. October seventh continued with the campus violence.
The initial, catalyst attack of October seventh may have ended, but the aftershocks are still shaking each of our lives.
Each chant for "globalizing the intifada" and the erasure of Israel from the world is a continuation of October seventh. Each instance of violence and hostility against the diaspora is a continuation of October seventh.
October seventh was meant to destroy us, and they haven't stopped trying. In spite of this, we will outlive them. This is nothing new and we have survived this before.
Am Yisrael Chai, now and forever.
Iconic Views - Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
© riverwindphotography
An Epic Vantage - Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River from Inspiration Point
(c) riverwindphotography, May 2024
My friend who is Black tells me how she wishes she could have an invisibility cloak, a day without racism, a chance to see what life is like with fear and ancestral pain set aside.
And I say, I am so sorry the world has made you feel this way, how can I help?
Just keep listening to me, she says.
So I do.
My friend who is a lesbian tells me how she worries when workers need to come into her apartment, will they hate her and her wife, speak unkind words or actively create harm.
And I say, I am so sorry the world has made you feel this way, how can I help?
Just keep listening to me, she says.
So I do.
I tell my friends how I’m scared of antisemitism, generational trauma activated by people spreading lies about a war in another part of the world, attacking Jews in the diaspora, I tell them I don’t know what I’m going to do, this weight tight on my chest, fears I can and can’t control.
And they say I’m wrong, exaggerating, playing the victim and misinterpreting what’s going on.
Just stop talking to me, they say without words.
So I do.
cuddle time
Presenting: OTTER CHAOS 🦦