Artronaut B.E.Johnson

Artronaut B.E.Johnson

@imperialearth.com

Photographs That Haven't Been Taken Astronomical & Space Artist • Glassblower • 3D Modeler & Animator • Technical Illustrator • Production Designer • Photographer • Writer • Racing Engineer • Pilot "Not a day goes by that I don't learn something new."

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

And in closing on this tragic occurrence, I'll say that CapStar lives up to it's name: it capped the lives of the fleas AND it capped MY CAT! Nothing in the documentation indicated that this was even possible. In fact, multiple doses were recommended.

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BlueSky Rescues
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ONE dose did my little girl in, and she was well within the guidelines of weight and age. Butters, our other patient with issues similar, is holding on. Will keep a close eye on his progress, but I am sad beyond belief to have lost so many friends.

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BlueSky Rescues
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Both she and Morty crossed the Rainbow Bridge alone, with no one there to share and comfort them. That’s what we’re HERE FOR. In three days we lost TWO of our rescues. I’ll obviously miss both and I’m not able to process any of this right now. Just want to sleep and hope they visit me in my dreams.😓

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BlueSky Rescues
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Sitting another hour… eventually opted to just leave, because we were still “next”! An hour drive back and he’s starting to come around, poked his head up out of the carrier, looking around like his usual self. Yaaay! Got home and Valentine was found dead on the kitchen floor.😿

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

Continuing on with the saga, Butters’ condition demanded a 1 hour drive to the Vet that’s open on weekends. Got there. For two hours we were “next”, yet we watched others walk in get taken cared of immediately. Finally in an exam room and he’s brought back in from initial data-gathering.

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BlueSky Rescues
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The Vet recommended Capstar chewable tabs to kill the fleas on the body in combination with the topical. Those nuggets are draining him dry. Ok, drive an hour to get them. Administered to Watson, Butters, Valentine, ButtrrnutSquash & Lola. Later, this was observed:

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

Well, it’s been an “interesting” few days, and by “interesting” I mean “notable” and not in good way. I’ll start from Wednesday’s attempt to get Watson’s temp under control. His ears were hot. At the Vet, he was diagnosed as anemic brought on by the current fleademic we’re are fighting.

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

SO, I got corrected at breakfast this morning and the aforementioned erasure of the traitorous felon's ugly ballroom is to rebuild The Whitehouse East Wing from the ground up according to the original architect drawings. Put it back the way it was intended. Not broken. Didn't need fixing.

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

I feel strongly that once the traitorous orange felon is finally ushered out the Whitehouse door for the last time, we should get behind an initiative to tear down the above ground portions of his ugly ballroom and rebuild the West Wing from the original drawings. Completely erase him from memory.

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⛧🌹Dylan X Darke🌹⛧
@dylanxdarke.bsky.social

#cats #seniorcats

Renee' Martin@sachikoko.bsky.social

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

“Impressed” is insufficient to describe this.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

washingtonpost.comThousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killingsMinnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.
Artronaut B.E.Johnson
@imperialearth.com

40 Years? Seems like 10. I was Mission Artist on two launches, two landings. Paintings in the Smithsonian. Have my own Launch and Reentry Helmet, seen below. After this, my career as an astronomical/spaceflight artist took a hit, never to recover. Need to write about my experiences on Substack:

NPR@npr.org

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

n.pr40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learnedForty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny!
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Warning violent content⚠️ Trump & his administration are shredding the Constitution. They're ignoring our rights. & trying to turn our country into a fascist surveillance state. They're attacking our people & our way of life, but you can do something about it. Call Congress now: 202-224-3121!

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

DARN! Missed #Caturday again. Here's one of our recent rescue kittens becoming alarmed at Sterling, one of our grown juveniles, outside the Kittenenclosure. His ridgeback is impressive.

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

No, you're not seeing double. 4 of the new rescues: Snow Drift & his twin sister on a fleece blanket. Junior [looks just like his mom] & [no name yet] on the arm of the Adirondack chair. Still working on getting their eyes cleaned, being stuck shut from bad colds - but they're all getting better.

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

Perfect... #cats 3 of 12 of our new rescues snoozing on dad's lap in the Kittenclosure. What better way to start a Sunday than being so trusted by new arrivals that they fall asleep on you?

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

It's #Caturday ! We saved 12 🐈 lives this week. 2 feral moms, 10 kittens between them. 2 are albinos. Built a separate enclosure. Got them all washed. No fleas! All kittens have colds with stuck shut eyes and plugged noses, requiring repeat cleaning. Video feed if we can figure out RTSP.

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

It's #Caturday ! Amber, one of our smallest rescues 🐱, nestled into mommy's fluffy chair blanket. She's so sweet. She greets me at the bottom of the stairs every morning, stands up as tall as she can and implores me to join her for breakfast. 🍵 🐈 Can't pass that up.

Artronaut B.E.Johnson
@imperialearth.com

Get 'em While They're HOT!

GlassSculpture.org@glasssculpture.org

Full Impulse! NEW in the HotShop! Always wanted a pointy-nosed, 3 fin Rocket for the Buck Rogers in all of us? Now you can. A Rocketship Christmas Tree Ornament in hand blown glass that you can display all year long. A Universe of colors available. 6" - 7" long. glasssculpture.org

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

Get 'em while they're HOT! glasssculpture.org It's not on the website yet, but you can request directly and we'll get one made just for you.

GlassSculpture.org@glasssculpture.org

NEW in the HotShop! We're working on a new planet ornament: Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter. It is larger than Mercury, has a thin oxygen atmosphere and her internal ocean potentially contains more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. We wonder what creatures swim there.

Artronaut B.E.Johnson
@imperialearth.com

Hmmmm.... Perhaps we should require that from candidates for president

CBS News@cbsnews.com

The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from countries with visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit five years of their social media history before they can enter.

cbsn.wsTourists from 42 countries will have to submit 5 years of social media history to enter U.S. under Trump planThe Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from countries with visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit five years of their social media history before they can enter.
Artronaut B.E.Johnson
@imperialearth.com

Get 'em while they're HOT.

GlassSculpture.org@glasssculpture.org

In production in the hotshop: Heirloom Blown Glass Solar System Ornaments. Get the Whole Solar System as a set or build yours up one planet at a time for a yearly tradition. Also: Moon, Milkyway, Black Hole, Kuiper Belt mini set, Planet 9, Europa & Titan. glasssculpture.org/artglass/hol...

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

It's #Caturday ! Butters caught a Mouse! He's s Kurilian Bobtail. The breed originated in Russia. Rare within the US. He's my guardian. First thing in the morning when I open the window to the cat flap, he goes out into the kittenclosure to make sure it's all safe for everyone to go out.

Artronaut B.E.Johnson reposted

BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

It's #caturday ! Our Winky returned home. Her sister Zot misses her, searching through the house. Later, as our grief subsides some, we'll go out to our hotshop and blow a glass kittyface urn for her ashes. Right now, I know we'd not be able to get very far before our vision would be obscured.

Artronaut B.E.Johnson reposted

BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

Happy #TunaTuesday from Watson, who's decidedly had his share of Tuna! After grabbing this I tried for a really great shot that captured his full shadow stretching across the floor toward me, but was beseged by many other #cats "helping" by sequentially getting in the frame and ruining it. #catsky

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BlueSky Rescues
@bengalmania.org

It's #Caturday - Moonlight 🐈 Stressing Out Again Turned from doing the dishes and met with this. What a hoot. Takes the stress out of one's day. (He isn't, so why should we be?) We're dealing with Covid-19 here, picked up at #WorldCon during our #HUGOs delivery. Gotta take the bad with the good.

Artronaut B.E.Johnson
@imperialearth.com

I've Got A Gold Record On The Wall! Reading this from many years ago, I was taken aback. blog.imperialearth.com/art/ive-got-... Some things are meant to be shared. One never knows where they may lead or how many lives have been touched. #coverart #albumcover #goldrecord #publicenemy #defjam

blog.imperialearth.comI’ve Got A Gold Record On The Wall!One never knows what awaits just around the corner. Or for how long it has waited. In 1990, I was contacted by Def Jam Records to do the cover of Public Enemy's upcoming release: Fear Of A Black Plane...