Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃

You know what all the cool kids* are doing? Checking their voter registration on a regular basis, and/or registering for the first time. vote.org (*I mean, maybe? I am not cool. But voting is super important.)

A day late, but this is one of the first images taken of Earth from space. Ever. It was acquired from an altitude of 105 km (five times higher than the previous record) eighty years ago, on 24 October 1946, with a 35 mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range.

Congratulations, Wendy! So well deserved. 😀🥳❤️

Happy #caturday from our surprise!13 new kitties (1 week since Chex Mix and the fire babies showed up!) www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ch...

These spooky otters see you! Who are some of the scariest monsters in the sea otter’s world? Us! Have fun and make your own sea otter pumpkin with our Spooky Sea Otter Pumpkin carving Template. #halloween #pumpkincarving

This past week, I enjoyed reading Connie Willis's* "The Road to Roswell." If you're in the mood for an alien abduction, road trip buddy romp, give this one a go. (* No relation) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709704...

This is magnificent.

🗣️ This is your flight captain speaking 🪶✈️ Keep your seatbelts fastened as we glide across NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of the Seagull Nebula! 🔭🧪 On your screen, you’ve got a front-row seat to young stars reshaping their stellar neighborhoods. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!🪽

Precisely the content I need today.

Guess what? @kateristau.bsky.social, who is a very smart and groovy person, is running for Tigard City Council! It makes me wish I lived there, so I could vote for her. katefortigard.com

From @charlotteclymer.bsky.social "One of those two candidates will win, and ONLY one of those two will win. There is no third potential outcome." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-questi...

11 days until Election Day. I just saw a line of people waiting to drop their completed ballots into the ballot box. #VOTE

Every god-damned day it gets worse. Trump’s justice department sues to block Senate race certification in Alaska if Republican loses – live share.google/ZdtJc3pq88qg...

Astronomer Ptolemy called it "a nebula following the sting of Scorpius" in 130 AD. Messier catalogued it in 1764. But Giovanni Battista Hodierna had already seen it before 1654 (counting 30 stars) and Lacaille described it as a square of 15–20 stars in 1752. 🔭🧪⚛️ #astronomy

Diamonds in the tail of the scorpion 💎 🦂 Easily spotted with the naked eye close to the tail of the constellation of Scorpius, Messier 7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars in the sky — making it an important astronomical research target. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1406/ 🔭

I, too, have gotten wonderful book recs here. I've been introduced to titles and authors I might otherwise have missed. Delightfully enriching! 😊📚

Bluesky is where I get all my good book recommendations. I have read a larger variety (and frankly, quantity!) of books in the past 3 years being on here than I had in a long, looong time beforehand. Thanks, Bluesky book readers, for sharing what you love with such enthusiasm!

There’s details in this that are notable, but overall absolutely amazing. I imagine most of us will eventually know someone who’s life was saved because of this. Star Trek level technology here.

You need to see these kittens, especially the little white ear tip.

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The next time Trump asks a reporter* who they're with, they should respond, "I'm with the United States of America. How about you?" *Does he ever ask the men this, or only the women?

Just heard and then saw a big V of Canada geese flying south(west) as the weather turns cooler.

It's almost time for the Eight Nights of Samhain! jennifer-willis.com/2025/09/the-...

“We’ve established that the observatory is fully functional,” said Julie McEnery, #NASARoman senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “The telescope can guide and take exposures, data flows appropriately, and we can slew from one place to another for observations.” 🔭

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

NEW JWST IMAGE JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN!!! 🌌🎃👻

The 100-mile Oregon Peace Trail from Coos Bay to Brookings is set to launch in May 2027 with Peace Poles and a guided app. https://mrf.lu/2vQ7w

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

"is fine. am fine..not drown in sibling."

I think the full realization of how many babies she has is dawning on Chex Mix 😂

I have received two (2) spontaneous compliments on papers I've written and you had better believe those are in the 'feel good folder' for when I need them! Go tell someone what you like about their work! No-one tells them!

If you think a headline doesn't go far enough, I invite you to read the story it's attached to

What a relief! www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This owl was getting banded and tagged by the Rocky Point Bird Observatory. For the owl’s safety, he/she was wrapped up. These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.

Get it done early if you can! #VOTE

Where do I get my ideas? Um...I futz around until something works? I ask housefolk for their opinions and listen to their suggestions? I recognize that I often don't see the world as others do? I admire Henry Matisse? #papercraft

Who's up? Reminder that there's a cheetah cub cam from the Smisthsonian Zoo! They're sleeping pretty hard at the moment but I check in on them periodically and it's soothing

My ballot has been accepted. 😊 #vote

Wow.

Oh my gosh, look at the fire children 🥹 (They have big energy now and are chugging their bottles like champs! Ash, the void, even started purring while cuddling on my shoulder 😭🖤🥰)

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At the South Pole a research team from 30 institutions has recently put together one of the sharpest maps of how matter is distributed in the universe. Photo by Daniel Michalik Press release: news.uchicago.edu/story/south-... 🔭🧪⚛️ #cosmology

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