Andromeda Galaxy shot from the Calistoga driveway this fall.

We don’t use Starlink for our responses inside Russia. We use Starlink to intercept jet-powered “shaheds” that attack our civilians and kill families. Starlink wasn’t turned off – its speed was reduced. And when the speed was reduced, we were unable to intercept a certain number of jet-powered “shaheds.” We couldn’t use a tool that helps protect people. That’s very painful and frustrating. We also use Starlink for mid-range strikes against enemy military targets in our temporarily occupied territories. We couldn’t do that when the restrictions were in place. And third, what matters most is people. Our warriors, who spend weeks and months on the front line, receive food and water delivered by drones using Starlink. Has the speed been fully restored to what it was before? No. Is it being restored now? Yes. From a conversation with media representatives in Brussels. (2/3)

One of the wildest displays of Aurora Borealis I have ever seen. 🤯 Captured last night outside Tromsø/Norway during the G3 Geomagnetic Storm... most colorful one of my career so far! 🤩

The Braves have decide assistance tonight. Harper’s smash to SS and that stupid crazy grounder to the pitcher.

Painter’s hanging sweeper is going to get murdered…

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos fired a disproportionate number of journalists who wouldn’t support Trump & right wing propaganda. So they founded a NEW newspaper to fight disinformation from the Trump regime. Welcome & support the *The Washington Sun* (and stop using Amazon)

1982 Sports Illustrated Cover. Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier /Sports Illustrated

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful. ― Ann Druyan

BREAKING: the national average is now at its highest ever level this late in the calendar year, according to GasBuddy data. Meaning the national average has never been above $4/gal after Aug. 12 in any previous year- ever.

BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just started stamping an invisible watermak into every word claude writes. paste your own essay into claude to fix the grammar, it comes back carrying an invisible signature that survives copy-paste and cannot be removed. no opt-out, worldwide.

🚨 The Los Angeles Police Department has officially suspended its contract with Flock cameras.

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Marco Rubio: “We will look into Abdul El-Sayed’s immigration status and see if he committed fraud.” Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was born in Rochester Hills, MI and is a US citizen. Marco Rubio is an idiot.

Lip smacking delicious

Amen

So this @Nationals pitcher is crafting a 2 hitter through 4 innings against the @Phillies tonight…

On this day in 2014, a Russian Buk shot down a passenger aircraft MH17 flying at 10 km from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed.

ICE agents killed a man in cold blood at a traffic stop in Houston who had been in this country for 35 years. His son heard about it on a Facebook post and recognized his father’s voice, pleading for help as they left him to bleed out on the street. If you don’t think ice are the American Gestapo listen to my friend, Werner Reich who was taken by the Nazis when he was 14 years old and put in three different death camps. He was in Auschwitz the year I was born 1944. I have filmed Holocaust survivors for many years. Their stories have never been more important. #neveragainisnow

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." Muhammad Ali Remembering a great man of true character

Thanks for literally nothing @united

⚡️ A group of Slovak high-schoolers walked out on Prime Minister Robert Fico after he ranted against helping Ukraine, local media report. When Fico claimed the EU was spending “140 billion euros to prolong the war” and told students to “go fight if you’re such heroes,” they drowned him out with jingling keys and left the hall.