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Simply incredible satellite imagery of a dust storm hitting Chicago this evening.

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

Pretty clear where this is going ….

They are such mrons

Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: An Energetic Stellar Nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

Sigh.

Literally..

When traveling, wash out clothes, wring out then wrap in towel and wring out again. Put suitcases on side on a table and pull out handles and use as clothesline.

The real story on Capitol Hill is the desire of GOP men to have transgender women in their bathrooms

Disgusting.

Chicago-area water pollution may be stalling the spread of invasive carp.

This is Cartman. Shows up every day. Spends 15 min sitting on feeder chowing down.

Sums up the current state of the US politics

That orange streak is Mercury with its glowing sodium plasma tail, passing in front of the Pleiades cluster. Impressive capture by Dr Sebastian Voltmer. spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload...

If you know people in Ohio, have them contact Gov Dewine’s office and point out importance that his Senate appointment doesn’t support RFK Jr or Gaetz.

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

First post. Hope friends check in.

New to Blue Sky.