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Amateur astronomy

@neil · 5 finds · public

Your first telescope: a buying guideskyandtelescope.org
Messier objects for beginnersnasa.gov
Astrophotography with a phonepetapixel.com
Light pollution maps and dark sky sitesdarksitefinder.com
How to spot the ISS tonightspaceweather.com

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Hot take: everything you know about this is wrong

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I can't believe people still think this in 2026

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Unpopular opinion thread 🧵👇

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This might be the worst take I've ever seen

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We need to talk about what happened yesterday

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Ratio + L + nobody asked

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Why is nobody talking about this

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Thread: I did the research so you don't have to 🧵

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Imagine this instead

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Jazz lineage

@jamie · 12 finds

Miles Davis and the Birth of Cool

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Urban foraging

@dan · 8 finds

A beginner's guide to wild garlic

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New wave cinema

@priya · 15 finds

Godard's jump cuts, deconstructed

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Byzantine architecture

@claudia · 9 finds

Hagia Sophia's pendentive dome

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Fermentation science

@mike · 6 finds

The microbiology of sourdough

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New wave cinema

@priya · 5 finds · public

Godard's jump cuts, deconstructedcriterion.com
The French New Wave manifestobfi.org.uk
Agnès Varda: the grandmother of the wavemubi.com
Why Breathless still feels modernrogerebert.com
New wave influences on Tarantinovulture.com

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Jazz lineage

@amrith + @jamie · 4 finds

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Miles Davis and the Birth of Coolnpr.org
The Anatomy of a Jazz Standardjstor.org
How Coltrane changed harmonynytimes.com
Blue Note Records: a visual historydesign.blog

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