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ysabetwordsmithfuzzyred, the Iron Horses page is now up! Go check out this thread to see if you've missed any poems.
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ysabetwordsmithfuzzyred, you can now read the rest of "An Inkling of Things to Come." Shiv and his classmates finish up their first session of worldbuilding. 
juan_gandhiПовозился с этими питоньими скриптами. Код, написанный Клодом, меня затрахал, и я его немножко порефакторил. Заодно с питоном ближе ознакомился. Смешной язык. Классы есть, типов как бы нет. Да ладно.
Поприбирал в доме немножко.
На обед забацал себе какого-то морского окуня, да не в печке, а на сковородке, причём шалот заменил синим луком, мелко нарезанным. Ну там и помидоры обжарить, и вина на рыбу налить. Не, ничо так. Но завтра попробую в печке.
Продолжил разбираться с моими тремя 1099R. Это ты звонишь в Pencheck, там тебе сообщают, что ждать полтора часа, но можно заказать callback. И вот мне позвонили в конце дня, когда я гулял. Ну, с двумя этими формами разобрались почти; буду теперь в другую контору звонить. А с третьей фигня, они про неё ничего не знают.
Кажется, мне дешевле обошлось бы просто заплатить этот налог на тыщу баксов и не брать в голову. Всё это условности. Кстати, и рынок обратно подпрыгнул сегодня, и я даже в плюсе, в небольшом. Значит, войны в субботу не будет. Продал S&P от греха подальше, всё равно. Нынче на выходные полагаться нельзя.
Прогулка, кстати, ну что... ну дождик пошёл, так я не дотопал свои 11 тыс.
А всё остальное - рутина.
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balloon_juice_feedWell, so that was pretty fucking racist today. Not personally how I like to celebrate Black History Month.
Fucking bloody hell, this nightmare is never going to end.
I am going to suggest we all not think about politics tonight and enjoy the Olympics. I head JD was booed wildly.
Be good to yourselves and each other.
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This made me laugh out loud:
Why do they keep making us sound so cool? Anyone who has been to a democratic or dsa meeting and dealt with robert’s rules and the pedantry over matters of trivial importance is laughing their ass off right now. The anti-ice movement is carol who carpools your kids to t-ball and Amani who works down at the deli and Janice, the lady who has been a girl scout leader for 27 years, you fuckwits. Just clown shoes, the entire right wing.
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Derik Kauffman insists it's not a joke. He's actually planning to hold a March for Billionaires in San Francisco this weekend. And he says he's doing so because he's opposed to a proposed state tax on billionaires and, more simply, because he feels as if the billionaire class has been unfairly vilified. [...]
The point of the event is to "change the sentiment on this to recognize that billionaires have done a lot for us and communicate that we're glad they're here," Kauffman said. [...]
He told The Examiner he's neither a billionaire defending his own interests, nor just acting as a front for the ultrarich. Last year, Kauffman founded an artificial-intelligence startup called RunRL that took part in Y Combinator's accelerator program.
Kauffman said he's not in contact with any billionaires or getting any funding from them, nor are there any other groups involved with the event. Instead, he's footing the cost of the March for Billionaires website himself and is the principal organizer of and publicist for it, he said.
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Mauricio Peña, the company's Chief Safety Officer, confirmed under questioning that the Google subsidiary employs human operators abroad [...]
"They provide guidance. They do not remotely drive the vehicles," Peña told the Senate committee. "The Waymo vehicle is always in charge of the dynamic driving tasks, so that is just one additional input."
When pressed on how many operators are located outside the United States, Peña said he did not have the breakdown available, escalating frustration from senators.
"It just seems kind of curious that you don't know that answer," one senator responded, before asking in which countries the operators are located.
"The Philippines," Peña replied. [...]
"Having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue," the senator said. "The information the operators receive could be out of date. It could introduce tremendous cybersecurity vulnerabilities. We don't know if these people have US driver's licenses." [...]
"It's one thing when a taxi is replaced by an Uber or a Lyft. It's another thing when the jobs just go completely overseas," the senator added.
But hey, at least these jobs aren't being stolen by immigrants!
The insistence on personifying their products eg "the waymo asks for help", "the human recommends" is such a conspicuous odd contortion that it's almost certain there are legal + business imperatives behind it that they don't talk about and won't until a regulator forces them to. [...]
They want to pay remote drivers from whatever country is currently cheapest, none of whom will have US state drivers' licenses. claiming that they're "advising, not driving" is the linchpin of their argument that that's not as illegal and dangerous as it clearly is. they're constructing legal fortifications before the deaths and lawsuits rise.
Let's not forget that these companies are still immune from prosecution when one of their remotely-operated drones commits a moving violation, up to and including a killing. And that Waymo's owner Google have stated in court filings that it is good for business if their competitors' cars kill more people.
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pennyarcade_feedI haven't played Overwatch since… I mean, a long time ago. I don't even remember why. Oh, wait! I do remember why, and no doubt others remember also. In something like COD, bare minimum, I can run around and pick up your tags or whatever. The only shooter I ever got truly competitive in was probably Gears 2, and then, only for two reasons. One, because your whole team is two people. And two, because if you don't get good at the a complete stranger will chainsaw you from your asshole up to your collarbone. It's the worst feeling I've ever experienced in a video game and I'd do anything - even git gud - to avoid it.
elfnautilus_feedAsking the internet to name something is always a little dicey. For every charming Boaty McBoatface submission, there’s always something a little more … unprintable. But scientists from the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA) must have felt a little safer asking the 4.25 million followers of popular veteran science YouTuber Ze Frank to name a newly discovered species. (After all, Ze Frank already has one named after him.)
The species in question was a marine chiton, a mollusk that looks like a cross between a snail and a beetle, that feeds exclusively on sunken wood. It’s equipped with an iron-reinforced radula for eating, a series of plates on its back, and a fleshy foot. Like all members of the genus Ferreiraella, its posterior is home to worms that feed on its excrement. In other words, there was a lot for Ze Frank’s followers to work with. They submitted more than 8,000 names for SOSA scientists to choose from.
“We were overwhelmed by the response and the massive number of creative name suggestions!” SOSA co-chair Julia Sigwart said in a statement. One runner-up for the species’ new name was Ferreiraella ohmu, in honor of a Studio Ghibli creature. Another, Ferreiraella stellacadens, translates to “shooting star chiton” for the shapes of the tiny holes on the mollusk’s back.
Read more: “The Challenge of Deep-Sea Taxonomy”
So which name won?
In the end, the team decided to go with something that reflected the collaborative approach of the naming. “The name we chose, Ferreiraella populi, translates to ‘of the people,’” Sigwart said.
You can watch Ze Frank announce the winner here. 
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hurtcomfortexmod posting in hurtcomfortexravenIt’s not just that Ilya’s daemon is impressive. Like… a wolf. A fucking wolf. Yeah, Shane is impressed by that. It's that hockey players shouldn’t have daemons at all.
balloon_juice_feedDark week for economic headlines.
@bloomberg.com @wsj.com @nytimes.com @financialtimes.com— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Enten: "Failure, failure, failure going into the midterm elections, because Donald Trump was elected to fix the economy, and people still believe lowering prices should be the top priority, and at this point 55% of people say the economy is getting worse."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Fox Business: A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows 72% of Americans feel the economy is in poor or only fair condition.
— The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) February 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Bitcoin's price continues its decline, dropping another 11% to $67,000. It has lost nearly half its value since hitting a record high in October.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) February 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The post-industrial period of a developed economy is characterized by three phases.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
Fox: This a new poll shows 59% of voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy. That's his worst rating on the economy since he took office. I'm laughing because that's a terrible number.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) February 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
TRUMP: “I’m starting to get great polls on the economy…”
NBC: “The polls on the economy are not great.”
TRUMP: “They SHOULD be great.”🙃— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
We SHOULD still have Biden’s booming economy.
— 🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 (@indyrefugee.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM
The Trump economy. www.semafor.com/article/02/0…
— Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence.bsky.social) February 6, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Fox Business, Semafor, Axios — not exactly Dem-friendly outlets!
(AXIOS) – Top Republicans are increasingly worried about private polling that paints a dire picture of the midterms — and it's not just the House they're afraid of losing, it's also the Senate.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/02/06/g…— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
… Why it matters: President Trump has warned Republicans that losing their slim House majority could lead to a third impeachment. But a Democratic takeover of the Senate would be a political earthquake — and neuter his last two years in office.
Zoom in: For the first time, GOP strategists are telling Axios that losing the Senate — where Republicans have a 53-47 majority — is a distinct possibility, and that they’ll have to fight harder than expected to keep control.
– Operatives say they’ve reviewed polling that shows the GOP facing competitive Senate races not just in traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, Maine and North Carolina, but also in conservative states like Alaska, Iowa and Ohio.
– Top GOP strategists acknowledge that immigration and the economy — the two issues that drove Trump’s win in 2024 — are now liabilities.
– “A year ago, I would have told you we were almost guaranteed to win the Senate,” one GOP operative who’s reviewed internal polling told Axios. “Today, I would have to tell you it’s far less certain.”…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is taking a lot of darts from his own party these days. But Republicans privately concede he’s done a good job of recruiting Senate candidates in conservative states once seen as out of reach for Democrats…
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nautilus_feedNot long after upending federal diet guidelines in order to prioritize “real food” on our plates, United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has offered a new piece of questionable advice. During a tour to promote these dietary recommendations, Kennedy recently claimed that a keto diet can cure schizophrenia—an assertion that experts have quickly thrown cold water on.
The ketogenic diet promotes fat-rich meals and low amounts of carbohydrates. While keto eating has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years—it ranked the most Googled diet in the U.S. in 2020—it was initially designed in the early 20th century for patients with epilepsy. More recent studies have confirmed that the diet is effective for certain types of epilepsy because it can control seizures.
Meanwhile, we have much less evidence for its impacts on symptoms of schizophrenia. So far, small studies have offered some early evidence that ketogenic diets may help people with the condition.
“There is currently no credible evidence that ketogenic diets cure schizophrenia,” Mark Olfson, a psychiatrist at Columbia University, told The New York Times.
Read more: “Eat Like a Neanderthal”
Kennedy also proclaimed that the diet can essentially cure bipolar disorder, according to studies he recently read. But as with schizophrenia, keto’s impacts on bipolar disorder have only been examined in limited numbers of patients so far.
Preliminary findings have also hinted that a keto diet could ease symptoms of depression. It may offer “small antidepressant benefits” for people who don’t respond to medication, according to a recently published JAMA Psychiatry paper. But this work is in the early stages as well and remains far from conclusive.
Scientists are seeking new therapies for these types of conditions because anti-psychotic drugs come with some major limitations. Many patients stop taking such drugs over time due to side effects, which include weight gain, drowsiness, and loss of motivation.
Scientists think that the ketogenic diet might help treat these conditions in a whole host of ways. For one, it can reduce inflammation in the brain, which is linked to anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. It may also contribute to the stability of one’s neural networks, a key component of mental health.
Right now, several randomized controlled trials—the gold standard in medical research—are in the works to learn whether keto diets can work as effective treatments for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions.
While RFK Jr. touted the diet as a cure, researchers have emphasized that it should supplement existing treatments for now. Shebani Sethi, a psychiatrist and obesity specialist at Stanford University, noted that she harnesses this diet as “one powerful therapeutic metabolic tool among many.”
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osprey_archercosmolinguistToday's Teddywalk took us a slightly unusual way -- I let him choose, within reason. He didn't spend as long sniffing the grass triangle as before, and afterward when I wanted to drag him more directly back toward his house he scampered off the other way. This took us to a tree-lined residential street where he decided to poop next to one of the trees just as a man parked his land barge just behind us and the kids that got out of it were entertained by this free show.
This route also took us past a school where, even though it was nearing 5 o'clock, kids were going toward the school, with their grownups. They kinda looked like they were wearing pajamas? Some were in bathrobes or oodies. Some seemed to carry pillows or soft toys. One was almost hidden behind a Stitch that must have been fully half her size. It was adorable.
I had a pretty good day otherwise too.
Work was oddly satisfying.
A bunch of things happened to coincide today: I presented my new train report twice, first to a panel of subject-matter experts and accessibility advocates that I'm on, where people were very kind about it (especially as it was at the end of an hour and a half meeting that some people had to leave early and/or thought was only an hour long; one made sure to apologize for leaving halfway through but told me he'd read the report and it was good, which was very sweet).
Then in the afternoon I presented it to a group of lived-experience campaigners, a group I attended back when I was a volunteer who didn't have this job yet. They did their usual thing of wanting to vent their spleens on any tangentially-related topic, but I'm used to that and I kinda love it. Afterward, my colleague who runs these meetings messaged me to thank me and say she appreciates that I always handle the questions so well. I didn't think I'd done anything special! But despite that (or actually because of it!) this was really nice to hear.
And as well as feeling particularly competent with the different audiences my work is for, I also had a quick one-to-one(ish) with my manager which indirectly addressed the stuff I've been stressing about lately and where seemed much happier than I'm used to hearing with the work that I have done in the last year and the stuff that's coming up this year.
It's funny because the other day, on our way to the theater, D pointed out where transgym yoga had moved to: one of those "not actually far away but hard for me to find/get to on a bus" places. So I actually looked at yoga on the transgym website and not only was it on this Friday (it's every other week), but it was back at its old location! My hips are so much happier now, and it'll be good for my brain too.
And now, after a week that was really truly about a month long, it's the weekend! We have basically no plans, and the fascists aren't even yelling at the hotel this Sunday!
So many good things.
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sashagee checked, I had a fever. So I spent the next couple days recovering and not accomplishing any of things I wanted to get done while Laila was out of town, spent yesterday and today working from home, and now when my nose has finally stopped running my throat is hurting and it's not from too much coughing. Sigh. 
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nautilus_feedOur mastery of fire is one of the biggest things that sets humans apart from animals. We’ve used it to cook our food, temper our tools, warm our bodies, and ward off predators. It’s not overstating things to say it’s fueled our evolution, but has our exposure to it changed our genes?
It’s an intriguing proposition. After all, fire is an indispensable tool but also a dangerous one. Before we developed antibiotics, even a small burn could become a mortal wound. So it stands to reason that after such a long period of our history living by the fireside, natural selection would have granted us some resiliency.
To investigate, Joshua Cuddihy of the Imperial College London worked alongside a team of burn-injury experts, evolutionary biologists, and geneticists to identify burn-response genes for signs of positive selection. This week they published their findings in BioEssays.
Read more: “Wildfires Are Changing Animal Evolution”
To identify possible burn-injury response genes, researchers examined the transcriptomes (the genes expressed) in both burnt and unburnt skin from humans and rats. Examining the gene sequences, they discovered a subset of burn response genes that showed evidence of accelerated evolution.
So what do these genes do?
They’re primarily involved in wound closure, inflammation, and immune system response. Unfortunately these genes also respond to general tissue damage, so the team was unable to rule out positive selection in response to other human endeavors, like tool use or fighting. Still, researchers stress that these genes aren’t exhaustive, and they illustrate how fire could have imprinted its unique brand on our genome.
In the future, the team hopes this new framework will help connect evolutionary biology with medicine, changing how we study and treat burn injuries and even help to explain why animal models of burns often produce results that translate poorly to humans.
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balloon_juice_feedA few interesting tidbits from the news.
There is a special election on Saturday, this one in Louisiana.
A Louisiana Democrat resigned a statehouse seat in an area that Trump carried by 13 points. Regardless of the outcome the Rs keep their supermajority in the Louisiana House, but this still matters for two reasons. One, because a win is a win is a win. But beyond that, a win for the Ds would give us a high-profile win with bragging rights, and one more win in a whole series of special election wins since the orange turd took office. If the Rs win, well, we all know how they will spin this. Fingers crossed. Louisiana peeps, I hope you have been watching the news.
What to do about ICE?
There has been some talk here about Rein in ICE vs. Abolish ICE.
Simon Rosenberg has some thoughts.
End The Violence
End The Lawlessness
Narrow The Targets (stop the scope creep and focus on the statement mission of removing criminals)
Seems good to me!
Robert Reich seems to agree with H. E. Wolf
Q: “You’re almost 80. Where do you find the energy to write so many Substack posts?”
A: “I was born 10 days after Trump. If he can create this much mayhem every day, I should be able to do a little bit to counter him every day.”
If Robert Reich can do it, so can we.
Another important and gratifying smackdown from the courts
Jen Rubin shares her thoughts.
What followed from U.S. District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes for the District of Columbia was a literary and legal masterpiece using Noem’s own vicious racism against her in a case challenging the revocation of TPS status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians refugees.
Reyes started by debunking the government’s clumsy attempt to smear the plaintiffs: “Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, ‘killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.’” Instead, Reyes explained, they are a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, a software engineer at a national bank, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, a college economics major, and a full-time registered nurse. The constant lies and dehumanization of immigrants are both a moral disgrace and, in this case, the regime’s legal Achilles heel.
“Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to non-white immigrants,” Reyes wrote. “This seems substantially likely.” Reyes pointed to Noem’s own blatantly racist language and failure to conduct any independent review. While the statute allows her ample discretion regarding TPS determination, she does not have “unbounded discretion.” The court therefore found that she failed to clear the low bar that would allow her to deport the Haitian refugees.
Reyes then demolished the regime’s refrain that the courts must let the executive branch do whatever it pleases. “To the contrary, Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to replace executive whim with statutory predictability.” (Increasingly, lower courts are rejecting the notion that the executive branch’s actions are unreviewable. It seems that Article III federal judges think there is a role for the federal courts in our constitutional system.)
In addition, Reyes cited the regime’s own travel warnings to demonstrate the irreparable harm that would befall Haitians if they were sent home. “‘Do not travel to Haiti for any reason’ does not exactly scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return.” Then, in a tour de force, Reyes shredded Noem’s position that the balance of equities favors the government…
The Librarians (no not that one, and not the other one either)
When Americans of the future look back on this disgraceful period in our national history — assuming the republic survives — they will need artifacts from our time to help them understand the villains and the unlikely heroes who resisted the slide into fascism. The Librarians, a 2025 documentary directed by the Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Kim Snyder and airing beginning Feb. 9 on PBS, may well be one of those period pieces they turn to make sense of this upside-down moment.
Through the eyes of nine school librarians, this surprisingly gripping documentary chronicles the wave of book censorship across the United States to its contemporary swell in right-wing and Christian nationalist organizations such as Moms for Liberty and No Left Turn in Education. It might just convince you that, in our moment of peril, it was the librarians of our nation’s public schools who helped save the day. At the very least, it will make you marvel at the courage and tenacity of a diverse group of ordinary, not very political people whose line of work is generally imagined to involve nothing more dramatic than an overdue book. Like so many of the people of Minneapolis in recent days, when the chips were down, the librarians stood up for what is right.
May you live in interesting times.
No thank you, I would rather not.
Open thread.
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nautilus_feedNext month, the blood moon will show its copper-toned face to about a third of the world, including North America.
This spooky nickname refers to a total lunar eclipse, when the Earth travels directly between the sun and moon. That cosmic alignment is visible around every 2.5 years from a given spot on our planet, and the next one will arrive on March 3.
We glimpse this eerie red glow because Earth’s shadow, known as the umbra, prevents most sunlight from illuminating the moon’s surface. The light that makes it there gets filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere. Colors with shorter wavelengths, like blues and violets, tend to scatter, while colors with longer wavelengths, including red and orange, reach the moon. This is the same phenomenon that gives our planet’s sunrises and sunsets their fiery hues. “It’s as if all of the world’s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the moon,” according to NASA.
The exact color visible during the eclipse depends on the conditions of the atmosphere at the time, and it can be influenced by things like pollution, wildfires, and volcanic ash from Earth.
Long before we understood the reason for the moon’s occasional bloody appearance, people spun all sorts of stories to account for it—few of which were positive. In many ancient cultures, it signified that “things that shouldn’t be happening are happening.” E. C. Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in California, told National Geographic back in 2014.
In ancient Mesopotamia, home to one of the world’s earliest civilizations, people saw a lunar eclipse as a threat to the king. Mesopotamians made detailed astronomical observations and were able to pinpoint when lunar eclipses would take place. This gave them ample time to plan. During the celestial event, they swapped him with a substitute while the real king hid in safety.
Read more: “The Real Landscapes of the Great Flood Myths”
To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They worried it would arrive on Earth and consume people, too. The Inca fended off the feisty cat by encouraging their dogs to howl and shaking spears at the moon.
Hindu stories also feature the moon on a villain’s menu. Some of these folktales claim that eclipses occur thanks to the demon Rahu, who consumed an elixir that enabled him to live forever. Shortly after, the moon and sun cut off his head. His immortal noggin pursued them in order to eat them, and eclipses occur whenever he’s able to grab and feast on them. “Since his head was cut off, the sun or moon just falls out the hole where his neck used to be,” according to an article in the Library of Congress.
Other moon-eating tales have come from China and Korea, where dogs are seen as the culprit.
Christianity also offers unique perspectives on the blood moon. During the First Crusade, for instance, at the end of the 11th century A.D., historian Albert of Aachen claimed that the crusaders saw a blood moon on their way to Jerusalem. “Those who had knowledge about the eclipse as a signal of God’s will, Albert tells us, comforted the fearful,” historian Beth Spacey wrote for The Conversation.
Albert thought that lunar eclipses portended the downfall of their enemies, while some other Christian scholars from around that time urged people not to get carried away with woo-woo explanations. After all, it was already known by this time that they occur when the Earth blocks the moon. Far more recently, in 2014, some Christians saw a series of blood moons as a sign of Jesus’ return.
Whatever meaning you associate with the lunar eclipse, you can see it most clearly by moving away from bright lights. You can peer through a telescope or binoculars as well for a closer look. Check out the best times to view the eclipse near you on timeanddate.com.
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