Don’t give up on the awesome power of not being a dick, my brothers. #Repost @humansofny ・・・
“I felt humiliated and suicidal in college. It seemed like my personal failings were on display for everyone to see. I’m not all that attractive. I have a speech impediment. I’m not good socially. I saw other guys having romantic success and I felt a lot of envy. I concluded that women owed me something. They owed me a chance. And I was angry they weren’t giving it to me. I’m ashamed of it now, but during that time I formed a lot of bad and hateful opinions. I joined ‘incel’ communities on 4chan and Reddit. I found a lot of men there who felt just like me. The community provided this pseudoscientific justification for hating women. It let us feel like it wasn’t our fault. We stoked each other’s anger. And it felt good. Honestly, anger is just very addictive. You want to feel angry when you’re suffering. It gives you adrenaline. It gets your endorphins going. It’s a release. It’s a substitute for what you’re missing.”

THOUSANDS. #Repost @nasa ・・・
A black hole has a gravitational pull so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape it! Using data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray), astronomers discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Pictured here is a black hole bounty consisting of stellar-mass black holes, which typically weigh between five to 30 times the mass of our Sun. These newly identified black holes were found within three light years — a relatively short distance on cosmic scales — of the supermassive black hole at our Galaxy’s center known as Sagittarius A.
While a black hole by itself is invisible, when locked in close orbit with a star, high-energy light is produced and can be detected by scientific instruments so that astronomers can learn more about the properties of the black hole.
Credit: NASA/Chandra X-Ray Observatory
#nasa #space #blackhole #telescope #outerspace #science #pictureoftheday #galaxy #astronomy #milkyway #lightyears #universe

Enjoying a few last minutes by the pool in the AZ desert before going back to NY swampcrotch season. Thank you, @coachchrisbaran, for shooting #frenchhours, and @suzsturm and Rita for all the luscious food! #lovemyjob @cutactionmedia