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@deusericus.bsky.social

✡️☄🦥 30's / M / Virginia Democrat, on here for ff7, scifi, and pictures of spiders 🔞 Never safe for work 🔞 I block/mute frequently he/him/his

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h ago

This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.

The couple quickly became key to Chicago’s nightlife, curating events and performing in some of Chicago’s most popular venues. They were getting ready for their biggest venture yet: following Karol G’s tour across the country, hosting unofficial afterparties. But on Sunday morning, as the couple walked out of their rideshare outside of Midway Airport, they were apprehended by federal immigration agents. The two were on their way to take a flight to Washington, D.C., the first stop of the tour. They never made it through the door. The Department of Homeland Security said it had arrested Panqueva, 26, and Paez, 27, for overstaying their visas, which both expired in 2022. But their attorney, Enrique Espinoza, said the pair had applied for asylum within the required time frame before their visas expired. The two both have asylum cases, Social Security numbers, work permits and the documents required for their ongoing legal process, Espinoza said.
Laura Rodríguez Presa@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 6h ago

The couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2h ago

The US nuclear stockpile currently comprises an estimated 3,700 operational bombs and warheads, collectively containing a maximum total firepower equivalent to about 49,390 Little Boy-size bombs. If you exploded one of those 15-kiloton bombs a minute, it would take more than 34 days to use them all.

Staff Sgt. Chris Misenheimer performs routine maintenance on a rotary launcher for nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missiles at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana Sergeant Misenheimer is a nuclear weapons technician with the 2nd Munitions Squadron at Barksdale AFB, circa 2013 (US Air Force photo/Lance Cheung).A color photograph from July 2020 of four Air Force airmen at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, working to attach three war Mark-12A reentry vehicles containing war reserve W78 335-kiloton thermonuclear warheads to a Minuteman III ICBM “bus” or third stage. Until the expiration of the New START Treaty on February 5, 2026, the Minuteman III was restricted to only one warhead. However, the Air Force routinely practices uploading the ICBMs in case the president decides to increase the number of operationally-deployed warheads.A color photograph of four workers at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, wearing blue overalls using a hoist to lift a Mark-4A reentry vehicle out of its transport container during the lengthy life extension program to upgrade the 90-kiloton W76 thermonuclear warhead inside into the W76-1. The reentry vehicle is protected by a temporary red cover to prevent damage to its sensitive carbon fiber outer surface.Two tidy rows totaling about 50 B61 gravity bombs on transport dollies (two per dolly) inside a hardened storage igloo somewhere in Europe, probably in the 1980s or early 1990s. US B61 gravity bombs in Europe are no longer stored like this. Instead, they are kept in Weapons Storage and Security System (WS3) vaults (up to 4 B61-12 bombs per vault) that lower into the floor of Protective Aircraft Shelters at selected NATO air bases.
Chentomology@chentomology.bsky.social · 6h ago

The new Nepenthes bag is coming soon! I spent so much time working with the manufacturer on the sample, and now I’m finally happy with it! It will be a perfect bag for our bug friends, and totally safe for them😉 I am expecting the whole batch to be done and available in September! 💚

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Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 7h ago

It's August in the DMV. So, no surprise! -- we're looking at a mini heat wave the next few days swampy humidity and late-day storm chances. How how, how humid, and which days have a better storm chance than others? See link for details...

Mini heat wave the next few days with late-day storm chances

With the higher heat, juiced atmosphere, and a strengthening jet stream, a few storms the next few days have some potential for isolated flooding and damaging wind.

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WhitePaaws@whitepaaws.bsky.social · 22h ago

Another lifer for me! This massive Regal Horned Lizard happened to be on the road right at sunset. This was definitely one of my top lizard species to find in Arizona after failing to do so last year, and what an unexpected way to come across one. #herps 🦎

A picture of a Regal Horned Lizard on the road. This lizard is very wide and flat, mostly yellow with their characteristic "crown" of horns on the back of the head.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.