My hot take is that in person dungeons and dragons and magic the gathering are both infinitely less bad for you than online gaming lol

Online gaming really is a plague to me.

yes, and i had forgotten all about that…thank you for that god awful reminder

"...on they came at a precipitous rate, stunted jaundiced horrors cyclopean and half-clothed, dull mouths agape, crying "pip, pip" and "hello buddies" in their grotesque subhuman voices. I crouched in my hiding place. "Poopay," they gibbered. "POOPAY!" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Banana on the Threshold"

Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevın McCarthy YOUNG GUNS A New Generation of Conservative Leaders

just remembered this and lol-ed

Very sharp image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula showing protuding narrow jets emerging from the rounded tips of the gas clouds.

Zoom in on a clump of a nebula showing a grainy, fuzzy thin line that has a white arrow annotated to it. This is the jet from the protostar. Image is fuzzy taken with my telescope

Ohhhhh ... love doing these.

Left: Hubble Telescope image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula. That's a thin stellar jet from young stellar object buried in the cloud

Right: same, but from my backyard telescope. Can just see jet!

Original: @esa.int - www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🔭 #Astrophotography

i think we need to burn it all down and start over, vacate every court ruling of the last quarter century, hold trials, radical transparency…release every government document an especially tax returns of every government official or employee

An adorable raccoon.

Y'all couldn't write "Connie Ballmer"???????

how is this literally happening in real life

MASSIVE 600 ton Liebherr mining excavator converted from diesel to electric Lloyds Metals and Energy have successfully converted a massive, 650-ton class Liebherr R 996 excavators from diesel power to electric.

The future is electric

they don’t know meme: guy at a party in the corner watching other people dance and revel

i’m at the Renaissance faire:

#EconSky

they don’t know meme: guy at a party in the corner watching other people dance and revel

i’m at the Renaissance faire:

#EconSky

increasingly convinced that tardigrades are extra-dimensional in origin

“Ordinary people”, a term with no raced, classed, or gendered implications

currently reading "Family Values" by Melinda Cooper and it's just normative straight white male wage earners all the way down

*periodic pointless skeet into the void*

sam altman’s house was molotoved, a guy burned down a toilet paper warehouse, and a healthcare ceo was assassinated

i don’t think rich people understand how much worse it could get for them

if you think about it, Frodo was kind of a little bitch

i’ve been interviewing applicants to my alma mater for almost 20 years…way better qualified applicants over time as the uni has gained recognition, and the interviews do seem to better distinguish applicants from one another (i think, admin office doesn’t share their secrets)

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

“Treatlers for Hitler ‘24”

the rabid right wing base has a hunger for blood no pile of cash can sate

My condottieri have betrayed me!!! Me, their wicked paymaster! All for the mere crime of not lining their pockets with enough silver to carry out my campaign of wanton destruction!!

Now they are in league with my enemies, and preparing to march on my holdfasts!!! Egads!!!

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

good for tracking when the CIA needed a hed change