Remember to build your chicken coop with two doors.

Because if it has four doors, it's a chicken sedan.

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.

HUMMINGSAUR

the main issue with editing Calvin & Hobbes comic strips as a meme template is that you are probably not as funny as Bill Watterson

My advice for junior people is you need to be in the office. I know you don't like that. But the kind of organizational depth you get from physicality is something you probably aren't advisably ready to abandon.

Banner that reads “the only orange monarch we need”. With a butterfly on it.

Spotted on my bike ride to work. Butterflies are so important.

Indeed.

I'm gonna keep posting tweets until I post the tweet that makes Bill the Beam Jocky quote the line about putting fins on cars again.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Koch, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, April 10 at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

4x4” acrylic painting of Nutella floating across the Orion capsule. It is done in a loose style a bit different from my normal work

SPACE NUTELLA

This makes me curious: Space friends, what other states have never had an astronomy program in their universities?

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage.

Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video.

This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

Have any of Shakespeare’s other plays been adapted to sci-fi movies?

Forbidden Planet, one of cinema's first sci-fi classics, and the spiritual ancestor to Star Trek, premiered SEVENTY years ago today 🤯

The Olympus Mons volcano, seen from orbit. Illumination is from the right. The white outline is the island of Ireland (showing the divide between Northern Ireland and the Republic).

Olympus Mons, seen from orbit by the Viking 1 spacecraft.

Largest recognised volcano in the Solar System.

The island of Ireland for scale.

I dabble in urban architecture sketching, especially when traveling. As the piece says, buildings are a lot easier to draw than people or landscapes, so good for newbies. It gets me to observe my surroundings more carefully, and sometimes local people stop to look and then chat.

Happy Valen's Time Day

Valen, Minbari not born of Minbari, who is the reason for the season.

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

The fact that China is importing oil to increase its stockpiles and simultaneously transitioning rapidly to electric cars and busses that cut demand may be benign, or poor planning, but it also looks like strategic preparation to insulate itself from repercussions of invading Taiwan.

I was fortunate to work with Bruce late in his career. He was an outstanding, humble guy.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

An Ukrainian F-16 intercepting a Russian Shahed drone.

A postcard arrived: ‘If you’re reading this I’m dead, and I really liked you’ Don Glickman’s daughter sent his favorite people the postcard he designed before his death.

A student received a posthumous postcard from his former professor, Don Glickman, who was known for his humor. He instructed his daughter to send over 100 postcards.

The gesture went viral and reflected Glickman's unique approach to life and death.

I attended the last Space Shuttle launch at the press site. So did Elmo, with his entourage. It was a festive atmosphere but also a secure government facility staffed by very serious people. There probably wasn’t a child in a three mile radius. Still, every single adult talked to Elmo like a person.

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road. The image shows a curving single track road climbing a hillside covered in small trees in sunshine. The ground slopes away to the right. There's a road sign in the left foreground saying in English and Gaelic that this is Calum's Road. The rusted remains of a wheelbarrow are on the ground at the foot of the roadsign.

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad

Post-doc on properties of Solar system small bodies The small bodies of our Solar system (comets and asteroids) are the remnants of the building blocs that accreted to form the planets. The suite of events that occurred during planet formation left pri...

Are you looking for a postdoc position working on asteroids and comets? Would it help if it's in a beautiful place in southern France? If yes, then consider applying to the following position of my colleague Benoit Carry at the Observatory in Nice:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402212

#planetSci

NASA’s predecessor, the NACA, was commonly treated as an abbreviation rather than an acronym, so people spelled out En Ay Cee Ay. I met one old timer who pronounced NASA like that. Weird, but hard to argue with.

CYRUS H McCORMICK INVENTOR OF THE REAPER WAD BORN ON THIS FARM. FЕВ. 15 1809 HERE HE COMPLETED THE FIRST PRACTICAL REAPER IN 1831.

Cyrus McCormick sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Cyrus McCormick reaping: This is just the best, I recommend it so highly!

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I need a heist and/or whodunnit movie about the motley team of top burglars in the New England specialty foods racket who pulled off the theft from Canada’s strategic maple syrup reserve and now the lobster shipment. They’ll hit cranberries next.