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Why is the sky blue? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

Why is the sky blue?

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L'Origine du monde revue par Guillermo Mordillo

"Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull" by Russian artist Olga Beliaeva.

Nothing like getting to the age where you discover a really cool new band and realize the song you’ve been listening to is from 2011

Can’t stop watching this.. 😊

Holding Hands through History

Good morning 😃

Suggestion: crime featuring excellent sheep you have met on walks. 🐑 🫆

Cuando eres niño, quieres ser adolescente.
Cuando eres adolescente, quieres ser adulto.
Cuando eres adulto, quieres ser gato.

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

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“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Mark Zuckerberg [standing in his normal posh living room, talking to camera]: So today I want to show you our plans... *PING* - a screen appears in the air above Zuckerberg’s wrist Mark Zuckerberg: ...for the Metaverse. Mark Zuckerberg [to his wrist-screen]: Hey Nick Nick Clegg [appearing on screen]: Hey Mark Nick Clegg: You coming to the meeting? Mark Zuckerberg: You bet! [The room transforms into digital lines] [Zuckerberg is now transported to a different place with Nick Clegg by his side. They are in the US CAPITOL during the January insurrection, anarchy unfolding all around them]. Mark Zuckerberg: Wow! Where are we, Nick? Nick Clegg: I think we’re in an insurrection! Nick Clegg: I thought I’d clicked ‘join meeting’ but I must have inadvertantly joined one of the many far right groups being promoted by our algorithm. Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t like it Nick! What should we do? Nick Clegg: Well… Nick Clegg: We could admit our tech libertarian ideals are flawed, change the algorithm which makes us billions, and build a bold new virtual world which brings humanity together rather than tearing it apart and killing democracy. Or… Nick Clegg: We could change our avatars! [They are both now changed into wacky avatars] Mark Zuckerberg: I’M A MOUSE

news that Mark Zuckerberg is winding down the Metaverse is an excuse for me to repost this, from 2021

Love this! Who are the kids? Where did they find the wounded angel? How much does the angel weigh?

Feel free to treat my like as a formal qualification.

The World Without Us - Wikipedia

I’d recommended “The World Without Us” which talks about this exact scenario. The author’s conclusion: domestic dogs would be out-competed by wolves, etc and die out. Cats would complain but would do fine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wor...

Crieff railway station - Wikipedia

It once did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crieff_...

Title: Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog Panel one: Werner goes out looking for eggs saying “I despise this idiotic sanitized ritual, and yet I am unwilling to return home eggless” Panel two: Werner stands before an egg on the ground “The joy of discovery rings hollow against the monumental indifference of the universe” Panel three: Werner carries an egg “what, other than regret, can hatch from this empty chocolate vessel”

Happy Easter!

Embarrassed teen: 🫢unforeseen peril of a career as fertility goddess. This is the other Ēostre related post in my timeline: bsky.app/profile/twll...

Actual Crieff is a little bigger than that.

Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 [Vicky pauses, trying to take this in]. VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM [Ends]

Happy Ēostre!

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an illustration by Spindle of the character Asimov, a half-elf woman with short white hair. Sitting on a small boat, as the boat moves through a water canal. Next to her is an old lady handing out apples to people on the boat as well, while behind her is the boat steerer. The view is of above as it suddenly starts to rain

sudden rain

“And lo, when the rock was rolled from the cave, Christ had left a huge chocolate bunny, but it was already melting, as it had been a right hot one and was like an oven in there!

Whenever I am at Nice airport, this story springs to mind.
What a Fabulous man Roger Moore was.

On the way to work, Tyneside, 1955, photo by Harry Morrison.

Rose of Avalanche - LA Rain YouTube video by LaVerneistic

Grew up listening to LA Rain by a band from Leeds in the UK who probably hadn’t been. Real LA rain, disappointingly, less cool: youtu.be/6W3CzU5THHs

“Co-baggage” is a blatant rip off of the current Japanese system. Also the idea of replacing speed blurred window views with a perfect static picture of Mt Fuji.

can you stop kicking my seat please

#Cat
#Caturday

Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones Ukrainian drones have made artillery and armored vehicles look obsolete. Why is the world still buying them?

This - found via @tbenner.bsky.social - is jaw dropping

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