This is it. Huell Howser would have stopped in his tracks and interrupted some lady explaining peaches to him to give Cowboy a "Bah gawd! Look at this dawg! Have you SEEN a dawg like this??"

Reading Chaucer in the original Middle English and laughing at a 700yo fart joke really feels like something

"Smoking that Cowboy Bighead" has a good ring to it

"nose to anus"

UFO #2: A weird arrow of lights
UFO #1/2: A shaky light making a circle in the sky that my dad only saw zip away, but was told about it by my uncle

It seems significant that all 2 1/2 were seen in the 1960s and 70s and within a few hundred miles of Edwards, Nellis, and Area 51

This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

Yes. Mark and I were sleeping outside in the backyard. We both saw the same satellite and watched it slowly move across the sky like a normal safelite. It then started making 90° left and right turns without slowing down. It then stopped and reversed course and dud more 90° turns. It did this for at least 5 min. Mark ran in the house and got Mom and Dad to come outside. They watched it for another 5 minutes or so. It finally resumed it's original course until it was out of sight. It was a very clear night, no clouds. The UFO made no sound and was very high up. It would pass stars very closely and block the star light.

Okay yeah that's crazy.

Text message "Ok, I've seen 2 1/2 separate UFOS"

Update: the satellite UFO was seen by my dad, his brother, and their parents so yeah I do definitely believe that whatever it is they saw they saw it and it was strange. Also we are about to learn how a person can see half a UFO

All of this is predicated on him not making up the story specifically to bullshit me, a child whom he frequently tried to scare with alien abduction stories, especially at night while camping, including some pretty involved FIRE IN THE SKY gags

My dad saw a UFO in the 1970s. Was watching a satellite when it stopped, made a 90° turn on a dime, then another, and then went back the direction it came. I don't know that it was aliens necessarily, but it was certainly unexplainable. Aliens or secret government project, take your pick

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

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I am the person who could not, on a fundamental what fucking button am I supposed to be pushing level, figure out how to play Elden Ring.

I can't wait to watch this movie of a guy fumbling around in a dark cave unable to figure out how to access most of his pockets and pouches, taking the same helmet on and off several times, and shuffling forward and back trying to do something (it's not clear what) before the credits roll

"Empowering"

A guy in basic economy's eyes well up with unshed tears, he feels full in his heart for the first time in a long time, aglow with a sense of agency and worth. "Recline" he says, his voice strong, his soul proud. His chair jerks back too far and he spills his drink all over himself.

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"You would be so good at improv." "Have you thought about doing improv? You'd be so good at it" "I'm sorry you experienced that. My improv group meets on Wednesdays and I think you'd really be great at it"

I once had a therapist who was really into improv

How much of the runtime takes place in a hospital

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

That is an anal mucus USS Voyager

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

My first exposure to MST3K. My cousin picked it out at the video store and it was like my 11yo brain got a glimpse of another dimension. They say the right people will get it and boy that was true for me. Hooked immediately and have been ever since. Thanks for the company all these years 🩶

Close view inside an Akai VCR showing a brown circuit board packed with resistors, red capacitors, wiring, and a black NEC chip, with the parts arranged in a way that feels both technical and oddly elegant.

Interior shot of an Akai VCR circuit board filled with capacitors, resistors, ceramic discs, and bundled wires, with a large black integrated circuit at the center and the whole layout looking dense and carefully planned.

Tight close up of an Akai VCR motherboard featuring a large Akai marked system chip, multicolored ribbon wires, solder points, and printed board labels, giving a good look at the hidden logic inside the machine.

Detail from inside an Akai VCR showing blue adjustment trimmers, red capacitors, black capacitors, and white plastic connectors lined up across a warm brown circuit board, with the electronics looking almost architectural.

When I first saw a circuit board as a kid. I was amazed with the complexity and the beauty of it all. I decided to take a moment and appreciate my Akai VCR while I have it open.

I saw someone making that argument 100% straight face describe Christina Koch and Victor Glover as "token" crew members instead of you know, fully deserving astronauts who are hopefully the first of a wide variety of people doing things that had only been done by one kind of guy before and I saw red

She also thought nacho cheese Doritos were the platonic ideal snack food

"Here Claire have a snack" [hands me a repurposed margarine tub with three Doritos in it]

My great-grandma who lived to 97 drank a Tom Collins every night and smoked one (1) cigarette a year (New Years Eve). If it works it works

Sure, but for me anyway I feel like I've found the path that keeps me in the slice where I want to be instead of just finding it at random and then losing it again

I'll probably still get annoyed by the companions once I start the MQ in earnest, but I think I finally get this game now in a way that will hopefully make that feel less front and center. As long as Sarah keeps her damn spacesuit on while we're on the surface of Mercury or whatever...

This is a game about people who have lost touch with and mythologize their past (my mundane present) while living mostly mundane lives in their present (my mythologized future). They're excited about a wooden duck while being mostly unimpressed by being a member of an interplanetary civilization

Anyway I went to New Homestead last night, a living history museum and colony on Titan, and it was one of the best and most fully realized concepts I've seen in a game. The tour was PERFECT (the writing and VA were both excellent) and the feedback loop of past and present was surprisingly touching