I used to think it was my responsibility to look for the good in everyone. Now I understand it's my responsibility to be the good I can't find in others.

A photo of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II.

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe.

Happy Earth Day.

But do they have a six-necked guitar on a church altar? I think not.

Scalzi wins.

Here is a photo that shows the stages of making the shoulder armour for the Fat Henry VIII mouse armour. I’m building an edition of 12 mice so that’s two per mouse, basically a lot of parts. #jeffdeboer #mouseart #mousearmour #henryviii #miniatureart

On the contrary, you accomplished making Sho'nuff feel loved and appreciated. And that is a lot. 🖤

Sing us a song, Ukulele-Man
Sing us a song today
'Cause Gail's on a rant about Billy Joel
And you've got us feelin'... um, okay?

Noting the use of the word "blackmail:" it could just have been the word in the forefront of his mind, especially given a social media post of his (yesterday, I believe?) that certainly could be read as an attempt to blackmail the Pope.

I'm not a fan of all of her music, but pretty much everything on "The Divine Comedy" is wonderful. And weird. And dark. And really worth a listen.

Came here to say exactly this.

Just loving this random image I stumbled upon.
A female potter.
Her finished work is on the shelf next to her and she's using a little object to draw lines into the clay.

The Ambras castle Hofaemterspiel (Court-office Game), ca 1455.

I haven't even clicked on the video, and now I have the instrumental stuck in my head, too. Well played.

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog

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This Day in Labor History: April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passed the nation’s first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off per year to attend school!

a listing for a "compact trumpet". a purple metallic contraption with 3 keys and a single short straight pipe that is slightly flared at one end. like if you removed the bell and all the bendy bits from a regular trumpet. and made it purple for some reason.

bringing my sawed-off to the ska rumble

sorry for the bad news but you're only a real woman if you've been to the moon. there is now one real woman. all the rest of us are fake women. gender is moon now

Earth half-illuminated in space.

“every triumph, every tear, every birthday cake, every disappointment, every skinned knee, every dust off, every draped flag, every first dance, every missed flight, every shift change, every twirl hug, every wave goodbye, every love note, every human. us. you. all we have.” - christina koch 🌎

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

"But my bigotry was only supposed to be casual!"
-- Just about every bigot out there

Oh? OH. Oh.

*slowly closes the gate on the mandrill enclosure*

To be fair, 10 kaboshed my stand-alone graphics and audio software. But now Microsoft is trying to force it to Windows 11, while simultaneously telling me my CPU isn't on their preferred/supported list.

I'm pretty sure this is the lead-in plotline for the next John Wick movie.

– a direct quote from Yoda's police statement

It feels like a steady tide of intentional sabotage and enshittification. So they can sell our artistic skill back to us at a profit.

I loathe everything about it.

My computer just forced downloading a "Microsoft Security Update," that came bundled with 5 different AI "features."

This, after forcing me onto the latest version of Windows, which can't (won't) even run my 20-year-old workhorse graphics software.

I'm so sick of this garbage.

Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking.

Some past watercolour flowers.

The tagline/teaser at the top of the cover makes it sound like either Theodore R. Cogswell or Charles A. Spano, Jr is a telepathic space terror, and I have no idea which one of them is.

(Also, wow! Good classic find!)

Just a reminder that New York Grifter Politician eats a NY slice *with a fork.* That should have disqualified the weirdo from all political office and any other human contact.

Okay, but with flowers like that as inspiration, it's completely understandable.

Chicago Pope vs New York Grifter Politician really feels a bit like an escalation of the Great Pizza War, doesn't it?

Keep trying, and keep taking names for the record. Thank you for doing what you can.