On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

A catalogue listing for a plumbing component: Draw Off Cock Washer

Telling another cowboy to stand down:

thank you everyone! poor guy had to have five teeth taken out because of resorption, but I hope he feels much better than before after his mouth heals.

Ziggy's about to undergo a full anesthesia dental cleaning + possible extractions, so good vibes and crossed fingers would be very welcome

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

“Chat,

the thing with polyamory that no one warned me about: if your partners are in another country and you can't marry either of them to get them into your country, you're basically screwed forever

half-expecting Trump to abduct the pope

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

If you need inspiration, I recommend reading up on:
- Poland in the 1980s
- Arab Spring
- Ukraine in 2014
- Hong-Kong after the UK left

Also, don't go to jail over a bsky post; beware of "activists" whose only emotion is anger; don't get infatuated with leaders; last but not least, don't wait.

this is just utterly deranged. batshit insane. I have no words.

people think the talmud is like the protocols of the elders of zion but it's 9,000 pages of "if a donkey kicks a lamp and sets a hay bale on fire, who pays for the hay" in every possible combination of owners of the donkey, lamp, and hay bale

Spectacular images taken by the Artemis II crew of earthset and the eclipse. Just incredible. NASA posts them here and it’s free to access: images.nasa.gov

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

I think Ziggy cured me of the desire to have a cat

Top image with Jerry saying, "You're crying because of Artemis II?" Bottom image with George saying, "The spirit of space travel got to me." Jerry then says, "Alright."

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them
Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life
Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food.
Me: That's--Hold on,

People celebrating (unverified) reports of data centres being hit with with missiles, on Bluesky, which helpfully only runs on a few old Pentium 4 boxes in someone's garage and not in, say, data centres. Some of you people really don't understand a single thing, do you.

some humans really suck. but on the other hand, some are pretty great.

"Something beautiful is going to happen"

Meme: finding out your colleague made something male/male for a client as a... artist 🙂 wedding planner 🙂 cake decorator 🙂 fanfiction author 🙂 electrician 💀

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

KOR the klingon on DS9 greets Jadzia Dax, the Trill who now inhabits a new host body that is a different gender than her previous host: Curzon, my beloved old friend! I'm jadzia now Jadzia, my beloved old friend!

Happy International day of Transgender Visibility! All my homies say Trans Rights are Human Rights / anyone who's cool knows it too. We see you out there. Choose to be yourself and know that we have your back. Much love and respect today (and every day)! 🏳️‍⚧️
#transrights #transdayofvisibility

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

A sign on the fence of a graveyard. It reads "No use of geiger counters on church property."

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

WIRECUTTER Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Eating Them.

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious