NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras and zodiacal light is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

One of the reasons Julius Caesar was assassinated was because he started putting his own likeness on Roman coins, where previously that was reserved only for people who were already dead.

@ellyxir it’s all a bunch of nonsense but when it works it feels so futuristic and delightful. my outside lights come on when i pull up to the house at night. turning off my phone alarm turns my bedroom light on. but mainly, the killer feature is not having to get off the couch when there’s a […]

@mediapathic.bsky.social i think for me personally i get so much decision fatigue that i decide i don’t want the thing, or anything in its category, after all

amdani SANTATION ZOHRAN MAMDANI PROMISES TO FILL ALL HOLES FOLLOWING POTHOLE INITIATIVE WITH DOT

best headline ever

Last night I had a dream that Oklahoma decided it deserved beachfront property, so it just started conquering every state west of it until it finally touched the Pacific. They renamed it Oklahomageddon [map of the United States where the state of Oklahoma is highlighted in bright red. A long, thin red rectangle extends from the western edge of Oklahoma's panhandle straight across the map, cutting through New Mexico, Arizona, and California until it reaches the Pacific Ocean.]

This is beautiful

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If, like me, you are delighted at hearing crowds get excited about things you don't understand in sports that are meaningless to you, may I introduce you to the 2011 Japanese Precision Walking Competition? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINu...

Scott Horton @ @scotthortonshow Mar 13 "Can't build a decent car. Can't build a TV or a VCR worth a fuck. Got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people, can't get health care to our old people. But we can bomb the shit out of your country, all right!" —Carlin Aaron Rupar @ @atrupar Mar 12 Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."

That's the reason Carlin got more angry over the years. He didn't do stand-up anymore. He just told us how it really is. And we laughed our asses of. Well..

No lie, it came from Industrial, Magickal, and Cyberpunk cultures. If we’re already talking about dismantling consensus reality, gender just seems like a freebie.

i thought i was gonna hate-read this article on how much New Yorkers get paid, but it was oddly fascinating to read about how people make money and the joys and anxieties specific to those careers […]

daylight will never truly be saved until we rid the world of morning people

Criminal life hack: Wear extra fingers so photo / video evidence will be inadmissible as it will appear to be Al generated. (shows prosthetic finger that can be worn like a ring)

What five items would you place in a time capsule? Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.

i love this. Solnit doesn’t miss
https://mastodon.world/@longreads/116171829501418194

A vertical mast with a large horizontal ring at the top, supported by an array of wires, in a marshland. Other antennas and supports are visible in background.

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.

All the pixels, none of the risk of sea sickness or scurvy, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

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A receipt for a cappuccino. The name field reads “MAN WITH COOL HAT”.

Oh my coffee’s here.

"You will certainly lose your job to a competitor who is fluent in AI usage."

Counterpoint: I have no competitors.

A straight, long banana, spooning with a banana of a more average shape and size.

The sheer audacity of this giant banana. Banana for scale.

@mediapathic.bsky.social truly, the spirit of romance is dead

I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise […]

@2avesag.as also! Amtrak has a fare level that’s fully refundable (not even a voucher for future use, refundable to your original purchase method). and you can cancel a trip up until departure time.

so nothing stopping you from booking a trip a few months out, speculatively.

Marc Benioff asked international employees to stand up at a all-company meeting then made a "light hearted joke" about ICE agents coming after them. Real class act, this guy

popular tweet: Being a billionaire must be insane... like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Elon Musk Y @elonmusk X.com For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

@mediapathic.bsky.social yeah i mean it’s not my jam but i’m happy for him and any art that pisses off the fascists is good art

The Death of Direct File Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I thought I'd check out the winter olympics by watching some ski jumping.

Then I ended up watching the bobsleigh, downhill, freestyle skiing and luge as well.

It's a slippery slope.

A schoolgirl in breads, a sweater and will skirt looks out a schoolhouse window into an apparent gray day. Two captions appear. Caption 1: Once the weather gets warmer, I'll be unstoppable. Caption 2: Unless it gets too warm. Then I'll be stoppable again.

@atax1a i don’t really disagree but my “haha only serious” opinion is that i do genuinely think Fahrenheit temps feel warmer in winter

??? (Map of Connecticut titled “Future ‘Feels Like’” with forecasted temperatures in the negative double digits, from -16 along the shore to -28 inland)

????? (Photo of a roof rake removing snow from a roof)

??????? (Illustration of a method of melting ice dams using an old stocking filled with salt, and you put it on your roof, and i promise i am not making this up)

Look at what they have been demanding your respect for all this time

TEMPERATURES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE NEGATIVE

YEARS OF SHOVELING SNOW yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for PICKING UP ICE AND PUTTING IT SOMEWHERE ELSE

Want to feel cold anyway, for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called POPSICLES

“Yes please give me a roof rake. I need to prevent ice dams […]