While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.
NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...
The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.
NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
Also: look up Zhang Shan. She won gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1993 in skeet shooting.
Skeet shooting had been a mixed gender event since the 60s, but after her win, they segregated the genders. And in the next Olympic Games, they literally didn’t even have a women’s skeet shooting category.
Our social media team is absolutely killing it. 🔥
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Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.
The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.
The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.
Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.
This is digital sovereignty being taken back
Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.
Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.
Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.
In a nutshell. 😊
The Venn diagram of storygraph/Goodreads/Amazon reviewers who complain constantly about 'telling not showing' and those who cannot comprehend subtext or allusion if isn't spelled out to them is basically a circle.
anytime I see an indie bookshop, I go in & buy something; few things give me hope like indie bookshops
Travel. Meet people. See the Milky Way from a dark sky location. Watch the Northern Lights dance. Find whales and listen to them sing.
My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.
This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!
Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
I muted this throwaway nothing of a hockey post last night because my notifications were going bonkers.
Kept going all night. Picked up a lot of followers and blocks from it, too, I guess.
Clear evidence that negativity gets attention?
“Wreath”, 11x14 inch acrylic on cradled panel. Trying to express the joys and sorrows of this spring and others. . #womensart, #figurativeart, #contemporaryart, #blueskyart
dude they love these random dog toys so much lol
Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why
"Is Bluesky down?" we ask on Bluesky, our posts a monument to our stupidity
Looks like today might be the day that an unusually large amount of work gets done in the heritage sector.
We would like to apologize that our recent content has been so awesome that it's been causing BlueSky to glitch.
We will return to posting an endless stream of utter rubbish immediately.
Again: Sorry. 😳
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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
The next Health Minister of Hungary.
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
As creatives: “Self doubt lives in all of us. And while we may wish it gone, it’s there to serve us. Flaws are human, and the attraction of art is the humanity held in it. If we were machinelike, the art wouldn’t resonate. It would be soulless.”
Rick Rubin
Magyar says he’s starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
“The EU doesn’t have to worry anymore.”
Fair point, also true of Tusk in Poland in 2023, and good recommendation!
TFW you lose in part thanks to a system you made to prevent you from losing
First foreign trip as PM: Poland
Second: Brussels
