New frog album goes crazy (video unrelated)

Bo the cat

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DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and will continue.

An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky!

DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology
newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...

The layout of the staircase is nonsensical, the boxes slide wrong, and the cats move unlike any cat that has ever existed

Light pollution is so fucked up. The milky way is the coolest shit I've ever seen, how did we find a way to ruin it

This is an especially interesting point considering that the biggest missing piece of the Artemis program right now - functioning lunar landers - has been outsourced to spacex and blue origin

Jupiter balloon mission when

Venus balloon mission when

Basil the cat standing on his back legs to lick a treat I'm holding above him

Basil open mouth licking the treat. It's just frozen wet cat food we froze in a tiny ice cube tray btw

He lick

little frozen treat enjoyer

4 pics of basil the cat. He is a black and white ragdoll

It's Basil's 4th birthday 🎉

Talking to any American about the Korean war makes me feel insane

The most obscene part is that the existence of modern North Korea - an isolationist dictatorship that is hostile to the US - is viewed as a cause/justification for the war, rather than its direct outcome. It's totally backwards

The planets are *almost* on the ecliptic plane; Jupiter's orbit is tilted 1.3° from it, which is enough to make it go about 18 million km above and below it

Also, consider that there are millions of unknown asteroids between us and jupiter, and they're a complete non-issue when we send stuff there

The solar system is roughly a trillion trillion times larger than the ocean. If you drop a body off and you don't keep track of it, nobody is ever gonna see it again

Asked by a NASA representative on Wednesday how he felt knowing that his creation was headed to space, the second-grader said he was “really, really, really, really, really, really, really surprised and very happy.”

This is the nicest thing I've read in months

An image of Earth from space

An image of Earth from the window of a spacecraft

NASA released two images Friday taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman as he and the other astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft continued their journey in space.

📸: NASA

SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Does a doctor have a First Amendment right to tell you that ingesting arsenic will cure your athlete's foot? Why would that be different from this?

"he has no point to make" would be harsh from a literary critic but andy weir says it about his own writing

I was with a group of spacecraft engineers and one guy (who had some serious "uses chatgpt" vibes) brought this topic up in a positive light and the rest of us descended upon him like a pack of rabid dogs

too heavy

He does fit very nicely into the suitcase

Basil the cat sitting in my suitcase licking his paw

Basil the cat sitting in my suitcase

Basil the cat sitting in my suitcase

Helping me pack

Also, if you're interested in a print, I'm selling em for $30; I don't have any kind of formal shop, so just DM for info. I'll probs just see how many folks are interested and then print/ship however many I need in about a month or so. Prints are 2'x3' and come from my local union shop.

middle right of poster, showing caryophyllales and some other stuff

upper right, showing most of the asterids

top middle, showing the fabids and friends

middle left, mostly showing the malvids

I have no idea how to write actually helpful alt text for these, sorry lol

Big overview of a poster of a seed plant cladogram. Probs will not be legible due to bluesky compression, so I'm posting some closeups in the other images

Flyer for an art show titled "Symbiosis: an exhibit of biological art", 3/27 4-6pm & 3/28 9am-5pm, Campus store, 1209 E University blvd in Tucson. Show is being hosted by the U of A neuroscience dept btw

lower right corner of the poster, showing the gymnosperms, magnoliids, and basal angiosperms

closeup of the lower left of the poster, showing monocots

After months of fact checking and revisions, I printed out my plant cladogram poster and submitted it to this biology art show going on today and tomorrow. If you're in Tucson, check it out! The main png here will be illegible due to compression, so I'll post some close-ups in the replies

Fig. 1 for the ages

Remembered (derogatory)

I miss trilobites. Bring back my boys