From: Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose (1964), dir. Jiří Trnka, Krátký Film Praha

#LouisWilliamWain

Tabby Cat Washing

Opportunity MARS NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / j. Roger

Opportunity (46) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKWqxC

NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars - NASA After years of lab work, the results are in: A rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled and analyzed in 2020 includes the most diverse collection of

NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars

#Mars 🔭🧪

www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

hearing a lot of jokes about video essays lately. really cool how readily people marginalise and stigmatise millennial ways of knowing

This epitaph goes hard.

The Great Migration
Pavlo Buvdor
2025

love this for him but if Lee Jae-myung had the true heart of a poster he would get on bluesky

🟡 ᴾᵒˢᵗˢ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ⁵⁰ ᵗᶦᵐᵉˢ ᵖᵉʳ ᵈᵃʸ ᵒⁿ ᵃᵛᵉʳᵃᵍᵉ
🟡 ᴹᵃᵈᵉ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ³⁰ ʳᵉᵖˡᶦᵉˢ ʸᵉˢᵗᵉʳᵈᵃʸ
🟡 ᴿᵉᵖˡᶦᵉˢ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ²⁰ ᵗᶦᵐᵉˢ ᵖᵉʳ ᵈᵃʸ ᵒⁿ ᵃᵛᵉʳᵃᵍᵉ
🟡 ᵁⁿᶠᵒˡˡᵒʷᵉᵈ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ⁵⁰⁰ ᶦⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ˡᵃˢᵗ ᵐᵒⁿᵗʰ
🟡 ᴺᵒ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵏ ᵍʳᵉᵃᵗᵉʳ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ² ʰᵒᵘʳˢ ʸᵉˢᵗᵉʳᵈᵃʸ

LOVING LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pencil drawing of a wren.

Good morning.

Word of the Week: Garbage Time of History (历史的垃圾时间, lìshǐ de lājī shíjiān) When the result of a sporting match becomes a foregone conclusion and lesser players are subbed in to run out the clock, announcers often term it “garbage time.” The latest term to sweep the Chinese i...

历史的垃圾时间

‘Coined by the essayist Hu Wenhui in a 2023 WeChat post, “the garbage time of history” refers to the period when a nation or system is no longer viable—when it has ceased to progress, but has not yet collapsed.”, chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/08/word...

veritable gospel cetology

Stylized and textural drawing of common goldeneye ducks in blue and green rippled water, two black and white males and two brown headed females.

Common goldeneye ducks are here! Here's a drawing from a couple years ago when I was finally able to identify them on the water nearby.
#birds #WildlifeArt #natureart #BirdArt

Drawing of two Northern Flickers, one red-shafted and one yellow-shafted, perched on a twisting branch of chokecherry leaves and berries. Floating white flowers and starbursts are around them, as well as a ribbon that intertwines with them and the branch, and changes from red to yellow.

Northern Flickers with chokecherries 🪶 🐡

got to remind them at every opportunity that they don't actually agree on very much at all

Karl Blossfeldt
Art Forms in Nature
Adiantum pedatum. Maidenhair Fern, before 1926

more christian infighting, less ecumenism: good for america, good for the world

loudest damn thunderclap there

This is the Great Snettisham torc. It is made from just over 1 kg of gold mixed with silver & has 64 threads (each 1.9mm wide). Eight threads were twisted together at a time to make eight separate ropes of metal. These were then twisted around each to make the final torc.

🕰️c150-50 BC
🏛️📷 BM

great power competition theorizing about LLMs is some of the most warmed over trash i've ever encountered.

Just needed to mention that also born on this day, but in 1832, was Hermenegildo Bustos. Also painted some still-lifey things. Here with added scorpion and frog.

Marx wasn't right about everything but one sense in which I am an ardent, committed Marxist is the idea that material conditions matter. They matter a lot. So we should work *very* hard to understand them, not just decide our own experience is universal as Protagonists of Reality.

He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

Wow, this story: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

working on a new kind of soup that removes soup stains so if you spill soup on yourself you can just spill soup on yourself and it'll be like you never spilled soup on yourself at all, even though you did, you spilled soup on yourself twice. but i can't get it to work on crab bisque or chinos

There’s something nebulously gender about the fact that a lot of lefties seem to think that capitalism brutally forces you into meaningless office jobs when if you can get the requisite degree and fog up a mirror there’s no shortage of teaching or nursing jobs lol

OH TO BE A WASP LARVAE IN THE PROTECTIVE NUTRIENT RICH MICROHABITAT OF A STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL GALL

someone should sell this guy for a handful of percocet

The year is 20XX

You are a STRAIT RUNNER, brave tanker ship captains racing through The Blockade

Swap your ship’s Shield Polarity to block shots of the matching color. Iranian ships launch Blue Missiles and American ships fire Red Missiles

Painting of a small postcard of vermeer's painting lady in a red hat which is hanging on a wall over a white radiator

Lady in a Red Hat — Mark Entwisle, 2023
Oil on board
30 x 30 cm

Qu'Appelle Valley, Spring (from above Kennell)
Illingworth Kerr
1970