Thank you!

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" - 'Songs in Sign Language' YouTube video by CartoonBrew.com Official

I haven't heard a single post about this anywhere--
disney's had their animators reanimate some of their recent iconic songs in ASL?? here's "we don't talk about bruno"??? this is amazing???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrv...

An orange white and black calico cat named Rainbow greeting CC, who is in that late kitten stage, and is a tabby calico, no orange. They sit on a conference table, and Rainbow looks like she's about to either groom or bite CC.

The first cat to be cloned was a calico female named Rainbow (left).

The clone, produced at Texas A&M University in 2001 was named "CC" for Carbon Copy or CopyCat (right).

Notice something odd about the "identical copy"?
Not very identical is she?
But they *are confirmed* genetically identical.

So, I am a little confused. Is that pool you swim in or pool you play on a table? I assume this person would be equally appalled by either, but I am trying to see how the library leads to one of them? Trying to think logically about illogical things is crazy, I know, but I'm stuck on this one🤷

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear throughout.

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE TRIFID NEBULA TO START OFF ITS BIRTHDAY WEEK!!! 🌌

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

a man standing in front of the eiffel tower holding something in his hand Alt: a man standing in front of the eiffel tower holding something in his hand, holding it up in the photo as though he were holding it in his palm.

Here's a fact you can't un-know:

The strongest organism on the planet, pound for pound, is Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

The bacterial pathogen that causes Gonorrhea can 'lift' 100,000X its own body weight. That's like a human lifting the Eiffel Tower.

Let's explore how the heck we can even know that.

Historic $113M investment catalyzes NPR's strategic push for digital growth and network sustainability - Editor and Publisher NPR has received philanthropic gifts totaling more than $110 million — including the largest by a living donor in NPR's history — as a strategic investment in its future. These gifts will be used to expand audience connection, accelerate digital transformation and increase the sustainability of the national NPR Network.

NPR announces it has secured philanthropic gifts totaling more than $110 million -- including the largest by a living donor in NPR's history -- as a strategic investment in its future. This comes after Congress chose to eliminate federal funding for all public media. https://loom.ly/B71nWB8

Two itty bitty 3d printed chickens. One is the classical white chicken with a yellow beak, the other is dark green and black shimmers with an orange head and neck.

my finger hovering over one, showing that this thing is like the size of the first joint of my finger, at most

I am building a flock of the tiniest chickens in so many different colors because next week we are totally gonna do a Teeny Tiny Chicken Fundraiser for our Teeny Tiny Chickens and by Fundraiser I mean Sell People Tiny Adorable Shit. LOL

Sperm whales may make their own vowel sounds, similar to human language Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech

"I'd like to buy a vowel..."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/sper...

Donate to Help The Pioneers Go To Worlds! The Pioneers ask for your support to send a group of our students to compete in Houston for the FIRST Impact Award on a global stage and to experience the highest level of robotics competition.

Hey Bluesky there’s an incredible high school robotics team in Nashville that qualified for the world championships but they can’t afford to get there. Can y’all help me step up for them? $10, $20 … Anything helps! Competition is at the end of the month so we gotta hustle:

So sorry to hear this. I have nothing to do with planetary science, but I remember her from the Voyager documentary 'The Farthest', and I loved how excited she got when she talked about the project. It is one of my favorite documentaries, and I watch it whenever I need to feel hope.

This morning I found out our community has lost someone I consider to be a giant. There just aren’t a lot of women senior to me in the field and though our interests only overlapped with “outer planets” she always went out of her way to support me. I’ve been hearing the same thing a lot today 💔

I am still so, so angry about the elimination of DirectFile. It was great! It was possibly the only time I’ve ever raved about how easy it was to use a government program. But, ah, it stood counter to the GOP position that taxes should hurt and government should be useless to ordinary people.

Two images of a loblolly pine branch showing a few dozen green needles. On the left, small purple-blue beams of plasma shoot out, looking like magic emanating from a wand. On the right are much smaller globes of intense purple color at the very tips of each needle at the top of the branch.

During a thunderstorm, moving clouds generate strong electrical potentials (⛈️-).

This induces electric fields in the branches & foliage of trees. These fields generate an imperceptible ultraviolet corona.

Trees are literally LIGHTING UP around lightning. Let's talk about it.

(📷: William Brune)

We invite you to treat yourself to the healing power of watching a rescued baby goat boinging around.

If you like helping out the native pollinators, this is a really good article!

Very good article! Thank you!

A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.

An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.

An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.

A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

I had read about the mapping of the Greenland coastal area several years ago, this is really interesting.

The Swedish icebreaker Oden had a 1-in-5 chance of reaching Victoria Fjord. No ship had ever explored it. Marine geologists Martin Jakobsson and Larry Mayer made it—and what they found at the glacier face raised more questions than it answered. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

😼 How does this contraption work?

The inquiring feline.. 😽

#cat #curious

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

One reason for journalists to be on BlueSky is that it’s the only social media platform I’m aware of that still doesn’t downrank links to news and other sites. The corporate socials all seem to have adopted a casino approach to their users: lure in with shiny objects and *never show them an exit.*

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it"

both parts are important!

This is the best!

(I wouldn't be brave enough to hold the cake for the goats, they looked like they would take fingers to get that cake:)

This is incredible.

this is the cyberpunk dystopia i signed up for