i desperately need him to remain in office as long as possible so that in addition to picking the low-hanging fruit he can effect a lasting sea change in nyc civics, culture, politics, etc. so many calcified attitudes and approaches that can be overhauled

absolutely love this, pure mid-century

traveling between the store-bubble, the car-bubble, and the house-bubble with its ring camera, cowering in fear all the while

love it when people discover/rediscover the ship's delightfully absurd design. would be funny imo to see it with TNG's crew and bright lighting. geordi and data performing maintenance on the spiky hellsphere lol

𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖘 𝕾𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖕 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖉𝖆 ✦

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon This shot from Artemis II of the Earth eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026,

This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I've ever seen. Holy *shit*. [kottke.org]

glad the ones around here still have nacho fries

hell yeah! (misinterpreted this for outright exsanguination at first)

from a 2009 episode of the daily show where the people of iran joined us in ridiculing our previous president. i have never forgotten the sheer warmth of the audience's applause

ah fuck I forgot to plan out my future

Strike with the Band | Kate Wagner The world of classical music is neither noble nor fair, though its reputation says otherwise.

Classical music is as exploitative a field as any, with a high risk of workplace injury—and fewer jobs than ever before. Back in 2019, Kate Wagner wrote on the rarefied sphere.
thebaffler.com/salvos/strik...

A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

i feel like if you did this in juuust the right bar in nyc the response would be galvanic, i'm just not sure which bar that is

would give anything for a 6 conductor to actually announce this

wow, you guys had it all

wait till you revisit a chain-smoking sam jackson as a hardboiled sysadmin

can he do, idk, an unbalanced version of russian roulette or something

some fresh art for the subway and i'm digging it

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

HANK: i don’t get it. why am i being reassigned to the border team?

SMOKING MAN: [eating another button of peyote] you misunderstand. the border is coming to you

as a huge fan of all things chris carter and vince gilligan i heard every single one of these voices in my head and this entire thread was a sheer delight. also we called krycek "ratboy" back in the day and jonathan banks needs to say that name with his usual gusto

it all started with sean spicer and spicytime

the only words in the old idle thumbs theme

saw you live for the first time here! can’t wait!

he’s so much hammy fun to watch in that

"Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but, most of all: simply because they can." -G'Kar, "Babylon 5" (1995)

a line of tall trees, its night and a cresent moon can be seen

Jan Mankes’ Evening Landscape, 1912

this was '94 and by today's standards mulder's list is positively anemic

at school we used to do hours of multiplayer marathon 1 and 2 in the computer labs. powermacs of some sort. had a mod called “depleted uranium” that fucked with the weapons in the best ways. best damn times ever