I'm so sorry Imani. I know how loved your doggos are. 💔

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.

A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.

Let's talk about the science here.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

A mosaic of a yellow tulip-like flower surrounded by blue-green and iridescent glass and flecks of color with gray grout, in a black frame.

Took a mosaics class today and don't hate the results.

This is fantastic. Telling it like it is from the start.

Waking up to discover that evidence has been released proving something we all knew. The Supreme Court's efforts to stop the Obama clean power plant rules were rooted in explicit, corrupt efforts to protect the fossil fuel industry.

This made me cry. But I agree it is okay to choose yourself. 💜

Thinking about the season finale for The Pitt and how the lady who wanted the wild birth is alive but also now probably also heavily traumatized from losing all agency over her birth plan (not too mention the medical trauma itself).

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Cat escaped the back porch again last night by sneaking through the top of a screen, but when I went to find him, he was standing outside the porch on his hind legs, paws on railings, trying to figure out how to get back in before being caught. Picked him right up. Not sure he is very good at this.

Be the temporary & insignificant lump of organic material you wish to see in the world.

Flat Lick Falls
Jackson County, KY

#waterfallwednesday #hiking #nature #naturesky #eastcoastkin #ECK #photography #forest

jackfruit tacos Just 25 minutes to whip up for a perfect weeknight meal. So delicious even meat eaters will love this! Vegetarian, gluten-free.

Made jackfruit tacos last night and had forgotten how much I genuinely enjoy jackfruit. This recipe is super quick and delicious: itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/easy-vegan-j...

I love that she is back to posting prolifically again. I know the cookies are amazing!

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

Filled with so much melancholy today and not even sure I could tell you why.

Been on this particular trip many times, but it never gets less crazy: Every single site that has ever handled fossil fuels, ever, is toxic. You are surrounded by this legacy, you see it every day, and if we labelled even a fraction of it, it would blow the politics of energy transition wide open.

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine Tipsters revealed the acting director for the Centre for Disease Control is blocking publication of a pro-vaccine research article.

“… the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has secretly blocked publication of a report that concludes COVID-19 vaccines are a significant boost to public health…the report found that COVID vaccines drastically minimize risk of hospitalization after catching the virus.”

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

The absolute negligence and horror and repugnance of this.

Artemis 2 was the furthest human voyage from Earth. Per the final JPL Horizons trajectory I estimate the max distance from the geocenter was 413145 km at 2304 UTC Apr 6 (about 4 km less and 1 min later than PAO's report at the time). (1 / n ).....

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Koch, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, April 10 at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

Ugh..demogorgon?

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh for science fiction.

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sanghu Mandanna, if you want pure comfort and magic.

An Immense World by Ed Yong, if you're into how other creatures perceive the world.

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a delight.

incredible how low the bar has gotten, that it feels like a genuine ray of light when a terrible far right politician doesn't pretend he won an election he lost, isn't it