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Slán go fóill, Máire.

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A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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Paper Trails. Fifty early 20th Century, pre-war tourist attraction maps from Japan. We found these last year whilst rummaging around Tokyo, have photographed and translated them & present them in our new book '...

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Front cover of the Star Wars storybook.

Page from the Star Wars storybook featuring the deleted scene with Biggs and Luke.

Amazing. For nearly fifty years, this Biggs scene has only existed as a page in my old Star Wars storybook.

Front cover of the Star Wars storybook.

Page from the Star Wars storybook featuring the deleted scene with Biggs and Luke.

Amazing. For nearly fifty years, this Biggs scene has only existed as a page in my old Star Wars storybook.

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

He'll be back

Spain’s first astronaut

Today proved that the loudest 2A defenders are—and always have been—full of 💩.

Having synaesthesia is a lot like being a twin – we don’t know any different Identical twins Helen Besgrove, a marketing executive, and Kirsty Neal, a GP, share their different experiences perceiving the world

Having synaesthesia is a lot like being a twin – we don’t know any different

If Apple were actually smart, their auto-correct wouldn't immediately default to a random proper noun.

"I see you typed 'shelves' but I think you meant 'Schegel'."

I'm a home-bound news-junkie, disheartened by far-away travesties, but the thing that keeps me energized are localized acts of kindness and empathy—from me, to me. And I see it in their eyes. We all need this. And it will get us through.

Signage in Irish and English

I love that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”

Two images of fiery infernos. They are not related but appear to be. One is from a Marvel trailer, the other from the war in Ukraine.

The feed creates its own visual narrative.

If their latest CEO is looking to make a few extra bucks, I highly recommend a little paperwork reduction. Perhaps they could employ a plucky lobbyist to loosen those pesky regulations.

My one-year affair with UHC has come to an end after they botched my company's benefits plan. More than actual healthcare, I believe my money was mostly spent on the three, thick, double-sided pages of repetitive mumbo jumbo that came with every EOB mailing.

I once saw Isiah Whitlock Jr. on stage at the Public and he was DYNAMIC.

Are family curses transferrable?

Eventually today's boring payroll record become tomorrow's fascinating database.

Evergreen since 10,000 BCE

Spoiler alert: he doesn't complete the circle.

AI is for people who wish they had synesthesia.

Always fascinating to see electoral maps from Georgia knowing that the Black Belt has origins going back 100 million years:

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One magical thing about living in NYC is occasionally hearing and feeling the collective roar.

Can’t go to hell if you don’t have a soul.

The Alien 3 score by Elliot Goldenthal is haunting, with lots of percussive noise that suddenly bursts into symphonic beauty. Doom and hope, intertwined. Gives me chills whenever I hear it.

If your pale white skin is so supreme, then why do you cover it with gruesome ink and bright orange paste?

This cracks me up

I remember coming through here at age seven. It was impressive. If he can knock down the peoples' house, the people can knock down all of his eyesore towers—starting with the hideous one on Fifth Avenue.

The baseline for a normal, functional adult is the ability to clean up their own messes.