Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

i really have too much power in this game #tomolife

Cave bear <3

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

girl take us with you

Three panel comic. (SPOILERS for the movie Arrival, but it’s like a decade old at this point so personally I think it’s chill.) Panel 1: the aliens from arrival are communicating in their circle writing language to Amy Adams’ character. Panel 2: Amy Adams is back with the other humans, standing in front of a whiteboard, and frantically trying to explain the meaning of their language, connecting their symbols to words like “WAR”, “HUMAN”, “PURPOSE”, etc. Panel 3: the aliens are hanging out drinking brews and one of them is like, “and then I drew a circle with a bunch of squiggles!” His buddies are cracking up.

Arrival

What if we just remove.. all the copilots

i have an AI idea for investors. i want to buy a house and ay I need you to pay for it.

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes. It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Me, being led away by the secret service after releasing thousands of gophers at the Capitol: "You don't understand! It's a scientifically proven way to revive a desolate place! I'm a patriot!"

www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

Проснулись, потянулись

In 1988, a young graduate student at Cornell University released the first destructive Internet worm. Late one night in November of that year, it crashed thousands of connected computer systems and startled computer administrators and government officials alike. Shortly after that incident, I learned about it from my supervisor who was also this young man's father. As I sat with Bob Morris in his office that early morning, he motioned me to shut the door so he could try to get away with smoking in the government office building. He always got caught, but he fought the rules anyway. After I returned to the side chair, he spoke for a few minutes about his mixed feelings of filial pride and parental frustration. But after only a few comments, we both found ourselves lost in personal reflection. Bob slowly twirled the unfiltered cigarette in his nicotine-stained fingers and stared at the smoke rising from the end. We were both aware a line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed.

In 1988, two men sit in a room. One of them is cryptographer Bob Morris, the father of Robert Morris, who had just released the first Internet worm.

"We were both aware a line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed."

(John Mccumber, Assessing&Managing Security Risk in IT Systems)

Six Yoshis peeking down at the camera with the Yoshi's Island text box in the middle reading "Got any games on your phone?" Original screenshot from the latest trailer for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book for Nintendo Switch 2.

Comic. [Person with long hair announcing news. There are images of a sun with a smiley face labelled “last week” and a sun with a frowny face labeled “today.”] PERSON: A warning for solar flares and geomagnetic storms has been issued after new images from the solar and heliospheric observatory show that the big smiley face on the sun has turned into a frown.

Solar Warning

xkcd.com/3215/

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

1 Weatherman: Drive with caution, there is a dense fog advisory. 2 Guy *looks out window.* 3 Dense fog: A pound of bricks has to weigh more than a pound of feathers. It just has to. 4 Guy: Wow it’s dense alright.

We made a comic about fog.

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Morning.

Rupert the pigeon. He is divine.

I go to work so that he'll never have to know what a Jira ticket is

Programmer here 🙋a blob is a gelateneous creature that eats humans.

The upper galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partners is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of the UGC 1810 -- in particular its blue outer ring -- is likely a result of wild and violent gravitational interactions. The blue color of the outer ring at the top is caused by massive stars that are blue hot and have formed only in the past few million years. The inner part of the upper galaxy -- itself an older spiral galaxy -- appears redder and threaded with cool filamentary dust. A few bright stars appear well in the foreground, unrelated to colliding galaxies, while several far-distant galaxies are visible in the background. Caption credit: NASA

happy valentine’s day, here’s a space rose for you 🌌🌹

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

You're now breathing manually.
You're now blinking manually.

You've been bamboozled.

Keep scrolling, nerd.

A crescent moon shining above Edinburgh castle, that is lit up with floodlights. In the foreground the dark outline of Arthurs Seat, the mountain in the middle of Edinburgh city. In the background, whispy clouds and the distant mountains of Fife. Credit: https://www.tomduffin.com

"It is the moon, I ken her horn,
That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie;
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,
But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!"

Lots of despair & sadness watching the 🇺🇸news today.
I'm hoping Burns can lift your spirit today.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Happy #BurnsNight🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (BULLET). RGB Filters: 444, 300, 150
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji, program 06882. CRVAL: 104.613038, -55.947702
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Just finished this #embroidery - for sale in the #Etsy shop!

www.etsy.com/listing/4445...