Mars and the Pleiades

Hubble's edge-on galaxy NGC 3432

So..... what does that mean?

I'm so sorry

Clowning harder than ever

I mean it's not like it couldn't happen 🤡🤡

Every day I live in fear

HIYA.

So a lot has gone on in the last little bit. NASA recently was ordered to scrub their site of women's contributions to astronomy and astrophysics, even took down their page celebrating women's history month and all the contributions they've made to NASA. So I did a thing and crawled through the wayback machine to find some articles, and decided to put this right here because fuck the government, fuck the orange in charge who told them to scrub their site, and fuck NASA for throwing their people under the bus and bowing to this authoritarian nonsense. This version of the site still has articles on some important figures like Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle, and ISS chief scientist Jennifer Buchli and chief deputy scientist Meghan Everett, who, in their words, "-provide the science strategy and make science recommendations for the International Space Station program, and help make sure all of the science on the International Space Station goes smoothly, from preparing for launch to conducting research on the space station with the scientists and astronauts and returning the science to Earth."

This review for a dog life jacket is sending me

OP: the stall owner I often order spicy 炸串zhachuan(skewers) from whipped out an impromptu Inner Mongolian grassland dance

she's got places to be

She took a midnight train going anywhere

"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box

nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park!

via Axios Twin Cities

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

Benoit Blanc is my favorite kind of detective story character

He is a goofy lil guy

Who fuckin hates injustice

He isn't motivated by some obsession with law or punishment

He is motivated by equal parts a mind that loves trying to solve a puzzle and a heart that has compassion for people and is appalled by those who are genuinely terrible people

Much like two of my other fave sleuths, Charlie Cale and Jessica Fletcher, he's got an uncanny knack for puzzling out mysteries and also a good heart

He's also eccentric and silly he's not dark and brooding and cruel he's this goofy motherfucker and he doesn't care he isn't brooding in some mancave between cases he's playing Among Us with his friends in the bath tub

<3 and hell yes, you can tell that Craig has more fun playing him than he ever did playing Bond honestly, he's a JOY in these movies and I hope they never stop making them as long as he wants to do them :D <3

I still need to watch Glass Onion, but yes to all this!

HE SPARKS JOY <3

Agree

Give us more Benoit Blanc we crave this :D

The voices in my head.

Me: “The food webs we try to teach children and the public are too simple to get the point across. Why do they never bother to show the more intricate relationships between specific species? It can’t be that hard to represent with basic teaching tools... I’ll make the thing!”

The thing:

Me: “....I get it now.”

I have now had several teachers ask me if they can use this image in a class presentation. 

i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

here is a little bat to banish your sadness

This nice little bat reminds me of this other nice little bat who was drawn in the 1200s:

This is the only website where I routinely see people say things like “oh this reminds me of something I recently saw from the 1200s”

wow that fucker just keeps going huh