this is about to transform into a Decepticon called Lavatron or something, you can't fool me

And finally

goblins

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre. The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle. The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"

"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent." Some thoughts on student loans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

We're so excited to share the results of the ALMA large program ARKS that studied the distribution of dust and gas in a sample of 24 exoKuiper belts. With @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social, Meredith Hughes and a large collaboration, we just published 10 papers presenting our first results arkslp.org

Inspired by @toasty.cx saying modern design is ass, a reupload of my lil design banger thread from twitter alt text contains model onfo where I have it!

UK home secretary here. If you were reading this without prior knowledge of the UK political system, you'd have no idea which of the three principal parties vying for power she belonged to.

Me pitching a train ad campaign

Damn Severence really was about being in britain

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

one of the reasons the current Labour party leadership - who are COMPLETELY INCAPABLE of enacting any form of policy despite having the biggest majority in decades - are so embarrassing is that they're student politicians. they literally just wanted to get elected they didn't realist there was a job

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment

For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions. Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/ Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.

"I'm a woman" ad spot to help fix company

Today's struggle for weird centrist British War Dads I see

John Green is going to be fucking furious

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Godspeed, buddy

I'm reminded again of my friend Lexi's superb piece in the spinoff in the wake of a pandemic era worldcon nominally held in Wellington. The tendency for those from afar to project fantasies onto this blank space that is in fact real place with give or take 800 years of human history is a real one.

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

this is a Larger Pacific Striped Octopus and no joke they are EXTREMELY interesting, because they're one of the only social octopuses. they even pair-bond!

might just throw out all the pact of night modifiers on my next Hades II run because I'm absolutely sick of getting bodied by Prometheus then almost but not quite beating Typhon.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

The lineup is looking trashtacular so far 🦝✨ Only a few days left until launch!! (please send me strength)

[In development] Blake’s 7 reboot 🚀 "Emmy-nominated The Last of Us director Peter Hoar has launched a production outfit and is working on a reboot of cult British sci-fi classic Blake’s 7." We'll see if it really happens, but I'm interested.

what is that thing | patreon.com/lubchansky

I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”

what have they seen

Rabbit, Sweden, 15th century

one argument for "natural" burial instead of cremation is that you get to be part of a gigantic mycelial network

www.planetary.org/articles/091... Not the source, but an explanation

I’m playing both sides by doing nothing, this is grown up politics. Nothing is more serious in politics than nothing is what I always say. I stand for Nothing, Nothing is what you get. Thank you -KS

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

For anyone who missed it, here's a summary of Keir Starmers speech this morning: the UK govt will not stand up to Trump.

This would not happen in a democracy, which is why, if we are serious about our commitment to it, we must accept we do not currently live in democracies and that moving towards such a system would require radical change rather than faith in the status quo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

x6ud.github.io#/ Very cool site where you can look up animal skull reference angles and pair that with pictures of the animal at that angle

I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.

lot to be angry about in the world rn so I'm at this moment choosing to be annoyed by fake "ye olde englisheth" on novelty t-shirts

There's also going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance for some folks in British politics when they discover that France is the UK's closest ally now.

Gott ist tot.

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything