Garnet from the Red Ember mine of Massachusetts, in a graphite matrix. Backlit.

Clouds didn't deter me from capturing last night's crescent moon and Venus conjunction after watching the daylight occultation. I am enjoying seeing the parallax visible in all the other #astrophotography images. You can tell they are lined up post-occultation in this image. Details in ALT.

i can’t wait to open 473 browser tabs on my brand new computer

News: The Onion is launching the new Infowars July 2. After years of legal wrangling and months of maneuvering by Alex Jones's lawyers to block its takeover, the Sandy Hook families are finally getting their first check... from The Onion. www.ms.now/news/onion-s...

I wasn't prepared to see this face in a tree when I walked around a curve in the trail. #TreeHog Ferguson Trail, Shiawassee NWR June 8, 2025

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

🪶 It's Wednesday! Enjoy a Warbling Vireo!

A Blue Jay and a male Baltimore Oriole battle in a Cottonwood tree. The Blue Jay looks to have the upper hand (upper wing?) here, but was eventually chased off by the Baltimore Oriole.

My Borg cube arrived! Cube of meteorite from the Aletai meteorite of China

Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt

Some extremely sad news today folks. Multi OSCAR and award winning VFX legend, Brian Johnson has died. Stingray, Thunderbirds, 2001, Alien, Star Wars and so much more. I met him quite a few times, shared a show table and dinner once or twice. An absolute influence to many. RIP Brian. So long.

Tokyo Gradients

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Capped off our very fun East Coast Comic Expo weekend with a visit to the Kaiju Lobster at Shediac.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait (as "New Woman"),1896, one of the 1st US female photojournalists. The term New Woman emerged in the late 19thc, first stated by Irish writer Sarah Grand, it referred to an independent women #womensart

GET BLASTED, IDIOT

This is the World Cup content I'm here for.

13th June 2026 05.10

Gene Shalit, longtime “Today Show” film critic, dies at 100

I think I just barely escaped a shockingly savvy scammer trying to get my bank credentials. First, whoever it was had my actual phone number, my actual bank, and the last 4 digits of my account. They sent a "was this transaction you" message that looked almost identical to the ones my bank sends.

Frawg was heavily marketed to teens and young adults when it debuted in August 2005, with an original character mascot, "Frawg", an edgy green frog, who appeared in a variety of outfits including: -Ninja -Board shorts and beach gear -Electric guitar and shades -A white leisure suit (most famous)

there's a house for sale in my town with an 80's edition something awful doom bathroom in it lmao

the charcoals Hockney made in 2014, after a stroke, that show what it is to make something: you show up every day and look at it, wrestle with it, honestly. it’s in the doing. RIP to the master.

An icon of the British Pop Art Movement. David Hockney RIP

it’s finally watermelon time

Note how Felix looks around to see if anyone is watching before he commits his crimes. So very guilty.

And today, on the centenary of Gaudí's death (10 June 1926), the central tower is to be inaugurated (it was actually topped out on 20 Feb)

The place I donate blood gives points that you can exchange for gas cards which means I actually know the current exchange rate of blood for oil. Blood is going for 20.618 times an equivalent amount of oil.

Some color changing garnets from a small deposit in Bekily, Madagascar that was mined briefly decades ago. They're called Bekily Blue garnets. And yes I have most of the remaining stockpile.

Grid Compass (1982)

A male Red-bellied Woodpecker floofing his noggin feathers.

every person who has ever worked retail for even a week has at least one song they can never hear again without being involuntarily transported back to the store

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Back in 1900 these men in bowler hats walked around with their pickle sizing cases selling Heinz pickles to grocers.

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars

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Banana treats for our emu. Thank you Sainsbury’s & M&S for feed support

A male Baltimore Oriole flying across the nature path to chase away a Blue Jay that has gotten too close to the nest.

Here are some fun lizard pics. 1. Western fence lizard 2. Southern alligator lizards 3. Yarrows spiny lizard 4. Texas horned lizard

Temple of Denderah https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/temple-of-denderah-1891

I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it

[Thread] "We will have to rebuild everything and we, the young people, will have to try to do everything so that such atrocities never happen again." I'm honored to share with you excerpts from the memoirs of my dear, late grandmother, Jacqueline. (1/41)

82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

Remember. June 6th 1944.

1991

NOOOOOO. They took Giles! I was just enjoying his appearance in Warehouse 13. www.bbc.com/news/article...

These Star Wars Chess animations on the SEGA CD are freakin' wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEH6...

A Blue Jay after taking a dip in a stream. The bird looked to have run into a cobweb and looks to have gotten most of it off. There's still a bit stuck to the head feathers.

ran some errands at lunch time, and had to pay the fry tax - in accordance with dog law

Solar Activity is on the rise again! A brief sunny spell and a chance to check out Sunspot group AR4455 in the upper centre, currently 'unstable and explosive' Today's CME expected to reach us on Friday! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social