And we're going to paint the bottom of it blue. It'll be the most magnificently beautiful shade of blue you've ever seen. *That* will show those Iranians!

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

🌈⚒️ (unfortunately I have no idea who originally came up with this meme)

In fact, in some ways I prefer Hutton's full sentence: "In examining things present, we have data from which to reason with regard to what has been; and, from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen hereafter."

⚒️ James Hutton was born 300 years ago today. Celebrated today as one of the parents of uniformitarianism, often articulated as "the present is the key to the past". Which is interesting, given that neither "uniformitarianism" or "the present is the key to the past" is found in Hutton's writing.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

June 3, 1991, while filming the active Mount Unzen (Japan), Catherine Marie Joséphine & Maurice Paul Krafft were killed when a pyroclastic flow swept over a ridge they were standing on. They died instantly along with 41 other people, including fellow volcanologist Harry Glicken.

June 3, 1726 birthday of Scottish farmer &"philosopher of Earth" James Hutton ⚒️ ...

Tracking plate tectonics in real-life (sort of)...

Display of a Bohemian waxwing. These are largely found in the northern boreal forests of North America/Eurasia, and are social birds that form large noisy groups-sometimes in the 1000's- as they scour the landscape looking for fruit. 📹 wildsafarisaga on IG

"After he stiffed his waitress, and ran out on his tab, big Mack had a heart attack in the back of a Yellow Cab. By the time the sound of the sirens said the ambulance was coming his heart had stopped beating, but the meter was still running." Timbuk 3, Life is Hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeA2...

The geologist James Hutton was born in Edinburgh 300 years ago tomorrow. Two slices of Scottish geology I (an ecologist) have enjoyed studying. The Moine Thrust Mylonites at Faraid Head, Balnakeil Bay and lichens on a basalt dyke in Lewisian gneiss, Raasay.

*inventing italics* What if the letters looked like they were a little drunk

Since it is illegal for the images of people still breathing to appear on US currency, if Donald *really* wants his face on a $250 bill, he only needs to do one thing. Thanking him in advance . . .

Unfortunately the Mos Eisley Cantina Band have had to drop out of the Freedom 250 show due to too much scum and villainy.

BREAKING: The Trapp Family has withdrawn from Donald Trump's Freedom 250 concert, citing previous unpleasant experiences with fascists.

what's great about staring at a wall is that if you forget what you're doing, you're still doing it

TODAY IN 2024: “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt: That the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.” manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-de...

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

I know this might surprise some of you, but I believe people who treat women badly are unfit for public office (and most things).

DO YOU SING?

Meowie Antoinette

Where are Kid Rock & Lee Greenwood when you really need them?

Man, the Bicentennial was so awesome. This is just a shitpile of events that the rubes supposedly love. But I guess it works to represent where we are in 2026. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Third "season" dropped recently. It's just a 90-minute finale rather than a full season, but it's available now :-)

Good Omens. 1st two seasons are out, 3rd is due soon.

"Better living through chemistry!" "Oops, the chemistry got into the groundwater."

My therapist said I was cured . . . then we laughed and laughed . . . then she doubled my meds.

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

he’s going to be madder about this than the closure of the strait of hormuz

The Gilded Age indeed.

Thanks, Christopher Hitchens.

Likewise, although I never brought it up with faculty. I mean, the whole *point* of doing science is to communicate your findings. If you don't do that, you've wasted your own time.

Who can identify? #books #booksky #reading

Why are they calling the next chapter of our apocalypse “a super El Niño” when “Hell Niño” was right there

They're lucky if there is one witness to a murder, but they require two at a wedding, so that tells you which is more dangerous.

I hope she is treated with the same care and concern as she gave to the Trump-Epstein survivors

i keep seeing this post floating around and... it's just not accurate? the reason that there are a bunch of disused canals around the midwest is that they were obsoleted by better canals over the following 200 years. Commercial shipping in the Erie Canal indeed peaked and declined... in 1951

He was also a *terrible* teacher, a complete asshole, and despised by all of Oregon State's Geology faculty. Just sayin'.

Bong Joon Ho on AI 👀 deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

The US government was legally required to release the remaining Epstein files 169 days ago. They still have not done so.

I've been saying since shrub that the GOP just wants power. They have no idea or interest in what to do with it, they just want to be seen as the ones in control.

My relationships work best when we share the same passion: Me.

On May 23, 2026, Pete Hegseth stood before the graduating class of West Point and told the new Army officers that "The single dumbest phrase in military history is 'Our diversity is our strength.'" West Point's class of 2026 is 40% non-white and 21% female.

The sunstone area north of Plush, Oregon is beautiful for many reasons, and sunstones free for the effort of picking them up is just one. ⚒️

"Mandatorily requesting." I need two volunteers... you and you.

Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Google is so borked

(when adjusted for inflation) The 4th highest-grossing Movie of all-time, winner of 8 Academy Awards, and so beyond iconic there may not even be a word suitably befitting, opened 49yrs ago today. STAR WARS (1977)