#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION Target: #Dione Time: 2011-10-01 Body Center Distance (km): 488391.389 Camera: 15x Narrow Angle CLEAR Filter opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/instr... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

When John Cocke and Mike Disney made the first observation of an optical pulsar, #OTD in 1969, they had a tape recorder running. You can listen to them realizing they've made a discovery! 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

I have a fascination with those electric devices that generate chi, detect ghosts, or any other esoteric stuff. It's always sad when someone opens them up and it's just a 9V block powering a LED instead of some actual arcane circuitry. Like, at least make it interesting.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

ew Farage jumpscare on the TL

Not on NASA social: The latest Surface Temperature Analysis "Earth's global surface temperature in 2025 was slightly warmer than 2023, but within the margin of error. Since record-keeping began in 1880, the hottest year on record remains 2024." data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

TIL if you combine Ghost, Reaper, Scorpion, and Chipotle in your Arrabbiata, you get something of a Time Bomb version that goes on forever once it set off. Also a really pleasant Capsaicin high. Weee!

Need a WebMD site but for Elder Scrolls diseases.

Hey, let's go for a dive! You and me. I promise it will be interesting and only a little scary. We will leave the world of profane matter and visit the dark behind the horizon. To go deep, we need to go up. And stick our heads out a bit. -->

I had no idea lemon pigs were even a thing, but I feel like the tradition could be improved with the application of proper mummification rites.

Hey, let's go for a dive! You and me. I promise it will be interesting and only a little scary. We will leave the world of profane matter and visit the dark behind the horizon. To go deep, we need to go up. And stick our heads out a bit. -->

Memory Roadside Picnic

The CME will arrive at Earth in about 20 minutes. There may be an immediate substorm triggered from the shock of this solar storm. Mid-latitudes in central Europe, be on the lookout for auroral displays appearing to the north when this happens. Webcams: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

[Common Loon Call]

TIL some spiders fluff up their silk so fine it creates adhesion via van der Waals force instead of glue. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribellum

I feel like Starmer would only ban X if that was part of some larger, more harmful boomer bullshit scheme. Like mandatory use of a BritNet browser, powered by Netscape 2.0 Or foreign network packets need to go through the Royal Mail or something.

Just saw a marten slink through the garden. This makes me happy because 1. marten and 2. I get to use the word 'slink' in a sentence.

Miller really revels in his super-villain role, doesn't he?

shromp (n) 1. a very big shrimp 2. the onomatopoeia for biting into a very big shrimp

When your gift is a Great Success www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

today my work was checking and correcting about 900 individual calls of a function for instances with implicit type conversion in one of the parameters. My brain isn't even fried, it has shrunk into a dry pebble of aerogel the size of failed walnut.

For me it's Mononoke, but Nausicaä is my favorite protag. Also has my favorite world/item/style designs.

cacophony of limb, liquid, lingering, in heatloss and metamorphosis stumbling, gilt-clavicle misshapen through fractal wings; spills one thread of refined sun

Dot knows she's not fooling anyone. she just likes to be dramatic

The thing with 19th century contraptions is that they are the most contraption-y contraptions throughout all time, which makes them the best contraptions. Just like 1960s Ladas are the most car-y cars.

This is the most annoying shit ever; I open a pdf with a two-page table of items and the reader app spams "oooo wots of words, let my widdle shitbot summwarize it for you uwu". It's a fucking item list! And it shoves more "activate shitbot" buttons in my face than a scam site has download buttons.

1969 Panasonic RF-60

Not surprised by the milquetoast EU response, but at the very least they should back this up with economic pressure. And phrase it in words a five year old can understand.

Waking up to the US striking Caracas and abducting Maduro. what the fuck

to be honest, even if the quote feels a bit stilted it is kinda refreshing to hear a politician talk like that if you contrast it with "I'm highly educated. I know words. I have the best words."

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Extra style points for foregoing the main-gauche to remove breadcrumbs from you opponent's clothes during a spar instead.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899)

Just now realizing that the Renegade Master only deals D4 damage.

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me three number 9s two 45s and a number 6 with extra dip

🔭 Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy Image Credit & Copyright: Valter Binotto apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Bronze helmet-mask, unearthed in the Roshava Dragana burial mound southwest of Stara Zagora, Thracian, 1st century AD. Archaeological Museum of Stara Zagora

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