fuck outta here

This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

I don’t think anything has enraged me quite like the Grok csam and abuse of women and people being largely silent about that. I’m sick to my stomach. People in power just letting this happen. The world people want their kids to grow up in: one where creeps can use AI to sexually abuse them.

Thank you US Senator Mark Kelly for welcoming #AAS247 attendees to Arizona and for your continued support of the astronomical sciences. We’re grateful for your ongoing advocacy for science and discovery. #ExploreAstronomy Photo by © CorporateEventImages/Todd Buchanan 2026 🔭

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

@stechlab-labels.bsky.social has some pretty useful account labels because some of you are very weird on here

It's been nearly 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger explosion, which claimed the life of Concord High School teacher Christa McAuliffe. All this month, we're sharing stories from those whose lives were shaped by her legacy. buff.ly/WWrFkMl

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

The first two hours this morning

Many years ago I visited the Marianas and you fly right over Tinian going to and from Rota from Saipan and the airstrip is very prominent. It's where the planes took off from to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Abstwin", an indie Chinese short film directed and solo animated by A-Qingyu-A. Inspired by the kingdom of Dian (4th century BC). Full film >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-12...

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Happy new year 2026! Here’s the vasilopita I made … my kid won it YET AGAIN for something like the 4th year in a row.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Dan Moynihan was a super nice guy, whip smart, and drew amazing comics. He passed away a few days ago. We are gonna miss him dearly and his family needs your help. www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...

Lots of people think they don't make art because they "lack talent". That's almost never the real reason, though. Most people stop because being a beginner hurts so bad. Embarrassment, shame and avoiding "cringe" stopped me for years. So most people wait to feel confident before they start. But...

Wow. My goodness, artists, get off of there.

Corrected link: adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/

OMG someone made a 64 bit version!!! adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet//...

Man I miss little things like this. I had a cute animated sheep that would bounce around my screen and fall asleep on application windows, purely for fun.

Glad to see them returning. Either you know your stuff or you don’t.

Very grateful that my employer N2K takes a publishing break for the winter - starting tomorrow through January 4th, I'm off mic and off work, and hope to be as far away from phones and screens as possible. Hope everyone has a good holiday and gets some restorative rest.

"We recently identified a breach of our North Pole Magic Systems (NPMS) that may have compromised your personal data—namely, the thousands of hours of footage we have of when you are sleeping, as well as when you are awake."

Genuinely wondering if there has ever been a movie about Greek mythology or ancient stories that has felt right to me ... and the only answer I'm coming up with is no, but Assassin's Creed Odyssey felt like the closest I will ever get

A candle for this darkest night at the winter solstice.

Happy winter solstice. It gets brighter from here 🌞

What a wonderful gesture. I hope many others with the means follow his example.

My god. It's full of stars. This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known. Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.

Whoa the wind out there in Mass right now is NUTS. Hoping I don't lose power.

The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” www.wired.com/story/chrome...

Wait a second, there's a lemon behind that lemon-shaped planet. Story by me in The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

Oh boy, Salem NH huh.

WE HAVE A TELESCOPE 🚀 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been fully assembled here in the cleanroom at NASA Goddard 😀🚀 and is on track to launch next fall!

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Interesting... Plot added #Starlink

I’m struggling to believe this NASA-published photo of red sprite lightning in France is real, but it seems to be so. Red sprites can appear very briefly above thunderstorms, exciting high atmospheric gases to produce vivid colour and form. Who needs aliens? 🧪⚡️🛸 📷 Nicholas Escurat, 3 Sept 2022

Naming things after yourself has the same energy as giving yourself a nickname. Just... no.

Rubin in Bloom At Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, December brings summer light and blooming flowers, offering a unique seasonal view. Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/A. Alexov noirlab.edu/public/image... 🧪🔭

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

This entire weekend

Wishing a happy 77th birthday to NASA psychophysiologist Patricia Cowings, the first Black woman to be trained as an astronaut, and the creator of the Autogenic Feedback Training Exercise program to help astronauts combat the physiological effects of space travel! #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #NASA ⚕️🧑‍🚀

At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?”

further ghosts of yuletide snake advisories past

I say this as a lifelong Masshole and former actual Bostonian: Against WHITE PEOPLE?! In ***BOSTON?!***

This is a nonsense accusation. Bostonians are insufferably douchey to EVERYBODY. Any man or woman, whatever color or creed, can walk down the street confident that someone will tell them to go fuck themselves.

Snow? Is NWS saying snow? And even on the coastal plain? Yes, they are, more or less, for Saturday night into Sunday: "Now, before everyone becomes too excited this system doesn't appear to be a prolific snow maker." So 2 Slices. bostonfrenchtoast.com

Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.

If you're looking for a great read on the state of our space programs -- Moon, Mars, asteroids, robot probes, and don't forget the Oort Cloud -- check out this gem from @joelachenbach.bsky.social: slate.com/technology/2...

If any listener has particularly deep pockets and feels like getting a holiday gift for me, the U87 is an entire $150 off on Sweetwater today. Such a bargain, it's practically free

🧵 Here's Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" quilt.🧪 This is the story.🔭 Back in 1876, an Iowa mom with 7 kids, E. H. Baker, decided that cooking & raising children wasn’t enough for her. She started working on a wool quilt showing the solar system. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/... 1/7