While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history

I wrote about yesterday's data center protest, and the response to the proposed data center from a variety of local political figures: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/06/co-s...

Keep on Rolling Under the Stars - June 26-27, 2026 #timelapse from Crestone, Colorado USA Venus by KaizanBlu is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. #COwx #astronomy #astrophotography

bankrupt in every metric but money.

Capybara Cuteness

The Red-necked Grebe couple is trying to re-kindle the romance with calling and an attempt at some rushing, but Juniors have other ideas (trying to climb on board) 😂 #birds

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Trump said moments ago that it’s “perfect” while also simultaneously claiming they are dealing with the vandal thing so idk his brain is a pat of baked brie

Hubba hubba! BUG SEX

indivisible.org/candidates/j... The Indivisible Colorado Action Network has endorsed Gonzales, because, in the battle against fascism, we need leaders like Julie Gonzales. We’re proud to stand with Colorado Indivisibles to support Gonzales in her run to be the next U.S. Senator for Colorado.

Smoky sunrise in Crestone, Colorado USA June 24, 2026 #COwx

"The project implemented aspects of the Community Food Utility model, which advocates for treating high-quality, healthy food as a public utility (and access to food as a human right), and considers hunger a market failure." Via @coloradosun.com

I caught a nice #meteor last night around 10:41pm MDT in Crestone, Colorado USA The first quarter moon is really lighting up the landscape now. #astronomy #astrophotography

Sauntering - June 22-23, 2026 #timelapse from Crestone, Colorado USA El’s Entrance (Gothic Version) by Mr Smith is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. #astronomy #astrophotography

Like there's one electron and the dog just ate it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-ele...

USPS wtf r u doin?!?!?!

"the capital markets have the object permanence of a toddler, and they would lose a game of peekaboo if they were drafted to play in the league. So you can say, “Oh, actually, it’s not metaverse. It’s crypto. It’s not crypto. It’s Web3. It’s not Web3. It’s something else.”

'Storm in the Mountains', Albert Bierstadt, oil on canvas, 1870.

Via @coloradosun.com "The harvesters are already finished in Texas and Oklahoma, where weather conditions were much the same as Colorado."

STOPPE SERVINGE BEER TO THE MOSQUITOES

Sunset Ireland - Timelapse video - Sunset over West Field Co. Galway, Ireland. #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Galway #Ireland #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #CloudScape #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse

Here's my #timelapse for June 21-22, 2026 from Crestone, Colorado USA Very unusual clouds last night I Was The Only One Who Was Afraid by CLOUDWARMER is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. #astronomy #astrophotography #COwx

Love me some peaches, so do these guys, it seems. youtu.be/3GCrzjVdmSg?...

Happy Solstice, Hippies! - June 20-21, 2026 #timelapse videos from Crestone, Colorado USA More really nice airglow. Nightfall - Relaxing Bass and guitar Jam 3.mp3 by Ido Berg Music is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. #astronomy #astrophotography

Looking for a different potato post but found this gem.

🚧 Squirrel crash on the Raccoonobahn 🚧 #mammals When racing with the other squirrels on the 'Bahn it's best not to stop suddenly. 😂

I think confining their consciousness in a raspberry pi zero, powered by a potato battery, would also suffice.

"And if most of us are in some way neurodivergent and under-diagnosed, what does being neurotypical even mean!?!?!"

The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...

Male pileated woodpecker demonstrates the difference between pecking to communicate (hammering) and pecking to uncover things to eat. Louisville, KY June 16, 2019

Universe of Pride - June 18-19, 2026 #timelapse from Crestone, Colorado USA Really spectacular airglow around the 1:30 mark and beyond space by pat102 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. #astronomy #astrophotography

Good morning friends!

Okay, it's time for a Moist Owlette™ timeline cleanse. Today's moist owlette is "Owlfredo" at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She's an Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) & Animal Ambassador with a big personality. (📷: @zoonewengland.bsky.social via IG)

Y'all ever cringe so hard you're afraid you might prolapse?

Transfixing - June 17-18, 2026 #timelapse of northern view from Crestone, Colorado USA plus startrail version Tropospheric Scatter by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. #astronomy #astrophotography

classic @theonion.com

"Art historians did not know whether to classify it as shamanistic or male egotism." Accidental wiki find today...

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

Moscow June 18th, 2026

"After the AI agent indicated its malicious intent, a silent consensus was reached in the IRC channel to waste the AI agent's tokens, as well as the cost of AWS resources."

I too am on the FUCK RFK Jr train. bsky.app/search?q=fuc...

Lunar occultation of Venus June 17, 2026. Thin clouds moved over just as occultation started. #astronomy #astrophotography

I watched the conjunction of crescent moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus last night from Crestone, Colorado USA I'll post a timelapse in replies. There are a stupid number of satellites visible, almost all Starlink. #astronomy #astrophotography

Brown Pelican sunset. 🪶

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...