There are lots of great moments in the film, but it misrepresents the actual social dynamics of lion prides, while the thematic centering of patriarchy and monarchy is not in keeping with progressive values. I enjoyed this article by @erinbiba.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

The Lion King is one of my favorite films. But I never liked the ending. Simba defeats Scar, the rains magically wash the bad away, and everyone is happy again… with Simba as King. Maybe the lesson should be: the proletariat forms a democracy to have the power to stop this from happening again.

Here’s just a few

Feeling despondent? Try searching “Judge blocks Trump” and “Congress rejects Trump” and note the number of news stories in just the past two weeks. I stopped counting at 15.

A friend sent me this photo of a talus slope. The radial fracture in this granite is astounding. Can anyone point me to literature or other photos of this? If I had found just one of those wedges, I’d have thought shatter cone, but it’s unlikely someone put a lil TNT dead center in the boulder.

Water has the rare quality of expanding when frozen. On this dry ice is a hydrophilic gel bead made up almost entirely of water with a pliable shell. As it freezes, the water decreases in density, dramatically increasing in volume, as the shell is relatively unchanged, leaving this teardrop shape.

Mele Kalikimaka from Pele herself! Two fire fountains in Kīlauea’s lava lake, Halemaʻumaʻu. Unspeakably amazing.

Don’t you just hate airport layovers?

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Watching “The Menagerie” on PLUTO TV right now, and I always love when Mendez asks Kirk if he ever met Captain Pike. 😜

Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

But his emails.

What can I say? The Shuttle Pod crew are tastemakers! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A devastating loss to the Star Trek community and the world. Subrina, you will be missed.

“Sentry”

Gives new meaning to the phrase “ghost riding the whip.” #Tempe

I stopped to admire the brick pattern. I like how this angle shows the three-dimensional layout of the brick facade.

Huge congratulations to the new Astronaut class, announced today, including the outstanding Dr. Lauren Edgar. Only one lunar astronaut was a geoscientist; the Apollo program needed skilled pilots to get to the ground. The future is bright for crewed scientific exploration of the cosmos.

Spotted someone moving a couch in their truck. Ah they must be moving. Ah they must have a cat.

@drnatashadowey.bsky.social I recognize that volcano in your profile pic! My mom and I in May this year:

⚠️ Person detected ⚠️

SO MANY CONGRATS to @maxkozlov.bsky.social for winning @sciencewriting.bsky.social's Clark-Payne award for young science writers! Max's reporting on the impacts of the Trump administration "gives readers straight answers at a confusing time," one judge said. casw.org/news/max-koz...

I really really really wanna

Ready to take a journey through time without ever leaving home? 🐡 ✨ 🌍 Colouring time is a collection of 12 original illustrations inspired by travel destinations though geological time (available to purchase or print yourself!) www.luciaperezdiaz.com/category/all... #Geology #SciArt

I’m thrilled to announce my new position as Research Principal Investigator at the SETI Carl Sagan Center for Research. This career move frees me to pursue my research interests in understanding how volcanoes shape worlds (and what we can do about it). Per aspira ad astra! @setiinstitute.bsky.social

The whole room cheered when Sarris’s ship blew up! What he failed to realize, is that the NSEA Protector was dragging mines!

Watching Star Trek First Contact with a couple hundred Trekkies on giant screens on the floor of a Vegas Casino is something special. Thanks to the new owners of the Rio for showing the #STLV convention some love. They put on a Trek movie every night - Galaxy Quest on Sunday!

Rockposting will now be a thing.

People complain about question askers at professional conferences, but have you ever been to a Star Trek convention? Some gems at this year’s #STLV. “We have time for just one more quick question.” “Hi yes thank you for doing this panel. This is a two part question. Really quick…”

In the wise words of @dasharez0ne.bsky.social admin.

This is the most amazing New York Times Sunday crossword theme I’ve ever seen. Also the names look like a beam pattern when highlighted! #StarTrek #STLV #StarTrekVegas

A unique opportunity to work with one of the best. Dr. Brugman is looking for undergrads, Masters, and PhD students as well as an ExPet lab manager. Huge win for UNM! I’m excited to see her lab grow. Congrats, Kara!

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Throwback to the time I was an invited speaker at my undergrad alma mater, and my mineralogy/petrology prof and I rescued one of those food delivery robots after it yeeted itself into a very deep hole. 📷 @karabrug.bsky.social

Big thanks to Stephen Colbert for reminding me how to get fired with some damn class. 🧐👌

Bee butts. Glass art.

Too many freckles? Ask your doctor about Rezfrexkra (reszjufab mxarr)(R)!* *tell your doctor if you experience headaches, jaundice, or muscle cramps. Side effects may include spontaneous organ explosion, death, and an increase in freckles. Do not take Rezfrexkra if you are allergic to Rezfrexkra.

"Go fuck yourself!" "Get the hell out of San Diego, asshole!" "Go to the Hague!"

The lyrics to “The Circle of Life” go way harder than I realized when I was a kid. Who knew that in 1994 I was vibing to what would become the theme of my midlife crisis.

The vote was tied at 213-213 with 10 seconds to go. Three last minute votes for yea and one for nay came in just before the voting period closed then the few more trickled in. Final vote: YEA - 218 (218 R, 0 D) NAY - 214 (2 R, 212 D) NV - 0 Speaker Johnson read the result to cheers of “USA! USA!”

Members of the House can change their vote until the 15-minute voting period ends. Instead of standing around shaking hands, our representatives should be pleading with any yea voters to change their minds. Even though it probably won’t change anything. They should try. To the very end.

The vote has begun. I’m going to be sick.

@jlball-phd.bsky.social hi!!

I tuned in when they were exploring the inside of someone’s house (how??) and then we drove onto a boat! And then we honked the horn several times!

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

When you’re falling behind at work, already struggling with procrastination, and some more bullshit drops. eos.org/research-and...