I have this theory that there is a fixed amount of Mad in the world and it just fills the shape of its container like water.

@bronteschiltz.bsky.social's chapter reads #TwinPeaks & 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as an ongoing ghost story fundamentally concerned with television, from the uncanny mechanics of the technology itself to its impact on audiences. #NewDirections👻

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I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

Happy 5.25 my floppy friends #floppydiskart #floppydisk

Go out! Look up! Enjoy the Moon! Watch how it changes from night to night (I've had a great view of the first quarter Moon from the garden the last couple of nights). Do not worry about 'special' events like a mini blue strawberry latte hedgehog Moon. Just go and look whenever you like! 🔭

Great panel on Thursday! What would you save from the ISS to tell its story? arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

I posted yesterday about our publication of research on soil toxicity after the LA wildfires. We want the public to understand the key takeaways, so we made a video explaining our results. Please share widely! youtu.be/5qVyfpoFwoA @katecagle.bsky.social @eltragon.bsky.social @nohaggerty.bsky.social

Join us this week as Emily and Alexa chat with NASA Historian Dr. Lois Rosson about the history of illustration in space exploration, how the NASA Art Program came to be, and the dark story behind the rocket emoji. 🚀 Available on our website (link in replies) or wherever you get your podcasts!

😕 "Holmes that's not a smoked kipper, that's naval treaty" - rip Hottest Watson David Burke

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

perfectly expressed

Daniel H. Wilson joined Flora to talk about his sci-fi thriller set in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, and how being comfortable with the unknown shaped the way his character Jim approached first contact with alien life. Listen to the full podcast now: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sci...

Cameras can capture a lot, but not everything. In our #PictureOfTheWeek, Artemis II astronauts work on their photography AND description skills before launch. While NASA can attach cameras to uncrewed flights, a human eye can see subtle color and lighting changes that aren’t noticeable in a photo.

✨ Announcing Shock Detectives! Help solve a space mystery! Hunt for clues where the Sun’s solar wind collides with Earth’s magnetic shield. The case begins here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/vic...

Less than five minutes of postgame coverage on ESPN. Nothing on ESPN+, either. There are so many people at ESPN who want to talk hockey. LET THEM.

A lot of discoveries begin with "huh, that's weird." Astronomers noticed a weird dark patch at the center of this galaxy. Now it seems the void is caused by a record-breaking pair of ultramassive black holes that cleared out all the surrounding stars. 🧪🔭 www.sciencenews.org/article/larg...

I loved researching and writing this piece bc it's about the value of government documents in the midst of chaos. Government documents have always mattered. We have always known that they matter! Access and transparency of government docs = accountability and transparency= core of democracy.

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I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Just published! What an honor to be included alongside so many superb critics in this volume, which was so expertly conceived & edited by @denisoff.bsky.social. One funny thing abt collections is that sometimes you don’t get to read the other essays til it’s out—I can’t wait to learn from these. 🌿

For those of us who love libraries, it's no surprise that they make our lives better. But thanks to a groundbreaking new study from the New York Public Library (NYPL), we now have the data to prove it. buff.ly/3CGF6lU via @everylibrary.bsky.social

There are objectively worse people in the world (Hitler, Pol Pot, maybe others) but nothing activates a Pavlovian anger response in me more than adult men stealing home run balls from children

This is perfect.

I just realized this is also the opening of Nosferatu (2024).

Salieri

me and the girls rolling up to the club to steal your man

Thanks to @goodtape.com for commissioning this piece! goodtape.com/magazine/a-c...

Fresh newsletter is up! Talking about the weirdness of our current media moment, plus job postings & submission news, plugs, & a requiem for CBS Radio & (maybe!) BuzzFeed. Get @goodtape.com in your inbox fortnightly at GoodTape dot com.

So proud of my supervisees! Two presented their theses today, & two had their presentations published here! www.blurb.com/b/12844879-r...

HiRISE 10K: Light-Toned Rocks in Terra Meridiani This observation shows part of a broad expanse of bare rock in Terra Meridiani. Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2s7UuL4 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

A Way of Flying, from the series Los disparates (The Follies) by Francisco Goya, who died #onthisday in 1828. Produced 1815–23, it would be the Spanish artist's last major series of prints. See more here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #OTD

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Here she is at the March on Washington wearing her Resistance medals, incredible flex

Fun fact: I'm currently working on National Park Service Historic American Engineering Records (HAERs) for the Perseverance backshell and parachute (because of the Ingenuity photos). And just today, I wrote about the EDL video that shows the parachute unfurling from below! youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg?...

Its not a business! It’s a public good! And it’s not “running out of money,” either. Republicans deliberately created this illusion by requiring USPS to prefund pensions *75 years* into the future. Literally no other agency (or business, lol) requires this.

First ever professional women's hockey game at TD Garden 👏🏻 #BostonFleet

“Time for the birth of terror. Me.” goes incredibly hard

I caught Daniel Arsham’s solo exhibition the last day it was open T Galerie Perrotin here in NY. I really love the way he explores architecture, memory, and tech in his work.

A wonderful 38ft mural of the late great KURT VONNEGUT - who left us 19yrs ago today - in his hometown of Indianapolis.

"Planet Earth - you are a crew" ❤️

*slaps masthead of the magazine* You can fit so many words in this bad boy shipping next week so still time to order a copy and be amongst the first in the world to hold it in your hands & fill your head with all manner of fantasy, folklore, fairy tales & fungus shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...

“On Saturday evenings,” wrote opium-eater and peripatetic Thomas de Quincey, “I have had the custom, after taking my opium, of wandering quite far, without worrying about the route or the distance.”

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hiromu Kira, The Thinker, 1930. Also, Mood.

This image circulating is fake. The front porch was much larger than that and held several Navy recovery personnel as well. Real images can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...

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