Reminder: You believe in yourself. You offer a unique perspective because of your life experiences. You are making a difference in the world. Your body is beautiful and strong. You are unique and rare and valuable. You are worthy of love. I'm proud of you

She carefully removed the pillows so she could roll the bag at me.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

Billie Piper as Charles Dickins: "I bring LIFE." John Barrowman as Tiny Tim: [gasping a fresh breath. looking around confused.]

From USGS on the other place: Kilauea Message 2025-12-23 20:44:50 HST. Both fountains are currently about 700 feet (200 meters) high and feeding large flows onto the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater.

Annual reminder: The holidays are really fucking hard for a lot of people. Do not assume joy and plenty, especially this year. If you are struggling, you are not alone. All I can offer is knowledge that each day from now until summer comes with a little bit more lite.

Someone called a cold gas giant, "Tatooine-like." The truth is far more beautiful than their fiction's desert world. Learn how I made this illustration of HD 143811AB and its planet in this free Patreon post. Learn the science in a few days over on @cosmoquest.org www.patreon.com/posts/146481...

Incredible story. Garmin has a feature in some of their new glass cockpit systems that can detect if a pilot becomes unresponsive. This weekend it activated in a non-test scenario for the first time www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

In 2016 a weasel fell into the Large Hadron Collider and took it offline. There's a theory that we got blasted into the Bad Timeline because of that, and honestly it explains more than I'm comfortable with.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Recent exoplanet press releases just haven't had the amazing art we're used to seeing and using on @cosmoquest.org's Escape Velocity Space News show. Lacking in art I like for lava world TOI-561, I made my own. Learn how in this free Patreon post. www.patreon.com/posts/starst...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me! bit.ly/4aiUIKQ

Things grant-funded academics are expected to do without being paid (aka non billable hours): 1) Attend department/institute staff meetings 2) Read department/institute emails (including emails asking for donations) 3) Provide written feedback on department/institute plans

Who else is just not functioning at anything resembling their full (or even 20%) potential because it is unclear if we are randomly going to / have gone to war with Venezuela? My to do list: Be joyful on camera about science My heart: Please sit under a dog and cry

How does this happen? My lack of creativity can only come up with violent acts like something hitting it, something bursting, or something hitting it and causing something to burst. @planet4589.bsky.social I'd love to sit in a pub and hear your calculated and also wild speculations.

Can anyone suggest a device that will play Audible, that is cheap, & isn’t just a replacement for my phone? I’d like to have something that is a distraction free device that I won’t be tempted to open social media on. I just want to listen to books. I also can’t be trusted to stay off social media.

Just got a google alert that a grok-pedia page now describes me and I feel weird

During his first term, Trump’s White House dispensed fentanyl freely to staffers www.businessinsider.com/white-house-...

Possible desiccation cracks (mudcracks) in rock found by the Mars Curiosity Rover this week. flic.kr/p/2rLi9Lh flic.kr/p/2rLoXm3 flic.kr/p/2rL7ntV

Someone much more clever than I am pointed out that Frosty the Snowman could be considered a golem, so I ran with that.

Again...

His memory will be a blessing. May all their memories be blessings.

CBS is just Temu Fox News now

I’ve run out of lights…. And the lights I’ve used on part of a 4ft tree were apparently sufficient for a 7ft tree last year. I guess I’m finding more lights

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Apparently, hysterectomy are now gender changing surgeries.

Please join me in signing and sharing this petition, and calling your Rep in the House. RFK Jr. must go!

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

In the new year, when money is hopefully less tight, I wanna do a girls night where we all go through and fill one of these out. #squadgoals

Walking into 2026:

Lack of research funding is the problem and not lack of ideas…

This accurately reflects both my blue sky, and Patreon feeds today. There are so many artists and authors that need our support this holiday season.

On days I don’t stream I wear green. But sometimes telecoms put me in front of the green screen anyways… And then I make everyone suffer with looking at my green screen.

I'm not turning away from the @stlpublicradio.bsky.social pledge drive because I feel the need to bear witness as so many did for our @cosmoquest.org fundraiser over the weekend. Times are tough, donate to things you love to ensure they are still there later.

Zoom has started trying to auto track and frame and OMG this needs to die right now. I move around way to much for this technology!

I was starting to think I was missing something when no one else mentioned the thermo issues. Glad to see @chadloder.bsky.social also see the issues. I want to run the numbers on this...But also I don't.

Im just a girl, sitting waiting on a friend in the Kohls dressing room, trying to figure out if we started a war with Venezuela. While Christmas songs play. As we do now.

Everyone’s favorite interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS crosses the ecliptic plane of our fair solar system southward today. This sets 3I/ATLAS up for its closest passage near Earth at 1.8 AU distant next week on December 19th.

X1.1-flare now! Region 4298 becomes a big-flare player causing an R3-level Radio Blackout on Earth's dayside. Expect HF/VHF radio band degradation, especially near Asian Pacific, Eastern Russia, China, India, & East Africa (colored regions in map). A third solar storm launching too!

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

Thanks, Pamela! You can register through here: nkr.org/KRN489

Can I explain another reason I would prefer a kidney from a living donor? Holy shit.

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

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