happy friday 🩷

I just learned the most Massachusetts coded fact ever.... Someone mapped out Paul Revere's ride (yanno from grade school, the British Are Coming guy) to where the modern roads are now. He could stop at 11 Dunkins along the way.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I've now spotted this little jumping spider on different days, so it seems this is her regular patch. I've dubbed her Sister Spinnster, and we're friends now, it's the rules

THIS IS SO WELL DONE. ⭐️ Have a listen. Also: content creation is making all of us slowly lose our minds.

A wish sandwich.... youtu.be/jYyBZE0kBtE?...

I’m reposting the broth video because sometimes I just need to see it

Brings a tear to the eye, it do

Today is Narwhal Appreciation Day so if you haven't already please sign my petition to have their name changed to "tunacorns"

If you’re a nerd for the 80s, especially 80s anti-Reagan leftism, this is rather historic.

This was a totally enjoyable watch... Ash Soan & Ariel Posen Cover "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" On The Spot

people are always asking me “I wanna read some poems but I hate everything I read in high school” to those people I say “reconsider Emily Dickinson, and read this blog” here are 11 good poems you should read, with links to Poetry Foundation prints www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658341

Totally thought this was a furry who'd scored some very nice materials for their fursuit 'til I read the alt text

Baby beans! 🥰 #FosterKittens #ToeBeansTuesday #cats

Alt text hall of fame right here.

"Day 066, orbit 1021 – As our trajectory carries us over the Kazakh steppe, bathed in shades of beige and ochre – home to Soyuz lift‑offs and landings – Lake Balkhash suddenly comes into view, a vivid oasis in turquoise tones", shared esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot yesterday on social media.

Because some comments make me think people missed the PSAs I do semi-regularly: if you were born before 1987, you should get a MMR booster now. The second childhood dose of MMR wasn't added until 1989, and folks who were older than 2 (the age for the 2nd) may not have gotten it.

An oldie, but probably my favourite Milky Way shot that I’ve taken. This is our beautiful home galaxy over a frozen loch.

I love sentence diagrams and syntax trees

Your daily moment of zen: Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation. Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.

And true to form, my fellow gremlins of Bloosky deliver in fine fashion. Chef's kiss

There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here" The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨ #queer #lesbians #illustration

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

Swedish researchers are desperately looking for Johnson's Baby Oil Gel with Chamomile in order to continue their research into biting midges - the product has been discontinued and so will the research unless fresh bottles (new and opened!) are found. I can't help them - can you?

Transformers! More than meets the eye! This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America. The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here. (📷:zedasd)

gender failure gonzo

19. Fruit #repostyourart #drawing #handdrawn #bskyart #sketch #sketchbook #coloredpencil

Tree law! Tree law!! Tree law!!

If you are not from Jersey or haven’t lived in Jersey you cannot comment on diner culture. Your state does not understand or experience true diner culture. You are an outsider to diners. This is not up for debate.

I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️ Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

I’ve been on a journey with this image, which people first started showing me for Time War reasons in July 2025, but which is originally from 2014, taken by Jay Koolpix: www.flickr.com/photos/koolp...

that’s cute but quick question: when john james audubon painted you, did he paint you drinking the yolk from your enemy’s eggs? nah. he painted your ass too shy to even talk to your wife

𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚑. 𝙸’𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚘𝚖 𝚆𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔. #TomWaits #BootsOnTheGround

guys, this is how you lose the time war

I'd take college and university courses that sounded fun or interesting to me but not for credit or a degree. I'd go ham in independent bookstores and yarn stores.

Reinforcements have arrived! 🪶

If you need me, tough, I'm busy huffing my neighbor's lilacs until I feel like a human being again.

The littlest dragon loved fine things

For about two years, we had the brown paper an art print was wrapped in lying on the floor of our living room because it was a favorite lounging spot for one of ours

Hey, so, can somebody put me in touch with the Gravity For Bones admin for a quick sec? I’ve been doing some troubleshooting, and I think your settings are right fucked, can we maybe tap this thing down a bit?

I'm still giggling at this. The current bottom of an excellent tread that involves a CIA pangolin.

I’m sorry WHAT

You know, I'm starting to think that exposing a highly sensitive and impressionable youngling me to the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper was a really fucked up thing to do en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant...

the five* colleges aren't going to be the same without Shaggy *four

It's Tuesday, friends, so let's tell a ridiculous eel tale. Did you know that the US government once tried to transplant east coast eels to California by train? It's a fun story. There's bad science! Crashes! Loss! Pyrrhic victory! So. Settle in for a thread about some well-traveled eels. 1/8 🗃️🧪

I don’t even understand why I find this particular turn of phrase so hilarious, but I feel like it would be great to keep it in reserve for just the right moment in a conversation, just to see the reaction