YOU MUST DO YOUR STRETCHES TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

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Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

where all books are written

Baby sandhill cranes called colts take approximately 65 to 75 days from hatching to grow their feathers and make their first flight in their awkward stage they practice preflight training by energetically flapping their wee wings, and doing practice hops.

stopped playing scrabble to look outside, accidentally saw a rothko

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Oh my god y’all this photo. Robin Williams was such a fucking nerd and I really loved him 💔

I was wondering if this article would link to my comprehensive oral history of Mork and Mindy where I interviewed most of the writers and the guy who directed most of the episodes. Very glad to see it did! Happy to see that stuff being resurfaced.

This absolutely kills me (with hilarity). ... specifically because I did not connect the dots of telescopes and remote cameras at first... and just kinda thought people were letting their telescopes enjoy the dark skies all by themselves. (yes, I've had migraines for days now, my logic is broken)

naked transphobic content smh we are SUPPORTIVE of the restaurant she has always been inside and is finally ready to show to the world

I’ve been on a bit of a book shopping spree this week, as I return to work on my long-delayed Mars Curiosity science book. I’ve read only the first 12 pages of the sedimentary petrology textbook and I’ve already learned many new things. I’m curious to know how many Mars scientists have taken sed pet

Well, that was a fucking ride.

On my flight over the Pacific last night, I pressed my face up against the airplane window and felt like I was flying in outer space there were that many stars in the sky. Strongly recommend the experience.

Such cool science! Scientists transmitted radio waves from a radio telescope out to one of Jupiter's moons, then received the reflected waves back at multiple telescopes and measured the radio albedo. Using circular polarization, they can measure the transparency of the global ice sheet. 📡

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are grey You'll never know dear, how much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away I'll always love you and make you happy If you will only say the same But if you leave me to love another You'll regret it all some day...

Yeah that person was nowhere close on my list 😂 I got the gender right at least

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The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.

🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners. I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives. #1: Dr. No #cinema #socialhistory

150. pluto

I feel like Bluesky needs to know that Jim Davis is auctioning off a fuckton of original Garfield art, and many of the strips are currently priced at literally ten (10) dollars You should all buy your own strips, y'all comics.ha.com/c/auction-ho...

Thrusters off 🔴 BepiColombo has switched off its solar electric propulsion as the trio Bepi, Mio and MTM draw closer to Mercury. Meanwhile, on the ground, teams across ESA, JAXA and industry are rehearsing the next critical step for these space adventurers: arriving at Mercury. Stay tuned! 🔭 🧪

Fun fact: Jim Varney was a trained Shakespearian actor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1G7...

One Planet, Two Rovers 13 June 2026: the Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance both captured a 360° Mastcam panorama on the same day, a rare co-occurrence. #Mars 🧪🔭

All my life I have eaten brown sugar directly from the box Even better: You know when you cream butter and sugar together to start baking cookies? That’s the stuff, man Somehow I’m not yet diabetic

Introducing the world's only known cave-adapted spider wasp... Troglopompilus miracaecatus (Pompilidae) from the caves of the Nullarbor, Australia. A world first: Eyeless, long limbs and antennae, highly reduced wings. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #cave #wasp #biodiversity

My brother once worked for a very shady New York City caterer whose signature dish was a “mashed potato bar” serving potato and toppings in martini glasses and it was so cheap to produce that he made BANK He also offered a biscuit bar with his very own special biscuits (actually KFC)

cruelty-free* eggs *in order to ensure we are not being cruel we are paying the chickens but that would meaningless as-is so we have also uplifted the chickens to a human or corvid level of sapience and inadvertently given them knowledge of sin which is cruel but a cruelty tangential to the eggs

as a homosexual of a certain age, i have been shocked at how traditionally my married heterosexual friends’ and coworkers’ gender roles have been. whenever i have marveled at how much scholarship a man produces, the answer is inevitably “oh, ofc, he has a wife”

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

“you think you’re always right” notice how I usually talk about things that I have knowledge of

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

An incredible view of the surface of Mars, taken two days ago. You can almost feel like you're standing there—the sand shifting underfoot, the absolute silence, the unreal sensation of walking on a surface never before visited by a living creature. (Also your suit is leaking, you'll die here)

According to the FAA's Current Operations Plan Advisory, SpaceX is planning to launch a test flight of their new Starfall reentry vehicle on Falcon 9 NET June 21st at 10:43 UTC! It's unclear what the exact mission profile will be, and whether they'll enter orbit.

If you’ve never heard a Spanish-language call of a soccer match, treat yourself. It’s basically required viewing for your soccer education.

Outrageous

Wait Siccar Point was a location named in Curiosity’s traverse on Mars, right? I think pretty early in the mission

In the first "Montana Rocks!" media feature, geologist Robert C. Thomas shares the inspiration behind his new book exploring 4 billion years of history through 60 sites. Read the article: geosociety.co/readmore Buy "Montana Rocks!": geosociety.co/MontanaRocks

Not a food, but an ingredient: I despise dill. I can’t explain why. But I hate it. There are so many foods I love if they are made without dill but culturally dill is part of the recipe and BLEAH

Platonic form of televised baseball commentary here. Hypnotic

TIL that Kenny Loggins has a trans son and that he is a super awesome and supportive dad.

I had my first session with a speech therapist today to deal with the mess that my voice has become due to the T. I now have a pile of extraordinarily silly-sounding vocal exercises to do twice a day. But if they will get me to a place where my voice doesn’t break in 3 different places I’ll be happy

Oh my god hahahahahahahaha

I'm rereading Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo for the first time in years and this time through, using Wikipedia to look up obscure bits, I'm surprised to find the telegraph that Dantes suborns for a crucial tactic is an OPTICAL telegraph. Like the Discworld clacks! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical...

I would have a festival that would pay artisans who are amazing at making things to come and make things and festivalgoers could just go from booth to booth watching them make things.

Los Lobos, Keyshia Cole, DJ Quik, Kurupt, The Paranoias, Jungle Fire, and Delfonics are among the many artists you can catch for free in L.A. this summer, if you know where to look. The full guide: lataco.com/l-a-tacos-gu... By Hadley Tomicki and Karina Soriano

“Tigger is Moon ready”

This is my recurring reminder that every academic should have their own domain name and hosting for a website that will continue to exist no matter where your professional peregrinations take you. Don’t let your online identity vanish with a job switch or ToS change.