Banged out a snake skull from scratch in four hours last night. Took four rounds of revisions (this is test 2) but I got there! #sciart #snake #sculpture I guess

Dogwood in bloom

Today’s Tumblr treasure is something of a long read. A 6-part manga-style webcomic in which Garfield metamorphoses into every element in the periodic table. www.tumblr.com/hellopuns/80...

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

« Today is the Equinox at Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, when sunlight and shadow create the famous illusion of Kukulkán, the feathered serpent, descending the steps of El Castillo. It remains one of the most iconic astronomical spectacles associated with the ancient Maya » By Architecture & Art

Unless it’s a Gen Zer, those kids *know*

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

I wrote a thing! Rubin and LSST are not only going to find a kajillion asteroids, they'll get lightcurves and colors at the same time, and the science is going to be phenomenal skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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LEAVE HIM ALONE HE’S DOING HIS BEST!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

The ship sinks, blaming the moon and stars.

I always love an excuse to pull out one of my favorite quotes about men like this, and I’d like to add that someone else recently taught me another word for this general theory: homosociality

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

Anyway Miss 19 showed me this Monster High Skeletor and I think I would entirely hate it if not for the lil green snake curling around her right boot that gives me huge nostalgia for the Snake Mountain playset with its voice altering snake head microphone creations.mattel.com/products/mon...

I’m sorry the what problem

when you attribute bigotry, hatred, incompetence, indifference, cruelty, and selfishness to psychosis (or mental illness in general), you're telling--lying, actually--to every 16-25-year-old who's just been diagnosed that not only are the A problem, but they are THE problem

Very Large Telescope image of Arp 222, also known as NGC 7727. The swirling loops of material seen in NGC 7727 are the remnants of a galactic merger that started around a billion years ago, when a smaller, gas-rich young galaxy fell into a larger galaxy. Credit: ESO Source

*holds your hand* increase the pressure sensitivity curve on your drawing tablets

So there’s tons of people in Ohio hunting for the new meteorite using metal detectors and magnets… but it’s an Eucrite type which means it has no metal, only going to be able to find it with your eyes

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

I remember when people were complaining about having no choice about buying channels they didn’t want with the ~4 various levels of cable packages and I was like “bro do you understand how much more it will cost to buy the channels you personally like à la carte” and I WAS RIGHT and I TOLD YOU SO

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

BOSTON: do you know a guy who did this? how's he doing?

Reading a book and it was going really well until it got OMG RACIST sigh. Fantasy authors don’t base fictional races on gross orientalist stereotypes challenge

Le Bonbon Terrible

If you hire me to teach space ethics please know the slides will be bangers and I will show up looking cool as hell 👍

Working from home (WFH) raises fertility rates. Globally 0.3 extra kids per WFH couple, and in the US 0.5 extra kids per WFH couple, from Steven J. Davis, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Katelyn Cranney, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate www.nber.org/papers/w34963

These cool fast rotators will be difficult to find in the main survey because the cadence is different than these first look data where the fields were observed for a good chunk of a night over ~8 nights. We'll get sparse light curves in and colors for most of the asteroids discovered.

I wrote a thing! Rubin and LSST are not only going to find a kajillion asteroids, they'll get lightcurves and colors at the same time, and the science is going to be phenomenal skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

If you did this for solar system worlds, everything would be labeled either “impacts?” Or “volcanoes?” Until you get close enough to see it better and then the whole map is “a secret third thing”

broke: "this landform was created by glaciers" woke: "we built this city on rock and roll"

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

ngl the updated branding for @bsky.app is bold

05:37 on Wednesday March 18th, over the Indian Ocean

Every time you repost this might be somebody’s first time

It’s a mystery why autistic nerds like Star Trek

A major key to using this site is knowing when to just say NOPE to certain discourse.

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

Im not confident my Lyft driver is going to stay awake all the way to my destination

I have an archivist joke, but a historian who found it in the collection I processed and using the finding aid I wrote will say it was lost and he discovered it.

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

Initial conditions: m1=65.2 m2=60.4 m3=40.3 (solar masses) v1x=-0.797 v1y=4.903 v2x=0.772 v2y=-5.36 v3x=-0.298 v3y=3.366 (km/s) x1=27.0 y1=-22.0 x2=-9.0 y2=-31.0 x3=-29.0 y3=17.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C Major – Bach

Excuse me, *who* caused it? This is worse than passive voice

I almost always attend this conference; I actually have family in Texas to visit, and usually tack that on to one end or the other. But I just Could Not this year. I will say I have been pleasantly surprised at the quality of the virtual attendance experience, though I miss the poster sessions.

[ceo tossing and turning in bed] the air. the air they breathe should be a subscription service.