every orange cat owner recognizes this scene

Told my kid I was having the kind of week where I just need to scream into the void for a while. He made me a void. You can use it too, if you'd like.

Yep

She’s So Unusual

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

Lamassu

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SOLD Yay for public transit and silly T shirts

My legal team is now working on copyright cases against SHEIN. They were the first place that counterfeits of my work started showing up and I am glad to be able to finally go after them. If you have had your art ripped, please contact Justice for Artists. They won a huge case for me last year.

Do I reread the rest of the books first or do I dive straight in

I have news for you about 1976, 1926, and 1876!

About five times a day we observe our cat doing something stupid and comment “apex predator”

If I hafta know, so do all of you: (Alt text: still of Kurt Loder anchoring MTV from like… 5 years ago?)

Cinco de Mayo explained

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lol

I like ichthyosaurs, they are like if a lizard was also a tuna

Nominate YOUR favorite K-8 Earth Science Teacher for the 2027 Ed Roy Award in honor of #TeacherAppreciationWeek & #NationalTeachersDay 😆 Award includes: - $2,500 prize 👀 - Funds to attend the NSTA national conference 🧑‍🏫 Learn more & nominate a teacher (or self-nominate!) today: bit.ly/Ed-Roy-Award

I LOVE THIS

SRSLY WAT

...Unless you share with him the good news of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Doreen Green, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.

Me when my kids try to tell me about Washington state history.

"The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2026" report which was prepared by NCSES under the guidance of the recently-terminated National Science Board is now out. The report covers the state of STEM education, US R&D vs. China, and translational tech.

yes this site is free. but what if they charged money to hide my posts

The AP moved Native Americans out of the race-related section of its Stylebook! The new “Native Americans, Indigenous people/peoples” section recognizes the sovereign status of tribal nations alongside race. www.apstylebook.com/blog_posts/26

Lolsob

I remember there was a once a list that was like "Birds who look like newly divorced women" and this is definitely one of them.

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Bear Grylls

“Waiting on midnight for Cinco de Mayo like”

ICYMI, article from me last week about cool new organic molecules (naphthalenes and benzothiophenes, two-ring molecules!) found in a Curiosity sample from back in Glen Torridon: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Amazing thread, full of joy and weird and pageantry.

If you're looking at this one and thinking, "is that a *slide*?" Yes, that's a slide, and at the park after the parade, they set this up and let little kids play on it. bsky.app/profile/colo...

Ok this one is my favorite

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

I think the fact that the Trump administration is considering declaring Pluto a planet again validates every negative thing I've ever said about people who think Pluto should be a planet

When zero cats are required for the task but they show up anyway 🙄

This was not on my Mars Bingo Card. Curiosity rover lifts the rock that is stuck to its drill, gives it a shake which liberated some loose material, but fails to dislodge the errant rock on Sol 4881 (April 30, 2026). The team has an option to eject the drill […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Where go you With bats and clubs?

So, wait, the pedants among you ask: *how* do you replace a calcitic fossil with pyrite? Diagenesis is nature's alchemy. ⚒️🧪 I described the conditions in the 🧵 below, but not the geochemistry. When a marine fossil gets buried, it's sealed off from the surface, and microbes use up oxygen quickly.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

The calm before the storm. Scientists, friendly reminder that you can always call up your local library and offer to give a public talk about your research.

Yeah

had to use a promo code and a credit that expired at midnight, so i designed a new sticker sheet inspired by nothing and nobody in particular

STScI is hiring researchers and technical staff! aas.org/jobregister/...

Going to get "multiple things can be true at the same time," "illegal does not mean impossible," and "the purpose of a system is what it does" carved on my freaking gravestone.