As promised, a thread of nautical canines! Here’s ‘HMV’, rescued from floating wreckage in the Atlantic by the sloop HMS Freetown in 1944. His unusual name came from the way he was sitting when rescued, which resembled the dog used in the record company’s advertising. 📷 IWM A 21707 🧵1/15

I'm with @therisingtithes.bsky.social on my shock at Wake Up Dead Man having the character of Lee Ross, a wash-up author, write a book that is 782,815 words long! I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

This and nested. I know that the old hands in Congress — many of whom are lawyers — are indoctrinated to judge nominees on the nominee’s merits, but it’s time to stop doing that. The nominee may look good in hearings, their skeletons may be reasonable, but being nominated is itself a taint.

I like how this one kind of fades upward in detail. Kind of like it's still being drawn in!

O.M.G.! (It was ok for me but be careful of your brainstuff if you play the video!)

The Wizard Nebula! 4 hours of remote exposures whilst I was otherwise engaged tonight. Clever stuff these smart scopes 😀 #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

unmute, GET LOUD!!! Uncompressed: youtu.be/UNyr-noU-ac 🪶

Nice place for a walk.

Too cute of a cicada to not share here.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

It really illustrates how close Mercury is to the sun!

#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Andromeda and Sprites over Australia By JJ Rao naturebyjj.com apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121... Check out JJ's video on how this red sprite, a rare, luminous electrical discharge high above thunderstorms near the edge of space, was captured: youtu.be/XJWQhewM0C8 🧪🔭

NASA’S PUNCH Releases Refined Images of Eruptions from the Sun science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/... Video shows coronal mass ejections erupting from the Sun’s surface from Oct. 21 to Nov. 12, 2025. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is seen at the top, Venus at the left, and Mercury to the right of center. 🧪🔭

After buying cherries today, I took my friend who was with me to do some birding at Jenkins Scrub. I only lasted 10 minutes before my back went (again) and I ended up sitting in the car in pain. Fortunately, this buff-rumped thornbill came to me 😀

Oh i forgot how cute baby gulls were for a second. 🪶 🐣

Some more Snow Geese at sunset for the #ArtAdventCalendar today. Wishing you some of this peace and serenity in your day #birds 🌿

When you evolve little grabby hands, you can't resist streeeeeetttching for things Dryinidae wasps have little pinchy segments on their 1st leg pair, and it's amusing how that seemingly also changes their approach to navigation. I don't see other wasps doing this.

His Holiness.

I stumbled onto a small herd of Icelandic ponies near Gimli yesterday. They were a bit far from the road and the weather was nasty, but I managed to capture this lovely moment.

the promise of america is that you can come to america, become an america, and also keep the stuff you love about your identity. america will welcome you in not just physically but culturally: your food, your music, your holidays, your friends and family too you will change america--for the better

Not allowing ordinary people to own anything, turning the very basics of survival into a month-by-month scramble maximising the economic value (spending) of each person is of course the obvious end point of late stage capitalism.

Companies have a lengthy history of dumping tainted products onto impoverished markets where people can't complain I'm reminded of the HIV tainted blood supply for hemophilliacs; the US supply was cleaned up The old tainted products were dumped on South American patients.

I'm really beginning to think that GOP legislators are not just indifferent to but actively detached from median consumer reality. Their attitude has always been "fuck 'em," but I don't think they grasp the degree to which they're immediately fucking people, and the impact it will have

last day: help pastor get people groceries for the holidays. Taz deductible, all money to the project, a church you can trust.

It's always bothered me that US Senators can't be recalled.

Juvenile killdeer underrated baby birb 🪶

All right. Well. It’s a special day! SIDEQUESTED arcs ARE HERE!!!

So there you have it. If you're wondering why so many people can't find the clitoris, blame Google.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

we are going to win. it's not always going to feel like a victory. my heart is full of rage at how many will suffer while we get there. but they are in free-fall now.

I could use a laugh this morning, so: what are y'all's favorite Far Side cartoons?

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

The photograph of the lunchtime steelworkers being photographed is almost as cool as the lunchtime steelworkers.

Y’all I’m sorry the fact that Mark Cuban’s Cost-Plus-Drugs can exist at all is proof that the system is rotten. The entire concept makes no sense if you take the insurance company’s word for what they’re doing.

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Your reminder that the GOP wasn’t leaving a lot of gerrymandered district possibility out of the table. They didn’t go as far as they could before because they wanted completely safe districts for people to retire into, and 43/57 is only mostly safe.

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

The fourth book in our super steamy, gleefully bonkers romantasy series is out in June! Click the link if you like: ✔️ Horny Dragons ✔️ Enemies to Lovers ✔️ Ancient Gods Fucking ✔️ Murdering Fantasy Tech Bros ✔️ Bisexuals Being Chaotic ✔️ Murder Ladies www.kitrocha.com/series/high-...

Y-ALL! There is now an animated Gay Cardinal Throuple bit of joyous decor for you! (it's $29 so I sadly did not buy this one)

The best soccer player was called George Best

If you feel the need to retreat into the past, can't think why, Death in the Spires is currently discounted to $7.99 on Audible US!

I'm going to reproduce a saucy thread I did some years ago in the other place. It is divisive and produces many odd statements and flushes out parochial opinions. 🧵 (1 of many)

West fucjin Virginia, the state that seceded from a seceding state, wants to say the residents of an area don't get to self govern? Fucking lol

UPDATE: DC filed its opposition to the Trump admin's stay request, noting the deployment "exposes both the public and Guard members to substantial public safety risks ... as the horrific attack on two National Guard members last week tragically underscored." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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