Artists, quote with something silly!

Initial conditions: m1=78.2 m2=75.5 m3=47.0 (solar masses) v1x=5.958 v1y=5.697 v2x=6.152 v2y=6.715 v3x=5.242 v3y=-4.399 (km/s) x1=11.0 y1=32.0 x2=20.0 y2=-21.0 x3=-21.0 y3=-12.0 (AU from center) Music: Symphony No. 5 (1st Mvmt) – Beethoven

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Ace! #DoctorWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPC2...

Initial conditions: m1=94.3 m2=43.1 m3=113.6 (solar masses) v1x=6.431 v1y=1.187 v2x=-4.102 v2y=2.389 v3x=-4.702 v3y=-0.067 (km/s) x1=-9.0 y1=1.0 x2=25.0 y2=-22.0 x3=-23.0 y3=-29.0 (AU from center) Music: First Step (Interstellar) – Zimmer

Scurryfunge [SKUR-ee-funj] (v.) - To rush around cleaning the house when company is on their way over. (n.) - The act of rushing to clean one’s home in preparation for impending company.

No AI art please Thanks

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Kids, you don’t know how easy you have it. In my day, when someone bent the rules so kids could have fun with D&D, you couldn’t instantly rage post on your phone. No, you went home, fired up the Smith-Corona, hammered out a salty editorial, and mailed it to 8 confused subscribers two months later. 😅

Initial conditions: m1=130.2 m2=137.4 m3=41.2 (solar masses) v1x=0.951 v1y=-5.204 v2x=-3.315 v2y=-0.902 v3x=-5.806 v3y=5.878 (km/s) x1=20.0 y1=-31.0 x2=32.0 y2=12.0 x3=-6.0 y3=-10.0 (AU from center) Music: Battlestar Sonatica (BSG) – McCreary

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Never forget this most extraordinary rendition of the Whitlam Dismissal from the "Gillies Report" ABC TV Still thrilled to have been a bit player in the BEST of Australian satire! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7f...

Lovely Eastern Rosella napping in our front yard yesterday afternoon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wX... (featuring www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLN...)

If comets are like cats, and planetary scientists have been studying domestic cats, tigers, leopards, jaguars, etc., of our solar system for many years, then comet 3I/ATLAS barges in like a serval or ocelot on an unbound e=6 orbit from somewhere else 😂. But it still purrs and scratches #3IATLAS

I just want to be helpful whenever I see the Doctor Who fandom wiki & say it isn't properly moderated since they moved over to their own independent site. Here's the forking announcement: shorturl.at/yLENJ And here's an addon that redirects fandom wikis to their indie alternatives: getindie.wiki

Brilliant 90 minutes of top-flight sci-fi storytelling. youtu.be/6E2cJd-7Fgk?...

Initial conditions: m1=58.1 m2=54.1 m3=1.5 (solar masses) v1x=2.301 v1y=-6.342 v2x=6.958 v2y=2.598 v3x=0.892 v3y=-0.139 (km/s) x1=7.0 y1=10.0 x2=-24.0 y2=24.0 x3=-26.0 y3=-27.0 (AU from center) Music: Memories of Green – Vangelis

Alana King is good at cricket. #AUSvSA

An excuse to share this again? Oh, if I must.

Sound UP! When a gang of young male Superb Lyrebirds surround you, often within less than a metre. I zoomed back to 80mm but often had to lean back to get this footage. I've left it largely unedited to capture the mayhem of the moment. #birds #birding #nature #lyrebirds

Under Over Over - West Hampstead So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains. The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

Our birds tell the story of a changing environment The Aussie Bird Count helps us understand how Australia’s birds are faring Many species are under threat. The count’s data helps build the national picture, and reminds us why protecting habitat matters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Initial conditions: m1=8.7 m2=149.7 m3=15.3 (solar masses) v1x=4.819 v1y=-0.828 v2x=2.927 v2y=-1.572 v3x=-4.037 v3y=-4.771 (km/s) x1=0.0 y1=-32.0 x2=30.0 y2=-4.0 x3=-18.0 y3=-14.0 (AU from center) Music: Passacaglia (BSG) – McCreary

This image shows a stack of six lightning bolts nearly striking the same spot six time in only one minute of elapsed time! Mother nature really had it out for whoever was down there... #photography

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Excellent time to support your local library.

Woah Australia - Global cancer rates in people under 50 Source: World Health Org

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath, nor motion; As idle as a cheesecake ship Upon a blueberry ocean.

10/10. No notes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLN...

Initial conditions: m1=48.9 m2=141.5 m3=79.8 (solar masses) v1x=-2.67 v1y=2.418 v2x=-0.165 v2y=6.457 v3x=4.831 v3y=5.779 (km/s) x1=-26.0 y1=28.0 x2=-2.0 y2=-11.0 x3=35.0 y3=21.0 (AU from center) Music: What Did You Do (The Expanse) – Shorter

Maybe Trump is back to the underworld because K-Pop Demon Hunters being 1st in every chart sealed the Honmoon.

Lol! Gjaldskylda means you have to pay for parking but these poor tourists think it’s the name of the mountain/foss/geyser.

...the memories bring back memories... www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCiM... #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoSings

Initial conditions: m1=45.1 m2=19.1 m3=25.5 (solar masses) v1x=-1.03 v1y=0.29 v2x=5.345 v2y=-2.936 v3x=6.99 v3y=-4.09 (km/s) x1=-3.0 y1=20.0 x2=33.0 y2=-21.0 x3=-28.0 y3=-21.0 (AU from center) Music: What Did You Do (The Expanse) – Shorter

jeff goldblum in works of art: thread

"Quest for Fire", until Ika showed Noah the missionary position and then the teacher turned it off.

Strip away any idea these AI things understand the words they assemble. It's worse than that: the people behind it have no understanding, at all, of the value of ethics. It's not the *software* that's a sociopathic moron, isolated from any sense of consequence .

A long long time ago in a galaxy far away... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERde...

#internationalfairyday Une image que j'ai beaucoup en tête ces jours-ci.

bjork in famous works of art: thread

Don't forget Native American history. 😉

Initial conditions: m1=122.5 m2=26.0 m3=123.4 (solar masses) v1x=-5.761 v1y=1.736 v2x=-3.572 v2y=2.784 v3x=-2.374 v3y=3.215 (km/s) x1=-35.0 y1=-16.0 x2=-16.0 y2=-22.0 x3=5.0 y3=-9.0 (AU from center) Music: Ballad with Modulations – Bourquenez

Initial conditions: m1=94.2 m2=6.6 m3=0.4 (solar masses) v1x=1.602 v1y=-1.41 v2x=-5.569 v2y=-2.602 v3x=-4.158 v3y=6.622 (km/s) x1=-13.0 y1=14.0 x2=32.0 y2=-33.0 x3=34.0 y3=3.0 (AU from center) Music: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (Posthumous) – Chopin

Moralité: Apple c'est de la merde, achetez des PC, installez Linux, puis fracassez tout ça à coups de masse et allez faire pousser des légumes à la campagne.

Globe Safety xkcd.com/3086

In the spring when people's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of insect hotels, I like to repost my flow chart that helps with the purchase. #bees #pollinators

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Today during D&D, I got a monster to stop chewing on my skull and drop me by essentially conjuring a cinnamon challenge inside its mouth… a moment that will now live on as legend among our party forever