Northern lights in the Triassic period #auroraborealis #artandscience #EarthHistory

March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller. The figure - from his travel accounts - shows the smoking volcano Klyuchevskoy, on the Kamchatka peninsula, the highest active volcano of Eurasia 🌋

If it had happened today we would have had think pieces about why Timothy McVeigh was misunderstood

This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy?? Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

shower thought: I want to see more "project [country]" playlists on youtube, cause atm "project ukraine" kinda stands out. Not in a good way, but in the same smelly manner that the european double-standard is visible altogether.

I guess these people are in charge now?

Fagradalsfjall's Fountains of Fire. #Photography

when it works it works

The US govt used AI in war and targeted civilians, Epstein list, everything's expensive, climate change will kill us all But the issue is porn? Step one in accepting your sexuality is realizing the world is a joke and ran by devils, so who cares if you jork it to micky mouse x Goofy, dude

For the American ruling class only the lives of Troops matter. The invasion of Iraq killed ~1m people. All the mainstream criticism of it revolves around ~2k Troops dying. If Iraqis, Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranian people could be exterminated without a Troop dying Warren etc would support it.

Shouldn't the fact that the President is accused of violently raping a 13 year old and DOJ covered it up the biggest political scandal in US history? www.thedailybeast.com/doj-sources-...

This is a fucking stupid joke that haunted me until I made it real, and now you all have to suffer as well

Nah, I gave up looking. He was very well hidden and I’d invested far more into tracking him down than he was worth. Gotta love that YouTube’s strike system let a complete ghost come so close to closing down a whole channel while expecting me to dox myself to him. A very fair arrangement.

I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

Vol V (14) Amoenissimus castri Granatensis (Granada). Published in 1640. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~301454~90072581 #map #maps #historicalmaps

Geologie. Published in 1969. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~347967~90115420 #map #maps #historicalmaps

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

a very warm welcome to sonselasuchus cedrus, a shuvosaurid from the chinle formation described by smith and sidor 🐊 sonselasuchus is known from a bonebed of mostly immature individuals, totalling at least 36 in number (art by gabriel ugueto)

right-wing federal council during the press briefing about the vote from yesterday: "the public has clearly rejected the climate-change fund" 5 seconds later "the public may have rejected cutting public broadcasting but of course the losing side must be respected and incorporated in how we proceed".

"Save money by driving less!" "Can we work from home, thereby avoiding most of our driving and using the well-proven technology and protocols that have been available to us for at least the last six years?" "No."

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

watching Gab Smolders replay Fatal Frame 1 /Project Zero and it is still my favourite entry in that series. I put it in the same box as films like Noroi, Shutter (2004) and so on - If you know some good stuff put it in replies.

I feel like it would be cool to have some game where I could appreciate some architectural styles out of Morocco, Nigeria, Mali, Ethiopia or Tanzania.

But you cannot draw the masses into politics without drawing in the women as well. For under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed.

A friend of mine grew up in an Evangelical household and he describes the experience as growing up in a cult.

Chlorociboria aeruginascens aka green or blue-green elf cup #fungus. NWT, Canada. About 2cm high. #fungi #fungifriends

If you're not a furry I think you should consider becoming one. You only have to do what you want and you get a fun little animal guy to obsess over

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

This is a fruit bat appreciation account now gn everyone 👋🏻

The most prolific impact of Skyrim 15 years on feels like it's the lockpicking minigame.

March 8-9, 1979, on a picture taken by the Voyager probe, astronomer Linda A. Morabito notes a huge ash plume rising over Io's surface - one of the moons orbiting Jupiter. Further pictures taken showed that it was an erupting volcano - the first extraterrestrial active volcanism ever observed 🌋 👽

This photo was taken on the surface of an asteroid.

2am thought: Remember how rightoids constantly lie about or invent leftists to get mad at? They'll AI-generate that shit now with bots running fake social media & youtube accounts doing the kinda work 4channers used to do impersonating other people or editing their footage.

Sometimes I'll just run across the most generic music ever and there will be people commenting like "wow this is amazing"

Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me

My next 'climate viz of the month' blog is available, which looks at a global animation of snowfall in 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-.... Snow is a key climate indicator, affecting the Earth system, ecosystems, and society in many important ways. #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

Mini Arrows (Will continue the Aeromorph Requests tomorrow)

Never alone with friends 💜

Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise? He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist. There is a reason you hold the line at sports.

A new Perspective paper in Nature Communications Earth & Environment compares the 2021 Chamoli disaster with the recent Blatten avalanche. Why did one kill >200 people while the other caused only one casualty? Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Oh yeah I boosted this article earlier today, but one thing I wanted to write is I am looking at the argument "no change in the language borders" with a lot of cynicism... The language border between French & German used to be to the west of Freiburg. The argument is a desire for a French ratchet.

Danubii cum Adiacentibus Regnisnec non totius Graeciae et Archipelagi. Published in 1788. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~281669~90054504 #map #maps #historicalmaps

...and a visit to the lands and seas of the Silurian. These were a ton of fun to work on and represent my biggest set of 2D works to date. I've yet to see them printed in person, but maybe one day. Lots of discussion about how they came to be in my Patreon post.

Im Iran stehen Jahrtausende alte Kulturstätte. Doch wer schützt sie im Krieg? https://www.srf.ch/radio-srf-1/unesco-welterbe-in-gefahr-gefaehrdete-kulturstaetten-darum-ist-der-iran-besonders-betroffen

A few square inches of tree trunk. At least 4 species of lichens (Parmelia, two Physcia species and Caloplaca) plus Red Tree Brain Fungus. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.