A HYPERBOLIC OORT CLOUD COMET: This conjunction was a million years in the making. On Feb. 9th, Daniele Gasparri of Atacama, Chile, photographed Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) gliding past the "string of pearls galaxy" NGC 55 spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.

so fast the intense heat coming off those paws doesn’t even have time to melt the snow ❤️‍🔥

& i thought feeling like i’m wearing a very tight hat was bad

can confirm explaining gay is as simple as “there’s a great lady gaga song that works to explain this” & kids totally get it do i know how to wire a house for electricity? i do not do i understand black matter? no why are republicans? gin, plz

Cartoon by Dave Granlund

navy hoodie is depressing bc we now have a good idea of just how much our military works to protect powerful pedophiles instead of our nation’s integrity & democracy i’ve never been a patriot (arbitrary borders don’t define anything of value) but patriotic programming runs deep

i think they’re being overly optimistic regarding the canine literacy rate

people absolutely don’t understand the importance of maintaining the buffering-capacity of our oceans we need all the high-surface-area carbon-sequesters we can get www.nature.com/articles/s41...

as someone with a history of panic attacks and a 12yo daughter, this is a particularly jarring story about the common police practice of shooting before investigating this 12yo kid will never be okay again—she’ll probably struggle with self-blame for the rest of her motherless life ACAB

1. ICE is not a law enforcement agency 2. ACAB

frfr tiiiiiiired of ppl blaming trump when all he is is the candidate chosen to represent the gop by the gop & for the gop

once again, i know these are cute clips AND these are incredibly serious and important video clips that model respect for children as people worthy of visibility in our public spaces their presence is both fun & grounding their presence keeps adults on their best, most hopeful behavior

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

what needs to be rejected is the entire GOP—he is a symptom of rot, not the cause of it

Just gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.

this is the only way to adult and to respond to the participation of children in public spaces i know this is cute—but it is also very healthy and mature of Mamdani children are people and all people deserve to exist and be embraced in public spaces

the only way to judge someone’s character is to pay attention to their actions & the people they are willing to share club membership with

on one hand: the unknowns of earth’s aquatic ecosystems are enchanting on the other: the unknowns of earth’s aquatic ecosystems are why i’m scared of water on the third: being swipes off the deck of a ship by a giant squid is one of my two preferred ways to die

it’s devastating watching the paper i grew up reading—Tom Toles’ paper—implode into a singularity of vapidity

like, NONE

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

Name them shame them

they grow up so fast 🥹

which has probably been clear without the great patriotic work of think tanks to anyone who knows both white collar and immigrant (documented or otherwise) workers

super proud of my prone-to-terror 7th grade daughter for walking out of school today despite being told by the principal that anti-ice truancies would result in suspensions & consequences might escalate to handcuffs

i think the complete sentence actually reads “if jeff bezos had any strength of character but.”

considering the lower rate of criminal histories among non-citizens, i don’t even think we need a citizenship requirement—it seems to be hurting us, at this point

hey, it’s tough work but at least they get paid a fck-ton of 💰 to get followed around town from murder to murder

i love this sweater x12,000 i am now attempting to knit a spruce blue/green approximation of this cat into a fuchsia hat if this works, will knit a matching sweater for everyone in the fam

an old school surgical theatre would be a nice vibe—but live-streamed for these modern tymes, plz

Once again, for people in the back. I am happy to provide a paywall free link to my 2019 column in Nature, on the subject of tear gas www.nature.com/articles/d41...

most of what i remember from my childhood is solitary moments like walking along a 1 1/2 lane rural utah road, stopping to scrutinize a stream or the underside of milkweed leaves while wondering about fish families & butterfly reunions

my husband’s view every morning at 5:50am except in black cat butt

i don’t like violence against animals but i have a friend who might actually drop dead if a movie dog gets yelled at—i think of her every time i see a TV or movie dog get left out in the cold or shooed away by a foot the tenderest souls among us need big big content warnings

i’m open abt being a repeat victm of sexual asslt but it took me ~30y to feel not terrified—& there was no threat of going viral worse than rape (for me) was the disbelief & shame my mom heaped upon me—& the reality she embodied the exposure of victims’ names & photos is, itself, violently abusive

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

the main strength of our national elections is our state-run processes variations in rules & procedures can be confusing but local officials, volunteers, & voters take their roles seriously—we’ve clearly seen how even republican state election officials have refused pressures from trump

Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.

it’s been a depressing & disorienting winter in Utah—i have no recollection of another winter this brown fire season is gonna be lit

Imagine if Biden had shit himself in an Oval Office press conference

i take it that stephen miller denies the validity of SCOTUS—let’s throw out our nation’s entire judicial history & start from scratch, i guess

judicial warrants are required for search & seizure administrative warrants don’t rise to the level of 4th amendment protections i don’t know what i’m talking about so i searched it up & found more 411 than Johnson learned at law school, i guess www.beluminus.org/warrants/

both of my daughters will be participating in walkouts at their Utah schools this week my oldest spoke at a mask-mandate rally i organized at the state capitol & organized her own pro-mask walkout, both in back in 2021 —she was 11 i welcome their activism i believe the children are our future

1 of ♾️ e.g.s of how the problem w America is not trump but REPUBLICANS gop pols, think tanks, pundits, media outlets, & voters (like yr quirky mom, funny uncle, cute grandparents, chatty neighbor) are killing ppl—& glad to blaming trump is easy but dangerous—he’s the symptom, not the disease

knowing is half the battle safety first affix your own oxygen mask before assisting other passengers first, do no harm winging it may work in the meeting with the boss that you forgot about but it’s not a great strategy for being proactive in the front line battle against the empire

as an american who suffers (as all americans do) from the brutalist of capitalism of american companies, i’m all for this—and wish it had happened sooner