One of my favorite animal videos, probably taken at Disney's Animal Kingdom: four asian small-clawed otters racing back and forth across the grass like a troop of predatory socks, hopping up to try and snatch a butterfly out of the air.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

(h/t Elizabetta)

I had to read this three times to catch that comma; I just thought Paddington got wayyyy more interesting than I imagined and wondered what the problem was.

“i hope you meet jd vance” is about to become an actionable threat

Interesting note: my XPS 17 did not have a ten key though fuck them, it was big enough for one. Keyboard was very centered. My Pro Plus is a sixteen inch and DOES. And my entire body is confused when typing. I'm two keys off by body memory: for reference, my first fingers are landing on H & L.

I haven’t said anything because I’m superstitious but now I can: hi other challenger trauma kids who also ended up working their whole lives to be like Ronald McNair. Unclench your jaw.

Oh my God, I forgot I have Windows Pro now. I CAN FINALLY EDIT THINGS. This almost makes up for being stalked by OneDrive and having to uninstall it three times, turn off the Resume Automatically function (for a program that is--again--not installed) because I found it connected to Word. Again.

So new laptop arrived as my old one was literally collapsing. There was drama, and so far, it looks like I lost all my school folders but this semester aka the last five years of classes and all my documentation and planning. Yes, I'm enraged...but I'm also deeply weirded out.

these are the stupidest people to ever live

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America. Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

I made a joke about the Cadaver Synod on here and frankly it vastly outperformed my usual stupid jokes about obscure historical events, so those universities clearly don't appreciate there's an audience.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The scriptwriters merit praise for inventing ever-more creative ways for this administration to insult foreign leaders

For anyone who needs a pick me up (read: everyone).

The US press is going to hide this from you but the reason there are "strikes on Lebanon" and "confusion over the strait" is that TRUMP RANDOMLY AGREED TO THE CEASEFIRE TO ESCAPE HIS OWN BLUFF WITHOUT WORKING OUT ANY OF THESE DETAILS

The worst thing about RAM failure is it's both stealth and obvious and affects literally everything. I can't even risk a full back up right now but am just removing the OS Drive when I get my data drive out for transfer.

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

So in theory, new laptop arrives tomorrow, and I'm so unprepared for this. I have a process, you see. There are steps to assure not only no data loss but no configuration loss. There's built in time to play with new things. I am never under a looming deadline mid-semester: hard pass.

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

Can we get a big boat stuck I feel like we really need this as a global community

Super fun week, y'all, we gotta do this again sometime.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Yay for the Big Holes With Math In Them! 🙂

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

no your child is not spitting out [name of new vegetable] to ruin dinner (though i have seen adults ruin dinner, by having tantrums at now-distraught toddlers). your child is spitting out [thing] because every part of their small body has been engineered to do that. you did it too, when you were 3.

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

feel like as millennials we kept being told that sure, the economy was bad but at least we'd never had to spend any time in a world where it felt like major, global, maybe even nuclear conflict could erupt at any moment and well well well: who's laughing now

Yes I'm reposting this again. Every time I see it, I'm convinced I'm hallucinating.

One of the very best from Clickhole

Obviously different situations, but this picture reminds me of the ones of Gloria Richardson

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

(headclutch)

And if it comes and goes and nothing happens, and the apologists say “it was just a threat to get them to buckle, he never meant he’d actually do it,” it is morally correct to punch them in the face.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

With the help of a student discount, an honestly traumatic APR on the financing I could get that only covered half the price, and some creative budgeting, new laptop will be here Monday. Ildico, my darling, give me one more week and you'll be shut down and left alone.

Luanne James was dismissed from the Rutherford Country public library after refusing to move LGBTQ+-related children’s books. A fundraiser has surged past $120,000. https://mrf.lu/gLM_

"...one basic error: the failure to understand that the Iranian regime, for all the denunciations you might level at it, has a huge capacity for pain, and for prolonged escalation without a clear scenario of military victory against a superpower, something the American regime finds inconceivable..."

Honestly, I'd kill for an online store that specialized in nothing but home automation and smart devices, especially one who is protocol agnostic and wants to sell ALL the things. And has starter kits for new users. Right now the only competition for Amazon is Ameridroid and SmartestHouse.

Touch my Oxford comma (or even look funny at my em dash) and I will cry havoc and let loose the grammarians of war.

We do not deserve this man's greatness.

The idea that “online” exists separately from the real world is very common but not true. Your brain does not really distinguish social interactions based on the medium in which they occur. Relationships in person, via the phone, via written word, via the internet are all social relationships.

"I came here to hand out Eucharists and kick ass. And I'm all out of Eucharists."

Just going to leave this here.

Pretty fitting that my first tweet on bsky is gonna be about a guy from Smallville threatening to kill the president

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.