your central girders would not have given way, At least many sensible men do say, Had they been supported on each side with buttresses, At least many sensible men confesses, For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed.

I don't have a clue what this is, but I kinda love it? (Creepily tagging @angelic.style because I'm not plugged in to the broader prog adjacent music nerd community). music.youtube.com/watch?v=AjHa...

Outpost (1997) was saved by me being 12 when it came out and I was too naive to realize it wasn't even close to finished.

Hey Google, do I have any shifgrethor?

Post-Rock music.youtube.com/watch?v=aki7...

Awesome ancient astronomy mini-🧵! 🔭

Here comes the sun...SPOTS!

We know this because it contains elements that can only be formed through the processes of stellar fusion that it doesn't have the necessary mass and fuel to form itself, if anyone is curious.

Doing an insomnia and this is my intellectual pondering: "Was the design brief for owls 'What if a bird had a dinner plate for a face?'"

I just want to put it out into the world that I think the Cleveland WNBA expansion team should be called The Dunks and the mascot is already in our natural history museum.

I just want to put it out into the world that I think the Cleveland WNBA expansion team should be called The Dunks and the mascot is already in our natural history museum.

Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants “It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? If only I were a horse.

Now I'm just thinking about this: youtu.be/2BEvh6HSQc0?...

I want this to be true so bad, but the man's also pushing a superheavy rocket that cannot ever deliver what he's promised it can. Like it's literally impossible. Not even unlikely, it is "I will eat the sun" levels of impossible. And somehow we still take it seriously anyway?

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

I listen to music in a weird way where I'll often listen to an entire band's discography in chronological order. Back in the day this was bands I had amassed a collection of CDs of ripped to ogg-vorbis. Now it's streaming. Now... I'm getting a record player...

Tuesday is coming. Did you bring your coat?

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

Ana Ng is not only my favorite TMBG song, but one of my favorite songs period. It's an ironic love song dunking on the idea of predestined soulmates by singing to the narrator's soulmate they'll never meet and don't share a common language. youtu.be/gTa0nv-127E?...

I honestly kind of want to work out the classic kinematic equations with constant pop instead of constant acceleration just for fun.

Starting out Sunday with some duck butts just because #birds 🌿

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the "they went too far" line. At all. Who specifically went where? Why was this "too far"? It's seemingly a throw away line to try and make anything else sound "reasonable", including wholesale second class citizenship.

Happy Beaujolais Nouveau weekend to those who observe inebriated flights of French whimsy.

Don't ask me how, I was a weird fucking teenager. youtu.be/i9qZ4Tntg8I?...

I maintain that quicksand should have been grain entrapment, but that might just be because I grew up in Indiana.

I am irrationally annoyed that we pronounce indictment and interdict differently.

I love this movie in part because even though I only lived in Bloomington for four years for probably obvious reasons, it still feels like home. I've never been able to decide if my fondness for Breaking Away is because of that or because it's just a sweet movie.

Was feeling pretty crappy, but then I did my injection and it just feels good that that's a thing I can do. 🏳️‍⚧️

While building the Tevatron particle accelerator, scientists tried cleaning it out by sending a ferret through the tunnel. history.fnal.gov/historical/p...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Snoozle hound.

The Abyss, a reminder that James Cameron used to be able to make movies with copious amounts of water that were actually interesting.

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

I have a finite non-zero concern that humanity will be wiped out in a war between people who think autocomplete will inevitably rise to become a god and destroy us and people who think autocomplete will inevitably rise to become a god and offer us salvation.

Dwarf Fortress, but only if you're the kind of person who's always wished they could beat the final boss of Microsoft Excel.

It's been over 20 years since it was played every fourth song on the radio, but I swear if I hear Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden one more time I will walk into the sea.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

ITS FIVE-DROP FRIDAY! Let's hear the crowd go wild for 📢📢📢 GARY!

Somehow I haven't caught a ban for threatening to shell the rescue party coming to save me off this desert island.

An ekranoplan is legally a boat.

Honestly, at this point I'd bring a coastal defence battery. 🤷🏼‍♀️

the vet wrote in one of our ferrets’ charts “patient was wiggly” and I keep thinking about how cute that is

BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw

So the sound I heard in the other room was Cecilia putting her chew stick in the middle of the floor and repeatedly pouncing on it. I asked her what she was trying to do and the expression she gave me in return I can only describe as "painfully confused".

Study enough quantum mechanics and start doing this with π/2 as the answer to every question.

Here's my contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald day, the infamous folk rock ships playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.