I implore you to read the alt to learn more about this noble profession

Yesterday and today for #marchofthemammals2026 #paleoart #sciart - portraits this week for efficiency.

“Snake, don't worry about it. There's more to being a good person than just having a stereo television. You can do it just the way you are!” A pep talk for those with 14" portable CRTs and a mono speaker.

Dear Strongbad, Is there anything you can do about gasoline prices --- DJ Smoldeface

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Curiosity proudly brandishing her instrumented turret, somewhere on the eastern edge of the boxwork unit. What a sight, looks like scifi! This is just another small part of the Sol 4821 Mastcam 360° panorama. #Mars 🧪🔭

It's time to deploy the weather raccoon. If your raccoon is soaking wet, it is, or has been, raining - likely heavily. 🌧️ In a surprising weather event, it rained most of last night, it's been ages since we had a good steady rain for hours.

I have got to put this on the sleeve of a military uniform in the background of an illo...

OMG! It's the return of the enigmatic potato. At 31st and P @popville.bsky.social

This morning, my work Windows 11 machine served up yet another one of these notifications that Microslop 365 and Office will update and screw up my work in progress. Chrome served a helpful popup reminding me of the existence of Gemini. Typed from my new MacBook Air

Bluesky, the website for retired poasters who have no influence over the pop culture zeitgeist

really not seeing anything in here to disprove my theory that jack is just a really dumb guy kinda bumbling along. still no evidence whatsoever that, sans his fortune that he got into by sheer luck, he would be independently capable of going out and getting a sandwich in less than three hours

At the end of A New Hope, Leia gives Luke and Han their employee badges and lanyards. Chewie is a contractor who has to be signed in. #canon

Fiddle Around and Find Out

Tuning in to the Cruft's Kaiju Division agility competition ;-) youtu.be/bUzDUhzyTB4?...

After going to the beach, Shams went into the fountain to cool off. 🐸🌿🐕🐾

Since everyone enjoyed this so much, here are a couple more pictures of Opal the white raven

Pre-Caturday vibes

#2026MMM participant banter (simulated)

Toured the Titan Missile Museum in Tucson. Also where First Contact was filmed.

this is not news. we have been a fully sentient posting museum since at least 2016

Meditative borb #birds

Sirocco at station keeping.

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety. venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars. child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me. mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed. mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke: It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

#RodentOfTheDay Western-Pebble Mound Mouse/Ngadji (Pseudomys chapmani) "Look at this sweet tiny mouse, busy at work. That pebble is literally the size of its head, and it’s carrying it in its powerful little maw." Ph/Inf: www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatu...

Afternoon

How fast do collared peccaries move? Pretty dang fast. When they want to. On #cameratrap, our favorite: #TeamJavelina.

C U R S E

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

when mother has the kolache

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds. To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

INNOCENT

"You are on this council. But we will not certify you as a forklift operator."

"As last month's Dow report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 50,000 Dows in February" "Actually, we lost 50,000 Dows" "OK, so that was wrong in the script"

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

The Pam Bondi Dow is 50,000 meme is so three weeks ago

Behind the Scenes photo for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) #godzila

Never too early to start planning for Halloween.

The anti-drone lasers that have recently caused so much stupid kerfuffle at the Mexican border are *specifically* intended to take down drones at a much lower cost than missile interceptors. Wonder why we haven’t heard anything about the U.S. using them in the Gulf against Iranian drones yet.

Reading @lollardfish.bsky.social latest in the strib about Irish music, got me thinking: What if it happens on St Patrick:s Day? how fucking beautiful that would be

I bet you didn't know you needed to see a Pomsky puppy today, did you?

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

I wrote something

Americans are going to be really normal about gas lines at the pumps