always fun to watch the robot arms doing their thing up there on the ISS

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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

Remember that everyone you meet is fighting their own battle, sometimes with amino acids

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

risotto is short for charismaotto

This has to be the hardest piece of figure skating-related art in the history of figure skating

moving to the notoriously geopolitics free region of (checks notes) the middle east.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

every year mid-major basketball leagues cook up increasingly unhinged conference tournament bracket formats. mangling the simplest concept in sports, hoping to maybe send a slightly better team to the NCAA Tournament and i salute them

new iconic meme format just dropped www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

there's a theory that claude works less well during the summer because it implicitly believes it is being harassed during its french labor law vacation

[taking the bait somewhat] ah, but a tasting menu is a form of artistic expression! it just happens to communicate primarily via taste and smell rather than sight and sound. attending a concert, for example, is similarly unnecessary, but we wouldn't call it a "vulgar indulgence"

employee orientation

It turns out that the President has a magic lever he can pull to change gas prices in an election year, but it only goes one way so nobody uses it

Fuck, they’re going to put Riley Gaines in charge.

i did think it was a bit odd that i was able to catch an Emirates 773 flying between Athens and Newark in Skycards this evening, but this explains it!

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

"what do you mean, you don't know what the direct object of this sentence is?" (okay technically I learned how to diagram sentences in Latin class, before I got to AP English)

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

Nail polish remover (acetone) unglued my fingers (superglue craft incident) and this is why a science education matters kids 😭 #MedSky

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

gonna tell my grandkids this is loss.jpg

this is basically a classified information eruv

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes are now, I assume, closely examining a map of the region.

This is the logical endpoint of anti-anti-Trumpism: "I'm all alone. I'm afraid of everything. There's no one to trust." All while living in a wealthy, internally peaceful society, earning a hefty paycheck, and getting regular reminders of the high status that you've enjoyed since birth.

"I hope you die" is weak. "I hope that obscure Japanese-only game you wanna play gets a fan translation done entirely by ChatGPT" is way more hurtful. It's real. It could happen to anyone.

Hell yeah, brother

I’m obsessed with this slab of gypsum!! Look at all the squiggly folds and faulting showing the deformation of the evaporite!! #FridayFold #FaultFriday ⚒️🧪

Must be an absolutely massive layout. Only got thirty quid for ours.

Hahaha holy shit

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Reminder you can just watch all the PWHL’s games on YouTube. No cable, no streaming needed. Here’s tonight’s game www.youtube.com/live/T4JKvp-...

crossposting from the bird site: astronaut Jessica Meir posted these pictures of Cargo Dragon CRS-33 departing from the International Space Station this afternoon, just a bit south of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. (it will splash down tonight off the coast of southern California.)

Sometimes I'm just boggled by the capabilities of other species and this is one of those times. A just-fed hummingbird has blood glucose of 757 mg/dL. That would put a human right in the ER. Oh and they feed every 30 minutes. www.sciencenews.org/article/bird...

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This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

nice view of Artemis II and the VAB at sunset from the @nasaspaceflight.com stream

so if the issues in the first Artemis II wet dress rehearsal were due to hydrogen, and now they have to roll it back to the VAB to fix the helium system... any lithium components on the rocket we need to worry about next?

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

Milkshake puck