when I die, if there's a hell, and I go to it, it's going to be removing shipping tape from a cardboard box that someone has practically mummified, and then inside the box it's going to be that same box over and over... i just sit there, dutifully unwrapping and composting that goddamn cardboard

I'm sorting through a bunch of old jewelry from my mom, mostly preparing to scrap it since it's heavily worn, damaged, and does not hold sentimental value to me. These pieces I thought maybe could be returned to a Navajo artist to be repurposed. I don't know anyone. I'd mail them for free.

bless our beautiful bodies 💋 Happy Black History Month! #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky #BlackArt

while i respect and abide by the law requiring me to make space in my bed right next to me for my cat, even if she makes me hyperthermic and stiff by morning, i fully reject the notion that i must allow her tail to slap me in the face. begone, pest!

damn a college student family member confided in me tonight that she went to a protest and i'm just super fucking proud of her

This video was recently published by @esa.int, but it was extremely dark, so it was hard to see details. Thanks to the ESA media team who provided me with a higher quality version, I was able to recover lots of shadow details and correct the hotpixel noise. Original: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

big dumb space dirt explosion

tell me how it works

anyone wanna join my WoW guild? ...anyone even play WoW?

hello, i'd like to trade one "ever-encroaching fascist, racist dickshits" back for "complaining about dumbass alien comet guy" i have a lot of remorse about this one

I just did a super job smoothing out the backgrounds of JWST's crazy ass mosaic barf and now I will attempt to magically remove the very unfortunate diffraction spikes. I am very skeptical that this will work.

sound up for lil snores

diffraction spikes are unfortunate

I did it. I took the tree down. And I untangled the lights. Sigh. Now it's summer. Ugh.

i love my family but oh my gosh when i get to lay in my bed and there’s no cat, kid, or spouse sharing it with me… 😴 ahhh

k it’s insomnia idea time: canada and mexico now share a border along the west coast where california, washington, and oregon used to be. invent the cuisine that arises along the new canadian mexican border. what’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner?

wow my brain still can't handle job hiring season.

write the alt text with all your human emotions

emailed my turncoat senator (she was a D and switched to R after getting elected) for all the damn good it'll do

insomnia thought for the night: years ago, making my stand for saturn that no, you can’t make a saturn puzzle without the rings. you can’t! turns out the way puzzles are made requires an expensive metal die cut thing and they wanted to reuse the same circle from the other planets.

“why am i always so tired?“ the mom wondered, as her toddler who she managed to get to sleep in his own bed earlier woke up sad and now managed to use both pillows on her own bed, despite his small size and apparent dislike of using pillows except for non sleep activities

when do i admit to myself and the world that i have a problem with the neighbor’s faintly audible smoke detector that chirps from a water heater closet just across from my bedroom? they fixed it a while ago, but then it started up again. i just keep thinking surely they hear it too… surely

I mean, yeah, I do know I should make some new space art sometime. I blame Minecraft. And WoW housing. It's better than moping around at the grocery store and thinking about how much certain things suck lately. Wait, I do that too.

people keep asking me about my pecan pie and i keep having to tell them it’s just the recipe on the karo syrup bottle. it’s the easiest pie in the world. yes. the best is also the easiest. i broker no illusions.

how do you get links in posts like html anchors anyway? see: bsky.app/profile/apod...

discovering another way to be sick with some kind of common virus! somehow the kid gets it, is miserable for one night, and then wakes up the next morning and announces "I feel better!" me? no. where's my pillow

cleaning up my junk mail and see that wikipedia used the ol’ hst jwst one two combo for their holiday fundraising campaign this year

dogs have serrated lips. i think about this way too much. if your dog gets close to me, i’m looking at its lips to see if they’re serrated. i’m trying to get to sleep right now, but i’m thinking about serrated dog lips. why

my kid said skin is like wrapping paper and i'm still thinking about the implications

this house makes me so mad. just think how many neptunes and uranuses @elakdawalla.bsky.social could have made out of all that beautiful stone. please ban the use of precious stone by tasteless rich people www.zillow.com/homedetails/...?

The guys on the AstroViz mailing list are trying to convince "Lynnie" the spammer, who is offering duct cleaning services, to come and clean up the dust around Sag A*

personal achievement: frying an egg in my cast iron without it sticking

@atomicrocketturtle.bsky.social lol hi scott

unable to discern if the vaguely threatening random census survey I received is supposed to be filled out during the shutdown or after... 🫠 ("Your response is required by U.S. law." hits a little differently right now. Are they gonna find out I'm not Christian?)

my body: oh dear, it appears that we are sick. well, i know what will fix it. coughing. yes, that's right. now cough. some more. just a little bit more. any day now coughing will make this better. ... MUCUS

here is a photo of my cat, Tofu

Seeing this new video of a sperm whale eating a giant squid, it dawned on me that I haven't seen any "amazlng nature" or massimo type scraper accounts in a very long time. Seems like a collective win.

ok I see the advertising system on this site is to approach accounts with large followings and pay them to post some sponsored stuff. I don't really like it, but it is shrewd.

this whole "tough it out" thing for pregnant people brings back a weird twitter memory. I was doing some plumbing while pregnant, and laughed at the idea that it could harm the pregnancy. some reply guy got in and angrily chastised me. there's no correct way to be pregnant.

genuinely interested how anyone can ever believe anyone claiming to know the moment of the rapture. like, that's one of the big things I remember from church, was that not even Jesus himself knows. like he could just be mowing the clouds and then boom, oh hi guys must be the rapture

send cute pet pics while i am roasting some 🦠 with the burning embers of my metabolism plz

A view of NGC 2719 (and friend) for tonight. Hubble processing. PI @dalcantonjd.bsky.social archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... flic.kr/p/2rtF2mU

on one of the discord servers I use, we have a channel where we used to post pictures of food creations we were proud of or were funny or w/e. food styling, new stuff, etc. somehow the only thing that goes in there now is the weekly barrage of "look how much meat I grilled" while others opt out.

I've been nothing but a paragon of civility while using my fork and knife to carve a bit of your flesh out—just a bit, not even a lot—and you've done nothing but argue loudly and even scream at me.

I'm over here music.apple.com/us/album/ast...

Just passing some time. Like where this is going, but now I've got some astronomy data calling my name...

HST two-color view of NGC 1068. Proposal 17165 / @astronomisty.bsky.social archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... Some more info, plus links to all the other processing I've done of this galaxy. flic.kr/p/2rsj7rm

Getting vaccination this morning. Pharmacy won’t give me covid vaccine without a prescription. Walgreens in CA.

sliced my thumb a good .4 cm or so deep while cutting the ends off the asparagus, but still feelin' lucky 'cause spouse gave me a stitch

got some paxlovid for the 2025 covid experience and it tastes like a cat pissed in my mouth