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Im glad I saved this before deactivating my twitter and losing my discord where I had posted it

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

My cover story for the June issue of @sciam.bsky.social is up! I went on a quest to separate out hype from reality in quantum computing, and this was the result.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

What do you MEAN the Artemis II eclipse glasses were commemorative ones from the 2023 eclipse???

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

Finally we can say what we REALLY think about the Artemis astronauts.

we got a guy the furthest anyone’s ever been from the planet earth in fuckin khakis. put on some slacks man

me before reading: haha another made up fan theory pieced together by spurious evidence, still fun to read me 2/17 pieces of evidence in:.........oh so this is just fully true

That's right

I’m not supposed to bring these bad boys into an open plan office?! Sorry.

The recipes from Victoria Principal’s diet book, “The Diet Principal,” are frankly upsetting

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Looking at some radio data hot off the MeerKAT telescope today! MeerKAT is a South African radio telescope with a huge field of view for astro. I'm calling this one "Radio Starry Night" bc a calibration error off that bright source has made a lovely swirly van Gogh sky if I may say so myself. 🔭🧪

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

I love when an editor's... interests show up in their wiki articles.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

@nogodsnomayors.com listen to no blood no work

“The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its first liftoff, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, 30th November 1982" (via www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...)

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

He never sleeps, the commander. He is floating, floating. He says that he will never die.

The fact that they won't let this man die despite him being in his NINETIES in the show now and already having the previous 2 seasons be about how old he is just so they keep having to pile more ridiculous make-up on him is genuinely one of my favorite things about the show

SEINFELD S50E13: The Head Fic kramer's "mlm rpf coffeeshop AU" of jerry and george gets optioned for a book deal, which the pair try to sabotage. elaine's comments about a local deli get her banned from a neighborhood subreddit.

Nine Delights 2026

FOOL TIME, part 4 of 4 "THE DUMBEST GUY IN HISTORY' now free to watch on youtube youtu.be/_HGk0WQF_Z4?...

Posting up on the corner with the boys, sloshing this into our faces. Pass the wine brother

Clay goblet from Early Bronze Age Troy. Known as a depas goblet after the Homeric ‘depas amphikypellon', recent residue analysis shows these two-handled vessels were used for drinking wine some 4,250 years ago! Istanbul Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I was born in April 1805 Napoleon was master of Europe Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him Oceans were now battlefields

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

...and to Tiny Tim, who will NEVER die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, Tim. He wafts his cap as he pirouettes under the lamps and hangs his little crutch upon the wall. He says that he will never die.

it's nothing o'clock

Quick reminder of the rules for anyone playing Anschützageddon: the objective is to go the whole of Christmas without hearing Ernst Anschütz's 'O Tannenbaum'. Remember, remixes and covers DON'T count. Good luck!

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

@postoctobrist.bsky.social Re latest NGNM, Wubbo in a sleeping bag www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

best ending of all time, let's be real

Repost this if you forgot the Fifth of Remember