Rhywle

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Mermaid making a sand angel 🤎

Long sequence, nicely showing evasive actions. (#OTD in 1944, Yugoslavia. Lieutenant Snyman's Beaufighter from 16 Squadron SAAF attacking a locomotive. #WW2 #HISTORY)

Kids TV character most likely to say FUCK when the cameras aren’t rolling. My vote:

Found Roy's dam, on @africamlive.bsky.social 😁 Thanks @flightradar24.com. The plane's shadow passed right over, so just had to backtrack.

Straight out of a Road Runner cartoon

Your usual buttons tweet. ↖️2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) ↗️The Fifth Element (1997) ↙️Silent Running (1972) ↘️The Anacrusis (2022)

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

Careful what you wish for

Simon Fraser

I do love a silver razorback P-47 Thunderbolt. Brutish yet shiny. Here is an original Kodachrome image and the zoomed-in crop from the original NARA file. 42-27607 was flown by 2Lt Richard D. Stark of the 82nd FS, 78th FG and was shot down on 3rd Sept 1944. Stark became a POW. #avgeek #aviation

Bonk 💥

"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

Be very afraid!

Brian

‘Le TSR.2’? ‘Le Vigilante’? The proposed French Mirage VI of 1963 would have been gorgeous!

Sea House

Tree House

We've had another 6 mm of rain overnight, the veld is sopnat. Sun's up, good morning 🐕🚶‍♂️

#OTD in 1941, North Africa. Important in a desert, is to know your bearings. #WW2 #HISTORY

Simon Fraser

Sometimes, when you stare into the abyss... the abyss stares back.

I mean, this image, showing a dozen P-51Cs and Ds of the 361st Fighter Group tooling up on some (I'm guessing from the tail) B-17s in late summer 1944 (they have stripes), is 331 MB, and you can zoom in almost to your hearts' content... This is how you digitally conserve.

Looking through the NARA images today, hunting down Kodachrome ones, and came across this well-known image of P-51B-15-NA 42-106950 'The Iowa Burt'. I've not seen this image so clean before, and the original file is 83 MB. Screw you IWM, this is how you do photos. #avgeek

Fusion Device xkcd.com/3313/

Take a moment to think about what this image shows. That's a glint of sunlight, reflecting off a lake of liquid ethane and methane, on a moon that's larger than Mercury where the average surface temperature is –180°C, orbiting a giant ringed planet 1.4 billion kilometres away.

1/30 #OTD 199 years ago, in a bay in southern Greece, three navies sailed in and anchored among an enemy fleet. Four hours later, it was gone. Navarino, 20 October 1827, was the last great battle fought entirely by sailing ships, and nobody was meant to fire. #maritimehistory

Unusual shot. (A Mustang from 168 Squadron banking over Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais in Normandy, and tanks and vehicles from 4 Armoured Brigade. #WW2 #HISTORY)

Momentum Demonstration xkcd.com/3312/

We have the technology, we *can* make him worse #Warframe

"Jet-powered biplane cropduster" are not a set of words that belong together, but incredibly it's by far the least of my problems with this...

"I have been challenged to a duel," she said. "For kissing a woman." "Did she consent?" the swordmaster said. "Yes, but men courting her did not." "Ah. How many?" "Are these men good?" She gave three names. "Far below your level." "Excellent!" She rose. "There are more women I want to kiss."

“Ok, anyone else have any ideas?” Convair: “We do.” “Is it completely mental?” Convair <bashfully>: “Ermmm, would a Mach 4 attack hydro-ski seaplane count as mental?”

this is the most obvious trap I've ever seen