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TL juxtaposition: Riker Googling - how to find a cat lost in a holodeck Riley Black - pic of annoyed-looking cat saying "Guess where I'm not allowed to go."

😂

Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025
Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February….

#flowing #blueskyartshow #nikon #yosemite #landscape #landscapephotography

this morning while making spaghetti sauce I realized "jesus loves me this I know" is the can-can

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Today, alongside Governor Pritzker and Lieutenant Governor Stratton, we announced $1.5 billion in medical debt forgiven for Cook County residents, the most of any county in the nation.

More than 630,000 residents have seen their debt erased with more eligible in 2027.

loving this “CEOs eat their own product” trend, somebody tell the CEO of Boeing to go next

I don't want just any wasp nostrils, I want THESE wasp nostrils.

so pleased to see the masks 🥹💗

I didn't come here to make friends. Unless, of course, you want to be my friend. In which case nothing would bring me greater joy

It was 39F & Sunny when I saw this phenomenon, often called 'steaming trees' or 'smoking fences.' It occurs when morning Sun rapidly heats water soaked into surfaces of tree/fence after heavy rain. Heat converts water into vapor, which condenses in cool air & looks like steam/mist.

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

How I arrived on Bluesky.

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

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

a poorly drawn cat with a drop pin shape

a grey cat inside a cat carrier, with only its head sticking out, making it look like a maps drop pin

📍

omfg. THANK YOU 🥲

I bet it was nice to live in one of those years or even decades that future history books barely even bother writing about.

thisisnthappiness.com/post/8099262...

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

As described this is one of the two giant hands made of round planar rainbow striped planes, emerging from Woodbine beach as part of the Winter Stations public art exhibition. This image is cropped so you mainly see fingers and sky.

As described this is one of the two giant hands made of round planar rainbow striped planes, emerging from Woodbine beach as part of the Winter Stations public art exhibition.

We finally got at chance to go see the Winter Stations on Woodbine Beach. There were only four this year. First up is ‘Embrace’ by Will Cuthbert. The two giant rainbow stripes hands made of irregular round planar shapes, emerging from the beach and cupping the lifeguard station were very effective.🧵

Two posts from altnps.bsky.social: Amazing work, everyone the OpenAI boycott is working! And thank you to our international supporters who are joining us. Sam Altman is in panic mode he went on X tonight telling users to ask him anything about OpenAI’s Pentagon deal as the boycott of ChatGPT grows. We know a lot of people are choosing to boycott AI overall, and we support that. AI is terrible on the environment! At the same time, we understand many people still use AI tools. If you’re going use AI please delete the ChatGPT app, and switch to Claude by Anthropic instead.

If you give a shit about:

* Books
* Art
* Fresh water
* Food
* Breathing

an account with over 890,000 followers shilling for Anthropic is a HUGE red flag.

This account was sus for a long time, but this is the icing on the fucking cake.

Block these absolute lying arseholes now.

Looney Tunes brown dog Marc Antony holding tiny black and white kitten, Pussyfoot. Protecting. Loving. SHE IS HIS.

me with my last remaining scrap of sanity

Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

The problem with this century is the day never ends. We used to have mornings & nights, starts & wrap-ups--whole worlds of things you simply couldn't DO past a certain reasonable hour and so we had to punch out the fucking clock. Now it's a 24-hr day every day every week every year & it's EXHAUSTING

A metal plaque with raised lettering spelling out the phrase, "In a dream you saw a way to survive and your were full of joy."

Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85