fucked up that in order to do something you have to do it

Eclipse thoughts #Wip

Lately I've been getting into listlessly moving back and forth within the enclosure

So why did @astronerdika.bsky.social and I think this week should be #NeutronStarWeek? Well, two big things happened in August for Neutron Stars! Firstly, today is the anniversary of the double neutron star merger event - #GW170817 detected by @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social Listen to the chirp!

GW170817 Spectrogram + Template Audio

YouTube video by LIGO Virgo KAGRA

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I don't think it's right that liberty mutual invented a horrible little creature for their advertisements and now I have to see it and know about it. I don't think they should be able to do that to me

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

data4democracy.substack.com

Beach Reflection - watercolor painting in the Stillman and Bern Delta sketchbook with cream colored pages. Needed something more detailed using only the aqua brush to really test it, and have decided I still don't like the aqua brush lol. I'll stick to my regular brushes x]

I don't understand Kingdom Hearts but I love it when there's news about it because my friends who do know about Kingdom Hearts sound completely insane

I think about this a lot.

If your suffering from imposter syndrome just know the richest man in the world has to make generated videos of him self in shape and being somewhat capable. You actually try and learn. You’re so much more capable than the dude made a chat bot just to make him think he is somehow able to do anything

Turns out all those food safety regulations existed for a reason! Who knew?

phenomenally well-expressed

Joshua Bowman@thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 2w ago

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

i know the human brain has a real problem with connecting paving wetlands with death, but every paved wetland is a devastating flood in less than 5y time, and stripped soil, and then drought, and then fire.

nothing in that data center will be worth as much as what you destroy to build it!

Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2w ago

My brain has decided to fixate on the fact that "compound bow" scans exactly like "uptown girl"

There is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. If some lady handed me a free sword I'd still take it though.

Sharing to remind myself also o7

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3w ago

I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.

Also Happy(?) "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”

libraryofshortstories.com

Ray Harryhausen didn't film his actors doing a choreographed fight with thin air and then use backscreen projection and double exposure to add an army of skeletons interacting with identical miniatures of the set and props just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." bsky.app/profile/ani-...

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Kaitlin 🌻🌈✨@kaitlinlikesgames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Peter Jackson didn't meticulously design every set piece and costume in the Lord of the Rings trilogy just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Yes YES

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3w ago

Kazakhstan has released the first Amur tiger in the wild in more than 70 years to help restore the extinct Caspian tiger to Central Asia. The restoration project is being done through an MoU signed between Kazakhstan and Russia in 2022.

Fuck it We need a fence. We got quoted $1000 for something secure and solid to keep folks out of our yard at 3am. We are a household of mostly disabled trans organizers. We need help. My venmo is @ reedeliot Please help us out. It's getting fuckin wild.

reed eliot 🤌 🤌@reedeliot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Last night yet another person walked through the busted down gate to scream at our neighbor's house. He broke his fucking door down and threatened to kill him. It's fucking scary this shit keeps happening in the middle of the night.

The desert knows how to say goodnight. 🏜️🌅

It's constantly peeking in the top left, but reposting the old Shin Goji art for the 10th Anniversary My favourite Godzilla film 🔥

Trans pride London shows the country isn't Transphobic. No matter how much money the far right has, the people stand together in love & solidarity.

150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.

thenational.scot

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · last mo.

PSA:

Over a year ago, a Dutch frog science magazine emailed me asking if they could include my comic in their upcoming issue about dart frogs. They were interviewing the scientist who first described the blue poison dart frog; he had seen and liked the comic. They mailed me a copy, which just arrived:

Jimothy flash?

Pathologic 2

Google requires twelve people to test your app before you can release it. The issue I'm encountering, Google, is that even Jesus didn't have twelve friends. I hate to ask for email addresses, so: remember Google Groups? Please come join my group ❤️ Free things, clock apps, other stuff, favor to me