“Maybe I’ll get to sleep on time tonight,“ she thought, before hearing the deep thumping sound of Chinook helicopters flying overhead on a firefighting mission… “I definitely won’t spend 45 minutes thinking about that.“ so it goes

dang, I went to @merriam-webster.com to find out when the word "megafire" was first used but it's not even in there

I might have too many spiders in the bathroom. Was flossing and one crawled onto my fingers, apparently off the flosser, while I was flossing. The hard part is trying to find a spot to drop them that's not already occupied. They've got all the corners pretty well covered.

the impossible has happened. apod has a new website. science.nasa.gov/apod/

APOD - NASA Science

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who doses their cats with gabapentin tiny tabs and which online pharmacy do you get them from? my local vet charges almost $2 a pill and it seems a bit much

i'm just so tired of trying to find something and all i get is ai slop

omg I'm trying to judge these astrophotography images and the collected data are great but like... the color balance? begging people to look at their channels in isolation. if one looks mega bright and the others are diminutively dark, you probably have a problem

Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

Donnie Darko Donnie Darko Frank

Alt: From the movie Donnie Darko. Three characters sitting in a dark theater with the screen dimly illuminating their face. They turn slowly from one another to look at the screen. One is wearing a kind of horror movie style bunny suit. there's a sleeping girl between the guy and the person in the bunny suit.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III@mapperwocky.bsky.social · 2w ago

Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

shoutout to nobody for never giving me a bluesky invite code

a friend in santa cruz pointed out reddit going crazy over some clouds and I can't help sharing haha www.reddit.com/r/CLOUDS/com... a video www.reddit.com/r/santacruz/... some wider views www.reddit.com/r/CLOUDS/com...

From the CLOUDS community on Reddit: Never seen these before!

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M. C. Gigerland, a resort where you can sleep in weirdly suggestive pods but also get to explore a lot of geometric illusions and puzzles

if you ever have a shredded foam mess to clean up, yes you could vacuum it, but tonight i discovered the polyester fluff inside a random old yellow pillow will soak it all up like a dang sponge. then you can get 100% of the foam into the sack like you intended all along…

sure, "automatic buttonhole" sounds like a great idea so far I'm like 0 for 10 functional buttonholes 😂

been doing some local mapping lately and noticed on google maps this artificial lake thingy is marked as a road. all I'm saying is a human who lives here would never do this. probably even a human who doesn't live here would not make this mistake

human shoulders are clearly shaped better for back sleeping. why have i spent my entire life wanting to side sleep so badly? why is sleeping so hard? it should be easy. oh you’re tired are you? well let’s just roll around every fifteen minutes for two hours then. a sound plan. super

so there's the secondary mirror, the primary mirror, and then ???? where the cameras go

a banana has gone missing. the peel is in the compost bin. everyone swears they didn't eat it.

tonight my child said he wished it was raining hell from the sky. this was rather concerning to me so I asked why? oh, hail. he wanted it to hail. phew

today, my child is reckoning with the fact that he opened the can of beans. if you don't want beans for dinner, don't pull the top off the beans.

my ice cream flavor idea: calico. dark chocolate, salted caramel, and vanilla ice creams dumped together (but not mixed)

don't worry, the universe has seen fit to punish me for all the shitty reply-guy posts i've made lately. i heated up some very gone fried rice in the microwave and am still recovering from the smell (none was eaten)

drove through san francisco today and every single billboard was about ai. ok there was one apple advert. doesn’t that seem silly? some were even ai for ai. it’s ai the whole way down

the stupidest of my problems right now: people know I like pastries, and multiple people have brought me multiple pastries independently. I can't eat them all before the leave peak freshness. it's unfair

I'm never going to be a dog person... I watch a dog for some cousins about a week per year. Dog is currently sitting right next to me just licking and licking his paws and I smell him. It's just normal dog smell, but... I just can't. I washed him yesterday. So stinky... faugh! fine, I'll go to bed

got the neighbor's printer working in like 5 minutes. damn, maybe I do have a super power

This scaffolding is *extremely* safe. I hope they get paid overtime for working past midnight.

ugh, I keep trying to reply to that post about the screwworm article but bsky is busted or something. sorry if things keep showing up and getting deleted

Ok, I finally dug it out of my memory and did enough internet searching to find this article I read way back in 2020: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Worth re-reading. Clear picture of a multi-decadal effort requiring cooperation between many countries. By @sarahzhang.bsky.social

America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

Screwworms, insects that once killed millions of dollars’ worth of cattle a year in the southern U.S., can be relentless in their search for hosts—and those who fight them must be relentless too, @Sar...

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here we go again, the kid is defrauding me by buying things from the playstation store even though I swear I disabled it

just got all excited imagining it happening and finding out first among some friends, ordering them to get in discord and then yellinG IT HAPPENED while jumping up and down