The Official Babylon 5 YouTube Channel (yes, there is one!) has started posting full episodes of B5, starting with the Pilot, called "The Gathering." If you haven't seen B5, go check it out. Premiering in 1994, B5 was a prototype for today's Prestige TV formula. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVW...

The Gathering (Pilot) | Babylon 5 FULL EPISODE

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Remember: if you tell 20 friends, enemies, family, or strangers that they need to read my books, a falcon will let me know and I'll come live in your walls for a week.

I’ve had about enough of this. I am going to shoot the sun.

Because the sun was low in the sky and smoke from nearby forest fires in the air, this photo of the solar eclipse is an unusually vivid orange color. [kottke.org]

Ring of Fire in the Sky

Portuguese photographer Rui Santos captured this shot of the recent solar eclipse. Stunning. Here’s what makes this shot look a little different from other eclipse photos; from APOD: Usually the solar corona ap

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I swear, reading the stuff that no one else reads is going to become a superpower. You don't even have to be good at it, you just have to do it. People yell and puff and stomp when you read them the words in the stuff they didn't read. Maybe I should have been a lawyer after all (sorry dad).

[seinfeld voice] what is the deal with natalie harp youtu.be/XqpTkbNRAjY

So what's the deal with Trump's aide, Natalie Harp?

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one thing i can say for certain about PraCon is that i've never met a person who wasn't suspicious of them. mississippitoday.org/2026/08/18/p...

Prado plans to turn vacant Jackson YMCA into mixed-use housing and recreation site - Mississippi Today

The YMCA closed in 2017 and has sat empty since. PraCon plans to convert the existing YMCA building into about 60 multifamily units and add approximately 100 more units in a new five story building.

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53 years ago today 🪚

If you think data centers are bad, boy howdy let me tell you about almonds

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · yesterday

you get scolded for taking a longer shower because Adolf McKulak in the Central Valley literally has a semi-feudal right to use as much as he wants to grow some of the most water intensive crops in the world, often for export overseas

Could AI do this TAMBIEN?

yes, it's taken me a long time to be in a position to even be curious about this, but. Sixpence None the Richer are from _Texas_?

Gotta say, this one really shines when it’s by itself.

Real MS Weather Alerts@alt.mswx.fyi · yesterday

Special Weather Statement issued August 17 at 3:47PM CDT by NWS Mobile AL Oops All Racists county Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow aroundunsecured objects. Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

Hearing concerning efforts that pro-Iranian hacker groups are targeting Bluesky by convincing normally mild, anodyne hobbyists to waste their time with the worst discourses anyone could think of

Mithos@mithos343.bsky.social · yesterday

Hearing concerning efforts that pro-Iranian hacker groups are targeting Bluesky by convincing certain high-level developers to use water-based phone cooling methods.

if someone hears Meta talking and thinks it's anything other than a fucking lie they deserve what they get

Jed Dolbeer@jdolbeer.bsky.social · 2d ago

The "Threads has this many users" number is also wildly cooked. It counts anything featured on Insta/Facebook, regardless of clickthrough.

Wait. Kyle Chandler is playing Hal Jordan?

Blanche Devereaux So Hot

Alt: Blanche Devereaux leaving a room, pausing in the doorway to look back with a hand on the doorframe and a come-hither eyebrow twitch.

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Nope.

Apple is reportedly expanding Apple Wallet IDs to four more states - Engadget

North Carolina's DMV has confirmed plans for a mobile ID program that'll eventually support Apple Wallet.

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Don't hex me, bro

Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.

s1e9, "Home" aka "For a fleeting moment, Loretta Divine brings some class to this tacky little show"

vincent@papa.yaga.gay · last wk.

first time rewatching Supernatural. season one, i haven't watched since it first aired, and i forgot how _young_ the Winchesters were at the start. just a couple of babies hunting cryptids of the week.

The cicadas are cicadaing as hell today.

"Why do Master Race people always look like shabby little freaks" is one of those questions which answers itself if you think about it for even a moment

(Showing the barber a picture of me & him skipping hand-in-hand through a tulip field) Can I get something like this

988 in the US or the Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386

Today’s “Thanks, Wikipedia” lesson: 1. Canton, Ohio, is named after Guangzhou, a city in China that is also called Canton. 2. The Pearl River flows through Guangzhou. 3. Canton, MS, is not named after Guangzhou, and it is 8-10 miles from the Pearl River.

WAR PIGS BUT ITS ABOUT MILLENNIAL NOSTALGIA: do you remember drinking SNAPPLEEEEE / listening to fiona APPLLLEEE

recession indicator: new tech-y gadget didn't have a branded sticker in the box.

someone brought up WP cron jobs at work. this is what i've been training for.

vincent@papa.yaga.gay · 2w ago

i do love that anytime a developer refers to WordPress cron jobs, they have to clarify that WordPress cron jobs do not run unless there is active site traffic

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

Website of Dreams

i lost track of the current year when i read this week's WordPress security update (7.0.4) is a patch against malicious Postscript files.