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Our planet can put on quite a show.
Using thousands of photos taken by NASA astronauts from the ISS earlier this year (including many with dazzling auroras), Seán Doran made this incredible timelapse called Light Fantastic. [kottke.org]
Light Fantastic
Using thousands of photos taken by NASA astronauts Butch Wilmor and Don Pettit earlier this year from the International Space Station, Seán Doran made this incredible timelapse called Light Fantastic.
21,837 images ac
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December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our planet can put on quite a show.
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Nature: The Best Science Images of 2025. Includes a tattoo on a tardigrade, a volcano with a glowing hat, and a skydiver’s silhouette against the surface of the Sun. [kottke.org]
Nature: The Best Science Images of 2025
Nature magazine has chosen its favorite science images of the year. I’ve featured a few of these on the site already — Skydiving the Sun, red sprites in the New Zealand sky — so I picked a couple of other favorites to sh
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December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Nature: The Best Science Images of 2025. Includes a tattoo on a tardigrade, a volcano with a glowing hat, and a skydiver’s silhouette against the surface of the Sun. [kottke.org]
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"There are no more free public spaces!"
Your library is right there.
"I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!"
Your library is right there.
"I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!"
Your library is right there.
Your library is right there.
"I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!"
Your library is right there.
"I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!"
Your library is right there.
And! Your public library most likely offers access to the major newspapers. You can just login & check out the day's stories (or past ones) for free.
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"There are no more free public spaces!"
Your library is right there.
"I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!"
Your library is right there.
"I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!"
Your library is right there.
Your library is right there.
"I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!"
Your library is right there.
"I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!"
Your library is right there.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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We are getting closer to Hiro's fighter robot at the start of Big Hero 6.
Snailbot is a self-reconfigurable robot using rocker-bogie suspension by The University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
October 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We are getting closer to Hiro's fighter robot at the start of Big Hero 6.
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These lines are parallel.
It's a riff on the classic Café Wall Illusion, first described in 1894 by the splendidly-named Hugo Münsterberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%...
He called it the "kindergarten illusion" - renamed in 1973 based on a café in Bristol.
(H/t Nichol.s.67 on Threads.)
It's a riff on the classic Café Wall Illusion, first described in 1894 by the splendidly-named Hugo Münsterberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%...
He called it the "kindergarten illusion" - renamed in 1973 based on a café in Bristol.
(H/t Nichol.s.67 on Threads.)
August 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These lines are parallel.
It's a riff on the classic Café Wall Illusion, first described in 1894 by the splendidly-named Hugo Münsterberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%...
He called it the "kindergarten illusion" - renamed in 1973 based on a café in Bristol.
(H/t Nichol.s.67 on Threads.)
It's a riff on the classic Café Wall Illusion, first described in 1894 by the splendidly-named Hugo Münsterberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%...
He called it the "kindergarten illusion" - renamed in 1973 based on a café in Bristol.
(H/t Nichol.s.67 on Threads.)
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Keep sharing maps, charts, and memes with your friends. It shows that you are a nice little penguin.
🐧 🪨 🐧 ❤️
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August 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Keep sharing maps, charts, and memes with your friends. It shows that you are a nice little penguin.
🐧 🪨 🐧 ❤️
🐧 🪨 🐧 ❤️
I can immediately hear the intro when I see this.
You see this post a title screen that is iconic to you
August 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I can immediately hear the intro when I see this.
I need to make my patch notes better.
July 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I need to make my patch notes better.
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July 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
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The most accurate pie chart ever.
June 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most accurate pie chart ever.
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Dumb but it made me chuckle.
June 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Dumb but it made me chuckle.
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BREAKING NEWS: This video will likely improve your day.
June 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
BREAKING NEWS: This video will likely improve your day.
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As an anthropology professor said to me "your brain spent millions of years evolving to be perfectly adapted to a way of life that hasn't existed for 10,000 years. You're bound to feel a little fucked up every now and then."
We’re also getting bombarded with a constant firehose of information (and “information”), sunrise to sunset, day in and day out. We were not built, from an evolutionary perspective, for ANYTHING on this scale.
I swear, i wasn't prepared for how susceptible literally everyone would be to conspiracy theories as an adult.
June 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
As an anthropology professor said to me "your brain spent millions of years evolving to be perfectly adapted to a way of life that hasn't existed for 10,000 years. You're bound to feel a little fucked up every now and then."
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I don't use words like 'awesome' lightly, but this is it. Pure joy, and it only gets more joyous the more you explore!
floor796.com
floor796.com
Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
floor796.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't use words like 'awesome' lightly, but this is it. Pure joy, and it only gets more joyous the more you explore!
floor796.com
floor796.com
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It would be nice to have a 2 day weekend, a 4 day work week, and a community day where you clean a beach, participate in a community food garden, or help people get out of homelessness. A socialist sabbath.
January 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It would be nice to have a 2 day weekend, a 4 day work week, and a community day where you clean a beach, participate in a community food garden, or help people get out of homelessness. A socialist sabbath.
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Opening a restaurant named ‘Peace and Quiet’ where kids meals cost $80
November 22, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Opening a restaurant named ‘Peace and Quiet’ where kids meals cost $80
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Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.