noor

this airtable couldve been a frying pan to the back of my head

its just me and this calculator app budget against the world

Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.

forever a maggie stan

Photo of a Pokémon picture book showing jigglypuff talking to a clefairy through a computer

Photo of a Pokémon picture book showing clefairy talking to a jigglypuff through a computer

long distance friends

the superhost tag is killing me

ruling planet looking like a boss ♍️

am i the only one who gets an intense urge to roll around like Sonic? i just feel like it’d be easier than walking.

dont ask me to fix shit

(because i dont know how)

#ootd #gaysofbluesky

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

this is tea

how it started -> how it went 💐 #flowers and #bouquets are one of my favorite hobbies 🩷

perfection 🤤

Yesterday, Trump signed more executive orders on Inauguration Day than any President in history.

Every day this week, I'll be breaking down Trump's attacks on your rights and freedoms.

First up: immigration rights and birthright citizenship. (1/11)

there’s nothing actionable here or any consequences mentioned so basically the corporations can say “oh we twied weally weally hawd but we couldnt do it 🥺👉🏽👈🏽” ad infinitum?

regardless of how deep the khole you’re in is, it’s antisemitic to do a nazi salute. hope this helps~

(is this an azealia banks reference or)

yo what’s up?

my contact lenses right now.

not that i dont support it i just didnt expect it

REN no way

A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.

how it feels to drive at night with astigmatism:

it’s that time of winter when we brown folx are playing the game of “am i jaundiced or do i just need UV rays?”

Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

my friend (brooklynite) talking to her boyfriend (staten islander) re: the verrazano bridge- “it joins our lands~”

I looked up what a group of Blue Jays is called, which is a "party" or "band." So here is a party of Blue Jays. (They do seem to like partying it up and causing a ruckus. I could see "a ruckus of Blue Jays" as a group name working too.)

The starry background of space. At the top of the image is the orange glow of Earth’s atmosphere, with a few bright white dots forming a line above it. Those are the moon, Venus, and Jupiter.

the moon, venus, jupiter, and earth all in alignment from space 🌌

📸: scott kelly

tul8te is my new favorite musical artist wowww 🌹

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

5th person to be cured of HIV

“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”