Charon on the ropes

I cannot have another breyna vs symbicort conversation today. I have already had three before 9am and that's my quota.

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) doesn’t conjure food out of thin air—it’s a mechanism of access, not production.

The food already exists in grocery stores, markets, and supply chains.

Without access, it goes uneaten. SNAP unlocks it. This is simply about withholding the key.

Upcoming vacation seems way more important than yet another doomed glp1 prior auth appeal when the indication doesn't match fda approval. No cardiac hx, bmi not obese, a1c of 5.5. There's no way this is going to go through - right?

a picture of the aurora borealis with the name yatri written below it Alt: a picture of the aurora borealis with the name yatri written below it

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day by supporting Alaska Public Radio stations
They serve entire communities as bulletin boards and disaster communications, and have had their federal funds ripped away.
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Still amazed that the Vatican has been more responsive to the threat Trump represents than the vast majority of American institutions.

Damn this Tylenol press conference is really activating my stress response from the bleach one. Really thought I'd made some peace with that, but turns out nah.

after watching Kpop Demon Hunters, I have come to the logical conclusion that the current state of the world is due to One Direction going on indefinite hiatus in December 2015

Currently working on a puzzle book for my sister's birthday and I'm searching through an old compilation of Internet memes, puzzles and comics from 2005-2010. The Internet was a different place then . . .

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Several fluffy peach hollyhock flowers against a vivid blue sky. You can't tell from the photo but the stalk was at least twelve feet high.

I have a plethora more flowers to share but we won't have great Internet for the next couple days so here's one for now.

Full rainbow over the prairie in Yellowstone.

Something from the home screen folder.

This is not photoshopped, filtered or modified, the air had a lot of smoke in it is what happened.

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

Centaurus A. A glowing orange region shines at the upper left corner, with dark brown and black dust cascading diagonally down to the lower right. Distant stars dot the hazy background of space. Bright pink regions of star formation are interspersed throughout the dust.

Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.

A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation.

The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.

concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again?

stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

Now this is useful! Thanks

Frederic E. Mohs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the German geologist, see Friedrich Mohs.

Frederic E. Mohs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the German geologist, see Friedrich Mohs.

today is World Bee Day. not to be confused with World Bidet

Holy shit, just three years into its existence, the nonprofit Baltimore Banner has won its first Pulitzer.

Wisdom right here.

Sure was unnerving to have basic church stuff explained with a hushed voice typical of nature documentaries. Otherwise, the service was lovely.

Happy Earth Day! 💚

A vintage Easter card showing an army of rabbits riding cockerels into war

For those who celebrate: may your #Easter weekend be as strange and random as this vintage postcard.

‘Sound’ (loud sound), ‘sound’ (safe and sound), and ‘sound’ (water) are not related.

‘Sound’ (loud) comes from Latin ‘sonus.’

‘Sound’ (safe and) comes from Old English ‘gesund,’ meaning "healthy."

‘Sound’ (water) comes from Old Norse ‘sund,’ meaning “strait."

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

On a routine surgery + overnight stay, my mom had fifteen different nurses. She had no idea who to ask for pain medication. The patient's perspective is wild.

Fascinating stuff.

Gorgeous

Surprisingly delicious. Better than real ones. Of course, this is probably colored by my egg allergy. And a judicious use of cheese. And then more cheese. Yum.

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.