Tim L

*Seattle Dog enters the arena
Everyone’s got a plan until they get hit in the face by the unholy (delicious) trinity of hot dog, cream cheese, and grilled onions

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

And I’m just remembering reading the entire Dragonriders of Pern series in 6th grade

That guy is fascinating…have only talked with him a few times (once about how law enforcement would need to train to subdue people in a zero-g environment in future space habitations) but every time I want to hear more

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
Definitely also Watership Down, also elementary school. And Hitchhiker’s Guide, if it’s possible to be too young for it.
Probably the big one is In Watermelon Sugar, maybe 7th grade? Yeah.

I’m halfway through the first book in this series and have just preordered the third one. It’s that good.

It just took an exceptionally long time to make the handshake on that connection

one of the many many reasons more people should read du bois is hes got some really useful and intersting visualizations i very rarely see used today

like this is an extremely powerful visualization, from his paris exhibit.

The best advice I got when applying to engineering schools was from my great-uncle, a civil engineer who helped build the Moscone Center and the DC Metro: don’t pick an engineering school; choose one with strong liberal arts. I did both, and treasure my Theatre minor as much as my aerospace degree.

I had never felt and will likely never feel again the exact emotion I felt when I received my first covid shot

This is a fact.

LEARN FLUTE IN 25 MINUTES WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK with a photo of the Kataan probe from the Star Trek TNG episode "The Inner Light"

Bahaha, it's like he read our section on the best lunar real estate and the risk of a scramble and took that as a dare.

PEOPLE OF THE UK & IRELAND:

@hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social is touring again this Autumn / Winter.

Beaver, or be square. 🦫

skekSil the Chamberlain (Bill Maher) wags its finger at a crying Fizzgig that didn't invite him to a fancy dinner

Real Time with the Fucking Skeksis Chamberlain (Series, 2003 - )

Scientists crack the case of the melting sea stars. It only took a decade Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.

Northwest researchers say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.

Important space toilet news!
(this count was unaffected by New Shepard’s flight today; that mission is short enough that the capsule doesn’t carry a toilet)

Toilets in Space - Escape Velocity Space News In case you haven’t noticed, we’re tracking the number of toilets in space (again)! While some might think it’s a waste of time to track such a crappy stat, it brings the team’s inner 12 year olds joy...

The total number of Toilets in Space is 11 (not all are working / accessible).

2 Crew Dragons
1 Soyuz
4 on ISS (w/ 11 crew)
1 Tianzhou
2 on Tiangong Space Station (w/ 3 crew)

Subscribe to EVSN wherever you get podcasts to stay up-to-date or check out cosmoquest.org/x/evsn/toile...

I see the Criterion Collection continues to hyper-focus on Movies Tim Will Always Watch. Grosse Pointe Blank! Ghost Dog! Singles! Pump Up the Volume! Honestly the only thing missing to make this perfect is Empire Records.

A meme of a white graphic T-shirt. It shows a guild navigator as portrayed in the 1984 cinematic masterpiece titled Dune and directed by legendary outer David Lynch. The text under the image of the navigator reads: BORN TO NAVIGATE MACHINE IS A FUCK 鬼神 Kill Em All 10191 I am butlerian jihad 410,757,864,530 DEAD ROBOTS

Spotted in the meme fields. I catch you wearing this in public, I'm buying you a spice beer. #dune #memes #sietchposting #dunesky

Space toilets.

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

“It was a very healthy reciprocal acceptance of suffering,” he said. “Which does not mean being defeated by suffering. Acceptance is not defeat. Acceptance is just awareness.” He smiled in anticipation of the callback: “ ‘You gotta learn to love the bomb,’ ” he said. “Boy, did I have a bomb when I was 10. That was quite an explosion. And I learned to love it. So that's why. Maybe, I don't know. That might be why you don't see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It's that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.” I love the thing that I most wish had not happened. I asked him if he could help me understand that better, and he described a letter from Tolkien in response to a priest who had questioned whether Tolkien's mythos was sufficiently doctrinaire, since it treated death not as a punishment for the sin of the fall but as a gift. “Tolkien says, in a letter back: ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” Colbert knocked his knuckles on the table. “ ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” he said again. His eyes were filled with tears. “So it would be ungrateful not to take everything with gratitude. It doesn't mean you want it. I can hold both of those ideas in my head.”

when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...

If you are still hosting a newsletter on Substack, you are patronizing the Nazi Bar. Stop.

This makes the 🧑‍🚀 crew selection sound like a wacky MTV reality show

Down with Liquid Glass, and up with whatever the heck this was

Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!

We used to have real computer interfaces.

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

80s…steam train…disco?
You all are on some next level shenanigans