Ilya Stepanov

[january 1, 0001]

joseph: wtf just happened to the calendar?

mary: um, no idea

If you've never heard a penguin being tickled, here's a penguin being tickled.🔊🆙

The quote reads: "The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality." - Hermann Minkowski, 1908

Happy 116th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭

Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity.

Here is how he opened his address:

a dog paw being inserted into a paw washer

"You will feel pain in this hand within the box. Pain. But! Withdraw the hand and I'll touch your neck with my gom jabbar--the death so swift it's like the fall of the headsman's axe. Withdraw your hand and the gom jabbar takes you. Understand?"

Top 10% 💪

Just to make things clear, this might be the best-timed shot in science TV history. In the BBC series "Connections", James Burke points to a rocket just as it launches. It was filmed on August 20, 1977, during the launch of Voyager 2 spacecraft. 🧪🚀

It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

Lotty Earns @lottyburns You're offered $50,000 but if you accept it, the person you hate most in the entire world gets $100,000. Are you taking it?

Oh boy, $150,000!

WHO IS BLASTING 4'33" OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!?

AI generated high school yearbook page & the names below the faces are Aiden Aiden Briaden Bootus Borts Borts Bhuioem Chunus Asheligynne Jorch Jort Hunby Clarser Shamp Humers Hammin Hobem Fooly Furts Broop Hogby Shimp Fooby Foob

absolutely fuckin losing it lol this AI yearbook page.

#solareclipse 🔭

Happy anniversary to the event that inspired one of my favourite poems.

Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904

Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft, W-1, successfully landed at the Utah Test and Training Range on February 21, 2024. This marks the first time a commercial... Varda Capsule Reentry - Five Minutes from LEO to Earth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4D...

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

Random dumb Teslaconomics tweet showing Cybertruck testing which appears to have been shooting the side of the truck with low caliber bullets

Tesla out there just making the survivorship bias meme.

Graysky is a brand-new app for Bluesky, released today for iOS and Android. Here's a quick run-through of all the features you can expect:

Captured solar eclipse from Southern Oregon

goose nonsense HONK

New Cyriak! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08E...

Neighborhood watch

Skeet with this blessing: SHITPOSTING is an anagram of TOP INSIGHTS.

the fuck is a sefie

Irony (EYE-run-ee) [n]:

The new X button doesn't close the website · Issue #1876 · twitter/the-algorithm Describe the bug So a new close button popup today on the website and it doesn't work, instead of closing the website it redirects the user to the homepage. I know it is not regarding the algorithm...

Literal lol. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1876

you’re living in it, baby