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Brown and white pitbull with her head across a black white and grey dog. Both snuggled on a single dog bed next to a fireplace.

My dogs are cuter than your dogs. Notice there is another whole dog bed right beside this and they still chose to snuggle.

'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth "This study demonstrates the astonishing resilience of life that originated on Earth."

Moss spores surviving in space for 9 months is wild. www.space.com/space-explor...

Both the sweetest. Especially the pitty. Everyone who comes over is her new best friend.

AI saying $4,219 x 14.5 is $16,878. It’s far more than that.

Fucking LLM can’t even do straight multiplication.

A black white and grey dog right along side a brown pitbull both with their heads laying on my side.

2 boops

wtf

I still love lots of my poor folk food from my childhood. If I don’t have beans, potatoes, and milk in my fridge I get anxious.

JWST ornament on top of woman's face (Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman) with Bluesky logo overlayed on guys back. From famous movie scene where she tells him she's just a girl standing in front of a guy asking him to love her

I'm just a g̶i̶r̶l̶ "Space Artist" standing in front of a "Bluesky" asking them to love my JWST ornament.

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Went full southern today. Leftover Smoked ham went into a big ol pot of beans. Whole house will be gassy AF tonight .

I think this is the last day for a while I can justify eating pie for breakfast.

The great and mighty Worf has assumed his rightful place of honor on my Christmas tree again this year.

This didn’t come with tools, but it’s not like I didn’t own plenty of Allen wrenches and otherwise.

Did you know that scientist don’t really use the Richter scale anymore? The most common magnitude scale used these days is called the “Moment Magnitude” scale. Here’s more info 🧪

Oh damn. Never met an adult with it. Our youngest was born with it , but seems to have outgrown it. Shit is scary af. Do they have regular meds to control it?

The wife @megcooper.com is an AVID reader. She is constantly rotating between fantasy, sci-fi, and smut so dirty it would make a porn Star blush. Let me tell you I ALWAYS know when she’s reading the later.

a woman with black hair and bangs is sitting at a table with her mouth open . ALT: a woman with black hair and bangs is sitting at a table with her mouth open .

I mean I thought hey they did the hard part. That was a week ago. A man just showed up at the door trying to put it together. He looked at everything and said” damn you did a good job”. 2/2

lol. I bought myself a new bike for winter exercise. There was an option for “ professional assembly”. The thought of putting together a 24 speed bike sounded awful so I paid for it. Bike arrived with just the front wheel, handles and foot pedals not attached. I put it together. 1/2

It’s chilly this morning, but we sit worked the garden. Harvested some cabbages, lettuce, and arugula. Laid out the organic fertilizer (corn gluten) , planted some thornless blackberries at the old folks home. 🌱

5 sets of wind chimes in a row hanging from a porch roof.

My boomer parents have a strong belief in wind chimes.

Thanks for the reminder that I still haven’t started mine.

Ars technica headline “ OPENAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatHPT to plan suicide”

This some black mirror shit right here.

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder

I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...

20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for dark matter annihilation Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Gamma-ray maps within the regio...

Hmmmmm.....

Dark Matter folks .... thoughts on this?!

The paper says the DM annihilation idea remains 'feasible', but I have also seen quotes in general audience articles saying something like: this signal closely matches the expected DM properties (which seems more firm to me) ....

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Blue shell beans and every color from sky blue to very deep blue so I’m still in the skin of the bean, they grew in that’s dried and beige, All of them in the pinkish palm of a hand facing us

Seeds to donate to Los Angeles fire victims? 🌱 We are distributing thru Seed Libraries and fire-affected schools in Altadena, as well as Pacific Palisades. Native/noninvasive seeds going to the Seed Bomb Project, who has already donated 4,000 ❣️seed bombs since June. Ship-To Address to in comments.

I got caught stealing cigarettes from a gas station at 3am when I was 15ish. The woman gave us a speech for like 20 minutes and called us dumbasses before sending us on our way.

A Common Gallinule, a weird waterbird. It is small and round, with a dark gray-almost black body with brown on the wings, a hint of white on the sides, and long yellow legs that are hidden in the green duckweed at the edge of the reeds. Its beak is yellow-white, and its face covered by a red face shield.

Same bird; it is now stretching out its neck to twist its head to place it down near the water, so its side-placed eye is facing down and the other is facing up.

Any idea why this Common Gallinule kept putting its head down sideways toward on the duckweed-covered water? I don't know much about their behavior in general-- could it be looking into the water below? It did it multiple times while I watched.

A nighttime scene with a starry sky and the constellation Orion. There is a snow covered mountain on the horizon, the foreground has some lit autumn trees, and a blurry fence line.

The great Orion nebula through an Astro photography telescope. The image is incomplete as there was not enough time to finish the mosaic.

Two views of Orion from last Saturday morning.

18 and I giggled throughout

Golden thread

Don't get me wrong, I really do appreciate the affordability and that the cost hasn't inflated, but I wish Aldi didn't make you buy a 25¢ cart every single time, I am running out of garage and bakyard space