Flying Circuits

This should absolutely be step 2.5!

THIS IS THE WAY 🧵

Book text: My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer's tent twenty miles away, yet some-how, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because it's "your job" and your wife should "get up." What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this-despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife's one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

This paragraph was a hell of a ride

And none of that walking backwards over your own footprints. That's just poor form.

Any attempt to rebuild NASA will be way, way more difficult than it was to build it in the first place.

The rich don't pay taxes anymore, taxes don't go into public education anymore, university career tracks don't work anymore, young students are worse off than their grandparents, etc.

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

An image of mallard duck sitting and looking away from a waterfall directly behind it

Worldwide mood

There should be a bounty system for things like this. I'd pledge!

I just need one member of the media to ask Trump how much a $500 drug would cost after a 1500% discount.

Three pillows with slogans on them. The centremost, LIVE LAUGH LOVE. To the right, ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? and to the left poking out from behind the others, GURU MEDITATION ERROR.

All my pictures were turning out puzzlingly green, and it took me way too long to realize I had white balance on the wrong setting. 😖

Embarrassing. I used to be better at this.

Rocketeer

Superman

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Spider-Man

I miss the days when people got their news from reliable newspapers.

The history of Commodore is a history of mismanagement. The bad management choices wildly outnumber the good -- but they always shined in engineering.

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

Wondering what "class" they chose for this record - the U-2 is a pretty unique aircraft!

Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.

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Scoop: House Democrats shrug off delay tactics to stall Mike Johnson's DOGE vote "People would be really unhappy after what he did on July 4," said one House Democrat.

Axios: House Dems have procedural tools to try to save PBS and NPR but refuse to use them.

“House Democrats are largely shooing away the idea of trying to make Republicans miss their deadline to codify around $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, Axios has learned...” 1/

surfer standing in air, with board even with him

Gabriel Medina at the Olympics after riding a nearly perfect wave. Photo taken by Jerome Brouillet

Digital illustration. It’s a rainy night in spring. The picture shows the front of a convenience store, with warm light coming from the inside, standing out among the blue hues of the night. A man (my OC) holding a red umbrella and a shopping bag is standing in front of the store, watching a little bird by his feet. The bird is looking back at him. There’s a bike resting against a utility pole next to them. The ground is wet and full of reflections. Two cherry blossom trees are towering above the street. There’s a small balcony and a dimly lit window above the store.

A rainy spring night in the city. 🌧️

#art #illustration #digitalart

orange cat lying on floor with square lights reflected on his flank that resembles lit windows

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars - NASA The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at

The REASON Ice Penetrating Radar produced good test data when we flew by Mars! All looking good for seeing inside #Europa in a few years. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

I remember hearing the words "brought to you by the corporation for public broadcasting" every time I watched Sesame Street as a kid. Horrifying that this tiny pot of funds for educational media and public information is being stolen from us. www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

Ordering a study is a great way to stop hearing about a problem for a little while without actually changing anything

I don't mind bugs but I want the large ones to live like the angels do - out of the spectrum of visible light.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-NANCY: MRS. BROWN FORGOT HER GLASSES NANCY TRIES ON THE GLASSES P2-NANCY: WOW!..THEY MAKE THINGS LOOK SO BIG NANCY SEES A VERY LARGE DOG P3-NANCY SEES FLOWERS TALLER THAN HER P4-NANCY SEES A GIANT CAT - MEOW P5-NANCY BUYS A SMALL ICE CREAM CONE NANCY: AN ICE CREAM CONE, JOE JOE: HERE y'ARE, NANCY P6- NANCY: OH, BOY! NANCY WEARING THE GLASSES MAKES THE ICE CREAM CONE LOOK HUGE

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 1,1946

The Imbrium Basin is one of the largest of the giant impact basins whose formation highlighted the later stages of the formative era of the Solar System. Here we see some peaks of it's massive rim, mostly the shadowed sides here, made from photographs taken of the surroundings. Many of these photos had bad Sun glare in them and much processing and retouching was required to suppress the glare. In the foreground we see parts and antennas of the Lunar Module. This is roughly 210 degrees of the 360 degree panorama.

54 years ago the Apollo 15 mission was exploring the Hadley Rille area of the rim of the Moon's vast ancient Imbrium Basin. After landing, the 'top' hatch was opened and David Scott obtained panoramas of the surroundings from an elevated view, something done only once. Here is a part of that view.

Silicon Valley

The ending fizzled out a bit, but damn what a run!

Seconded!