🌌 Merideth

A soft fluffy gray cat named Ivy, with long white whiskers

I have this exact model! She is always at maximum fluff and the house is never quiet. Her name is Ivy. She’s a delight every single day

That eerie blue glow is Pluto’s atmosphere.

New Horizons was looking at the dwarf planet backlit by the Sun.

Pluto is the only object beyond Neptune with a known atmosphere.

It’s mostly nitrogen, but the pressure is just 1/100,000th of Earth’s.

#astronomy

Image: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

This entire thing is a RIDE.

An original painting by Canadian artist Nicki Ault depicting a prairie landscape at night. The sky is alive with the northern lights and awash with hundreds and hundreds of stars.

"Midnight Confetti"
acrylic & oil on canvas
20x60 inches
Nicki Ault
2026

#nightsky #auroraborealis #nocturne #northernlights #CanadianArtist

Context: one of the speakers at a packed Surprise, AZ city council meeting after it was revealed that ICE has purchased a massive warehouse in town to use as a detention facility. The City Council has said they didn't know about it, and have no authority to stop it.

If you keep this up I’m going to need like..a coffee table book of Jerryisms, or something

A blue sky, some patchy clouds, and a thin, bright crescent. That's Venus. The larger, dimmer crescent is the Moon.

This is a cool photo of crescent Venus.

And the Moon, too.

Image credit: Iván Éder

“The Strangers’ Case” speech, from The Book of Sir Thomas More.

Shakespeare is thought to have contributed to this play, but it was never performed, as the Queen’s censor feared it might incite more riots like the ones in 1517 (80 yrs prior) referenced above.

Any errors are my own.

10/10 🧵 fin

To be thus used [abused]? This is the strangers’ case [the case of all immigrants];
And this your [guess whose, in 2026’s America] mountainish inhumanity.

9/

Owed not nor made not [did not create] you, nor that the elements
Were not all appropriate to your comforts [or lack thereof],
But chartered [rightfully given only] unto them [the native citizens of that place], what would you think

8/

That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode [give you any home] on earth,
Whet [sharpen] their detested [hateful, racist] knives against your throats,
Spurn you [turn you away] like dogs, and like as if that God

7/

What [other] country, by the nature of your error [offense],
Should give you harbour [refuge]?
Why, you [!!!] must needs be strangers [you would become the immigrant]: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous [savage, cruel] temper,

6/

Say now the king,
As he is clement [merciful] if th’offendor mourn [expresses regret],
Should so much come too short of your great trespass [whatever offense you may have committed, if any]
As but to banish you, whither [where] would you go?

5/

For other ruffians [violent criminals], as their fancies [imaginative desires] wrought [brought to pass],
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right [baseless self-righteousness],
Would shark [prey] on you, and men like ravenous [starved, wolfish] fishes
Would feed on one another.

4/

I’ll tell you: you had taught
How insolence [contemptuous treatment of others] and strong hand [violence] should prevail,
How order should be quelled [subdued or stopped]; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live [to be] an agèd man,

3/

Plodding to the coasts and ports for transportation,
And that you sit as [like] kings in your desires,
Authority [your leaders] quite silent by your brawl [violent riots],
And you in ruff [proud] of your opinions clothed;
What had you got [What have you accomplished]?

2/

Grant them removed [deported], and grant that this your noise [the rioting]
Hath chid [scolded] down all our country’s majesty;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers [immigrants],
[Carrying] their babies at their backs and their poor luggage [all they own],

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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Dragon in the deep. 🐉⁠
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Dragonfish (family Stomiidae) are cunning predators. Although they are strong swimmers, they prefer to lie in wait and ambush unsuspecting fishes and crustaceans. This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay.

Cydippid ctenophore putting on a sparkle show. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

My first thought was The Way You Do The Things You Do by The Temptations, but the last year or so I’ve been listening to a lot more stuff From This Century(TM) in an ongoing effort to cheer myself up.

What’s a song you love with a long title (at least six words)?

How about “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness,” The National

I moved here with nary a sweater to my name and now my closet is inexplicably full of them, to the point that I was starting to wonder about mystical closet properties (the opposite of losing socks in the dryer?). But now that you mention it, blacking out at the Goodwill makes a lot more sense.

super nerd HURRAY

Cloudy night sky, full moon, silhouettes of birds in flight and trees, cabin with lit windows, woodcut.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Kent Ambler

It was very professional of him to continue conducting the rest of the interview with the victim’s ghost like that. After he murdered that feckless man in cold blood with those two innocent-sounding little syllables, I mean.

Close up of a cormorant, his emerald eye gleaming

...and while I'm not an ornithologist by trade, I do know that Cormorant eyes are fashioned in the depths of Oz, and then rolled down rainbows to be collected by elves, and thence lovingly installed by water nymphs on the day of their hatching
#birds #facts

This photo is stunning. It should be the cover of a science magazine.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent