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After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge. In another life, this would have been my career. Still cool!

www.earth.com/news/after-1...

TIME’s new cover: Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972

We’re proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our international partners in Artemis. Our European Service Module is at the heart of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Together, we're extending humankind’s presence in space and demonstrating that multilateral and inclusive cooperation is vital for our future.

The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days Each collection speaks to a different seasonal mood, but all are worth slowing down with before the new year.

The ancient, contemplative form of poetry can capture, perhaps better than any other, the muffled quality of chilly afternoons and days spent indoors.

California Theatre Of The Performing Arts, vintage neon sign at night in San Bernardino, California

California Theatre, San Bernardino

Prints: https://jon.framer.art/s/image/221103?source=bluesky

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Hindsight 20/03

YouTube video by DJMixtrix MTV Debut 8/1/81 Opening and 1st Video

MTV shut down yesterday. They ended their final broadcast with 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles, the very first video broadcasted by MTV on August 1st, 1981. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jcd...

Happy New Year!
#HappyNewYear #newyear

KIMMEL, to the UK:

“.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.”

@jimmykimmel.com

Hollywood’s Black Pearl Finds New Life as an Artificial Reef Off Panama City Beach - The Scuba News The legendary Black Pearl ship from Pirates of the Caribbean has found a new home beneath the waves. Sunk off Panama City Beach, Florida, the former movie prop is now an artificial reef attracting div...

Back to Davey Jones' locker.

www.thescubanews.com/2025/12/14/h...

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Follow the Moon, Kent Ambler. Woodblock of a fox in a forest at night. The fox is looking up at a crescent moon, there are stars visible too in the night sky. Depicted in blacks, dark blues, and a light teal or pale blue of the fox, the moon and reflections on the ground. There are silhouettes of large pine trees in the background.

Goodnight. May we all follow the moon with the stars until we are rediscovered by morning.
🖼️ Follow the Moon, Kent Ambler

Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.

#peaceprize
#tacos

Illustration of full moon / night sky over frozen lake / water, banked with reeds and snow laden sloping grass, on the ice, a little tomte skates, trees silhouetted in distance.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Rien Poortvliet

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Poster for the Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi film "Black Friday"

"Black Friday" should only ever mean this...

maybe i am going insane

Is Wicked a movie about Boston?

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Google did another shitty thing. You now have to go opt out in Gmail to avoid having their AI train on your stuff.

Directions here: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich

Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/

Primaries for senators

B&W art. A fancy ballroom where men in white tie are reveling with women in evening gowns. The revelers have paused in their dancing and are looking down at the dance floor. A fist has punched through the floor. We see below the ball men and women hunched down in a cramped space holding up the revelers' gala. One of these people crammed down in the depths has punched through the dance floor from below.

From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906

Is AI the first technology to start ground floor on the enshittification stage? #ai #aiart

The Mamdani Era Begins His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

In the end, Andrew Cuomo’s long record was a gift to Zohran Mamdani. “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity—and what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” Mamdani told Cuomo in a debate.

Just like Tesla: upsell a vaporware dream that users seed and beta test hoping it materializes.

A cartoon by Jon Adams, from 2023. #NewYorkerCartoons

Are museum heists the new statistical recession indicator?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.