Ah Lads, Not Again

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS

And also occasionally by pufferfish

and also

Mid-year 2026 update (this is without tax):

to be clear, the U.S. federal minimum wage in 1999 was $5.15/hour, so a worker who made the minimum wage could buy the items on that receipt with 41 minutes of work.

Now that everyone's over The Odyssey can we please just sit back and watch the only adaptation that matters, the Coen Brothers' 2000 perfectionist classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I saw a lady today holding a kitten really high up so artistic rendition of it because it made my day. The lil guy was just okay with it

every conversation on here increasingly feeling like this tweet

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now