Quoth the Rodent Queen, "Squeak."

Valley of Light

One of the many Mesas in Utah with a drone.

Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina), family Hirundinidae, order Passeriformes, NM, USA

I've heard the songs. The songs are not about you.

and if you subscribe to the "horrible people don't deserve to see their rapists face justice/do deserve to be raped" take, then there will be people out there who think those things about you.

That's the thing about human rights: every human deserves them. Every single one. You do not have to earn them by having the "correct" opinions or doing the "right" things. Every single human deserves them, no matter fucking what, simply because they are human.

HiPOD: Smooth Sands in the Canyon of Youth

Juventae Chasma, just north of Valles Marineris, is notable for several reasons: it is an otherworldly size-box canyon, and shares a name with the mythological Fountain of Youth.

This image, from Juventae Chasma’s southern extent, captures the extraordinary visual softness of the sand on the bottom of the canyon. Unlike other places in Juventae Chasma where ripples and more bedrock landforms are visible, in this scene we can identify peaks arising from a base of smooth materials. Rather than the sand being grouped in well-behaved, Star-Trek-communicator-badge-shaped barchan dunes, the sand blankets the full surface below the two peaks captured here. The source of this sand is linked to the chasma’s complex geologic history, which likely includes a combination of icy, watery, and windy processes.

ID: ESP_092391_1755 date: 12 April 2026 altitude: 269 km