Born on this day in 1593, the amazing Georges de la Tour. Painted the mysteries of night. Here, the newborn. So still.

Artist painting/photo of architecture on Main Street

Framed print in my hotel room labeled “South State Street”

Watching a British WWII detective series and this old poster showed up in the background. A good one

Every DOGE deposition is the guy in your college class that made everyone else groan whenever he started talking.

A silvery gray mola with a bite taken out of its tail. Around it are the words "weird yet thriving" in bubbly blue lettering

Molas found their niche and have existed for millions of years! It looks strange, but this is what peak performance looks like for a jellyfish-eating machine. Inspired by @hankgreen.bsky.social.

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#mola #sunfish #weird #fish #SciArt #redbubble #findyourthing

Unless their values were "burning down restaurants" or "not making money" or "poisoning customers" then I don't actually think their values and lifestyle can go out of alignment with the corporate chain restaurant.
Anyway, guess Chili's was getting jealous of the Target boycott or something.

#OtD 12 Mar 1990 the Capitol Crawl took place when disabled people got out of wheelchairs and crawled up the steps of the US Capitol. They were protesting the stalling of the Americans with Disabilities Act banning discrimination against the disabled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1252...

Happy World Plumbing Day!
Plumbing is my favorite technology by far, even outranking textiles

these guys are gonna pop back up when a dem is president and like nothing happened opine that some policy or other is "bad for the economy." they must be mercilessly struck about the snout with rolled up newspapers and ordered to lie down.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

If I am going to dream about emailing my boss it should be the kind of email that might end up in a Supreme Court precedent

What a fail of a dream. I sent a very slightly rude email to my boss.

Extant mollusks Phalium bandatum (top left) from Nakayama, Japan; Cymbiola imperialis (top center) from the Philippines; Muricanthus radix (top right) from the Pacific coast of Panama; Pteria penguin (center) from Palau; Chama lazarus (bottom left) from Guam; and Fimbria fimbriata (bottom right) from Palau. CREDIT: Tracy J. Thomson

Early mollusks evolved a new skeletal feature every 2 million years. Since the Ordovician, that rate has slowed to one per 9 million years—suggesting that despite growing diversity, molluscan evolution has become substantially more predictable. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/IHSt50Ymv1s

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

Shriiiimps! Finally another aquarium themed piece since I really love aquatic critters. Maybe I can have a shrimp tank again someday in the future… which one is your fav shrimp?

I no longer feel stress or anxiety. I am an Ordovician invertebrate.

museum curators describing literally any portrait of a woman: she boldly meets the viewer's eye, confronting our gaze

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Working the week Daylight Savings restarts

I got bolognese in my pocket

I’m at the life stage / luck stage where I have a group chat I can send a neuroscience paper to and ask for a non-scientist translation and half of the group chat thinks that’s awesome and they are all making analogies & jokes and I got smarter

Me, everyday

Me in a bowl of pasta

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Riker and Geordi, in uniforms red and gold, meet at a Enterprise corridor intersection. Riker is *very* tall. You don't always see it, but here facing and compared to Geordi, sheesh he's a tall drink of water. Anyways, his hair's a bit messy. Closed caption reads, "I'm having trouble waking up."

How do you catch the souls?

Aragorn in a rare asshole moment

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free