NOAA just issued the Severe (G4) level geomagnetic storm watch for May 11, 2024    

K.Yamada

this sequence could easily be a scene from the show and I'd be none the wiser

this is such a specific intersection of 3 of my favorite things, i’m kinda obsessed

Including pre-symptomatic cases, spread with no symptoms is estimated to be greater than 60% and why just masking when you feel sick isn't actually keeping anyone safe.

His Undulations

I say put it in a plexiglass-walled cubby in the club car like the latter-day smoking compartments. I spent most of a trip from NYC to Erie playing cards in one of those, and being on display like a pack of inadequately-housed zoo animals definitely added to the loucheness of the proceedings.

We need to bring back gambling cars on trains.

Genius loci in action.

I will now share a little factoid from the Swedish pen & paper role-playing scene that the rest of the world isn’t that aware of. First of all, we love Disney. Not all of Disney equally, but specifically Donald Duck and his friends. We -love- Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Scrooge McDuck comic books.

Now, bear that in mind when I tell you how in the Swedish version of Dungeons & Dragons, Drakar och Demoner (literally Dragons and Demons), you can play Duck characters.

I am not shitting you.

Behold… The evidence.

The largest Roman mosaic floor, discovered in 2010, Ant𝚊k𝚢𝚊, Türkiye. Anciet city Antioch

9,000 square meter mosaic with colorful geometries. It is the floor of a large Roman public building, damaged during an earthquake in the 6th century.

Antioch, former capital of the Seleucid Empire, was conquered by Rome in 63 BC.

The real problem with contemporary Captain Kirk parodies is that they're mostly parodying a specific pop-cultural distortion of the type where an accurate parody of the Kirk who actually appears in the Original Series would be much funnier. Like, come on – an old-school Manly Intellectual™, fashionably sensitive, always ready with a pithy aphorism, weirdly proficient with violence in spite of his professed distaste for it, forever ending up in sexually compromising positions with hot alien babes through absolutely no fault of his own and having to let them down easy because Duty Calls? You can get a lot more mileage out of making fun of that than any number of Zapp Brannigans.

I don’t really Go Here but u can always rely on this man to read a right wing politician’s outfit for filth