North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
A rocky barren surface of an asteroid with the darkness of space behind it and faint white stars speckling the background.
no, this isn’t the bottom of the ocean. it’s the surface of an ASTEROID.
IN SPACE.
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
chipmunks climbing over gingko branches encased in a glass chime
Gingko chime
#art
Scientists Form Complex DNA Structures Without Hydrogen Bonds
astrobiology.com/2026/03/scie... #astrobiology #genomics #biochemistry
#my9games
Poem - The Promise by Marie Howe
Sometimes the most important things we know about each other are never spoken, the things we need to say remain unsaid when we still have the opportunity to say them
Then opportunity passes and doesn't return.
There is a lesson in this poem by Marie Howe
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Illustration of a Barn Owl landing with legs outstretched. Photoshop/Wacom tablet.
Barn Owl Barn Owl (Tyto alba) illustration (detail). From my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #BirdArt #CapeCod #owls
Ionic Liquid Biospheres
astrobiology.com/2026/03/ioni... #astrobiology #exoplanet
Sequence Motif Dynamics In RNA Pools
astrobiology.com/2026/03/sequ... #astrobiology #originoflife #RNAWorld
Misty, bluish-white gas nearly fills this image. A few scattered stars shine through the gas. To the bottom left and just near a bright star, a dark cloud of dust interrupts the glowing, nebulous landscape.
Ring Nebula. Viewed like a distorted donut, an inner circular nebula region glows in dark blue shades with faint stars viewed within. It's surrounded by a ring of bright teal, then an outer ring of reddish-orange. Black space with distant, faint stars fills the background.
Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle or shark fin extends from just below top left all the way down to the lower right corner and back up toward the top right. It looks like thick smoke that has billowed out irregularly, thicker along the line from top left to bottom right, and looser on the piece that goes toward the top right. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom left to top center, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at top left is hazier and some blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, which makes sections take on green hues. In the bottom right, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the right half, most toward the bottom. The largest star is at right-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes.
Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.
space is hauntingly beautiful.
Israel's System of Segregated Roads in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
How dare you call this segregation btw
Today, Jesterbells invites us to consider the circular nature of life in her piece, "They Live So Little and They Die So Fast".
Black graphic with dark orange and white text headlined "Kristi Noem Hall of Shame" and a bulleted list: A 20-year high of deaths in ICE custody; Sent immigrants to CECOT, an El Salvador torture prison; Illegal warrantless searches; Detention of American citizens over their speech; At least 3,800 children held in ICE detention; Denied people's right to habeas corpus, while not knowing what it is; Lives lost and terrorized like Renee Good, Alex Pretti, 5 year-old Liam Ramos, Kilmar Ábrego García, and more
Secretary Noem’s time at DHS is riddled with ICE and CBP abuses, racial profiling, free speech violations, and more. Her departure is the direct result of public outrage — but the anti-immigrant policies and masterplans devised by White House aide Stephen Miller remain.
blender piece/comic depicting an introspective mole
mole's thought
The camera, named JANUS, took this image on 6 November 2025, just seven days after the comet made its closest approach to the Sun. At the time, Juice was about 66 million km away from the comet.
Credit: ESA/Juice/JANUS
Learn more: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Wikipedia, more info about the topic
"The Almagest t) is ......by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170) in Koine Greek....."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almagest #astronomy #history
2023 limited color fantasy pet portrait with his head lowered low and bow drawn, an archer runes across the desert plain, underneath the sphere of the sun
2023 limited color fantasy pet portrait a lunar cleric listens intently to the night time wood. The moons sphere is reflected in a stone lined pond beneath him.
Apollo & Kepler | Fantasy Pet Portrait (2023)
Tragic news from #Upemba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo & I can’t find coverage!
On 3 March 2026, armed assailants attacked the park headquarters in #Lusinga. 5 staff members were murdered, more staff were kidnapped including the Park Director, Tina Lain.
#UpembaNationalPark
Dive into Wool Creature Lab’s World of Vibrant Felted #Nudibranchs!
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool... via @thisiscolossal.com
an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
seems bad
A jagged, dusty rock sticking out of warmer-coloured sand. Illumination is from the left.
Here's a rock on Mars photographed yesterday.
This bill would let Florida officials label organizations and individuals "domestic terrorists" through a "guilt by designation" process that could be weaponized against those criticizing the government.
Florida state senators must protect our constitutional rights and reject this dangerous bill.
the nature of my work is that sometimes I'll check a citation on wikipedia for a basic history fact, only to find that "source" is actually citing another source, so I'll check on THAT only to find, after reading 90 pages, that the basic fact is absolutely not in there. Thus there is NO SOURCE.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
Learning isn't a job. It isn't about what you produce, how much time it takes you to finish an essay or an article. It isn't about the grade you get on your homework.
It's about you - your brain, your mind, the data in it, the connections, the processing.
Oh hey, I had no idea Urasawa had a little drawing tips series on his yt channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbmg...
