Some of our fun finds volunteering yesterday. I swear nature hikes are keeping me sane right now. So thankful the insects are back in full force. #texasmasternaturalist #arthropods #beetles #insects #bugs #iNaturalist #iNat #setx

Olympus Mons near the terminator, just released by ESA Mars Express

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Taken on 2024-08-06
Release Date: 2025-03-01 on psa.esa.int
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The United States of America is no longer the world’s super power. To be the world’s super power…the rest of the world must know they can trust you. Those days…are over.

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

Dear the rest of the world: You should absolutely not see the US as reliable for anything at this point, shit, none of us on the inside think we're reliable for anything right now either, you're definitely not alone

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

i've always hated offices, they're just horrid banal little totalitarian fiefdoms that mostly shouldn't exist. i'm never going back, fuck you. turn the vacant spaces into homes, weed farms, fetish dungeons. i attended one single office-based meeting last year and even that felt like capitulation