It turns out having a wide angle lens on your phone is really helpful for catching sun halos!
#photo #halo #StopSign #sky #silhouette
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Seriously, though, it’s encouraging to know that, decades after the ban on hunting went into …
Seriously, though, it’s encouraging to know that, decades after the ban on hunting went into effect, the humpback whale population has rebounded so successfully that most populations are no longer threatened by extinction. The world population is an order or magnitude greater than it was in the mid-1980s.
Star Trek IV, imagining the whales’ reaction at the end
Wow! We’re in the open sea! And we talked to aliens! And the humans have stopped hunting us! And they’ve stopped polluting the oceans! This is AWESOME!
Well, except for the whole thing with us being the only humpback whales on the planet. But it’s not like we were really able to talk to much of anyone from the aquarium to begin with.
Star Trek IV, imagining the whales’ conversation with the probe
— Hey! We’re still here! Or, we’re back, anyway!
— Oh, good! What happened to you? We’ve been trying to reach you for ages.
— Apparently the humans killed us all.
— Wait, they did WHAT?
— Well, some of them did. But some of them brought us through time to make up for it. They won’t kill us now.
— They’d BETTER NOT!
— I think we’re OK now.
— *sigh* OK, good to know. We’ll go report back. Keep in touch.
— Thanks!
Silly joke, probably been done before.
Well, Target is all ready for… Halloween?
Impostmates. They can deliver anywhere.
So if your fellow crewmembers are crewmates, does that make your fellow impostors impostmates?
So if your fellow crewmembers are crewmates, does that make your fellow impostors impostmates?
L.A. Comic-Con is officially re-cancelled for the year
Whew! L.A. Comic-Con is officially re-cancelled for the year, with some of the guests already scheduled for 2021. Tickets can optionally be refunded or saved for next year. The more I think about it, the more I think they were hoping to get at least some revenue in this year, even if it ends up being just a super-early pre-sale for next fall.
Covid mask PSA: Wearing is caring.
Covid mask PSA spotted in the wild. It’s in a nearby city that I don’t normally go to (or through) these days, so I hadn’t seen the slogan before.
Covid mask PSA: Wearing is caring.
Apparently Mojang hired Anakin Skywalker to write the captions for block descriptions in #Minecraft Earth.
Apparently Mojang hired Anakin Skywalker to write the captions for block descriptions in #Minecraft Earth.
I always think these markings look like TIE Fighters.
covid, reptiles, funny
Manchester man boards bus wearing a snake wrapped around his neck and mouth.
Officials’ comments on what constitutes a suitable face covering: “While there is a small degree of interpretation that can be applied to this, we do not believe it extends to the use of snakeskin – especially when still attached to the snake.”
*sigh* I guess I’m throwing it away after all.
Smoky sun, late afternoon.…
Smoky sun, late afternoon.
We’ve had some ashfall over the past week, but for the most part, the air quality at ground level has only been awful, not unbearable. Especially since the heat wave subsided.
But the light has just been *wrong*. Normal clouds in the morning breaking up to reveal a layer of smoke behind them, letting through yellow-orange, almost but not quite late afternoon light at midday. I went out for a walk after work, once it had cooled down and saw this.
Of course my 2000th observation posted to iNaturalist would be the Goodfeathers…
Of course my 2000th observation posted to iNaturalist would be the Goodfeathers…
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58559107
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So, who had “rain of chocolate” on their 2020 bingo card?
A broken ventilation system in a Swiss chocolate factory led to chocolate powder raining (or snowing, if you prefer) down on nearby towns.
“The company says one car was lightly, and possibly deliciously, coated. It has offered to pay for any cleaning needed but hasn’t yet been taken up on the offer.”
I’ve got to say, I’d prefer a light dusting of cocoa to the wildfire smoke we’ve got around here.
It’s raining chocolate: Factory glitch dusts Swiss town in cocoa
Seriously, who had “rain of chocolate” on their 2020 bingo card?
So, who had “rain of chocolate” on their 2020 bingo card?
A ventilation malfunction at a Swiss chocolate factory released cocoa powder and winds spread it around nearby towns. (ok, “snow of chocolate” is probably more accurate)
What DAY is it???
covid-adjacent, pokemon, silly
I think Koffing is supposed to look like a magnified grain of dust or pollen…but it looks an awful lot like a coronavirus, too.
I don’t have a clever caption for this one, but thought it was cool that …
I don’t have a clever caption for this one, but thought it was cool that I caught the Croagunk *right there* while trying to decide what to do with the frog statue.
Incidentally, the frog statue is a Pokestop. And so is the historical cabin in the Sneasel picture.
