Balancing Shit on my Head

Marylander, scientist, violinist, outfielder, cat lover. I post things about cats, science, portal, retro video games, disney, harry potter, nerdy jokes...

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

You’ll need the link!

Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front

[rosieandthemoon]

I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.

[balancingshitonmyhead]

if I told this to my coworker who literally has a minimum of 2 chatgpt tabs open at all times I'd get sent to hr faster than ai could fuck up a slop portrait of 47

[hurricanenoelle]

[ayellowbirds]

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

[tharook]

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

[cannibalchicken]

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

A total solar eclipse is seen from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

[iguanamouth]

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

I think I found my new favorite comic of all time

[silverscreenx]

If existence is meaningless, create your own purpose and meaning.

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

this is everything I ever needed, and I had no idea until now.

[katsen13]

It’s been awhile since I found a comic that went deep but was still lighthearted at the end. Well done Iguanamouth!

[important-animal-images]

[sucka99]

[captain-price-returns]

The difference between "There used to be hot summers too,” and a climate crisis.

[propheticfire]

Look, we all know this is true. But there isn't a SOURCE for this, and the graph itself is basically illegible beyond "ooh colors". If we want to be good stewards of our informational resources, we need to cite our sources.

From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea:

All clearly show a sharp rise in temperature beginning around approximately the 1980s, which corresponds with the graph in OP's post. But now we know where this data came from, and we can verify its validity accordingly.

[socialistexan]

Babe wake up, new all time great image just dropped

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[k-eke]

[skykull-deactivated20250930]

this is one of the best visual representations of classical music i’ve ever seen

[fromxruin]

i have no idea why i laughed so hard at this

[balancingshitonmyhead]

@girlwho8tehbabies I didn't even need to turn the sound on to know what piece this was, the rhythms are too iconic!!! 😹

[thenextdraft]

Consequences Are for the Poor

[knightofleo]

[demonicae]

SOUND. ON.

soundonsoundonsoundonsoundonsoundon!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

 July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind ☽ ☾  

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon’s surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent just under a day on the lunar surface before rendezvousing with Columbia in lunar orbit.

Image credit: NASA Johnson, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center,  NASA on The Commons