My heart did a little âsqueezeâ when I saw this. To whom do I direct my @ and awe, @mundanedraws? I tried @mazm but that did not seem to find anyone... itâs a meltingly desirably wonderful interpretation.
Pawpaws are a Michigan native fruit that looks like it should not be a Michigan native fruit.
I'm told that it has the consistency of avocado, but tastes like a combination of banana, pineapple, and mango, with and earthy aftertaste. They are EXTREMELY delicate fruits, such that they are not really shipped anywhere- to eat them you have to find someplace local that has trees, or have trees, yourself.
I've always wanted to try them, so, I bought a few saplings, and spent a couple hours tonight planting them. They won't fruit for another 5 years at least. Each hole dug, each rootball excavated from its pot, each circle of mulch around the base of them... that's hope. That's a promise to be here 5 years from now, to see them flower, to pull sweet fruit from the limbs and try it for the first time.
A lot can happen in 5 years. But, I hope that you'll be here, too, to see how it turns out.
I was supposed to be off work an hour ago and got caught with a customer. It happens. But when I finished with them my body was just slamming every alarm button at once. Gonna vomit, cramps, sweating, fevered, shivers.
I was hesitant to drive and decided to try to bathroom before leaving. As soon as I pooped I started feeling better and Iâm like. Was this shit radioactive that my body had to be that extra about it?
If itâs a help to know, that has occasionally happened to me in the recovery period of coming back from a migraine. I start to feel an improvement on using the bathroom and itâs as if Iâve voided poison from my body. It is strange, I agree.
This illustration shows the relative scale of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and a Tyrannosaurus rex. Roman is over 42 feet (12.7 meters) long â about the length of a T. rex â and over 14 feet (4.4 meters) wide when fully deployed. Roman also weighs around 18,000 pounds, or 8,000 kilograms (dry mass), which is the approximate mass of a T. rex as well.
Did you know NASAâs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is both roughly as long and as massive as a Tyrannosaurus rex? This observatory, which will move to the launch site at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida very soon, is over 42 feet (12.7 meters) long and weighs around 18,000 pounds (8,000 kilograms), not including the fuel. Letâs explore some of the components that bring Roman to T. rex proportions.
Artist's concepts of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (left) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (right), highlighting the 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirrors that sit in the heart of each observatory.
At the observatoryâs heart sits a mirror thatâs 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) across and 410 pounds (186 kilograms), or about the length and weight of a protoceratops! Romanâs primary mirror is the same size as the Hubble Space Telescopeâs main mirror, but less than one-fourth the weight thanks to major improvements in technology.
Technicians installed Romanâs primary instrument, the Wide Field Instrument (pictured at left), in the fall of 2025.
The missionâs 300-megapixel infrared camera, called the Wide Field Instrument, is over 8 feet (about 2.5 meters) tall, which is about the length of a triceratops skull. It will give Roman the same angular resolution as Hubble while capturing an area of sky at least 100 times larger. The mission will gather data up to 1,000 times faster than Hubble.
Its sweeping cosmic surveys will help scientists discover new information about planets beyond our solar system, untangle mysteries like dark energy, and map how both normal matter and dark matter are structured and distributed throughout the universe. Casting such a wide, deep ânetâ into space will give astronomers plenty of cosmic bycatch as well; Romanâs crisp, panoramic views will offer practically limitless opportunities for astronomers to do all kinds of exciting science.
The Coronagraph Instrument was installed on Romanâs instrument carrier in October 2024.
Romanâs Coronagraph Instrument is about as wide (5.5 feet, or 1.7 meters) as a velociraptor is long. The Coronagraph is designed to demonstrate new technologies for directly imaging planets around other stars. It will block the glare from a star and make it possible for scientists to see the faint reflected light from planets in orbit around them.
The Coronagraph aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars in visible light to help us see giant worlds that are older, colder, and in closer orbits than the hot, young super-Jupiters direct imaging has mainly revealed so far.
This photo shows Romanâs 18 detectors, which are the heart of the missionâs 300-megapixel camera.
Romanâs âeyes,â 18 saltine cracker-sized detectors in its primary instrument, are each about as tall as an allosaurus tooth. They each have about 16.8 million tiny pixels for a total of 300 million, which means Romanâs images will be super hi-res. Each detector is made of millions of mercury-cadmium-telluride photodiodes (sensors that convert light into an electrical current), one for each pixel.
Principal technician Billy Keim installs a cover plate over Romanâs detectors.
The detectors are secured to a silicon electronics board that will help process the light signals using indium, a soft metal that has roughly the same consistency as chewing gum. Together, these ultra-sensitive detectors can capture vast areas of sky in a single shot while still revealing incredibly fine detail, allowing Roman to map the cosmos faster and more precisely than ever before.
Romanâs electrical wiring was installed on the spacecraft flight structure in the summer of 2023.
There are 1,000 pounds, or 450 kilograms, (the weight of a pachycephalosaurus) of electrical cabling, made up of about 32,000 wires and 900 connectors, laced throughout the observatory. If the wires were laid out end-to-end they would span 45 miles â nearly enough to trace the entire perimeter fence in the imagined Jurassic Park! Functioning as the Romanâs ânervous system,â the cabling enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another, provides power, and helps the central computer monitor the observatoryâs function.
The Roman observatory was fully integrated on Nov. 25, 2025, at NASAâs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Romanâs six solar panels each measure about 7 by 10 feet (2 by 3 meters), collectively giving Roman a âwingspanâ similar to a pteranodonâs! Together, they will provide a total of 4 kilowatts of power, which is about the same rate that a modest rooftop solar panel system produces during the daytime.
Over the course of two days in June 2025, eight technicians installed Romanâs solar panels onto the outer portion of the observatory.
The panels are covered in a total of 3,902 solar cells that will convert sunlight directly into electricity much like plants convert sunlight to chemical energy. When tiny bits of light, called photons, strike the cells, some of their energy transfers to electrons within the material. This jolt excites the electrons, which start moving more or jump to higher energy levels. In a solar cell, excited electrons create electricity by breaking free and moving through a circuit, sort of like water flowing through a pipe. The panels are designed to channel that energy to power the observatory.
Romanâs high-gain antenna will provide the primary communication link between the spacecraft and the ground.
The radio dish that will send data across a million miles of intervening space back to Earth spans 5.6 feet (1.7 meters) in diameter. Thatâs about the size of the largest known dinosaur footprints, yet it weighs only 24 pounds (10.9 kilograms). Its large size will help Roman send radio signals across a million miles of intervening space to Earth. The dual-band antenna will use one frequency band to receive commands and send back information about the spacecraftâs health and location. It will use another frequency band to transmit a deluge of data at up to 500 megabits per second.
Weâre only a few months out from launch, and so close to a completely new understanding of the universe and our place within it. Follow along with Romanâs road to launch at nasa.gov/roman, and virtually tour the Roman observatory here.
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My high school theology teachers were much more dogmatic (didn't fall for it because I realized sex was awesome and the whole 'theology of the body' thing was made by people who never used theirs), but Catholic college sorted that out with some thoroughly awesome priests as professors.
remember when websites were written on purpose, and not generated by autocomplete in the instant you run the web search? anyway, unrelated, this webpage purporting to relay expert knowledge on which plants are safe for my snake's tank just told me I would know if he was biting them and getting irritated because he would start pawing at his mouth.
The problem with people and ai is that they need instant gratification, and ai gives them exactly that. They donât care about the process of creating anymore.
I have worked on a single piece of music for band for fourteen years. It totals about three minutes in length. I am not familiar enough with percussion instruments to really know how to write their part, but Iâve done the absolute best I can. Iâve asked for help from a few fellow musicians I trust.
My band test played it. It still needs some editing, but Iâm happy with how itâs turned out.
Today at work a little crow fledgling was just having the worst damn day. The little goober kept trying to shove its way into the door and screaming at its reflection while I was helping a lady look at a bed.
I pointed it out to her and together we regarded the infant screaming.
After she left my coworker came up and informed me there was a bird on her car. I went out to look and lo, the fledgling had scrambled up onto her windshield and was pecking forlornly at its reflection.
It stayed perched there in the hot sun, trying to move higher up the car with no success but too scared to fly down. She was agitated that it was on her car since she didnât know if it would leave on its own.
âItâs a baby,â I told her, âItâs still learning how to fly.â
âThatâs a baby?! Itâs so big!â
âYeah, itâs just a little guy.â
I went out to investigate. The parents began screaming and swooping. I placated them with crackers which they accepted without relenting their screaming. My coworker said she could now see that the creature on her car was indeed a baby with the sleek black parents swooshing angrily around in the air.
We regarded the baby together. After a while I started noticing it was showing signs of fatigue and distress. Mouth gaping but not begging for food, wings drooping. I went back out to check on it.
I was debating moving the baby; the day kept getting hotter and it didnât have the energy or skill to relocate itself. My coworker also wanted the bird to stop pooping on her car. So eventually I announced, âIâm gonna move the bird.â
âYour gonna grab it? Arenât you scared?â
I looked at her in bafflement. I grew up around every imaginable kind of fowl. The only bird Iâd be scared of would be some of the big flightless ones. Even geese/swans are manageable if you just grab their necks before they really get flapping. The parents were not gonna go for my eyes like magpies and in general crows tend to recognize when youâre trying to help. âItâs just a little baby guy. Itâs fine.â
I approached the baby amidst its parents shrieking crow obscenities down upon me. I scooped it gently like the burger.
I cannot begin to convey how soft that baby crow felt. It was the downiest most pleasant tactile thing that Iâve maybe ever held and the experience was only slightly marred by the goober trying ineffectually to bite me. It was stymied by the fact that it ainât my first rodeo.
I brought it ten feet away to a nice shady tree. I held the baby gently so it could get its feet under it on the branch. It seemed a bit confused at this point but eventually gripped the branch and I stepped back and threw peanuts in self defense while the angry parents swooped showily around at me.
It stayed there pretty much the rest of the day. Its parents both checked in to make sure I hadnât murdered it then flew back to where we could see a nest. So best theory is that this dingus was the first to start fledging and couldnât actually return to the nest after launching.
I told my wife afterward and they went, âYou. You touched the bird?!â My coworkers husband was also flabbergasted that Iâd been brave enough to grab it. My coworker said she was just gonna shove it off her car with a broom.
As if they didnât know who they married. As if I am not someone who would confidently help a stray cat or wrangle a chicken.
I informed them that barring gloves I had thoroughly washed my hands twice and it was worth it to get the silly infant off a slippery car and into the shade.
some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it
this is me and my partner and I am not even fucking joking. this is attainable. you can have this. you can have someone who loves you a little differently than you love them and you're both okay with it and it doesn't end anything. there should be ships like this because it does in fact happen in real life and you cant say it doesn't
Too late to be scrolling cuz I misread the above as being about a real ship (on the ocean) being made of two halves. I was quite invested in a romantic half-a-ship until I reset my brain to realise what the message said.
Elements, like us, canât resist a good trend. Unlike us, they physically cannot resist a trend. This is one of those things that you can just memorize, but I personally think itâs easier to understand the underlying reason.
Electronegativity
⌠how do I explain this without too much physical chemistry? Probably by ignoring it. For electronegativity, Iâll give the definition and the rule. If you want a better explanation, let me know and I can do my best to explain it, it may have to involve some physical chemistry. Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to pull electrons towards itself. This is relevant in chemical bonds, but also it can be helpful for remembering atomic radius later on. Remember than fluorine (my favorite element!) is the single most electronegative element. As an element gets further from fluorine on the periodic table, it gets less electronegative. Scoot hydrogen a little bit, but itâs pretty much solid to remember it that way. The transition metals also get kinda weird, donât worry about them for right now.
Shielding
Imagine a bonfire with concentric circles of people standing around it. If the nucleus is the fire and the electrons are the people, this is a good metaphor for shielding. The stronger the nucleus (more protons), the larger and hotter the fire is. The farther out the valence electrons are from the fire, the more rows of people are between the valence electrons and the fire. If youâre far out, youâll feel colder, but the same distance out with a stronger fire, youâll feel warmer. So. The âwarmerâ an electron âfeelsâ, the more tightly itâs being pulled towards the nucleus. As you move from left to right, the valence electrons are the same number of shells out from the nucleus, but the nucleus keeps getting more protons. Someone standing next to you around the fire doesnât diminish the heat you feel, just how more electrons in the same shell donât really shield one another. The whole shielding effect comes from protons attracting electrons, and electrons repelling other electrons. Itâs also related to the distance and attraction curve. Just like magnets, the farther opposite charges get, the weaker the attraction is. Weak attraction between the nucleus and electrons keeps them farther apart, and the farther distance weakens the attraction. Weird. Letâs head out before the chemistry gets too far into physical chemistry.
Radius (Size)
Ok! We actually mostly covered this with shielding. At least the left-to-right part. The stronger the shielding, the smaller the atomic radius. Nobles gasses are larger than alkali metals in the same row (also called period). The more electron shells an atom has, the bigger it is. Lower periods are larger than higher periods. Based on this, we can say francium (Fr) is the largest element, and excluding hydrogenâs weirdness, helium should be the smallest element.
This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking âdie ad dieâ apart. Itâs a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I canât think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative âdieâ and that final -u on âtemuâ and thought of the ablative supine (as in âmirabile dictuâ) but as you observe, there isnât a verb that âtemuâ could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps âtemuâ is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, âI defile or disgraceâ. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as âdaily I disgrace, in the manner of the dayâ, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
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