removing ram from a computer while it’s on

My grandfather-in-law just dropped off a load of books because he's retiring. Check out THIS gem

With a long indigenous history in Mexico, the roots of the Cuetlaxochitl plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima) go much deeper than Christmas.

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀 Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀 🧵

Bought a prison laptop on eBay. Thought it should be just some generic laptop with a clear shell, turns out it's actually a bit more than that.

My favorite compliment that my paintings get is that they give people psychic damage after zooming in

upgraded from decrepit 2017 macbook to a gorgeous new custom pc running dual boot windows and [redacted linux distro] with separate ssds

Did you know that the spinner seen in modern Windows boot screens is stored as a font?

My brother put a bunch of dirty old lego bricks in the washing machine and they came out assembled. I guess a few million years of this might produce some kind of lego life form, perhaps?

so close to totality… but not close enough :( iceland 2026 i am coming for you

(a) this is fascinating (b) I hate to think how messed up science is going to get as people use LLMs for things they really shouldn’t, which evidently includes any kind of random sampling.

The Iñupiat of Alaska traditionally use a base-20 number system. In 1994, students at Kaktovik middle school worked with their teacher to invent a way to write this, since they found our base-10 unfamiliar. After the invention of Kaktovik numerals, test scores rose significantly

I pray you're born with gills, a comic from 2021 (1/6)

do you think the dinosaurs thought, "how pretty"?

Exceptionally rare supernumerary rainbow - captured just now east of Charlottesville, VA. Never seen one like this before!! #vawx

last nights firefly haul under hazy wildfire skies

SwiftOnSecurity This is from a 1979 presentation. We are v slow learners, it seems.