By Roger Haus

silhouette of tree branches under a starry sky

[Image description: text reading, All the best things in life require a degree of embarrassment, or at least the possibility of it. Dancing, singing, sharing art, cooking food, having sex, holding hands; there is risk in it all. You could burn dinner or sing off key; no act of self expression or love is exempt from this danger /End image description.]

embarrassment has good bones

Oh, heck -- I'm sorry, y'all. I was sleepy the day I reblogged this and it seems I did my research a little too hastily. I can't find a legit NASA source for the above image...or any legit source at all, in fact. I fear it may be AI after all. Bummer. :-( The good news is, there are very lovely real pictures of Jupiter available here. AI is flaming dogshit but Jupiter is fucking awesome. Some highlights:

Lest I deceive anybody a second time, I do want to be transparent that most of the images that are submitted by the public (including the above four) seem to have been edited to enhance color or contrast, zoom in, or crop. There are also a few on the website that are very much an artistic rendition and merely inspired by the raw images. If you want to see just the raw images from the spacecraft cameras, you can do that by selecting "Junocam" (and not "Public" or "Both").

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter.

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so at my new job there’s been a lot of confusion over my gender (which as an enby is great) but somehow in the confusion my coworkers came to assume I’m a trans man and even though I’m AMAB I’ve used the confusion as leverage to get them to put tampons/pads in the men’s room and add a gender neutral bathroom for any transmascs/enbies down the line and I kept thinking “this is like the ‘my gender is whatever makes the joke funnier’ thing but the opposite??” and anyway tldr here is my “My gender is” alignment chart

Oh this is amazing so many of these are a mood

Mogens Trolle, photographer

Proboscis monkey, Borneo (July 2018)

I am especially in love with the crow who's going to cut you, and the crow who is teasing their catfriend, and the fam who are just relaxing among the sundial lupines

Crows are such people and I love them

silly little guys

Things like this make me feel weirdly hopeful bc this is a fixable problem. A hard-to-fix problem but still a fixable one.

this chart is what haunts me. there is a massive amount of misinformation driving people to think that the problems Trump talks about solving even exist. without a functioning press, how do you campaign effectively against someone whose voters aren't even living in reality in three months