sooooo the CEO of Tumblr & Wordpress is being sued on allegations of wage theft & human trafficking.

GET YELLED AT

I always forget that gas giants are, you know, made of gas, and not just smooth plastic color. The atmosphere is full of clouds, and the entire planet is atmosphere!

OP is not actually Cassini's last picture. That is artwork that NASA put out years before Cassini's Grand Finale. It's gorgeous and likely a fairly accurate depiction of what Saturn looks like up close. But it is not Cassini's last image.

This is actually Cassini's final image, taken one day before it burned up in Saturn's atmosphere.

This is looking down at Saturn, and it's being illuminated by Saturn's rings which reflect sunlight down onto the "surface" of Saturn.

Here is the "natural colour" edit of this image (based on how we've observed Saturn to look from Earth)

This was taken during Cassini's descent, and is looking at the spot where Cassini would soon enter the atmosphere and burn up. Saturn has a layer of haze that obscures much of the storms and cloud activity from view in visible light (Jupiter doesn't have that haze so that's why we can see the storms), but at the same time Cassini took an image in the infrared spectrum as it descended:

So this is part of the same image, but in infrared so you can see the storms. The oval on this image marks where Cassini later entered Saturn's atmosphere and completed its 13-year mission.

So while the art in OP is of Saturn and Cassini, and possibly is a realistic rendition of Cassini's final views, that is not the view that Cassini sent back to us.

Now, here is Cassini's final full mosaic of Saturn, titled A Farewell to Saturn

I like to view this image as Cassini's true last image, the last image that was taken not as part of its end, but as an end to its long mission.

Anyway, Cassini and its Grand Finale has a lot of personal importance to me, so here are some of my favourite images taken by Cassini

"The Day the Earth Smiled"

"Translucent Arcs"

"A Song of Ice and Light"

"Reflection of Sunlight off Titan Lake"

"Spotting Saturn's Northern Storm"

Anyway, there are so many beautiful images, I definitely recommend people go check them out.

good bye

i can't believe that after decades of loving a band i have to now block their name on social media. they really replaced someone like Chester, who was open and honest about his mental health struggles, with a woman who doesn't believe in mental health issues and is part of the Scientology cult.

chester did not die just to be replaced by a scientologist whose defended a convicted rapist

picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

Here's a good video on getting started and what to do. Yes, it's fully legal, just don't trespass on private property. All you need are gloves and a bag.

I've been litter picking in the background of my walks and I've removed several bags of trash from the area. The other day, children were playing in the creek that I litter pick at a lot. They were jumping into the water and swimming, right in the spot where I pulled torn up cans out of the riverbed and where I removed nearly-buried fishing wire that still had hooks on the ends. Just one person with a sharps container made it safer for those kids to go out and have fun.

That was the most direct cause and effect thing I've had with litter picking after just a little while of doing it, but even aside from that it's just. Good to do. It makes your area cleaner and safer and removes plastic from the environment. Plus, people are less likely to litter in clean areas, and litter can not be subconsciously normalized in people's minds in a litter-free area.

It's also fulfilling instant gratification. You get to go out and do something with your hands and then look and see for yourself that an hour or two of picking shit up has made an instant tangible difference in the world.

First of all hard agree on all of this. Every time I go out and pick up litter my mood noticeably skyrockets. The opportunities one encounters in their daily life to make an immediate positive material impact on a social/political issue that concerns them do not come up very often.

But what this post doesn't even mention is the community aspect. Which is possibly my favorite part.

Every single time I go to pick up garbage without fail I have at least one positive interaction with a stranger in my neighborhood. Sometimes small like someone walking past and saying thank you for doing it. But also people sometimes offering to help or even offering a bottle of water. And since I've started doing it I've seen more people in my neighborhood going out with gloves and a bag on a warm evening after school or work. In which case when I see them on my walks I become the kind stranger they meet that day.

So argue all you want about whether picking up litter is actually good for the planet (it is) but there is no question. It is good for your community and it is good for you.

Every time we go out with our bag and grabbers, someone calls out to thank us or just walks up and starts talking about some neighborhood gossip. It's genuinely such a delightful and fulfilling way to feel connected with the people around you if you're physically able to walk a few blocks every so often.

TikTok update where the app won't open unless the user is wearing earphones

I don't even have tiktok I'm just saying this as a concerned citizen

I know this site is like 99.9% usamericans so all of the political posts are focused on the US election but I think it's important for everyone to know that the Australian Liberal Party (which is actually the conservative party) straight up missed the deadline to put in the nominations for local elections, which means there are a stack of electorates where there is no nominee for the major conservative party and it's the funniest thing that's happened in years.

Matteboken ställer äntligen de riktiga frågorna

I min engelskabok fanns en beskrivning över JFK hjärnsubstans efter han blev mördad. Hur mosad och hur den fläckade bilens huv etc.

Mfw jag är i högstadiet och måste lära mig hur lång tid det tar för en person att blöda till döds från en skottskada (det är veckans matteläxa)

Vi fick inte gore eller något sådant i våra textböcker, men i mellanstadiet hade vi frågan “Bosse är hemlös och rullar fimpar han hittar på gatan till ciggaretter. Om det tar 4 fimpar för att få en hel cigarett, hur många fimpar tar det för ett helt paket på 24 cigg?”. Tillsammans med en tecknad bild av en ledsen man som plockar fimpar ur rännstenen.

don’t bully me for how i spelled delicious

Zucchini brownies are not a diet thing and anyone trying to sell them to you as such should not be listened to. The only recipe difference should be that there is now zucchini in the batter. Because you need to use up all of the zucchini. It is NOT a health thing it is a desperate attempt to use up all of the zucchini. From growing zucchini. Because you get So Much Zucchini when you grow it. I'm so tired of zucchini stuff getting a bad rep because diet culture picked up the many recipes of farmers trying to use up zucchini and cut all the fun stuff that hides that fact that you are eating zucchini. The difference between zucchinni brownies and normal brownies should be that zucchini brownies texture is closer to carrot cake than other brownies. Zucchini bread should be a sweet bread that you can add raisins to if you want. For fun. For flavor. Similar to bannana bread. I'm tired of baking and cooking recipes designed to use up All The Zucchini being turned into diet stuff. It's not! It should be sweet and tasty to try to hide how much zucchini gets put in so it all gets eaten because I still have 5 whole zucchini on the counter and more in the garden and it needs eaten.

Zucchini bread fucking SLAPS btw

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