caroline

half return, half return

The ruler is beefing with the pope, his legions have fought to a stalemate with Persia, now typhus is breaking out in a major city, oh yeah it’s late antiquity out there

I found out none of my photos won wildlife photo of the year, but it was fun to participate! The 3rd photo of the Brown Bear Cubs riding their moms back did receive an honorable mention in the “water as an element” category of the Pangolin photo challenge though 😃

oh wow i guess im never sleeping ever again

this is exactly what I wanna see my tax dollars go to and I'm so serious. exploring space, science, and them enjoying life in between for their hard work. gimme more. 😭

Jacob Tierney teases to @DEADLINE that ‘The Long Game’ might be split between seasons of ‘HEATED RIVALRY’ “Who said I’m doing it all? There’s a lot of material.” (Source: deadline.com/2026/04/jacob-…)

i feel sick to my stomach

shane accidentally saying ‘i love you’ instead of ilya’s name oh… THE ANGST 😖😖😖

if you had told me in any other season that this scene would eventually exist- i would have, "sure, whatever you say"

I’m serious when I say commercial landlords are at the epicenter of the destruction of your city. You don’t have generational businesses with affordable products/services in your community specifically because of these parasites.

Sky full of stars. Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.

How it started vs. how it's going:

someone help me pick up my jaw oh my GOD

i feel like i was shot in the face

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

KEEP FIGHTING DATA CENTERS

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

i can’t get over seeing a braid in space … the simplicity & humanity of it … i could cry … we started in caves and now we’re all the way up there ⋆ ☄︎. ·˚ * 🔭

The #HeatedRivalry lookalike winners are opening up on their 'perfect' first date! 😍🏒

Your eyes can only see the moon in gray. It's actually covered in color, blues and oranges and pinks, all from different metals sitting in the rock. You just need a camera and some patience to pull them out. These photos are called "mineral moons." A photographer points a telescope at the moon, takes hundreds or thousands of pictures, stacks them on top of each other to clean up the image, then slowly turns up the color intensity in editing software. The colors that show up were always there. Too faint for your eyes to catch on their own. Each color is a different metal. The blue areas have a lot of titanium in them. The orange and brown zones have more iron. The pinkish-red patches around the edges are the oldest parts of the moon's crust, full of aluminum and calcium. That deep blue region on the left side is called the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 11 landed right there in July 1969. When Armstrong and Aldrin brought back 47 pounds of rock from that blue titanium zone, scientists cracked the samples open and found three minerals that had never been seen on Earth before. They named one "armalcolite" after the three astronauts (Arm-Al-Col: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins). They named another "tranquillityite" after the landing site itself. For 40 years, tranquillityite was known as "the moon's own mineral" because nobody could find it here. Then in 2011, a geologist in Western Australia spotted a speck of it inside a billion-year-old rock. Andrew McCarthy, a photographer in Sacramento, once stacked 150,000 separate pictures of the moon to build one color map. Each splash of blue or orange in these images is a real metal deposit on a surface that's been getting hit by space rocks for 3.5 billion years. The moon was never gray. We just couldn't see it.

#buddie say don't go