Historic snowfalls don’t occur often in Houston, so when they do you want to capture memories of them. With that in mind, we’re offering up images posted to our feeds on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, along with others sent directly to us. For videos check our #housnow2025 Instagram story.

As Matt wrote in his post earlier today, we’ll get official numbers from National Weather Service tomorrow, but based on what we’ve seen in our social feeds, the amount that fell was all over the map. But in the absence of formal numbers, we’ll crowdsource some measures posted by folks sticking rulers in the snow. It’s a trend!

Temperatures are supposed to plummet again tonight, causing what’s melted Tuesday afternoon to freeze as ice. That will make travel even more hazardous than it was this morning. We’ll have an update on what comes next later tonight.

robustcornhusk:

anxietyproblem:

Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested.

into great silence

whiz-bastard:

transhuman-priestess:

Whoever decided to give your sinuses boner parts should be beaten

hey girl, I’ve been erect (in my face) for five days and you’re invited. to kill me. i cannot breathe. twould be an act of mercy,

mysticalalleycat:

virtualgirladv:

sodasona:

sodasona:

therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

[jojo pose] count dracula. [different jojo pose] nice to meet you. [jojo walk cycle] alexa, turn down the music! [the obnoxious music doesn’t change volume] mr harker

Cuntula

cemeterygrace:

if you don’t remember anything else for the next 4 years, remember this: don’t be a fucking snitch.

I’m tearing up because I’m so happy for one of our clients. I just got a call from a customer that went like this:

Me: Thanks for calling [Redacted], how can I help you?

Dr. Jones: Hi Alli, this is Dr. Jones!

Me: Oh my goodness, Dr. Jones, it’s so good to hear from you, how are you doing?!

Dr. Jones: Terrible!

Me: I bet! Let’s see what we can do to make your day better. How can I help?

Dr. Jones: Well, I just got my server hooked up to the generator and figured you guys would know where to go from there.

Me: I think we do. Let me grab someone and let’s get you up and running.

This is an example, not Dr. Jones’s practice, but Dr. Jones is in Altadena, and this is pretty much how things went at his location:

It’s the first time I’ve heard from their office since the evacuation order was lifted. Apparently everyone is fine, nobody from the office lost a home, there’s smoke damage that should be relatively easy to fix, and we’ve got a solid backup so no patient information is lost or at risk.

rfpreiwaphase:

musicalhell:

sometransgal:

escuerzoresucitado:

God forbid women do anything

“Tamale Shibari” would be a great name for a band

in lieu of tamales @copperbadge

I like that three of them are the same but she’s clearly experimenting with form on the other two. Go grandma, use those transferrable skills. :D

[ID: A post to social media, uncredited, reading “I think my grandma’s watching BDSM porn because look at her tamales”. The photo that follows is several packets wrapped in what appear to be corn husks or banana leaves; they are tied elaborately with string in fancy patterns that resemble rope bondage.]

halliserres:

well this has broken me

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

soberscientistlife:

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

If you see this post it is important to send it to someone else so they too can understand

People hardly ever change their minds in front of you…the conversation becomes one of a series of slow drips that builds up to a realization

meltymoth:

WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK
ME ME ME ME ME ME

mylarena:

enki2:

artist credit is ana_pijamas on twitter/x!!

cosmicanger:

aquariumpacific:

aquariumpacific:

The Aquarium’s first animal 🐈💙

Thank you for all the Topaz love! This social media manager didn’t get to meet him personally, but he is an icon of our Aquarium. I’m so glad you all got to know him through this video too. 💙

GOOD KITTEH <3

the-moon-loves-the-sea:

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

thememedaddy:

bedupolker:

bedupolker:

Just found out there’s a group on inaturalist dedicated to showcasing the silliest observations

A few other good ones

Yes very regal

whatbigotspost:

mixupmycota:

spirit-of-science:

classycookiexo:

Anytime you’re interacting with your child, but especially when angry, say to yourself “how would I feel if their future partner treated them the way I am currently treating them?”

You are creating their ‘normal’

People need to read the UN Conventions On The Rights Of The Child before becoming parents and regularly while parenting and I am so serious about this.

Everyone SHOULD read it, and it is often a distressing experience to do so. Back in 1929 it was internationally recognized that children in particular needed to have a codified set of rights, it has been improved on since - in many ways it is still not perfect but it needs to be understood that the rights contained within are the BARE MINIMUM.

If any of these are breached - whether on the home scale or on the cultural one, particularly for signatory countries - that is a fundamental issue.

I promise that learning what the established bare minimums are in universal human rights frameworks will enable you to cut through so much propaganda immediately.

Children and teens are full human beings and by becoming parents an immense responsibility is applied to treat them as such. They need open and clear communication, not to be talked down too, and to have their questions answered. They have the right to autonomy and life.

ALL OF THIS

blignick:

hotvampireadjacent:

They are too funny on red book

katedrawscomics:

why-i-love-comics:

Flash Comics #13 - “The Creeps” (1941)

written by John B. Wentworth
art by Stan Aschmeier

i could live a hundred years and i’ll never write comic dialogue this good

I wasted more time than you know pursuing that city park proposal which was less a proposal and more a fait accompli. I had prepared a brief statement which I did not present and would have been inappropriate if I had — this city council meeting was more about where they should implement their expanded park proposal, not how. One of the things I wish the many, many people who spoke at that meeting had learned was to be brief and on point, and I wasn’t going to bring up an issue that was not under consideration.

I had my own petty concerns.

I’m going to speak for the bugs, as unpopular as they usually are.

If you get down on your hands and knees with a handlens in the park and look carefully in the grass, you’ll find a flourishing population of springtails and ants and isopods and beetles, all tending to the soil and bothering no humans at all. The soil is alive, and the biological elements are working to maintain it to our benefit — new grass is always pushing up and the detritovores are actively cleaning up any dead material. The natural surface is a familiar and safe substrate for children, too, with dirt and grass providing a comfortable cushion for play.

Landscape Structures Inc. intends to replace that living surface with dead asphalt and dead poured-in-place synthetic rubber sheets. I had to look up this stuff: it’s called EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer), made from processed recycled plastics and rubber. It’s mostly safe — you can read the material safety data sheet . There is a very small cancer hazard which can be regarded as negligible, since the polymer is so stable that the dangerous compounds are unlikely to be released. It is however toxic to aquatic organisms, since water runoff can carry the material into the groundwater. So maybe not as stable as we’d like to imagine?

I don’t think toxicity is a serious concern. I’m more concerned that we’d be replacing a living surface with dead , sterile plastic that will gradually decay, and need regular maintenance and eventual replacement. In the world we’d be making with this playground, falling leaves and twigs are a damaging contaminant rather than an aspect of a healthy environment.

Do we need to pave over more of the park? Don’t we have enough plastic in our environment?

As it turns out, that was all totally irrelevant anyway, since the city had already signed contracts with Landscape Structures, Inc.

The theme of this park is supposed to be a celebration of agriculture. Perhaps our farmers will start raising a rich crop of ethylene propylene diene monomer? It’s the future, you know.

ziggystarling:

Local horny idiot tries to nest in my nightstand drawer

sapphosdickandballs:

bee-leaving:

creaturey:

expiredcheese:

ok this tag really got me

…girl

immortalizing these tags

dragon-in-a-fez:

they should invent feet that stay warm

rpf-comunista-o-muerte:

pr0xide:

soup-mother:

your ass is not fucking “Caucasian” you’re an anglo-american who’s fallen for race science

Felt these in my soul

ALT

It’s 1700s race science. A german scientist called Johann Blumenbach developed a race theory where he said there were 3 main races of humans (warning for slurs and severe racism in the following as you can guess from a race scientist), in order of the superiority according to this classification: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, then lastly Negroid. He had measured some georgian skulls and thought it was beautiful, he thought that since europeans are superior he and the others must somehow be connected to the caucasian skull he measured, that they somehow must be Caucasoid too as a superior race

The theory was that the Europoid people (despite the disconnect between Caucasus and Europe he thought they had the connection of being “superior”, so caucasian and europoid were used interchangeably) were closest to God’s image of man, and the lower forms were the “degenerated” forms. And there were lower forms such as, quote from the source:

“Africans, excluding light-skinned North Africans, as “Ethiopians” or “black.” He divided non-Caucasian Asians into two separate races: the “Mongolian” or “yellow” race of Japan and China, and the “Malayan” or “brown” race, which included Aboriginal Australians and Pacific Islanders. And he called Native Americans the “red” race.”

US later adopted this classification in 1790 in order to prevent anyone not correctly white from becoming a citizen. But there was a problem for the US: The original definition included people from the Caucasus and some people of SWANA (a surrounding area of caucasus) as “Caucasoid’ too. But they only wanted Northern and western europeans, so they changed the definition so that caucasians and surrounding people weren’t counted as caucasians either

Later into the increased migrations of 20th century, they needed to make sure only the correct whites were accepted again, so Eugenicists divided Caucasians into four ranked subraces: Nordic, Alpine, Mediterranean, and Jew (Semitic). Nordics were ranked highest intellectually and morally and favored in the system which, and this active use kept the classification terms popular.

And nobody thought it’s a problem and there wasn’t a pushback against it, so while some terms were gotten rid of towards the end of 20th century, some such as "caucasoid” aka Caucasian American was left in to refer to the correct whites

publicdomainreview:

Before CPR there was… blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating “persons apparently dead from drowning”, from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society

therustyskull:

bestboxerever:

Instamatic

Later flash cubes were fun to mess with outside of a camera. You could activate the bulb if you slid a thin knife blade or sturdy paper in the slot under the bulb. Normally an electric current was needed to activate a flash but Magiccube brand ones had it all built in so you could just cause mayhem with the cube. Or blind yourself.

stealingpotatoes:

sure whatever i don’t need to sleep

dankxsinatra:

dankxsinatra:

This is how a womb looks when a pregnant woman laughs

the-seelie-court-official:

quark-nova:

the-seelie-court-official:

if you have biologist friends you need to ask them questions about their interests and let them ramble for 5 to 115 minutes. it’s really important for their enrichment

i like to ask if two similar-looking animals are even particularly closely related (squid + octopi, hares + rabbits, orcas + cows, for example) and see where that goes. just be sure the questions are relevant to their specific field and let em explore + teach whatever flows

Okay but orcas and cows are actually related! They’re both even-toed ungulates, meaning that yes cows are closer to cetaceans than to horses or giraffes!

biologist spotted. tag and release ‘em, boys