Going to get some great images from NASA in the coming days. Here’s a couple of post-splashdown snaps of actual heroes.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

"This is Mission Control Houston, we have quite a raucous scene taking place behind me." [Cuts to the nerdiest group of people you've ever seen standing in business casual dress and clapping.]

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

"Melania chose not to include any assertion of her husband’s innocence in the Epstein affair. Melania is no fool. And now she seems to think that the man to whom she hitched herself may be going down. She’s trying to arrange not to go down with him." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.

all the pictures of kids excited about this mission give me a lot of hope for our future

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

WELCOME BACK ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS! From This is Cape Canaveral, by M. Sasek (1963). #wardsmorguefile

For context, 1968: the US was surprised by the Tet Offensive in a bloody Vietnam, TV news of body counts, MLK murdered by a racist, cities burned from coast to coast, and RFK - who might have made a difference - murdered. And this: a breath of boldness, excellence and promise.

DOLPHINS 🐬 NATURE IS 🔥 WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?!

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Those four #Artemis astronauts went from weightlessness to a 3+G re-entry to splashdown and now they’ve been at 1G bobbing in the ocean for half an hour while they wait to get pulled out of their little tin can. I do not envy how their stomachs must be feeling right now. 😬

You can see the Black Hawk’s picking up the astronauts which is kinda fun globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=ae1daf

Also TIL from Hadfield: there’s been a 3/4-size travel guitar on the ISS since *2001* (!), it gets played pretty much every day (because music is important!) and it’s — kinda randomly! — from Larrivée and was made in Vancouver. #cancon vancouversun.com/business/ast...

The Artemis II crew is now moving in excess of nine kilometres per second. That's 21,000 miles per hour in old money. Quite an unreasonable velocity.

I used to look at my mom like that too. #birdoftheday #birdbutt #grass #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #geese #birding #cute #eck

Paolo Zampolli, the modeling agent who allegedly introduced Melania to Trump in 1998, fathered Ungaro's child. They were engaged in an ugly custody battle. Zampolli leaned on ICE and his Trump connections to DEPORT Ungaro. Zampolli also allegedly represented Melania when she was a model...

Follow this thread. Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today. Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane. 1/2

you consider the few things that have pushed these guys into action, and the many things that haven't, and increasingly coming to the conclusion that no matter what the issue you care about is, you need to jam up airports

Bombed back into the stone age.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

I just learned (belatedly) about Darren Raven's Lecture-Zines: "daily Instagram series... where I share 12 x pages/images/collages/texts, inspired by 20 years of learning and teaching in higher education" — about methods, tools, experiments, etc. I love these....

Venus On The Half Shell by Kilgore Trout

We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

Since Oct 7 Israel has become the key destabilising element in the Middle East. In Syria, Lebanon, Iran, the Gulf and of course Gaza and the West Bank, Israel has used military force to weaken and destabilise not only its enemies but also those who try to stay neutral and even supposed allies.

youtu.be/od-5gCO_PGE?... #FridayFunk

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

“Whether it’s our Classic Beef ’N Cheddar, our Chicken Cordon Bleu, or our famous Jamocha Shake, the menu items at Arby’s are not meant to be construed as edible substances subject to FDA regulation,” said an Arby’s spokesperson

Mike Johnson weighing whether to say he didn’t see the video or he watched the video and it isn’t so bad.

"Patients with eligible insurance, including Medicaid, can access seven doulas who provide physical, emotional and educational support." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/09/a...

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

If the retrieval crew don’t put on ape suits before they open the hatch, they’re doing it wrong.

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

No actually there is a best root beer. A&W root beer float in a glass mug when I was 12.

added to vocabulary ✨

I painted a "Torito de Pucará" today in a workshop at my school in Peru. I had fun.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have announced a "Click to Cancel" rule. The rule would make NYC the first city in the nation to ban subscription traps and force companies to make it just as easy to cancel subscriptions as it is to enroll.

I asked myself "how do golf courses possibly afford property taxes" so I looked it up and came away convinced we could virtually eliminate the entire sport by simply removing several dumb tax loopholes

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

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Why did I make a map of small drone attacks on civilians, and why am I emphasizing the "small" and "short-range" attacks? Read my rationale and much more information in this newsletter post:

That first one is STRONGLY giving Space:1999

idk maybe he does. for instance, here is a visualization of what it means when i say it