This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

After almost a year of work,I wrote my own Daggerheart Framework.Today I ran the first Beta-test of the intro one-shot,meant to introduce players to the world.After finishing it, I was shocked that everyone wanted to play in the world, some even wanted to continue playing the pre-made characters!

From the NYT last month. It is teen fertility that has dropped the most. And historically it was mostly adult men who were getting them pregnant:

Teachers deserve living wages. Robbinsdale teachers have been working without a contract for over 300 days. The district must get serious and treat our teachers with the dignity and respect they deserve. I was proud to stand with them in their fight for a fair contract. ✊🏽

The GOP campaign this fall will depend entirely on misremembering recent history.

I was just contacted by a reporter asking for comment about the whole Pluto planet thing. Hanging on by a thread over here.

Listen to this, outstanding reporting by Allan Piper….

"Day 072, orbit 1113 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 5: Water and convex lenses." – @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot   🎥 ESA/NASA #εpsilon

This is a failure by both science journalists and policy wonks 😖

Hey @sumrtime.bsky.social I think you'll appreciate this!

NYSED is very, very limited when it come to curriculum and pedagogy but can wield a very sharp and heavy stick when it comes to students and school boards. And going around Commish Rosa to appeal to Trump was incredibly dumb politicking.

Currently working on an #ArtemisII & #MoonJoy collection from the @astrosociety.org library... Still a work in progress, but here's a taste. #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

Not so much a trade deal as a smiley face sticker from Mr Donald, and it falls off your jumper after a day or so. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

1/ Less than 24 hours before broadcast, the BBC called me and said: we're editing a line out of your lecture. The line? That Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

Fun fact: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring

100%. It's not the tech. It is the adults creating software that has the only goal of creating digital slaves that feed them money.

Fun fact: many of the prettiest photos taken by robotic spacecraft were similarly framed ahead of time by humans using simulators of view geometry to pick when the spacecraft should shoot the photo. Case in point: this photo of Europa over Jupiter from New Horizons science.nasa.gov/image-detail...

“My biggest lesson in life: it’s not how well you succeed, it’s how well you fail.” - Reid Wiseman

If a politician whines and says "What can we do, they hold all the power?" It is time to get rid of them and get someone who is willing to put in all the effort to do the right thing. Stop playing CYA and DO SOMETHING!

So, in America, you are automatically signed up to kill people for your country but you will have to pay $$$ to Drive, Drink, or Vote?

Great article about the risks of re-entry and, in general, spaceflight!

Amen to that!

Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

I am very proud that this billboard is just outside of one of the gates into Fort Drum, New York. I hope that every one of our fighting men and women that passes each day takes its words to heart. (Oh, and remember to be courteous and share the road).

I'm in a brewery talking to a wonderfully nice young person who insists they love all things space, but had not heard a thing about Artemis 2. They say they have been keeping a bubble around themselves so as to not hear any news. I understand by it is so sad! (So I just showed them all the pics!)

The feels when I chat with my science friends online.

⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to @perimeterinstitute.ca for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!

Look at these kids at a slumber party

I have one thing to say to ALL federal politicians in America right now and I cannot say this loudly enough: GET BACK TO WASHINGTON AN ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS!

At first, as a Canadian, this post from Parker Molloy made me really angry. The USA is not doing enough. But she's right. Wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney to express my outrage and fear, and my hope that he and other NATO leaders can take some sort of action. www.pm.gc.ca/en/connect/c...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Absolutely beautiful!

You know your space movie is great when NASA quotes it so casually.

Here’s the link to the livestream for tomorrow: www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Someone knew what they were doing...

Ok, actually this headline is hilarious.

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

A nice simple explanation of why this image is a not a "real" image of the Earth. But also why it is an IMPORTANT picture of the Earth

The actual lunar flyby will last most of the afternoon/evening. The crew will break the Apollo distance record at (all approximate times in ET) at 1:56 pm. The lunar observation period starts @ 2:10 pm. Loss of comms @ 6:47 pm. Moon will eclipse the sun @ 8:35 pm.

You may think of lab coats and pocket protectors or wrinkled plaid shirts when you hear the word "scientist." But @caltech.edu astronomy postdoc and influencer Clarissa Do Ó shows that a physicist can look like anyone. In her case, that means lots of pink. #whatcanphysicistsdo #astronomy

Amazing to realize that every single one of us, save four, are in this photo.

Who needs STEM education?

Dear Pam Bondi, Don’t forget that President Nixon never went to jail. Rather it was Attorney General Mitchell that was incarcerated for the crimes that were committed, most specifically conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice. Perhaps some of these sound familiar? See you soon, America

Gee, it is looking more and more that the women are at fault. That could not have been a setup, could it?

I have never gotten into the trend to watch playthoughs of video games, But since I have finished Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 I cannot stop watching others play. It's in my background whenever I am working at the computer now. #AlltheFeels

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so excited to tell you that for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, human beings have left Earth orbit." -- Dr. Lori Glaze, opening the Flight Day 2 press conference