Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

this is a major reason why the ultra-rich used their control of media to promulgate stories about how bad the Biden economy was and to help Trump win the 2024 election:

Called my Senators and Representative, urging them to cut their recess short, show up in DC, and prepare articles of impeachment against Trump for violating "18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide," as so clearly explained by my @cipolicy.bsky.social colleague @dylanwilliams.bsky.social

What happens to elites who lose all their money making a stupid bet like that? Are they still elite?

Sometimes the good guys do win

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

Here's the CEO of @thefireorg.bsky.social being extremely transphobic. Which side is the one criminalizing care and research? Which side is the one defunding all research? Which side is purging dissent? It ain't trans people. These people were asked not to be transphobic and they lost their minds.

learning to do something you never thought you'd be good at

Yeah an intellectual with racism is not a hard cheese with mold situation it’s a soft cheese with mold situation, you gotta throw the whole thing away now

My advice to writers without outside support is to get a day job that is sustainable with writing. I'd love to be a full time writer again, but I love even more that I don't need everything I write to be a giant hit. That kind of pressure would paralyze me.

In the upcoming 3rd Inning of my podcast, I talk about the 145 people who died at the Manzanar Japanese incarceration camp. So many legacies & lessons we still need to remember & learn from our mistakes horrific histories. @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️ americanstudier.podbean.com

Can you imagine Great Gig In The Sky peaking right as the sun flares behind the black rim of the moon CAN YOU IMAGINE

Segregationists did memory hole slavery for about 100 years and then integration meant that white students would learn about it honestly in school and they've been trying to memory hole it again ever since.

UPDATE: New DNA evidence ties the former officer accused of killing Sandra Birchmore to the alleged murder weapon, federal prosecutors say, arguing against his release. on.nbcboston.com/nRy1UB0

Republicans have an ideological commitment to supporting criminals, it's part of their overall might-makes-right framework. Republicans genuinely want to see fentanyl suppliers in India and China succeed because those dealers are mighty while the people they hurt are weak.

skating,

I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

the synthesis is that salt is a flavor enhancer, while fat is a flavor distributor. None of the flavors you're adding matter if you don't have enough fat and salt bsky.app/profile/zach...

The third Mario movie should be a straight adaptation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead but with Wario and Waluigi.

Let’s be smart in advance: make a plan to post what you’re drinking after you get the news. Champagne, scotch, black coffee, herbal tea, fruity water, whatever. Doxxing people re. Charlie Kirk was a test run for the other thing. Post a beverage & maybe some artful profanity. We’ll get what you mean.

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

So, this happened. Thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for taking a chance on my strange tale of a weird London.

"Nobody talks enough about what the passive income movement did to the content quality of the entire internet"

i'm not saying that openai is going to default on its debts but traders for blue owl certainly seem to think it will

checking on openai and oracle's primary underwriter real fast

Periodic reminder that Markey has a bill to take away nuclear first strike powers from the president. Possibly the single most important piece of legislation a Dem majority could pass. No one should be trusted with such power.

Somebody on here got real mad at me a year ago for planting English ivy in the garden because “it’s horribly invasive and terrible for biodiversity!” and like mate I live in England

Capitalists: Well u see under communism there's only one kind of French fries and they're in a big white bag that just says "FRENCH FRY" and also they don't taste good and what they're made of is barely even potato Also capitalists:

One lean consultant said he regularly asked the C-Suite guys "You know, labor's only 6% of your unit cost. You maybe wanna look into cutting something else?" and they'd look at him like he was growing a second head.

I have talked a lot of moms & grandmas off the 'is it appropriate?' ledge at the Scholastic Book Fair by reminding them that many of us grew up reading stuff like VC Andrews and our mom's romance collections and we turned out fine. This usually results in a, 'get whatever you want, Sweetie!' 😹😹

Fantasia Baetica. One summer at my sister's old place in Acton, the pianist on the floor below us played it most days at 10am. I lay on my bedroom floor and listened, transfixed. One day I knocked on her door to ask what it was. also: Purple Rain - Prince Say You'll Be There - the Spice Girls

i am hearing that on his deathbed donald trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. even now he…oh he’s still alive? he decided to just praised allah?

this is why domestic violence is such a useful paradigm for the last 10 years of fascism; I'm extremely used to this part, but have zero patience for its apologists

thoughts i am having as an immigrant

These Indigenous Iditarod mushers are preserving dogsled culture, @achoiniere.bsky.social reports. While fewer Alaska Natives participate in the race as costs increase & foodways collapse, this year’s rookies want to ensure mushing remains foundational to their people.

“military aged males” got normalized as a viable target for war and it’s pretty much a racialized fiction meant to justify indiscriminate murder.

Israel’s running count of the number of “Hamas terrorists” they had killed in Gaza was essentially just a count of the number of adult males.

this was very much my experience. there was some Anne McCaffrey stuff I read when I was 8 where i simply didn't grasp what was really going on

But this isn't like TV or the internet in which basically any kid can come across something pretty unsuitable with little effort. Reading a book with mature themes, especially nowadays, requires a kid who's pretty damn smart, thoughtful and into reading!

working on a blog post this morning, it's about Art (*trying to start wank about #FigureSkating performances that happened before I was born)

I will side with every goofball 20 year old critic of Biden over the man himself because they are at least directionally correct about his pro-Israel extremism. He was an old man who lost the ability to form new opinions in 2011 and as a result he abetted a heinous criminal exterminationist war

i can't believe people say this just because he consistently funded and armed the israeli military while they were actively committing genocide, even circumventing congress to ensure quick delivery of money and weapons that were immediately used to murder thousands of innocent civilians

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows

A Massachusetts criminal justice bill would provide resentencing or pretrial diversion to people whose actions were directly related to experiences of abuse. Passing it “would be the beginning of restoration,” says one incarcerated survivor.