A reminder that the Artemis missions are fully built on international collaboration in huge ways. This is not just the US going to the moon!

Young Republicans across the country seem to have a racism and antisemitism problem. trib.al/gONaypJ

I would just start citing to this cite in all my briefs if I was a counsel fighting the government here

I’ve been waiting for this thread.

John Cena is a master of defusing questions designed to get celebrities to say controversial things. Truly, a master of the craft.

What do I mean by "It?" I mean that joyous moments are not always something you can plan for. Perhaps you received a pay raise or got accepted at a waitlisted school. Perhaps a loved one is now cancer-free. Such moments can be sudden and unexpected — and you want to be prepared.

TONIGHT IN TEL AVIV: Ben Gvir’s police violently broke up an anti-war demonstration, arresting Standing Together co-director Alon-Lee Green & activist Nadav Oren. No matter how much they try to silence us, we refuse to stop protesting against Netanyahu’s cynical forever war!

My take on a Universe Size Comparison. On and off, this took several months to make! Check it out of you have 10 minutes and be sure to put your 🎧 on for the full experience youtu.be/2D9vHQOaauM (New and improved, reupload!)

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

Und der Knecht hieß Malchus.

Können wir bitte jetzt mal langsam akzeptieren, dass die Grüne Politik, in sehr weiten Teilen die vernünftige war und das hier gerade nicht?

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Love this image of astronaut Christina Koch in the Orion spacecraft looking back at Earth, especially the floating braids. 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🔭 🧪 🚀 🌔

I spent entirely too much time on this illustration, but now it's done: the two different kind of information you can glean from a spectral line that you get from observing a bunch of stars. If the stars are moving in a concerted way ("bulk motion"), the Doppler shift will tell you at least 🧪🔭⚛️ 🧵1/

Of relevance to recent bluesky discussion BBC News - Fewer people posting on social media, Ofcom finds - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✅ #Artemis II update: Flight Day 3, the Artemis crew are now closer to the Moon than they are to Earth. Their lunar journey powered by our European Service Module continues. Image at nasa.gov/image-detail... @exploration.esa.int

I still remember the "aha!" of learning that the switch to clean energy doesn't require replacing every kWh of fossil energy. For me it came during this interview of @hannahritchie.bsky.social by @bobbyllew.bsky.social: youtu.be/pvlq3oMvEm8?...

„Was Gisèle Pelicot erlebt hat, ist keine Besonderheit. Chatgruppen, in denen sich Männer darüber austauschen, dass sie Frauen betäuben und vergewaltigen, gibt es in vielen Sprachen.“

Würde gern mal einen Bericht oder medienwissenschaftliche Forschung dazu lesen, was in solchen Situationen in den Redaktionen passiert. Wird nicht vorgeschlagen? Abgeblockt? Vorsichtshalber nach hinten geschoben? Mit welchen Begründungen? Welche Rolle spielen rechte Shitstorms und E-Mails?

Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here. BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.

Ich finde die gesellschaftliche Stille zu einem 20-Jährigen Rechtsextremen, der gegenüber Medien einen Mordanschlag angekündigt haben soll und anschließend mit Messer und detonierenden Sprengsätzen durch einen ICE zieht, nicht nur befremdlich, sondern extrem beunruhigend. #Siegburg

Und ernst gemeinte Frage an @dpa.com? Warum läuft ein (Gott sei Dank nur bedingt erfolgreicher Angriff/Anschlag mit zwölf Leichtverletzten) in einem ICE als "Anschlagsdrohung"? www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Die Mütter und Väter des Grundgesetzes haben sich nicht vorstellen können, dass es mal eine rechtsextreme Partei geben würde, und Demokraten sich weigern könnten, einen Überprüfungsantrag zu stellen. Sonst hätten sie eine Überprüfung von Amts wegen im GG verankert.

The Australian Academy of Science posted this reaction to the government's decision to withdraw Australia from ESO (which I had not heard about?!) 🔭 science.org.au/news-events/...

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

So, culturally educated folks. Is there any classical play, novel or other that parallels what we see with the US government? Arrogant, unselfconscious incompetence in power? Anything in Shakespeare? Anything from ancient Greece?

But the headline has to be a joke, right? It can’t be that they are now so used to doing both-sides on every story that they actually did it when an administration guy claimed he was teleported to a Waffle House. That would be too much even for them.

Two planets for the price of one 🙂👍 Playing around in Celestia, I was able to identify the approximate time & orientation of that #Artemis II shot of Earth's nightside. Revealing that the bright object at lower-right is Venus. Thanks to @[email protected] for suggesting that I check 🙇‍♂️

can’t count the number of times I’ve arrived at a conclusion much better than I originally intended simply by writing. having the hazy outline of an idea and then foisting the rest onto a machine means you never get there. worse, you never develop the instincts or faculties necessary to get there

3 April 1915 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Margit Varga, was born in Ujpest. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

I love that this thread excavating the treasures of a lost civilization was started by an archaeologist.

Seems like a good day to re-up this post from some years ago on why we have free universal services. Which I realize, now, anticipates a core argument of Against Money: We can't understand the purpose of public services if we think of them as equivalent to money payments. jwmason.org/slackwire/wh...

Dirk Baecker plädiert in Forschung & Lehre für 1 weitgehende Abschaffung der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften unter dem Deckmantel, damit ihr Überleben zu sichern. Hab mein Kopfschütteln aufgeschrieben, gerade weil ich mir Sorgen mache um die Zukunft der GW. #RelevanteLiteraturwissenschaft

Am 3.4.1933 starb Dr. Arno Philippsthal an den Folgen der Folter durch die SA in der Krankenstation für Gefangene im Staatskrankenhaus der Polizei (Scharnhorststr.). In seiner Praxis im Berliner Vorort Biesdorf berechnete er Honorar abhängig von den finanziellen Verhältnissen seiner Patient:innen. 🧵

Statt das gesamte Ministerium durch teure Beraterverträge zu ersetzen wäre es vielleicht leichter & billiger, einfach die Ministerin auszuwechseln. Nur so als Vorschlag. www.spiegel.de/politik/kath...

Menschen haben damit persönliche Nachteile in Kauf genommen. Aber es war möglich (wenn nicht, hätte die NSDAP noch viel mehr Mitglieder haben müssen). Was heißt: Es gab einen Handlungsspielraum. Und man muss sich auch fragen, warum der von den eigenen (Ur)Großeltern nicht genutzt wurde. 5/6

Weil ja grade sehr viele Menschen zur NS-Vergangenheit ihrer (Ur)Großeltern recherchieren: Es lohnt sich auch, sich mit ein paar Kontexten vertraut zu machen. Unter anderem zu finden auf den Seiten des Bundesarchivs. 1/2

3 April 1901 | Polish Jew, Abe Wajs, was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune la Rolande on 28 June 1942. No. 43670 He perished in the camp on 26 August 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

New study finds that conservative YouTube spaces attacking Kamala Harris got nearly 3x more likes on conservative channels, with no equivalent reward structure on liberal channels arxiv.org/abs/2603.21776

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

"In Bayern wären nahezu alle Landkreise betroffen, sodass ein Totalstopp des Ausbaus der Erneuerbaren befürchtet wird." 🙄

The only sane thing to do: The French government will prepare a plan to electrify key sectors of the economy to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, suggesting the measures could be funded from increased corporate tax revenue from fossil fuel companies.

A CNN review found that of ~72,000 people who self-deported through Project Homecoming, more than half were in ICE detention when they signed up. Suffering inside facilities functions as coercion, pressure to leave rather than fight. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/u...

Finde spannend, wie im Bezug auf Merz immer noch von “rhetorischen Fehltritten” und “Patzern” gesprochen wird, wo doch klar ist, dass der Mann tatsächlich sagt, was er meint. Einmal so viel unverdientes Wohlwollen erbracht bekommen wie dieser Kanzler.