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

🌊 10% of the global ocean is now officially recognised as protected! A big step forward - but celebration must be tempered with urgency, because we only have four years to triple that number if we're to successfully meet the 30x30 goal. Full speed ahead! oceanographicmagazine.com/news/10-of-t...

In the 1950s this panel was controversial enough to drive it's publisher out of business

Scotland must not be complicit in facilitating Trump’s reckless and illegal military agenda. It's time to get Trump's troops out of Scotland. #VoteScottishGreens

Did I see a post about an “umbrella 'ella, 'ella, eh, eh, eh” ☔️ bsky.app/profile/gold...

This roman d6 proves "shiny math rock" has always been preferable to "readable math rock."

Okay guys they've gone behind the Moon so it's time for us to put our ape masks on This is going to be HILARIOUS

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

This is Jomvet. She is the rootinest tootinest cowboy around with a two-ounce hat on her head and a yeehaw in her heart. 12/10 (IG: mha.mahamek)

Artemoos

"troubled coder who died by suicide" is such infuriating phrasing, he was a 26 yo, sentenced to 35 years in prison for downloading academic articles!! they murdered him.

Everyone's wearing big fake wizard beards and long white wigs, claim it's been forty years since they left.

"For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us." - Cmdr./Cpt. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 🖖🏾

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Really enjoying #SmallProphets especially for how much it makes fun of people who turn their gardens into sterile, plastic wastelands.

We've just passed $20,000!

It's always kind of freaked me out how the Moon appears "upside down" to viewers in the Southern Hemisphere. Like I get it but I don't Get It.

The astronauts used the occasion to request that an unnamed lunar crater be named after Reid Wiseman's late wife Carroll. They were all crying up there and I was crying over my lunch down here on Earth!

Latest #ArtemisII Moon pic 🌕 LOOK HOW DIFFERENT THE FAR SIDE IS! so unfamiliar! Good day to remind everyone that we must fight to preserve the radio heritage / quietness of this region, it’s the only place shielded from Earth’s EM radiation. I hope there are radio telescope there one day! 📡 🔭

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

The non-violent direct action promoted by Bash Back is the inevitable, and I would say legitimate, response to a society whose institutions, politics and media systematically dehumanise trans people. No pasarán.

As with refugees, as with trans people, the overriding tactic that Starmer's government uses is to slash services, then blame said groups for having any needs in the first place. They may not always use eliminationist language - it's all very proper and for-your-own-good - but what's the result?

A reminder that Starmer's government is doing this AT THE SAME TIME as slashing Access to Work and moving disabled people out of their homes - away from their jobs and families - into care homes against their will: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is not about helping disabled people work

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

I love that German hits the nail on the head by using the term "hobbyless behaviour" to describe those effects. Painting flags on roundabouts? Hobbyless behaviour. Harassing immigrants? Hobbyless behaviour. Picketing drag brunches? Hobbyless behaviour.

Noctiluca scintillans - a microscopic organism responsible for the magical “sea sparkle.” 💡 These tiny plankton light up when disturbed, creating blue waves in the dark. 🔎 Under the microscope, they look like little floating balloons! #MicroscopyMonday #Noctiluca #Bioluminescence #Plankton

“Ministers justify cutting help for people too disabled to work by arguing it will remove the “perverse incentives” for benefits, as if a 25 year old bedbound with ME just needs incentivising to get back to the office.” My col. on next week’s Universal Credit cut www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Non Substack link for the consultation to ban trail hunting consult.defra.gov.uk/defra/trail-...

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Hieronymus Bosch has sent you an #Easter centerpiece.

How do I bill ScotRail for my migraine meds? Train was cancelled. CS guy couldn't find any info about my next option so sent me to the other end of the station to CS with hardwired tech. They sent me to pt8, for the 12:00. No train arrived. No announcements.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Happy Easter, from these two beanie babies. Penny takes such bad photos 😩😆

Hoppy #Easter, hope the annual visit of the Easter Bunny wasn't too shocking to you 🐰 🖼️ by Italian artist Walter Molino, 1957

A fine fellow in my Insta comments told me about the Devil Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, home to over 3000 demonic items. It's going on The List. Particularly fond of the accordion guy...

Is there a single Labour MP with a backbone? I guess Holyrood needs to block this nonsense again. Although current SNP leadership is not reliable on this point, so best yell at them as well as your Labour MPs.

Means testing is a tax! A time tax. It’s designed to frustrate and make it hard to collect.

This stinks. "Moving away from a reporter-led newsroom" sounds like something a company planning to use genAI would say.

ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

Candidate lists announced for Holyrood elections 🚨🗳️ The why and how to elect Green MSPs in Stirling, Clackmannanshire, Fife and Perth & Kinross 💚✅

It's time to bring hope back to politics. Let's demand better. Vote Scottish Greens.

Roman Citizen: Hey we should get rid of barbaric gladiatorial games Performative Roman Senators: HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 FEMALE 👏 GLADIATORS www.popsci.com/science/fema...

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Join us for a community walk in solidarity with the people who live along the Lebanon Mountain Trail. 19 April 2pm meeting at North Edinburgh Arts

Madeleine does not believe me when I tell her chickens are outdoor pets... That's the rabbits' bed.

Everyday those B52s fly over head and my heart sinks. Everyday I am reminded we are enabling the bombing of children and civilians by allowing US planes to use our airbases. There is a choice, like Spain has made, not to support an illegal war. The government could make that choice too.