The reason I really dislike crowdfunding that collects shipping costs later, is that you're required to pay an unknown amount of money at some point in the future to get the thing you already bought. And it puts a bit of a damper on the positive feelings of the thing being ready.

To do list: Complain at my MLA about investment in fossil fuels which will increase energy costs and further destroy the environment. Complain at my MP about plans to privatize things to "save money" which we all know never works and just makes things worse and more expensive.

Apparently there's a chance that if you're nonbinary and your coworker uses Copilot to make their writing "more professional," Copilot will "decide" that your they/them pronouns aren't professional enough and replace them with binary ones.

So radon mitigation systems really work

I don't think Stitch approves of all the noise (contractor cutting a hole in the concrete wall for installing radon remediation)

I'm just so tired of having to correct people on my pronouns. And I'm not even talking about people deliberately misgendering me, just people who somehow miss my email signature, and Teams status, and pronoun pin, and sign on my cubicle.

So it's a good thing I'm getting a radon remediation system installed this week. (Health Canada recommends an average exposure of 200, WHO target is I think 100.) My long term test on my main floor (this is the basement) was an average 450 Bq/m3, but I'm playing with my new toy that arrived today.

Invasive goutweed is back in the yard for another summer of battling it

Since it apparently needs saying, I am trans, and I'm happy with my life and happy to be alive.

I’ve lost the Quiet Posters feed because of this too

If you havent filled out the survey, theres still time. I’m finding it harder and harder to drive at night because of blinding headlights and I’m sure I am not alone www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Filed my taxes! I didn't even wait for the absolute last minute

Decided against going to Halifax today when all I could see of the highway from the roundabout for the on ramp was fog

This. They're moving toward antivirals that kill multiple viruses with mRNA. Cancer cures. And they don't have to poison my neighbors to do any of that.

I wonder why my sheets have holes in them

I waited too long to start dinner, and now I'm starving, but dinner is still a bunch of chopped ingredients waiting to be cooked

Procrastinated so long on running errands today that I actually contacted a radon mitigation company, which I have been procrastinating doing for like a year I still have to run errands. And file my taxes

Stitch's new determination to get outside is absolutely justifying my plans to build a catio this summer

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Boats at the marina at sunset

It's almost 11pm, and I have work in the morning, and I went to bed early because I was tired. So of course, I'm currently wide awake and very anxious about nothing specific

guys, this is how you lose the time war

"Here's a 10% offer off your abandoned cart!" Ok, but I abandoned the cart because a $5 item cost $20 to ship. Saving 50 cents does not help with that. Also, the only reason you have my email to annoy me about this is because you wouldn't tell me the shipping cost until I gave it to you.

New: hanging planter featuring a round trip to the Moon. Once fired it will join the others in Sunday's restock! #sciart #artemisii

I'm in the process of washing and reassembling the water fountain. This appears to be a crisis. (The fountain is new and this is the first time I've washed it since I set it up. It's never not worked before.)

When I reported men twice my age sexually harassing me at work, I was told “You aren’t wearing a wedding ring, so what do you expect.” My employer later decided that they “couldn’t resource me” and laid me off. This was in 2014.

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

They made it home

They landed upright yaaaaay

🛰️ Our European Service Module has successfully separated from Orion's crew module! 🚀 After propelling the spacecraft over 1 million km in deep space, it will now burn up in Earth's atmosphere, as the astronauts continue their journey home 🌍

I'm getting deeply tired of the cyclical "people who aren't men are having things they enjoy/are good at/have access to, that means the MENS are being DISCRIMINATED against, we must make space for MEN" way the world seems to go.

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

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...

I’ve sent the Prime Minister’s office a message demanding that Canada and oppose Trump’s genocidal threats, even if those threats ultimately aren’t carried out. No more “everyone should behave but we’re not going to name names here” pretending to take a stand

Flood the PM's office with demands for action.

The reaction of Dr Kelsey Young at the Science Desk was one of the best things in the feed but I'd also like to acknowledge the dude in the lower left corner of the control room view doing his own little dance of joy during Jeremy Hansen's discussion of his corona observations. #Artemis

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

I'm mostly just reposting this because of that tiny tiny little crescent Earth.

"The crew really wants to ask for those in kilometres and parsecs." A reply from the Artemis crew after receiving a bunch of distances in miles.

If you're following along today for the #ArtemisII flyby, here's some notes on what to expect. 🧪🔭🚀🌘

MOON! www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxBmis0

I'm home from work and am going to be watching the lunar flyby for the rest of the day

This is all for tomorrow, April 6. (Sorry, should have specified in the post!)

I've been watching the Artemis II livestream all weekend, and I'm probably going to stay up way too late tomorrow to watch the lunar flyby. I have an important meeting Tuesday morning, but that's what caffeine is for.

Learning about water physics. (The fountain is new, only set it up on Thursday.)

I'm going to end up making my own dish cloths because all the ones I can find in stores make me want to scratch my skin off. (Terry cloth and microfibre are both unacceptable textures.)

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: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int