We are so, so small. #Artemis

ok one more, for the Mass Effect 1 fans out there, I always consider this to be the Peak of Chill Vibing In Space Music

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

astronaut setting their email OOO (out of orbit)

I finally listened and 😭

This is: 1. Deeply moving. 2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV. Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

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 😃 🌓💥

The most far out woman in the world. Astronaut Christina Koch

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

The Sciences call out for the Arts; each needs the other, each helps the other.

#Artemis crew to Mission Control, after seeing and attempting to describe the eclipse: "And if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary tomorrow, that'll help my vocabulary out a bit. Thank you."

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

The astronauts naming the bright spot crater after commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife hit my heart so deeply. What a kind and beautiful thing to do for him and his girls. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/s...

If you think marijuana can never be used safely - even under medical supervision - then you should talk to someone besides yourself cause tens of millions of people use it every day without incident. The system was never designed to protect Americans; it was just designed to subjugate certain groups

Every single paragraph from this story contains worse news than the one that preceded it. apnews.com/article/news...

Artemis 2 reaches 252,000 miles from Earth, the second-farthest any man-made object has ever gone, just short of the baseball Albert Pujols hit off Brad Lidge in 2005.

A student just described the Articles of Confederation as thirteen different countries in a trench coat pretending to be one country and I don't think I will ever recover.

You'll never get magic like this with AI.

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

Increasing numbers of women are being ripped from their children for drug crimes, and they all fear what happens if their kids end up in foster care.

The sad thing is people have been writing for decades about the decline of the family, specifically citing how it's the decline of stable marriages among the poor that is the key problem, but nobody's sufficiently willing to fix it because it would mean giving money to black people

thank god i have a guy in my mentions explaining newsletters to me. maybe i'll finally be able to make it in this biz.

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

NEW POLL: 76% of voters in Texas' March Democratic primary say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and 80% support ending weapons funding to Israel. James Talarico was boosted by a 4:1 margin over Rep. Crockett by his comments criticizing Israel. More findings 🔽

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

Yes, it's normal and correct to feel legitimately unhinged right now. Every time I think I'm crazy, I have to take a deep breath and remember the moment we're in. And we're all in it together eflowers.substack.com/p/tiny-voices

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

Spent the afternoon in my prep room. I've been so busy with robotics for the past 6 months, I haven't had much time for fossils. I'm going into my daughter's class this week to share fossils and wanted to prep a few of her trilobites she found last fall in Ohio to share. Before and after.

5yo has decided she is a writer so our house is filling with novellas, including THE LOST BABY DOLPHIN, another gripping tale "ritin and ilistratid by Eva"

We can afford anything we want to pay for. We don't have universal healthcare because Americans with too much money don't want it.

Anyone who tells you NASA or NPR or the Smithsonians are the reason we don’t have healthcare doesn’t understand MATH

I’m no Middle East scholar, but I wonder if there’s a connection between the Biden administration not stopping the genocide in Gaza and Trump’s joint Israel-US war in Iran.

I'd rather the dementia king destroy the entire world economy than entertain the concept of trans people being acknowledged( in a scenario I made up in my head and then got mad about). I'm Erick Erickson, I'm shaped like Augustus Gloop, and I vote (with my gun)

when even small actions can make a difference, imagine how quickly nature will rebound once we are serious and shift our systems

"What can be done?" Stop using AI, you shower of arseholes.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Reminds me of this within-living-memory era of American history: when white people would close down public pools to avoid having to share them with Black people. Harming ourselves and deliberately making life worse because of bigotry has pretty deep roots in our collective psyche.

People are asking

No, AI written romance novels are not inevitable: aftermath.site/ai-romance-nov...

they zip tied children for landlords

Zo pants rough sketch👖 #horizonforbiddenwest #sketch

They grow up so fast 🤧 #aloy #horizonzerodawn #art #hzd

Omg

HE AIN’T NO JESUSSSSSS

I could watch this weekly: youtu.be/ByXuk9QqQkk?...

“because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth's resources” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The pope is tweeting like a wide receiver. cc: @dennycarter.bsky.social

Other than Obama, every president since Clinton has been older than Clinton.