But for real this time. Call your reps I guess? I don’t even fucking know.

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

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

it also has this one

Energy abundance is coming. Thank fuck because fossil fuel geopolitics is the absolute worst. Well played China.

I love this for you.

A thing I am reminded of every time I pop in to watch this is that living in Orion for 10 days is severely no-frills. The Shuttle or ISS are like a nice apartment that your hoarder friend lets you crash in. Orion is four people sleeping in a broom closet and the toilet is dicey.

On the NASA #Artemis II livestream just now: "... and the song you heard was Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan to kick off the crew's day" 🩷🐴🌈

I’m nostalgic for the days when the grift was behind closed doors.

Confirmation bias is the sweetest bias

The largest offshore Solar Power Planet in the world in China. While the West is wasting their money on military junk China is going completely renewable energy. The West is lead by fools.

Tapping the sign

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I fuckin love girl math

Imagine absolutely trashing a female lead author, who leads up a women's research institute, who is undoubtedly going to face unreal threats for doing this work, for correctly describing the fact that previous theories predicted a different predictor here

Pointing to an extremely funny mastodon thread about the Claude Code leak. My favourite comment, it's a "dogshit tornado". Basically it's brute forcing non-deterministic model behaviour all the way down, which of course is not surprising. But also hella inefficient with no standard methods.

Easter Bunny or... Resurrection Rabbit?

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

From Integrity on the livestream just after midnight Eastern -- it's been a very long time since any human has seen a full disk Earth like that. No easy read of altitude but more than halfway to 70,000km apogee so probably somewhat past geosynchronous?

This was as purposeful and powerful as a rock concert gets in 2026. And arguably the most deeply impactful performance Springsteen has given in the Twin Cities since his 1975 debut, writes critic Jon Bream.

I feel it’s important to note, all of these toilets are ‘all-gender’.

A little something for everyone with today’s launch.

"Sorry, boss; I tried to code up that new rewards point calculation and the whole back-end system spontaneously collapsed into a black hole"

What happened at Monki Gras last week - a characteristically thoughtful post by Alex Chan "This year’s theme was “Prepping Craft” – in a world where safety and normality are slipping away, how do we make our code, our communities, and our lives truly resilient?" alexwlchan.net/2026/monki-g...

Come hang out with @kateholterhoff.com and me while we livestream with @darko.rup12.net We're live at 9:30 Pacific! www.twitch.tv/kirodotdev

Likewise I find all arguments based on whether or not the Harry Potter books/movies/games/theme parks/toys are "good" to be extremely tiresome. It doesn't matter. They could be great but they still explicitly fund harm to trans people so stop buying them.

So I dunno, do your own moral calculations I guess, but I have a real hard time seeing how "it's ok to fund the transphobia machine" is a feminist or liberatory stance unless I guess you're a feminist in the same sense a TERF is.

Watching a feminist rabbi argue that it's ok to give money to JKR and I just. She is actively using that money to harm people. Like to explicitly, actively campaign to harm trans people. When you give her money, that's what you are funding.

where do open source licenses stand in 2026? redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...

i will be signing the @progressivedelivery.com book at the @dynatrace.com booth this evening from 5:30 to 7pm, during the Kube Crawl. Please join us if you're here in Amsterdam. #kubeconeu

So Kubecon EU is fucking ENORMOUS. I will report on numbers later but first impressions are just that it's simply very big. The @cncf.io is evidently still a critical foundation (pun intended) for modern software workloads.

I love baking. And sometimes I make something that turns out better than I expected. I just got home from London, which made my family hungry for scones. They taste even better than they look.

Any day can be improved with a good dollop of Sister Rosetta. Dance around the kitchen in her honor

"wait, THAT's caused by a VIRUS??" is one of the major prongs of major medical advancements and the answer is "YES"

I cried for half of the talk 🥺❤️ One of the moments I had in my talk the day before was expressing a deep desire that I have of wanting to build a world where other children don’t have to experience my childhood And then to see this a day later? Beautiful. Simply beautiful. I dearly needed that

Thanks again to my dear friend @monkchips.com for the opportunity to share parts of my journey with this incredible community. Amazing people and talks at #monkigras this year. I plan to be back next year.

Next up - a Cis Parent Transguide by @azimman.bsky.social - about being prepared to accept your child and always show up for them. #monkigras day two. "These are some things I wish I'd known..."

@wiredferret.bsky.social and @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social talking about resilience in Community. Shout out to Rural Oaxaca and Minneapolis!

chat is this bad?

Eid Mubarak, New York.

When a child shows trust in their parent, it can be profound. "When your kid tells you something, listen to what they say. Don't assume your lived experience is theirs." - @azimman.bsky.social #monkigras

I’ve never played it but I have friends who have — love @azimman.bsky.social using Silksong as an allegory for describing the experience as a cis parent raising a trans child. #monkigras

The honesty of @azimman.bsky.social in this talk is extraordinary. Kids do things very differently now. #monkigras

#monkigras @azimman.bsky.social CisParent Transguide

Moving talk from @azimman.bsky.social about being the cis male parent of a trans kid. I don’t have any kids, but the message about treating people with kindness and being mindful your interactions carries through. You don’t get to define who others are. #monkigras

Favorite slide so far at #monkigras Sue Smith explores skills for developers

Woohoo!!!!!🥳