Kate Mulgrew got off lightly here. Garrett Wang in a pleather tee hawking CD-ROM encyclopaedias? Not so much.

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@zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

Delighted to have a reason to celebrate today!

Your semi-regular reminder to make that appointment to donate blood if you can. #DonateBlood

Just a bit of reassurance, if you see David Attenborough trending on socials, it’s his 100th birthday. Please don’t panic.

🚨 4 hours until the polls close! Together we can build a fairer, greener, kinder Scotland. Let's demand better. 🗳️ Everyone in Scotland can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot paper ✉️ If you have a postal vote you can hand it in 🪪 You DON'T need photo ID in Scotland

I didn’t need to be quite so brutally attacked before lunchtime on a Thursday…

🚨 The polls are open! 🗳️ Everyone in Scotland can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot paper ✉️ If you have a postal vote you can hand it in 🪪 You DON'T need photo ID This is our chance to vote for hope over hate. To demand better. To vote Scottish Greens.

One of the conspiracy theories I saw claiming #ArtemisII was faked said that it wasn’t real because you couldn’t see the satellites in the “Hello Earth” image. Well, I don’t know what to tell you buddy, here they are! Amazing work from @andysaunders-1.bsky.social, as always.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Absolutely raging that adult responsibility forced me out of the house and I missed Sawe breaking the 2hr barrier. Goddammit!

I truly love to do the most mid 5km run you’ve ever seen ahead of parking myself on the sofa tomorrow morning to watch the London Marathon live stream. It really makes me feel like I’m part of the experience. Huge good luck to all the #RunningPunks venturing out for a very long Sunday run!

If all of yous could stop posting your London Marathon ballots entries for 2027, that would be great, because right now I am sitting in the queue for the Lisbon Half ballot and am dangerously suggestible for doing silly things…

Taking 10 days off running wasn’t my favourite, and even though today was my second run in this week, it still felt like a slog. But it was a slog in the sun, with a detour to a new park, and it will get easier. #RunningPunks

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

In praise of birds.

There might be a theme to this year’s birthday celebrations…. #ArtemisII PS, I highly recommend having the Gen Z’s at work make you a birthday card.

I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!

Absolutely iconic stuff from @drspacejunk.bsky.social. And 100% true.

My emotional support #ArtemisII astronauts have apparently deftly handed over to my emotional support cyclists, because what do you mean #VismaLeaseABike took 3 podium spots across the men’s and women’s Paris-Roubaix yesterday?

Is Vic wearing the NASA Vans? He looks like he’s wearing the NASA Vans.

I do think the cats are looking forward to a return to a normal bedtime routine following the splashdown. Thanks to a lot of the #ArtemisII milestones happening at gone midnight, they have been deeply put out over the last ten days.

I truly don’t know what I’m going to do without my emotional support astronauts. #ArtemisII was such a bright spot while the world seems to be falling, or rather, being torn apart. I hope that the next time humans head to the Moon, the planet they launch from is less of a mess.

Reid: We have a great view of the moon out of window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday. Jackie: Guess we’ll have to go back.

I am in no way ready for #ArtemisII to be over, but I am looking forward to having a normal sleep schedule again. There’s been altogether too many huge space milestones happening past my bedtime over the last ten days.

Losing my mind over this. I have a machine in my lap on which I can periodically toggle over from something else I'm doing on the machine to watch a SPACESHIP return from THE MOON. Earlier I could hear the SPACESHIP'S PEOPLE as they talked to other people LOCATED ON MY PLANET BUT VERY FAR FROM ME.

If someone could follow me for the next 10 days to remind me whenever I go to lift things, sit down too hard, or move too quickly, that I have stitches in my back, and will fuck myself up if I do any of the above, that would be great. Further to that team, if you find a weird lump, get it checked.

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

This remains as funny on the 15m dome this morning as it was last night. #ArtemisII

That’s all of us. #ArtemisII

Watching the perfect crescent of the Earth setting behind the Moon and just openly sobbing. #ArtemisII

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

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

i think this would stress me out more than being in a canned air bubble the size of a camper

It is completely wild to me that in November 2022, @andysaunders-1.bsky.social and I were in the IMAX at work setting up for his lecture, watching #ArtemisI approach the Moon, and today an actual crew aboard the spacecraft is getting much the same view. #ArtemisII

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

With respect, I refuse to be normal this evening. I’m still struggling to wrap my head round the fact that this is actually ✨happening✨. #ArtemisII

People have asked me again and again why we are sending astronauts to he moon and why it matters. There are a lot of good answers to that question but a relevant one right now is: I have never seen this level of general public excitement and engagement with any other mission I’ve covered.

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

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

I’m rapidly discovering that I’m basically incapable of reading anything about #ArtemisII without crying. And I’m OK with that. I hoped but didn’t entirely believe that anything like this would happen in my lifetime, and here it is, happening right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think it's totally reasonable to have discussions about the best use of NASA funding or priorities we should have as a society but if you come into my mentions with lazy cynicism & dismissiveness about space exploration or science, you're just going to have a bad time & so will I! So maybe don't!

The noise of these is truly something else. #ArtemisII

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule