Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

I think a lot about how much less ridiculous some of the rules of kashrut would be - both Pesach kashrut and regular kashrut - if they hadn’t all been invented by men who had never cooked a meal or managed a kitchen.

My husband drove across town to get me the last two Artemis II donuts 🥹

Just to say That if your kitchen is not as clean as you would like Or your matzo balls are not homemade Or your Seder is smaller than you hoped for Or your Seder plans didn’t come together at all Dayenu. It’s enough. More can always happen next year. Chag Sameach!

The fight for trans kids isn’t over. It’s just not. The Court did not rule that conversion therapy bans are unconstitutional yesterday. It just didn’t. Anyone saying otherwise is helping the conservative legal movement to mollify people. Peace out.

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Take two days mostly away from bluesky and the bluesky-ism is much more apparent when you return.

At the heart of many stories about someone falling for disinformation is that person having motivation to believe the disinformation

Meanwhile states can rewrite their bans. Another lawsuit can be filed. It took four years for Chiles to get to SCOTUS on a preliminary injunction motion. There's time to do something about this. We have to push Democrats HARD. We can't have a nominee without a court reform plan. That's my opinion.

It's a shitty ruling. No question. And I know "court reform" sounds like something Democrats won't ever do and perhaps that is also true. But I refuse to let ADF win by default because everyone thinks the fight is over. Our way out of most of this *waves hands around* horseshit is court reform.

Take two minutes to watch this or click through to Imani’s Patreon and read the transcript. This is a very narrow ruling, and the fight is far from over.

I'm not trying to convince folks not to be angry. I'm trying to convince folks not to give up because the case is not over.

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the ruling. But it is limited to one lady in Colorado who may get a preliminary injunction allowing her to perform conversion talk therapy. It's a narrow ruling. The merits are still live. We gotta live in that narrowness. ADF wants us to despair.

Over and over the message this administration sends to federal employees is "Break the law, and so long as you're doing it to support our political causes, we'll let it slide." It is a recipe for corruption and impunity. Discipline has to mean something.

Yes, this.

Honestly, the imperial presidency is the defining problem of our republic. He is, at most, one third of our government, not the team captain, not the leader (also the branches are not 'co-equal;' congress is supreme).

If true, they should refuse him entry.

A version of this print was sold as part of a benefit for the @ncjw.bsky.social, featuring their logo.

You can stick some stamps on a potato and the Post Office will mail it, you think the President has the authority to ban them from carrying election mail which is completely lawful? Ha! What a waste of taxpayer money. Just disgraceful stuff.

This is what we call an "easy case" for a lawsuit; the idea that the President can order the Post Office to adopt rules refusing to carry mail-in ballots that don't conform to the President's preferred design. Laughably, obviously unconstitutional if USPS tries to go forward with it.

it is not too late to decide not to go through with your April Fool's joke. together, we can defeat April Fool's Day

Emphasizing that there is no such thing as a federal list of citizens. It does not exist.

The 'before close of market' vs. 'after close of market' talk difference is so astoundingly obvious and yet apparently impossible for the markets to comprehend.

The AP is surprisingly honest about this being both against the Constitution and based on lies. More, please.

Holy cripes, I know his brain is basically moldy offal, but he essentially took a crayon and scribbled his name in front of Kennedy's and now he says it's "a show of bipartisan unity"? I guess that's how he defines consent, which tracks.

Let's be serious. Forcing an institution to hand over a list of Jews to the government is not the way to fight antisemitism.

Should have included this from the beginning: the recipe is via @tastinghistory.bsky.social youtu.be/eKH7pP102c8?...

Crazy thing I’m trying this Passover: 15th century Spanish recipe for candied horseradish. It was actually medicinal in its time, but to me it sounds like a fun twist on maror.

Talk about shrinkflation: matzah only comes in 4 pound boxes now!?

Friends, you get to be mad. You are allowed to be incandescently angry. What you don’t get to do is take that anger out on anyone you feel like. That’s just not something adults are allowed or encouraged to do. It’s definitely not something that contributes to a functional society.

The judge noted, "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."

I cannot stress enough that we as a nation are not in the right headspace to handle April Fool's Day this year

I think we do not observe enough that this too - where Hegseth says it is up to King Trump to decide if we honor treaties ratified by Congress - is part of MAGA fascism, the abrogation of all power to the Dear Leader.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary are non-binary. You are who you are. You have a right to be who you are. That right is non-negotiable, now, and always.

Fuck “natural flavors”

Immigration enforcement is the number one priority of this administration — beyond everything else. And when the DOJ makes that its number one priority, it means that they have to drop a bunch of other cases, including ones with far more serious consequences.

It is certainly possible that he simply doesn't understand this, so he is going to declare victory and then only realize that this fixes nothing for him. But this war, unlike all his other problems, does not benefit from the median voter's lack of object permanence.

If you are having a bad day you can have a blanket of good boys.

Imagine claiming to be a Star Trek fan while expressing disdain for at least 90% of what Star Trek is (and always has been)

Any fish experts out there who can tell me what this tiny little guy might be? he was at most 1cm long, possibly 0.5cm. I have a guess but would love some expertise.

This is a bad bill and you should feel bad for promoting it. legiscan.com/IL/bill/SB39...

Some of my favorite ST stories are what I call the "middle of the night" episodes,where it feels like it's the middle of the night on the ship, only a few characters are highlighted, and the whole episode feels like it was patched together by crazed people on their 20th consecutive shooting week

An Israeli colleague sent me a video of toddlers cleaning a bomb shelter for Passover and I simply think we should be able to recognize that while people across the Middle East are dealing with worse that this, too, is fucking tragic

Outta my face, dog!

MARYLAND COME GET YOUR CATS

Tried to trim the cat’s back claws and I am now being *bitched out*

If they are still making whimsical movies 50 years from now, there's a farce to be spun where several uncoordinated teams of time travelers arrive in 2015, with each one hoping to avoid a different specific future event but with their cumulative efforts instead leading to <waves hands around>.

How have I lost not just one, but TWO hoodies?

Cheers to past me for buying my endless hoop earrings in bulk so it doesn’t matter if I lose one

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