I just voted for Tom Steyer for Governor! I'm so glad that California has the chance to elect a climate champion.

We would have killed for this kind of political satire in 2005.

Oh wow really

YouTube has a spokesperson named "Boot Bullwinkle".

My assemblymember posted an AI image of Becerra with a stethoscope for a person with three ears. I made fun of it and now she's in my DMs telling my that I'm being culturally insensitive because AI art of people with three ears is how her gente express support for people who look like them.

My unique $100k R&D ocean floor gravimeter was lost at sea through unfortunate events. No funds for ship time for recovery so my PhD supervisor mortgaged his house & sent me. No pressure. I was in the lab with the ROV team when it showed up on sonar. Cheering erupted over the radio from the bridge.

I just found out I've spent the last several years on a little over half the recommended dose for my ADHD medication. No wonder I have so much trouble concentrating.

It is so weird to get a phone call at work from someone who really appreciated the mass marketing email we just sent out.

TIL that, in 1980, Billy Crystal starred in an animated version of the Olympics where the athletes are animals and a dog skis down the World Trade Center.

I live in Swalwell’s neck of the woods and have a lot of political friends who know him personally, and I was dreading how some of them would react. Surprisingly, only one of them is holding on to Swalwell for dear life.

A reminder of the future schedule: Artemis III will carry the goat to lunar orbit, and return empty Artemis IV will carry the lettuce to lunar orbit, and return with the goat Artemis V will carry the wolf to lunar orbit, and return empty Artemis VI will carry the goat to lunar orbit, and land

The people saying she made this up can go to hell. There's contemporary evidence backing up her claims. This should be the end of Swalwell's career.

i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure

Such beauty.

Amazing views of the Artemis II launch filmed from NASA's WB-57 high altitude aircraft 🔭🧪 #Artemis Full duration on YouTube: youtu.be/pa-dMk2VnUg

This is a cool effort by a school system to leverage publicly owned land to create thousands of housing units, affordable to teachers. School districts own huge amounts of well-located, underutilized land that they could use for such housing projects. But few districts are actually doing so.

I think sentencing the entire administration to life as a human centipede should be on the table at Nuremberg 2.0.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Meanwhile, I try to do the same thing and all I end up with is a white smudge.

Topical.

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

I don't want to sound too excitable, but right now, ACTUAL PEOPLE are going round the ACTUAL MOON - for the first time in my own lifetime. This is not a story, and this is not a drill. We are all here, looking up together as this happens. 🫵 🤝🫶

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

John Kraus captures Artemis II: the photographer turning rocket launches into art at Cape Canaveral

Starring Churro as “Liberal Pomeranian” and Churro as “Conservative Pomeranian”.

The history of the Greek islands of Samos is actually insane. I was not prepared for that heel turn.

Back when I was in college, the Iranians used to take credit for their “tamaddon-e seh-hezar-salegi“, “three thousand year civilization”. I guess I must be a lot older than I thought!

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

We should rebuild the good parts of the midcentury American economy with the green energy transition and space exploration filling the role of WWII industrial mobilization / Cold War political economy send post

We are the angels when we choose to be

My quantum physics book has a printing error that results in the Planck constant appearing as a blank space. I'm sure this won't cause any confusion whatsoever.

Well this appears to be going well.

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

We're going to the Moon tomorrow and nobody's talking about it.

Me talking to young people about things that happened in 2021.

This would be an amazing jigsaw puzzle. Time to try it out! jigex.com/LYyK8

When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy. 1/

Personally, I'm pretty amused by WB desperately trying to wring a movie out of any stray comma in LOTR, while just out of reach lie the rich treasures of The Silmarillion, which they can never touch as cosmic punishment for pulling the Hollywood accounting trick on the Tolkien estate 25 years ago.

Sometimes the weeds win. RIP trowel.

I did not realize that all that "commercial tax loophole" stuff was actually split-roll. My support for Steyer just got a lot less tepid.

Dolores Huerta Day is already a state holiday in California. I'm reaching out to my state legislatures to ask them to elevate it to fully replace that man's holiday. My son should get the day off from school to celebrate a leader and a survivor, not because it's a rapist's birthday.

New research from Pew quantifies the extent of the success of YIMBYism in Austin: after a huge run up in prices over the 2010s, the city dramatically liberalized and kicked off a building boom. Now rents are falling. www.pew.org/en/research-...

I came across this book a few years ago, but didn't have time to read it because I was too busy losing my race for city council. Time to dive in! It's open access, so you can read it for free.

This makes me miss Obama. There once was a time when listening to our leaders would make us smarter and more informed, rather than being the intellectual equivalent of drinking bleach.

No way was there an ancient Greek city-state called “Cucumberville”.