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This is catastrophic.

The Artemis missioun doth show that the thinges that are trulye the most astoundinge yn thys worlde, the thinges that will echo on thrugh historye, are not technologye, howevir marvelous, but common human braverye, wondir, and love. These will be the themes when thys storye ys tolde for centuryes.

Something is happening at the NYTimes site. None of the articles appear to be paywalled, and the Games are down.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 9th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

My local coffee shops have ICE OUT signs. Most restaurants, too. The grocery store front windows are filled with signs that say "ALL ARE WELCOME HERE... EXCEPT ICE" There were even more a few weeks ago. Some have come down as ICE activity has declined. But most signs are still up. We're still mad.

It's really striking, even for those of us who live here. The signs truly are all over *every single block*

Learning a lot this evening about the shit Washington got up to. The Streisand Effect works in many ways.

MY KINGDOM FOR A NEVER-ASK-ME-AGAIN BUTTON THAT WORKS.

Scenes from New Orleans

Astounded that this (minorly) popped off, so RT for the evening/other side of the planet folks?

No artist of any sort should be trying to appease the people who would happily see all art destroyed.

This.

Even leaving aside any moral imperatives, "don't be political" is bad advice unless you enjoy being bland. "Why are you selling hamburgers made by hand from premium ingredients? You're alienating people who prefer McDonald's!" Maybe so! But I don't want to be McDonald's.

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

I know George Washington had no clue people in the future would be pulling receipts on him like this. He really slid for a long time off Jefferson and Jackson being bigger weirdos.

"You might say that I’m just somebody who’s focused on what’s really important: Not remembering anything but my feelings and being convinced that I am the arbiter of the human experience because I am the only one who continually exists."

Anyway follow the ESA accounts (e.g., @esa.int and @science.esa.int) -- they are great and use good alt-text so their posts are accessible to all!

Well this is unfortunate. An account calling itself "NASA | ESA Space Updates" (@nasaupdates.bsky.social), not apparently affiliated w/ either, has been posting NASA images without alt-text & blocked me when I said the images should include it. (NASA itself is usually pretty good on accessibility.)

The federal government is literally striking words from official record based on them being too “woke” and pundits are arguing if the wokeness is what went too far

Don’t listen to the haters. It’s OK to like the song “American Pie” by Don McLean

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

I’m seeing too many content scraping accounts lately. You know, the ones who post “a frog a day” or whatever. They’re lousy! They steal photos, post without credit to get lots of followers & then often make money off the account. Please block them & try these real photographers instead!

I can't recommend this more. Following actual nature photographers gets you gorgeous content made by artists, talented photographers whose names you know! Way better than AI or stolen valor.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

I had to look that up and oh my god.

One of my neighbors has a tree in their front yard that had a big limb nearly break off during the blizzard, and now even though it's cracked in half and lying on the ground, it's in a defiant full bloom. Same, tree. Same.

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Oh wow these are going to be so stunning! Definitely get on the list and don’t miss out! Her work goes quickly! :)

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

incredibly funny that his reaction is just standard GOP "assume the media is lying" deflection because I really don't think he wants to be trapped between Trump and the Pope even more than he already is. which means he should be asked about this every single day. make him suffer lmao

It is very fun, but I also find it healing when I'm grieving a lost kitty. Commissioning unique pieces of/for a cat who is gone feels like a small tangible declaration to the world that they existed, they were loved, they mattered.

My boss has devised a new way to torment me: making up wrong Star Trek trivia, knowing that I will be compelled to correct him.

Intellectual freedom is when conservatives can say what they want (and get paid for it) and you can say what they want (or lose your job)

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

The trend has translated into an emphasis on family-friendly benefits like parental leave and health care coverage, as well as protections against sexual harassment.

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

I'm gonna need a Mamdani in every city

You're welcome to read more here in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a...

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

Today's lunch was radiatori with lobster and broccoli in a butter-and-herb-and-garlic sauce.

Fuckin' embarrassing that every time a category on America Says (yes, in reruns) involves comics or the MCU, any all-white team can't figure out that B____ P______ is Black Panther.

Nationalism was largely made up in the 19th century and then national culture was backfilled. A single national language, traditional dress, culture, food, games, all either adopted from regional versions or just made up out of whole cloth. This makes people extremely mad.