NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

We went to this tonight. We got tickets for the last slot (8.30). Most of the "immersive" experiences were shut by 9...so we didn't even get a poem. It was, all in all, very underwhelming.

It's the Friday market close peace plan again! Like Charlie Brown and the football every week.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

🆕 Launching IIPP's Digital Case Studies: The Story Behind UK Notify Join IIPP's @eaves.ca, Mike Bracken, @jordynfetter.bsky.social, and Kassim Vera for a virtual session on UK Notify as a key example of digital public infrastructure in practice. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/M4Kpk5x

was once New Amsterdam.

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

The Moon is tidally locked so one side always faces us. From that side, Earth is a permanent fixture in the sky 13 times larger and 43 times brighter than the Moon appears from Earth. Four humans photographed this. Every crater in this frame is older than any life on land. Artemis II

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

The Artemis 2 crew name a new crater on the moon after Reid Wiseman's wife Carroll. One of the most beautiful videos you’ll ever see 🥹

Originally, of course, it was Storm UK Gold Classics.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Particularly alarming that this includes Lebanon & Gaza. I had just shared imagery from March 18 showing the demolition of villages along the southern border of Lebanon by the IDF and now not even that imagery is available: bsky.app/profile/godi... Mass demolitions haven't stopped in Gaza, either.

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and scored Neither. I am apparently the control group. My German Grandfather would likely have been a little disappointed german.millermanschool.com

NASA aren’t on here (presumably US gov agencies have to only use channels loyal to their great leader) - but the European Space Agency is, and is sharing key updates on the Artemis mission…

jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.

New post just out: "Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals" Antisemitism is becoming mainstreamed on both left and right at an alarming rate. What can it teach us about the way radicalisation takes root? And can it be stopped? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...

The Government Chief Scientific Adviser will have a year focusing on the theme of ‘Trustworthy Information’. Great role in her office for a social scientist to provide support on this crucial topic and on other projects (£33k - £40k) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

A million people forcibly displaced.

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest

How does insider trading work? And is Trump doing it?

Apropos of nothing....but can we please stop making all women's trousers "barrel" style...I look ridiculous

This is incredibly cool.

I've just remembered when I put the theme from Death in Paradise over the title sequence from The Wire.

For when someone tells you everything is irredeemably broken - tell them that the EU produced more electricity with renewables in 2025 that from fossil fuels. And the trend is accelerating (especially after the current oil / gas price disasters).

A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

DSIT Women in Tech taskforce call for evidence on "the impact of emerging technologies on women’s participation, progression and leadership in tech" - www.gov.uk/government/c...

See my post last week on how we got into this position of dependence on US tech companies and how we can start extricating ourselves (with a section on Palantir). samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

What's My JND? 0.0028 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

@doctorow.pluralistic.net This is incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority. (10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that) Feel free to message

Exclusive: Since the war began, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft. The assistance signals that the conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors. https://wapo.st/47vAwD9

this photo leaves little to the imagination

Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

When your cat has watched Die Hard too many times.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying. Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free. So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

I wonder if anyone in Cabinet Office has read up on the Canadian Federal Government's outsourcing of its payroll? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

So Epstein buddies Andrew and Mandelson have been arrested in the UK. And in the US? Zero, zip, nada | Marina Hyde