i think there is an aspect of this which is true but honestly i think the *real* reason car dealers hate EVs is more boring: they all mainline fox news and talk radio and facebook all day and sincerely believe false negative things about EVs that oil companies have propogated through those channels.

Por aquí dejo otra de las fotos que pude tomar ayer durante la puesta de luna. Esta vez con la luna alineada con el cráter del Teide. Here's another photo I was able to take yesterday during the moonset. This time with the moon aligned with the crater of the Teide. #photography #nature #moon

I have to assume that a company calling itself "Gilead" doesn't care much about optics, but even so this looks really bad

It's effectively a declaration that what they are at war with is transness itself and that they will stop at nothing to mandate conversion therapy for all of us. That's it. That's what it is. That's what it is meant as. There is no other way to read it because they are blatant about it.

Samurai Jack is probably very good, but I could never get past the design of the main character. Why does Professor Utonium have a sword

astral projecting into the pope's head to ask him for confirmation if doctrinally the fursona of christ would be a lamb or what

Checking in NASA'S live stream of the Artemis II and just noticed they have Sailor Moon's Artemis watching as well. I love dorks

Man. That is one bisexual cat.

Personally, I think our permissiveness with violence in media, and our puritanical aversion to sex in media, ought to switch places.

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

depressingly plausible that many prefer talking to a robot online instead of other humans because 1. they get immediate feedback and 2. the robot won’t disagree with them

This is related to the "their propaganda channels are also their internal communication channels" point. The viziers kept him from wanting to fire people by always and only acting like they are winning on TV. Now even Trump, as susceptible to flattery as he is, isn't buying it.

Trump starting to fire people is a big deal. The whole point of his administration has been "What are you gonna do about it lib? Lmao owned." And keeping people in the face of massive scandal was perceived as showing strength. That he's SO unpopular that it's broken is a big deal.

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

Still, it's kinda cool that by virtue of being easy to use, Bluesky successfully convinced a bunch of people to join a federated social media website without even realizing they'd done so.

I get a kick out of hearing about the everyday mundanities they have to deal with in space. Things like "please open up the window shields; we're worried about them getting too hot. Just put some t-shirts up against them if it's too bright" and "the waste receptacle is getting full; use the backup"

No car allowed on public roads should be able to go over 75mph, if you want to go faster go to a damn racetrack. Not joking at all, people drive way too fast.

I've always thought a good way to reduce speeding on toll roads is to automatically charge you more if you get from point a to point b in less time than it should have taken you at a legal + reasonable amount of speed. Bonus, less need for cops.

Speed limiters should be mandatory in all new cars, with a limit of the current speed limit + 10%. If a rental Toyota Corolla can tell me the speed limit eveywhere, it can set the top speed.

It's called friction. It's incredibly important in habit breaking. If you make it harder to engage in a behavior you are far less likely to do it. My junk food goes on the top shelf. I have to get a step ladder out to reach it. I've had bags of chips last a week.

gambling should be broadly legal but you should have to place all bets in person, it shouldn’t even be possible over the phone. if you want to bet on missile strikes, you should have to look another person in the face and say it out loud while a line of people behind you gets audibly angry at you

if it guaranteed purity and came with harm reduction supplies/info, this would honestly be great policy.

I won't lie, it is very cool to see my name on the cover of a Justice League comic

Orion and the Moon on Flight Day 2 🤩 www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

New at @nature.com: what the #ArtemisII crew will see as they fly past the Moon on Monday 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I lived in Goleta, California, for a long time, and one of the most amazing things there was the butterfly grove. This one spot, not far from the ocean, where the monarchs would assemble in the winter. It varied from year to year, but in a big year it was magical.

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

When the spaceship is performing even better than planned 💅🏼

I love how trans people saying “please don’t kill us, it’s becoming illegal for us to exist, help us” gets framed by liberals as “you radical leftists are just purity scolds with unrealistic demands. you’re like whiny children who hate bedtime! If you’re going to be so rude about it, i won’t help!”

sorry I’m trying

Eek! Look how thin the atmosphere is. An onion slim between us and endless space 😬

More to see in that image: * Aurora Australis (bright green, upper right) & Aurora Borealis (plane green, lower left) visible as faint streaks * The bright dot in the lower right is Venus * The white haze in the lower right is zodiacal light: dust in the plane of the Solar System lit by sunlight

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Saw this official NASA post on X that highlights the night-side angle. x.com/nasa/status/...

I'm just as shocked as the rest of you to see a right-wing company have no regard for employee safety, and to frame their own greed as ideological virtue.

The more you stay, the more you post, the more space you take up, the more annoying you are, the bigger the middle finger you are giving to the idiots managing this dogshit excuse for social media. And more important than anything else - it’s really, really fucking funny.

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

We just got two separate angles of the LAS jettison during launch and oh my gd, it looks so good. Source: images.nasa.gov/details/Laun...

Differences between Artemis and Apollo, No 9 in an irregular series. There’s a toilet on board. www.space.com/space-explor...

A satellite view that tracks the rocket a bit longer - the water vapor imagery. Pew pew! All imagery found via CIRA/NOAA: slider.cira.colostate.edu.

Good lord, I swear I have to do this every three goddamn months: if you’re sharing the r slur just to show everyone some dickhead used it, all you’re doing is sharing the r slur. Fucking blur that shit if you must share, and if you’re doing alt text as you should be, say r slur and not the word.

"bluesky should have a minimum age of 30+" i hate to break this to you

I don’t know if it’s true that astronauts are the smartest people on the planet. I think they’re the most adaptable people on the planet, which requires being smart *at speed* and *without freaking out*! In my experience they’re also unusually charismatic, which may help them get along in a tuna can

Not because it is easy but because it is hard

Nice shot of the pad 39B zero deck after Artemis II launch A tad toasty but seemingly nothing too bad... Source: NASA Admin on the other site. #ArtemisII

The first time I read this I was sitting in my car and spit an entire mouth full of mocha ALL OVER the inside of my car.

Let’s talk about how this works and why we have older devices. When I started doing cabin integration back in 2017, we actually had a 2020 launch date. We bought the tablets the crew used for Artemis II back then. To not spend as much, we limited our choice to devices that were in the ISS catalog.

Starting to think that maybe a patriarchal bargain with Donald Trump isn't actually a sure thing