formative for me

what a breakthrough: for the first time humans will be flying to Luna without having to shit in a plastic bag

the goal of politics should be giving NASA and CSA 5-10% of the budget from taxing the rich

here: one of my top songs for uplifting, spacey music i want what I write to feel like this sounds

my skills aren't good enough to articulate the deep emotional reasons of why I think Artemis 2 is important, why human spaceflight is important, but Carl Sagan was much more skilled

We should do more sick space stuff plus fully fund a robust social welfare system we got two hands

Artemis 2 isn't what we *might* have had, but I'll take it anyway

I also hope that this gives greater energy to the Chinese crewed lunar missions harness the competitive spirit for positive, constructive things!

go for launch!

CYNICISM AND CONSTANT, SUFFOCATING BAD NEWS SUSPENDED FOR A BIT: new Moon mission

If you're a baseball player who can catch, slide, and run, but you can't hit the ball, you can: a) Practice on your own (teammates, ball machine) b) Hire a good coach c) Switch sports Notice how there is no d) Put your jersey on a robot every time it's your turn at bat (then lie about it)

hope is alive and well, not to be traded in for *anything* remember that, always

my skills aren't good enough to articulate the deep emotional reasons of why I think Artemis 2 is important, why human spaceflight is important, but Carl Sagan was much more skilled

sure, Artemis 2 is "PR for Lockheed Martin, whose weapons have been used for the genocide in Gaza," but recall that similarly, Apollo 11 was PR for Grumman Aerospace, whose weapons were used for the devastation of Vietnam there is nothing particularly new about this, which is itself infuriating

one thing I'd really like to see from Artemis 2 is a new Earthrise for the 21st century

My new legal theory is that a giant anvil should fall from the sky onto Alito's head.

istg i had better not see anyone taking shots at Artemis 2 on the basis of "that money could be better spent Here On Earth" or i'm going to McFucking Lose It every dollar spent on NASA is a dollar that isn't spent on murdering Iranian schoolgirls

a dryer is not the opposite of a washing machine. the opposite of a washing machine is a dirtying machine

finding out today that there are segments of the British left that think well of Oliver Cromwell and jesus christ why are so many people absolute fucking embarrassments

something that will most likely forever remain a mystery: I wonder if I know any spies

weird character is of inestimable value in the urban fabric

amazing that I got 20,000 words into this novella before realizing the need to get specific on the Martian use of "outside" versus "outdoors"

gotta say, it's very interesting that anyone cites radiation *as a dealbreaker* toward activity on Mars when the surface radiation levels there are barely higher than the ISS and in fact lower than on Luna

John Ringo pausing his story mid orbital bombardment to have his protagonist defend the South's casus belli in the Civil War remains an all timer for "non-political" science fiction.

if your response to Canada recognizing the citizenship of *all* the descendants of anyone born in what is now Canada for as far back as history records is "they're just making it easier for white people to move to Canada," I think you're telling on yourself for example: Cajuns are not 100% white

Robert Heinlein: forget these losers, andy, i've got a story that you'll really enjoy! Heinlein: it's about marines in space! and they have guns! Heinlein: [finger guns] pew pew pew pew! Heinlein: pew pew pew! pew pew! Verne: ok rob you've made your point Heinlein: I'M NOT DONE YET

another rad thing you can do on this trans day of visibility is read my latest story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, which is 100% trans-written

[at space coven] Andy Weir: beep boop submitted for the approval of the space coven, i call this the story of the martian Weir: it is a story about the cold triumph of science, with no distracting theme or motif Weir: only science Weir: beep boop

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xenophobia cooks brains. i grew up in a city that was 93.67% white the year I left it and never looked back, and it was a shithole. it still is, because xenophobia has a terrible inertia. and eating cooked brains is unwise. that's how you get prion diseases and poison the soil where you fall.

plenty of xenophobic fascists-in-waiting in this thread to exercise your muting or blocking button

"Patrick, it’s you!! You’re the American Psycho?!!"

What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

Are you at all curious what's in the Spring 2026 issue of Kaleidotrope, launching April 1?

there is such a thing as "too much" worldbuilding, and you have surely reached it when you provide detailed answers to what elven breast milk tastes like

you will easily guess what might be so "enraging" about this if you know anything about British attitudes toward cat guardianship

is there a turbo-Nuremberg? because the people in charge of the Israeli government need to be sent there

"Anybody else get serious Starship Troopers vibes from playing Helldivers 2?" i dunno, anybody else get serious gasoline vibes from pumping diesel?

i was actively trying to make something "artsy"

That's right

🎵 even while we sleep we will find you 🎵

there has to be something deeply wrong in your soul to be able to say "idk if this is a genocide and an apartheid state actually"

"no politics" is like saying "i have no accent"

your grandparents voting for reagan

for fuck's sake, kurzgesagt Project Plowshare is unhinged enough as it is. you didn't have to do that "nuclear stuff is Glowing Green" bullshit that communicates only "I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about and think that 20th-century radium paint represents the entirety of radioactivity"