Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

Hello lovely people. Just a heads up, if you're looking to order a copy of Tiny Moments of Joy for Mothers Day, now would probably be the time to start thinking about it😊🪻🌸💐 www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...

This is such a great and weird picture. I don't think you could ask for a bigger depth-compression effect! #visionscience

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Prinkle [PRING-kul] (n.) A tingling or sensation of numbness, often resulting from a temporary suspension of circulation. (v.) To tingle or prickle.

Orange cats are a whole vibe. 🥰😂🤣

I fucking love public libraries. support your local library *just by going there* and showing you value it.

There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

Tickets to the Museum of Flight - $60. Spending an afternoon listening to my husband talk about his favorite subject - priceless.

Shakespeare Revision Class. #drama #literature

I have in my hands a finished hardcover of The Devil and Mrs Gooch (out in May) and I know everything is on fire, but at least I got to make this deeply weird thing I wanted to make, not many people are that lucky

Effrenate [eh-FRIH-nayt] (adj.) - Unbridled, unrestrained, unruly, or excessively wild. From Latin “effrēnātus” (let loose, unbridled) Used in a sentence: “He is an effrenate nuisance, ungoverned in habit, unfiltered in speech, and utterly unacquainted with the concept of restraint.”

Lasers were a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to play with cats. Computers were also a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to look at pictures of cats. In other words, science was made for cats.

Also NEWS! I am teaching an updated and improved, also I would say cyclopean and batrachian, perhaps cthonic, version of my MODERN COSMIC HORROR WRITING class for @carlbrandon.bsky.social ! May 16-17! This is a deep dive with text analysis, examples, a reading/resource list, and exercises!

The ArtemisII moonshot and space flight in perspective... A waste of space? What on Earth is going on? #r4today #bbcnews #ArtemisII #moon #poverty #healthcare #AI #water #climate #nature #humanity

“It’s embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.”—Aldous Huxley

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Dust off yer manuscripts, goblins! We're taking submissions for the next batch of issues in just one month. More information can be found here: https://bit.ly/4i2c9QR

Hi. This is for everyone that manages people in any tech aligned space. STOP HIRING AND ENABLING SEXIST ASSHOLES! For every "brilliant" jerk you keep on, how many other excellent employees are you losing?

Kate Gregory is back. She has been asking a simple question: what happens to programmers as they get older? She talked to hundreds of developers and to people on the other side, including former engineers now driving for Uber.

Postdoc Alert! The archaeology department here at Exeter are looking for a Research Fellow for Biocultural HIVE, part of the AHRC RICHeS Infrastructure Portfolio. The role (0.8 FTE for 5 years) involves managing our digital, lab and collections resources: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Sad to see all these opinion pieces this week from authors arguing in favour of using AI to write books, all of them falling into the "it's inevitable" and "everyone is doing it" trap but simply revealing that they are lazy and lack integrity. If you don't want to write a book, you don't have to.

I have a truly SPECTACULAR image from JWST of a nebula and star cluster that will rock your universe! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/two-jwst-s... Bonus: A JWST map of dark matter, so, whoa. 🔭 🧪

How did we end up with a culture of people bragging about being planet-boilingly bad at their jobs Like do people genuinely not feel shame any more BRING BACK SHAME

WAIT WAIT this reminded me of Wearingeul's social media today 😂

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

When Iran talks about going after US tech companies, it’s the bits of US tech companies outside the US (although they absolutely want to frighten the employees in the US)

"He reminded us every day that #HIV was not just a virus and that the HIV/AIDS response was never just about science. He put people first in all his efforts -- not just in his rhetoric, which was brilliant and electrifying, but in his actions." 🔗 AVAC's statement: avac.org/press-releas...

This is the variant with 70%mutation in what your immune system (and vaccines) match against so I’m expecting significant vaccine escape too. Masks people, masks!

Watching the tech industry unleash unpredictable software into production in the name of AI adoption, then spend twice as much time and money trying to limit the blast radius, proves humans should be investing in our own intelligence before allowing the machines to mimic us.

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters -- an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital.

This girl is not to be trifled with. She has a keen eye, a strong bow and a quiver of arrows so beware the disrespectful suitor or the port soaked, condescending gentleman. She will have you in her sights. #1820s archery ensemble #fidmmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I got to read an eARC and it was super fun!

BBC says the two 'lost' Doctor Who episodes will be on BBC iPlayer on Good Friday.

99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, take one down, patch it around, 108 bugs in the code. (saw this on a t-shirt)

call me snobby but you can vibe code all you want, but until you spend 3 hours troubleshooting why a program won't compile before finding the singular missing semicolon or closing parenthesis that's causing the problem, you're not a programmer

These crocus blooms are the first of the year in my garden. A dainty promise of beauty to come.

alright its time for another one page rpg, so here is Gay Hockey Dragon Sex Coffee Shop Romantic Sportsball Cozy Dark Fantasy which I feel covers all my bases pretty neatly

Maunder [MAWN-der] (v.) - 1. To mumble, or grumble; to speak indistinctly; to talk incoherently; to wander in talking. 2. To beg alms. (n.) - A beggar. Used in a sentence: “He had a rare talent for maundering at great length while conveying, with admirable consistency, nothing of consequence.”

Joy, hope, and positivity can sound like soft words for hard times. They do not erase pain, and they do not deny danger. Instead, they help people endure, adapt, and continue to act when circumstances would otherwise overwhelm the body and the mind. gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/loosen-the...

The atmosphere layers of central Ontario in pop culture

In case you missed it, we published this on Sunday, by guest writer Dana Blankenhorn: Cloud Czars Treat Open Source Like They Do California - FOSS Force buff.ly/J2DP1mx

Lower and upper case #cat.

Red squirrels are gorgeous creatures, especially when highlighted by bright sunshine.

IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display "The source of 80-column lines is clearly punch cards, as commonly claimed. But why 24 or 25 lines?"