A good friend of mine works at NASA, and has spent the last TEN years of his life working on the Orion CPAS (Capsule Parachute Assembly System), testing it in the deserts of Arizona. Ten years of design & testing. For this moment. Science is so good, y'all.

Went a little overboard with the violets this year. Violet honey, violet syrup, violet sugar, and homemade Parma Violets candy.

being a guy in a mostly woman office environment is the greatest gig in human history if they can just get over the "treat them like people" hurdle

Aw hell. This one made me tear up.

Sincerely… NASA couldn’t have chosen a better team of people for this mission. They have been a bright light in the shadowy time here. It’s been a joy to watch. #nasa #artemisii

Easter breakfast redone as Tuesday dinner due to a sick person on Sunday. My MIL makes delicious Polish white borscht, with separate bowls for blessed and unblessed items. I especially love the horseradish.

It’s the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month.

Joined a full house at Lansing’s makerspace tonight and had fun making a hideous ornament for a coworker’s retirement card. Trying to get back to my real outside-the-office life.

I’m the neighborhood weirdo outside picking violets in the rain and almost dark to make violet sugar. There are so many!

Still a few spots left to spin molten silver into a pretty thing. #lovelansing

Kakapo, a critically endangered parrot species that can be found only in New Zealand, are mating at a record pace this year, making the most of one of the best bumper crops in decades of the fruit from coniferous rimu trees, according to scientists. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/s...

Nice to go for a walk in the sunshine and run into some friends today in Lansing, Michigan.

hot damn, this is fantastic writing

I have literally no idea what beliefs this man holds besides “I should be President”

It's been a long week. You made it. Have some bear cubs. #katmai

You just don't understand the very nuanced and complex dynamics of the situation, ok. It's very complicated. It's not so simple. It's a very complex situation. We need to stop virtue-signalling and start thinking about the hard choices. We can't just do what makes us feel good, ok? It's very nuanced

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The Cut, a mag focused on fashion editorials and entertainment, published a guide to assisting MN during ICE raids: signposting to fundraisers, supporting volunteering for school and grocery runs, legal observer training. Immigrants are “sheltering in place”. Those events should shock us more

Suleiman Ghawanmeh's village of Ras Ein al-Auja in the occupied West Bank has now been erased – emptied of its Palestinian residents after a years-long campaign of relentless settler harassment that has intensified over the past two years. edition.cnn.com/world/middle...

I, who have never shown any interest in your products or the type of products you sell, declare that I am going to never again buy your products, because I am angry that you said things that conflict factually with my favorite propaganda sources.

I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism I can still hear the crickets

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

I'm staying up past midnight on the 31st not to see 2026 in but to watch 2025 die.

It is the annual Making Of The Soup. If you want to feed some folks sleeping rough, I got me two hundred takeout quart containers. And a metric fuckton of tomatoes. And a Vitamix. Chip in: Venmo linda-tirado-3 PayPal [email protected] Chime $linda-tirado-3 Happy Christmas to every one

The RPG Megabundle is back for only 2 days. Pay $40 or more for 57 products from a gamut of game publishers. Games represented include Green Ronin's Modern AGE, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Cypher System, Avatar, Dragonbane, GI Joe, Cyberpunk, and more. Dig it! www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-b...

bitch, what?

Chuck Schumer is either allowing eight of his colleagues to be the sin eaters who take the blame for passing this shutdown deal, or he’s genuinely powerless to hold his conference together. Either way, he should be out of leadership tomorrow morning.

I’m in Tokyo (!) and just spotted Zohran Mamdani on the Shinjuku giant cat billboard. Good job to folks back home!

Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns. Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com Please share widely!

Office policies at my last place of work: Theft: You may steal up to $3/week. More than that, you have to tell someone before you take it. Dress Code: During business hours, you must wear a shirt. Conduct: No having sex in the Boss’ office. Not fucking kidding.

And international leaders keep talking about a ceasefire being in effect.

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

“I’m mostly tired of expecting the world to end this,” Malek texts me from his tent encampment in Khan Younis. “I need to sleep. I have to wake up early to go look for food.” mondoweiss.net/2025/08/star...

Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse. (Any excuse to share Bloodywood.)

Street art edition

I couldn’t decide which was funnier tonight, a grasshopper jump scaring me or catching a couple in the act, but I was just picking arugula leaves in the near dark when a raccoon came around the corner and we were almost face to face before it took off. I’m not sure which of us was more startled! 🌱

Another Flint mural. This is by Kevin Burdick/Scraps Design and is in the alley next to the Capitol Theatre, one of my very favorite places.

Set up for Dragon Con 2025 Booth 2802. Woohoo! We are ready for you to visit, peruse and chat as is your wont. Can’t wait to see you all!

My kitchen has become endless ever-changing piles of drying herbs and flowers, especially for salts and teas. Cookie sheets in the stove, cutting boards layered on pans, half-filled jars everywhere. It smells wonderful. 🌱🍜

The Wright Flyer was a sucky airplane too

They should have called this Save vs. Death. #GenCon

Last day of Gen Con 2025. I got to meet and talk with so many cool people. So much fun. Thanks all so much! If you have the energy and time, stop by the Gamer Concepts booth 1317. We may have something you might like.

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:

Getting crafty at Scrapfest in Lansing’s Old Town! The Makerspace booth has diy patches based on an artwork made by members.

Remember tonight: reactormag.com/read-a-new-m...

We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...

The only political split that matters - feed everyone on the off chance one person is hungry, or feed no one on the off chance someone undeserving might get fed