learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

On the one hand, check in at this hotel is at 4 PM (it’s 2 PM), and I’m paying with a gift certificate. On the other hand, someone has been “cleaning our room” for over an hour and I have a 3 yo who wants to go to the pool. Like, it should be ready at this point.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Imagine if we actually funded the sciences and humanities.

Eternal shame on every journalist, pundit, politician, and business leader who failed to denounce this man as a miserable racist when it could have stopped him and STILL fail to denounce him now. You suck and you failed us all.

That we have to endure even another minute of this disgraceful man in office is to the shame of every single member of Congress. That they are not screaming for impeachment is utterly humiliating for the United States.

As a reminder, unless it’s your job, you don’t have to watch Trump spew unhinged bile. There are a million better things to do. Like a root canal.

sorry have to add my favorite one

If we end up having to suffer another three years of this gangster regime, I hope Trump lives exactly long enough to see his name stripped off every institution he's tainted with it.

Today is the first night of Passover. So my office is having an Easter egg hunt (which, fine, whatever, my mom is catholic and my dad is Jewish so I grew up with both, but also, at least the “holiday party” pays lip service to other holidays). (Also, TJs had no Passover stuff last weekend)

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

It's much better that this is happening than not happening, of course, but also, it's frustrating to live in a nation where this keeps happening - Bush ended up here too, and you could avoid it by NOT ELECTING REPUBLICANS A SECOND TIME

Also, why should I care what Cuellar thinks? He was indicted on bribery charges and shouldn't even be in the House anymore. Just do the right thing and impeach all these fuckers.

Oh, good, an April 1 job rejection, compounding an already shitty week. Thanks, assholes, guess I'll be stuck in my awful job til I die.

People can stay mad at me for saying this but if I drive in a circle around a place, I did not actually go to that place. I drove around it. And it’s an odd bit to say people are going to the moon. And it’s definitely propaganda! Don’t participate! We don’t need to lie about it! It’s a flyby! 🔭

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NEW: The U.S. Postal Service is proposing to change its standards to allow the mailing of handguns, which is banned by a federal law that the Trump administration says it will not enforce because it finds the law to be unconstitutional. USPS is facing a lawsuit by a gun rights group over the ban

“Trump…officials and others close to the White House told my Zeteo colleague, Asawin “Swin” Suebsaeng, that no matter what the president and his goons say, the war is rotting them from within. “However poorly you think the war is going, it is worse,” one senior administration official said…

No April Fool's joke will outdo the ridiculousness of the federal government's arguments on birthright citizenship - which they'll air in about an hour at SCOTUS.

these are exactly the stakes! embracing trump’s view would be embracing the cramped vision of freedom and belonging that we fought a civil war to banish to the ash heap of history

Reading various headlines and once again I wonder, why on earth aren't the democrats in the house filing impeachment articles every damn day? "I won't be here" when the debt blows up? "However bad you think the war is going, it's worse?" JFC.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

You shouldn’t have to move every 2-3 years to random places you don’t want to live in to show that you’re a good scientist. Prized postdocs should not be the be-all, end-all of academic success, especially when they are so rare.

I actually did quit and do something more lucrative, but I hate it and it’s intellectually bereft of any redeeming qualities except the money. But alas.

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

I'm seeing a lot of people trying to justify Kagan's concurrence in the conversion therapy case, and for the most part they're making the same mistake that Kagan herself is making. They're forgetting that the GOP justices DO NOT GIVE ONE SHIT about intellectual consistency.

Supreme Court legalizes torture.

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Not sure I’d read a book on Catholicism by a guy who keeps getting personally called out by the Vatican for not understanding Catholicism.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

Nothing says “support the troops” like kidnapping their family while also starting a pointless war.

Not to be cynical, but I do worry there's going to be a problem in like... two decades where younger generations aren't going to be experts in fields. They'll just be experts in asking AI to do the thinking for them, and that's problematic and also continues to give Big Tech too much power.

"J-pilled" is a very specific term that means "pilled on the Jewish Question" and refers exclusively to people who believe in antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish control over world affairs glossing it as "skepticism of Israeli influence" is like calling blood libel "concerns about diet"

An absolutely excellent analysis of how dangerous outsourcing your thinking is for early career researchers in astronomy. 🔭☄️

my son is 2. there must be a reckoning for this

It's pretty funny (haha!) that so many pro-Palestinian voices took care to delineate between Israel/Bibi and the Jewish people writ large and were deemed by the NYT to be insufficiently careful. And the CPAC crowd does the opposite and gets a free, pleasant whitewash for their troubles.

Absolutely wild that NYT would define "J-pilled" as "(far-right slang for skepticism of Israeli influence)" and not ask themselves what the "J" stands for when coming up with said definition to print in the paper.

Saturday at no kings I was chatting with a woman who splits her time between ME and CA. She said her indivisible group was supporting Platner. I was shocked. I was with my dad so I didn’t want to get into it with her, but it was deeply concerning.

I have seen signs pop up all over my neighborhood for this man, a person I had never heard of until I saw the first sign. Now he’s everywhere. I guess he’s spending a lot? I should get a sign for either Huang or Raman, I haven’t decided. Also, Mejilla for Controller.

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

It’s not aliens.

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

people should reflect on their politics and morality allowing them to do nothing but complain about the people who are trying. how convenient that every movement is not enough and you can sit at home and compile tweets. adding another stranger to the list of not good enough.