The Artemis II flyby was not just a super cool jaunt around the moon! It was a test flight that’s part of a larger, extremely nationalist, plan to militarize and colonize the moon for AMERICAN interests It is NOT “For All Mankind“ And everyone who makes fun of someone who asks the question:

Does this post frame the issue in the ways that I’d like? Not especially. But it wouldn’t hurt Americans to interrogate the foundational belief that Americans get to make decisions about the solar system without democratic, global input and to situate the story in context: plans for moon dominance 🧪

What’s shitty about the discourse about this post both on Threads and here is that there are genuine concerns about colonialism with respect to the moon, including for example: www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/w... 🧪🌔🔭

LRT - "sleepwalking" is not how I would describe this, tbh

FIFA might be sleepwalking into a shitshow and, honestly, couldn’t happen to a nicer group of folks.

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movies used to have Tom Hanks yelling in them

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

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And there it is. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Tiptoes (2003) -- watch the trailer on YouTube without googling anything about it, and I promise you the film is a hundred times worse

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

hahahahaha I have finite opportunities to use this, someone kill me

aw how nice

Liverpool are having this kind of season and they insist upon giving us Jim Beglin on commentary, insult upon injury

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was just thinking about same sized robes 😭

I'm guessing most of the movie takes place in a hospital

Artemis II’s New Views of the Moon Gift link: fantastic photo journal of the entire mission

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Today I texted a friend that it's good we sent humans to space because it was a necessary reminder that "there are some things a machine can’t do and can never do, and that’s captivate everyone with humanity and friendship" I'm not sorry for being extremely corny

I'm moonscrolling

Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds. #ArtemisII

one day I will get something from a Hieronymus Bosch painting, I just haven't decided on which weird little guy

Andy Robertson is an era defining human being who transformed the ethos and soul of his team to match the spirit and identity of Liverpool the city and Liverpool the people. We will miss Mo's production a ton but we may miss Andy's personification of what it means to play for this club even more.

oh I see, I am just meant to accept Robbo leaving, fine, fine, everything is fine

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

This is catastrophic.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Anyway, thinking something like this?

The Hodge Era is the only other time for me and that’s wild to say about a team that won the league last season

I've chosen to be at the baseball game instead of watching Liverpool, and maybe I'll get some ice cream in a little baseball helmet later.

picturing the room in my grandmother's house we dubbed "The Holy Room" as children

Thatcher started burning in hell 13 years ago today. 🎉

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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I think my parents have a print of this one.

ohhh we've got some stone-cold stunners, folks images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

position player pitching AND he's normally a catcher??? I love this for me

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

omg someone marry me here

This is: 1. Deeply moving. 2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV. Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

this isn't terrifying at all

this Dodgers vs Jays game is going to end with position players pitching for the Jays, isn't it