she's a 10 but her swimming goggles don't fit right so the raccoon eyes last for a solid day.

I managed to tell @astrokatie.com something she did not already know, which is that the Integrity crew did not get to go straight to bed but instead had to do a lil obstacle course to see how freshly landed astronauts would escape the capsule, in, like, woods and she was like WHO APPROVED THIS. WHY

ACAB includes the guy in The Wicker Man.

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

“.. It's very alarming, and it's probably the single largest natural resource issue of our time.” @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

"the white flight control room" 😬

I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest: defector.com/the-trump-ad...

these motherfuckers said it would splashdown at 8:07 and it splashed down at 8:07. after going to the fucking moon. fucking a man. god damn

how badly do those astronauts need to pee tho

I'm moonscrolling

on one monitor, cellular-level views of trees whose rings I'm painstakingly measuring. on another, the dream of NASA.

This is why NASA is a thing. SpaceX could never.

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

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like anything based on doing shots, picklebacks are a waste of good whiskey - what's better is making a little whiskey + brine cocktail and enjoying slowly.

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

really excited for all the Minnesotans learning about bathhouses for the first time ever this week.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

If you’re looking for a bellwether mayoral election to read tea leaves about the 2026 midterms, this one very likely tells you far more than that other one that has dominated the deeply parochial National Conversation™️ from the Coastal Elites over the last 6 months 👀

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

also one time I was doing my local journalism job in Madison circa the recall movement and got asked if I was *that* Chris Taylor so I think this means I'm a judge now.

I remember a decade ago when Scott Walker had taken the Wisconsin Supreme Court and insured a red Wisconsin for the rest of our lifetimes. We can still turn things around, we can still make the America we want for everyone.

it would be pretty great if Robin Vos and Scott Walker both faded into the ether of retirement having accomplished essentially nothing lasting (except for all the people they hurt since 2010 ofc)

"I can not believe America has becom--" bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.

. @ziibiing.com created the Stand With Minnesota page that literally kept thousands of people in their homes during Occupation Metro Surge in Minnesota. It’s the kind of thing that should be rewarded, so help spread the word.

I love whatever journey @charlieberens.bsky.social has been on this year / anyway if you're in Wisconsin or Minnesota, here's a funny guy with your accent with an important message about local government and civic engagement.

every task I have to do today relies on the existence of a generally desirable future, ecological and human, which is an imaginative space I will gladly inhabit in the absence of more useful alternatives.

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

For non-scientists, LTER programs run for decades, so scientists can learn how ecosystems change over time. These programs cover ecology, evolution, systems biology, and it includes animals, plants, even microbes, and more. We learned so much about how our world works with LTERs. This sucks :(

the local sex shop continues to do more to keep impacted families in their homes than anything the mayor has done since the beginning of the surge

“pivot away from newspaper-focused history” is a distressing string of words to read about the associated press. this will have catastrophic impacts on the access of high-quality reporting across the country.

clear skies finally, only now moonrise is at midnight and we all know the queers are very sleepy

hard to miss NYC** when your Midwest apartment is ALSO 80 degrees in winter* unless you open several windows. *highs in the 30s in MSP today, this counts. **however do miss how well NYCers navigate grocery stores, as exhausting as it is to be perpetually aware of every other body in a space.

this video made me cry without the sound even being on, so I guess the billionaires haven't completely ruined space for me.

‘The Chinese government statement said the death "calls into question once again the impact and legitimacy of unwarranted U.S. interrogation and harassment targeting Chinese researchers and students."‘ www.freep.com/story/news/e...

FYI if you are outside the Twin Cities and want to come visit and support local businesses and also get a view of Minneapolis at its best, you should come for the Mayday parade on Sunday, May 3 Beautifully chaotic, endlessly artistic. Huge puppets. Amazing dance groups. Steampunk contraptions.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

anyway, Longlegs was a fun watch but had too much going on.

the joy of having access to an academic library, the horror of the temptation to read random papers about your shower thoughts when there's so much else to get done.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

can't stop thinking about how I was at a hockey game talking about the very specific bluesky "It happening" discourse and that one McSweeney's article & a woman in front of us turned around and was like, I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. thankfully this was not the beginning of a fight.

I’m thrilled that the Guardian Saturday magazine has excerpted one of my favourite chapters from THE ASSET CLASS this weekend: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Now that you know the H*rry P*tt*r creator is a transphobic bigot, what will you do? - defector.com/its-time-to-... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @cherylmorgan.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com

the fact that Minneapolis has been overcast (when not downpouring) every night since Artemis launched is (say it with me) homophobic.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

anyway, the Forest Service stuff is bad but so is the myth of wilderness that the forest service was established to protect.