We know that Godzilla isn’t real because if he was, he would have attacked America

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

They are doing so much so fast, betting that by the time we process one outrage we'll be reeling from the next too much to follow up on the first. And that works in the very short term, but eventually people begin to clock the atrocities and register the horror of it all.

one thing that pisses me off most about the 21st century is that, especially now, is that the system could easily be set up to where most of us just have all the taxes we owe taken out automatically, and everyone else just gets a letter telling them what they owe. this matters more than you'd think

All McConnell had to do was whip people to convict on Jan 6th and this wouldn't be happening

Do watch @nikobowie.bsky.social telling lawmakers today that "regulating the Court is not just legitimate — it is your duty."

Yeah this is intentional, they know they haven’t suffered the way Native American people have, this and the comparison to reparations is pretty much intentional trolling by the highest levels of the federal government.

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Man, this is so true. I grew up in White Evangelical spaces. After Roe was overturned, I called in to NPR to state that the people who had spent 50 years laying the groundwork for this were just getting started. Everyone on the call treated me like I was crazy.

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

The appeal of righteous violence as a spectacle draws away the necessary attention from building systems of care, or justice, basically.

Oof. I'm both, but this definitely hits. The punishment is where I gravitate. Going to be sitting with that...

And let's be clear: I do not want Trump assassinated. I want him impeached, removed, tried, renditioned to the Hague, tried again, and forced to take responsibility for his many crimes against individuals, groups, the nation, and the world.

magic is not magic to magicians

Just watched a video of Andy Weir describing neutrinos and he says they quantum tunnel through pretty much everything and I don’t feel this is an appropriate use of ”quantum tunneling” Anyway why ask a woman physicist when you can ask a dude novelist

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... 🧪🌔🔭

Honestly you know why that image upsets some evangelicals...they are realizing the man that they worship actually might also be the dude they kept warning us about

People often posit that the future is dependent on what we do today. And that may be the case. But I am thinking more and more that what we do today actually depends on our image of the future. When I apply this to our current library fight, this crystallizes.

Fuck Eric Swalwell, fuck Al Franken, nobody is entitled to women’s bodies and nobody is entitled to a seat in the federal legislature. It’s not fucking television, you don’t get to skate for a few seasons because you have such dedicated fans

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would defeat whoever they have coming

Trying to find the way to delineate “ I don’t care what happens to you” With “ Everything you are describing as unacceptable and unimaginable for maybe two years , has been happening to me specifically for 41 years and my communities at large for 500”

OMFG. This is now on the FAA online job application form - for all positions including air traffic controllers!

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

Erin is telling the truth.

Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.   Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

Accurate quote. Unexpected source.

Astronauts should follow their religion practices and express their faith on their own but they sure as shit shouldn’t be dominating their educational messaging with talk of the resurrection and proselytizing when tax payers of every religion are paying their salaries and listening to their messages

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

And most of it starts in America for the North never holding the South responsible from the Civil war

The headline HAS to do the work of helping the reader understand that Artemis is not categorized as “science” by NASA. It’s a completely different part of the agency. Casual readers who are not policy wonks won’t know the difference. Won’t ask why Artemis is being sustained but not astrophysics

Pee-Wes’s Big Adventure is a very good movie

"what if you could use more than 10% of your brain" so you want to have to actively think about breathing so you don't die wow you must be having a good time

I usually don't go off like this but I just need to say something. Many of us have been trying to tell y'all about this Christian nationalism and all of this religiosity in the Trump administration for damn near a decade.

If you are writing an email to me at 12:50 est on Easter Sunday to comment about this administrations Easter messages by 3:00...you obviously have not looked at my picture nor do you know what Black folks do on Easter Sunday.

The thing about Disney Adults is that they are not fans of the movies, really, they are fans of the Disney corporate brand. Enjoying Beauty and the Beast as an adult is not the same as being a Disney Adult. Whereas people who are fans of Ghibli are fans of the films of studio ghibli

Co-sign. If you like good novels, if you like good space race novels, and especially if you ever liked For All Mankind, as @sepinwall.bsky.social said, you neeeeed to read the Lady Astronaut books. I love em, for all sorts of reasons, esp for the unexpected character arcs 💫 🚀

*movie trailer guy voice*

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Everyone acting like this is new … there were schools in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and committed massacres repeatedly in Vietnam and against Native folks plus pretty much everything they did in Latin America in the 20th century … the list goes on

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

My resignation letter

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

We are tracking #Artemis II with the historic Dwingeloo radio telescope. In the doppler shift of the carrier signal we see the manual manoevers that the astronauts perform while flying formation with the upper stage.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

We should do more sick space stuff plus fully fund a robust social welfare system we got two hands