Gonna go rewatch the highlights from the Artemis mission and disassociate with some Moon Joy for a bit.

Come on then, and remove him.

Gen X kids settling back into that familiar Living Under the Threat of Global Thermonuclear War ennui like we never left.

#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. 🚀🌕🌍

What's the word for when you fall in love with the moon and with people and with hope and with wonder?

😭 he chose a bright spot his kids can see from earth sometimes to name after his wife.

🎶 fly me to the moon, Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter or Mars🎶

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

I've had the Artemis II launch Livestream on my 2nd monitor all afternoon. Excited to hear all of the "go"s. Space will never not be cool.

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

I enjoy the general silliness of April 1st. A local county posted that they're going to be opening a new constable precinct inside a Buccees. That's good wholesome fun. A sensible chuckle if you will.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Having a quick wade into the HP/JKR discourse: my kids were my excuse to read her books. I read to them every night at bedtime (I read them other books, too), and when they began making films I took them to watch. When they'd come visit, we'd do a marathon of those movies.

French geese go "honque."

Me singing "baked goods! Right out of the oven!" Over and over while slathering butter on a hot muffin and my son is desperately trying to gather up the threads of what sanity he can muster for today. He will put up with his mom making up dumb songs for every occasion if there are also muffins.

we have saved daylight but at what cost

Election day is NOT the day to send text reminders for anything. All incoming texts are getting auto-archived by me today.

Keeping a running list in my head of co-workers ages so I know which ones will appreciate a quick thumbs up ack in teams and which will be mightily offended by it.

Thinking this morning of my friend Rana, describing in detail the terror she felt as a small child with Iraqi bombs falling around her before her family left Iran for Sweden. Thinking also of the small children in Iran, terrorized now by American bombs. I feel equal parts rage and shame.

Love my new refrigerator, but one of the freezer drawers screams when you open it.

TEXAS: early voting starts today!

I voted for James to represent me in the Texas house and he did an amazing uphill job there. I'll gladly vote for him to represent me in the US Senate.

Y'all remember hatt-baby?

Bro2's car has been sitting in the driveway for a couple of years now, with its tires deflated. He used to borrow my car to get to work when he was still working. The HOA has been sending me messages recently about his car (this is a new thing) so instead of fixing my car (after his accident in it)

Somewhere in Germany, Nena is looking directly into a camera

We're getting a new refrigerator delivered today. The 4 hour window starts in 25 minutes and I'm sick but none of the 3 adult men who live in my house will help me get the contents of the old fridge moved to coolers. And I can't reach the stuff on top of the fridge.

Lots of debate about what the proper gateway text to science fiction is, so I'm dropping the answer below www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bhat...

Y'all, I have never had a reply escape containment before. Usually it's just like 4 of my moots. But people have Big Feeling right now. And that is ok. If yelling at me about things I didn't actually say makes them feel a little better, ok.

Y'all I live with my brothers and an adult son and I've been asking them to please find jobs for a while (but it's rough out there)& joked "as long as you don't work for ICE bc then you'll have to find somewhere else to live" Son1 got really serious & said "I could never hurt people for money"

Me and @fynralyl.bsky.social were originally going to go see LOTR extended editions in the theaters this weekend but with the weather the way it is, we're watching at home. With snacks, and cozy slippers, and dog snuggles.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, it's magic."

Food and water has been stocked up, power banks and emergency lanterns charged. I've downloaded a couple of audiobooks on my tablets & now I'm waiting for my sister to get here ahead of the storm to spend the weekend with me.

Being the safe person in the family for people to confess their suicidal thoughts to has a very unique mental load.

Woke computers have pronouns in BIOS

Shout out to the top 5 goods in the world. It's all, up to no, finger lickin', Johnny B, and Renee.

That one time the crew of the Enterprise got back to our galaxy using literally thoughts and prayers.

I love Beam Paints! And their sparkly colors use mica that is mined without child labor!

When the World is burning, doing my silly little hobbies intensifies. I'm calling this my Dragon Hoard wrap bracelet (named by my sister @fynralyl.bsky.social ) and the connector & crystal beads all came from Green Girl Studios

Having to reassure an elderly dog after they had an accident that yes, they are still the goodest girl. Goodest girl tax:

Made some NYE banana bread. Happy New Year everyone!

When someone else feeds Natalie she always noses her dish when I go out to refill my drink like "please mother I'm dying of starbation" even though she ate a whole bowl of food like 20 minutes prior. I'm not falling for that.

My work laptop is about 7 years old so some of the keys are a little iffy now. My question mark is broken so now I sound really terse.

Technically, ‘should of’ is ‘should have,’ but we’re all about showing grace in the new year.

Bro2 needed new headphones so I'm not able to order some for my stepdad. I hope he's ok with some arriving a bit late. Son1 asked for a sunrise alarm clock so that was his Christmas gift. Bro1 didn't ask for anything. I got to spend this last weekend with my sister and that was enough for me.

Usually USPS packages sent to me go to Dallas first and then Austin. One package's tracking showed it left Dallas and just got scanned at a post office in Aurora CO.

No One Wants more Gaston No one cares bout Gaston No one needs narcissist origin tales of Gaston

The girls still don't know how to read English so I'm still reading them their fortunes.