But also, this one. Specifically.

NASA will announce the crew of Artemis III on Tuesday, June 9. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Excellent use of free will.

I understand the whole "people who are not millionaires vote against taxing billionaires because they think they might, too, be rich someday" phenomenon but when is someone finally going to run a campaign on "but these rich guys are *the actual reason* you're not a millionaire"

AI as the averagest conglomeration of all modern human words is honestly a great way to think about it. When you need the most aggressively middle, (generative) AI. When you need something actually smart: human brains. (I'm with Jeremy in agreeing the resources to get that AI are not worth it.)

Funding science education projects, while paying local artists for their work, while making you all look cool as hell in marine biology shirts, is shrimply the best way to make good stuff happen. At least I think so. Speaking of which... Have you seen our latest shirt?? SquidFacts.net

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

The universe possesses unimaginable, terrifying power - supernovae, black holes, and magnetars. Incomprehensible energy and distance - spacetime, nebulae, quantum foam, galaxies and dark matter - and then it went.... ...yes but also how about bunnies.

I was closing the window while telling my cat Tinsel “You’re such a pretty girl” *right* as a man was walking past the window. He made an (understandably) bewildered facial expression. You too, bro, you’re a pretty girl too. You and my ancient cat Tinsel both.

It's hugely frustrating when the first thing so many people say about my fabulous coat is that I should sell them. Not everything should be monetized. I put 8 months of weekends into this because it's fun and cool and I got an amazing coat out of it. Eight months of weekends for money? Lol. No.

There are so many good birds in the world.

Weird things MCAS has made me do, #57: Ask in the community facebook group if anyone has a raw piece of Honduran Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) that I can sniff.

We don't normally print our merch on kid sizes, because more options makes it a bit more challenging, but we thought for this one we probably should. The print size minimum is 36 shirts, so if you've got a kid in your life that would look cool in a shrimp shirt, get over to SquidFacts.net

The best stock photo sources these days are very specific people who take photos of very specific things. This guy takes pictures of trains. All trains all the time. Only trains. Do I have to worry that one of these photos is AI? Nope. He would never disrespect a real train in that way.

When people are like "I hate the government" but the government also does this. (Daily reminder that "government" is like saying "transportation". Big category.) (Some departments actually do their job and do them well. The politicians are just the annoyingest part of governments.)

Our expectation I that you would only become a werewolf only when in view of the full Moon. We use a combination of mitigations - limiting launch opportunities to days when we’ll approach from the side, window shades when & special sunglasses during transit.

Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

I’ve spent my entire career working in collaboration with people around the world exploring space. Whether it’s been the Japanese, Europeans, Russians, or others, we’re all just people who’ve shared common goals & dreams. Time after time, we prove we can always achieve more working together.

Sooo anyways this is more than the cost of the entire ISS over 25 years. (And that includes the cost of each Shuttle mission to get the parts up there.)

Switched to Duck Duck Go and Ecosia on different browsers because I'm done with google as a search engine.

At 0:50 we get Rise's first interview question! youtu.be/fFx1GqOFHUU?...

Sometimes the bus doesn’t come when it’s supposed to and you’re like “shit I guess I’m walking home” then you start to walk along the river and get treated to this

Plus-Size Pattern Making for Womenswear by Gabby Brown and Leila Kelleher I saw an Instagram story about it and IMMEDIATELY went and bought the book. I am not the type to impulse buy, but this book fills a space that had NO books in it yet, and I'd been wanting something like this for years.

Oh! What an enchanting idea!

Can't stop looking at this picture, it's got so much going on compositionally. The diagonals. The cats in different poses. The sidewalk lines echoing the blue leash. The fourth cat I only noticed after three solid minutes. The way the green bushes make a line perfectly continued by the conifer.

Mount Saint Helens erupted on this day 46 years ago. John "Jack" V. Christianson took these photos from Mt. Adams, 54 km to the east, as his friend reacted to the eruption—really, the wholesale collapse of the volcano—at 8:32 am on 18 May 1980. Imagine what this must have been like to witness.

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

"People everywhere are picking up the mantle of collective resistance....Educators and students are pressuring their institutions. Victims and their families are suing. Tech employees themselves are campaigning. Group chats for more organizing abound. People are marching." - @karenhao.bsky.social

Please enjoy

Eggs, toast, orange juice, fruit, fruit, fruit, fruit

dear rest of the world. do you have pobblebonk-alikes out in rural spots? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYJE...

Yesterday when I was selling native plants in front of my house 3 handsome young men (early 30s) came by. "You boys like bugs?", I said to them. They fucking loved that. Write that down in your notebooks. You might need that data for later.

Bug’s eye view

Gotta say it’s a bit on the nose to have a ship full of wealthy white people and an outbreak that’s actually been controlled dominate global media while a major Ebola outbreak in DRC with cross boarder spread is going unnoticed. www.npr.org/2026/05/16/g...

Car bloat is really alarming. Yes, that’s a bigass Volvo in front of the MG, but the car behind it is a FUCKING MINI.

Annoyed at people for not doing advanced level reading comprehension, and annoyed at myself for expecting people on the internet to do advanced level reading comprehension.

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

When people in the historical costuming/historybounding community are like "Don't order from Sense and Sensibility patterns! The owner is far-right!" Yeah I know I was reading her Ladies Against Feminism blog at age 14. (Yes, that really is the blog name.)

Once again pondering how if I'd had Historybounding and known about asexuality as a teen, I probably wouldn't have gone fundie. It was the dresses and the romance of courtship that got me into far-right ideology.

Look I didn't have the words for asexuality but in hindsight compulsively re-reading Before You Meet Prince Charming (all about romance, no mention of sex) was a big clue. Yeahhhhhh. Purity culture was my queer awakening.

Today at his birthday party my son received a wonderful handmade card from a friend who is learning to write. Drawing on 1 Corinthians 13 (recently memorized in church), it read, "Lov is kind. It dos not n v. It is not erogant or rood. I AM SERIUZ." 10/10, no notes, updating email signature now.

I want to repost this one million times

Getting more and more convinced that MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) and MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) are the same thing, MCS just has a more "alt medicine" flavour to it.

Woke up too late. Wheee Nortriptyline hangover time!

Great time to have just bought a case of almonds from our bulk food co-op. 🤦

Think I'm dealing with Oral Allergy Syndrome (unsure how this dovetails with my MCAS), my body has started HATING almonds with a passion when I've been reacting to The Outside. It was perfectly chill with almonds before the trees started blooming.

THEY GOT A PEACE TOWER FLAG!?! (There's a 100+ YEARS waiting list for one of those.) youtu.be/jrVTJ5io6Ko?...

The correct director for an Odyssey adaptation is Taika Watiti. I will not be explaining any further.

Hey BlueSky peeps, what's the best way to find and reach out to someone who studies chemistry (specifically around fragrances, bonus points for interactions of fragrances/VOCs and materials)? What hashtags should I use? Know any universities to start at? Please share! #science #chemistry