The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

wow, photo of the perp:

“Everybody thinks.” “We don’t,” shouted the Lethargarians all at once. “And most of the time you don’t,” said a yellow one sitting in a daffodil. “That’s why you’re here. You weren’t thinking, and you weren’t paying attention either. People who don’t pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.”

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Since it apparently needs to be explained again honey dears: this is all just a DISTRACTION! It is a play of MERE APPEARANCES over ESSENTIAL FORMS! We are SUPPOSED to be spending our NIGHTMARISH LIVES contemplating GNOSIS!

logging on

Some stars/planets identified

One thing I noticed about this astonishing #artemisii photo of a solar eclipse — it’s the first photo I’ve seen from the Nikon Z9, which means an enormous 8,256 by 5,504 pixels. 😍 There’s some noise at 100%, understandable given the extreme lighting! www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

have stayed numb watching others post about artemis but wow this eclipse photo is sending me. gallery with hi-res: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

inventing red toryism but for americans

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Michel Simeon, 1967

Gustave Baumann, Early Spring, woodcut, c.1916

Plus ça change...

미국은 교육을 권리로 제공하는 것이 아니라 초고가 사치품으로 팔면서 외국인 소비자가 사 간다고 뭐라고 하네.

The Alchemist

The now defunct head part of a sentry. The last image shows how it's eyes would have looked while still operational

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

should never have smoked that shit that the plant genetic engineers gave me

And here is where the story of comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) ends, disintegrating at perihelion as it grazes the Sun. Animation based on images from the LASCO C2 coronagraph aboard the SOHO spacecraft on April 4, 2026. #astronomy #comets #MAPS

Today we celebrate Him

Festoon of shells, 1656. Proving for all time that still-life painting can be hilarious. By Jan van Kessel of Antwerp, born OTD 1626.

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

Chainmail with rings stamped with the names of Mohammed and the first five imams of Shi'a Islam, Iran, ca. 1500 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

we need to start treating shitposting like intangible cultural heritage, provide stipends to masters of the craft and funding for apprenticeships

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

They say the Easter Bunny brings Easter eggs, but they don't tell you where the eggs come from. The Easter Bunny don't lay 'em, obviously that's not possible, even with computers. What I'm sayin' is,

My processed image of the JWST observation of Sharpless 305, a star-forming region inside our Milky Way! 🔭 This emission nebula is located ~14,000 light-years away, with several dozens of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) having been discovered inside this nebula. HD: flic.kr/p/2s5qkHF

Watcher in the Field, 2024

Easter bunny resting 🐰 A #Roman samian ware bowl depicting a rabbit eating a dandelion. Found in Eschenz/Switzerland. 📷 AATG, Daniel Steiner 🏺

Knoll of Visions by Jean Dubuffet, 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137526

Ravello III https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938288

Squirrels in a plane tree by Abu al-Hasan (1589 – c. 1630), Mughal India

Snow https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938472

Northern Lights Tom Thomson 1916

Minneapolis, Minnesota Population: 2,977,172 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis,_Minnesota

"surprise me" commission

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate bees.#JacobinDay More information on bees

good, we could use a bit more intra-christian hostility to crack up the christofascist coalition

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake by artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, born on this day in 1647.

It's not that exploration is fine until it affects people. It's that the logic that drives a particular sort of exploration often cannot help but look at land *and the people in it* as a resource to be exploited. Could be that there might be a better way to think about exploration.

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes AI?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists. www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

Yeah that’s cool

#GeorgesSeurat A Man Leaning on a Parapet (1881)