This is so cool. Thank you, @astrokatie.com for such a great vid and explanation 👏🙏 #ArtemisII

YES

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I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Just started Week 5 post hip replacement and I've been painkiller free for 4 days now (yay). We should never take walking normally and pain free for granted. It's a privilege every day. I'll never not be grateful for it, each and every day.

it's been a hot minute, Bluesky... I had hip replacement surgery on my right hip two weeks ago and just got home from rehab yesterday. Recovering at home for the next few weeks. Doing very well so far. Went from a walking frame to one crutch on Day 4. Started walking without the crutch on Day 7

Listening to Kate Bush is better for my anxiety than breathing exercises ever could be. I love and appreciate her so much

Booked in to have my hip replacement surgery in September. Navigating the logistics of ensuring good respite care for mum and equally good care for my cat babies while I'm in hospital and early rehab phase has been exhausting. My anxiety: "This is what I'm made for" 🤦‍♀️

So I was right...the pain I've had in my hamstring for the past four weeks is a hamstring strain lol. It's really messed up my training in the last month but i have a plan to move forward and allow me to train without aggravating it. Praying it will settle down soon. I miss deadlifts!

So, OK, the highlighted islands are uninhabited except for some native wildlife. The only access to these islands is by sea from Australia. You can't even access by air. This is what happens when you have complete idiots in charge.

Dear Australia, please please do not vote for this dufus and his team.

Quoting Physics Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton: “I can repeat my own opinion, which is that if the [Royal Society] gives fellowships for promoting science they should take them away for demoting science,” Precisely.

Alan makes some good points here ... Also, Jessica Jones was right ... Humanity sucks and does not deserve saving www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Australia really needs to hold firm here ... #healthcareforall #PBS www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

wouldn't this just be poetic justice

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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity - Jimmy Carter #justsayin

sure, and enforcing the name is going to do so much to bring down the cost of living for the average American, hey....

Pay attention @royalsociety.org - stop trying to gaslight us by pretending our concern for science and ethics can be dismissed as ‘political’

The level of stupid shown by Americans is just mind blowing

The Vela #pulsar is very bright in our skies (in radio). The good folks at @jodrellbank.bsky.social have converted radio light into sound and you can hear what the rapid rotation of this neutron star sound like in this short video 🔭📡 Imagine the energy required to rotate an entire star this fast?!

The world: falling apart, as per usual these days Me: housework, training, food prep for the week ... trying to keep my head in the sand so I can stay sane

Nice going! I bet the cooler weather helped. I still have to train this morning but glad I won't be sweltering in my garage for a change lol.

The Velvet Glove and the Dying Constitution www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-velvet...

Small detail, but it's interesting that Mitch McConnell broke from his GOP colleagues, and voted NO to this appointment.... But, holy hell ... thoughts and prayers, America...

that sounds like a highlight of the trip, if you make it there. Pics or it didn't happen, as they say!

Honestly, any national leader believing anything DT says to them is delusional.... case in point: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What’s it like to make a phone call to Donald Trump? | Fiona Katauskas

An interesting, and disquieting, read

Incredible that this is allowed to happen with nobody to stop this.

The thing about letting things burn up in the atmosphere is that they're still *there* -- just in gas form instead of solid. So like sure it doesn't hit you on the head (good!) but it might mess with the chemistry of the atmosphere (real bad!) and/or become stuff that you breathe (not great either!)

Hey Peter Dutton ... you use the word "gravitas" ... I don't think it means what you think it means .... WTAF. Please don't vote for the Coalition, Australia. Just NO www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO 🤬🤬🤬

“There was no way to predict this” says only country in the world where Donald Trump was already President once.

to be fair, it's been responsible for SO MUCH HORROR even before this ... I'm horrified, but not at all surprised.

This is a little concerning, no?

this is so screwed up. But I'm guessing there's more to come. Fkn WOW 😱

A very fascinating paper went up on the arXiv today! Jesse Han & El-Badry et al. reanalysed the 21 known 'hypervelocity' stars in the #milkyway. They find strong evidence that the LMC (Large Milky/Magellanic Cloud) has a supermassive black hole at its core! 🤯 arxiv.org/abs/2502.00102

Well, January started off with it's usual shite show of horrors... including my first ever car incident (still shook), which ended up costing me $7K in repairs. February is getting off to a roaring start by my hot water service dying yesterday and needing to be replaced, costing a further $2.8K

This should be alarming for all US citizens

“That paragraph was gone as of Thursday afternoon, as was the assertion that Rubin shows what can happen when “more minds” participate in science. The word “more” was replaced with “many,” shifting the meaning.” 🧪 🔭 www.propublica.org/article/vera...

Well, you'd think that postdocs in the US don't need to pay bills, feed themselves and their families ... Evil combined with gross incompetence is the most dangerous combination. Undoubtedly, they're looking to eliminate funding for any research that doesn't align with their agenda. *shakes head*

I said it before and, and I'm saying it now: This is still such a terrible idea. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/o...

Seems to me the US really needs this lady right about now...

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

The Australian mainstream media (that includes you, ABC) continues to do away with actual reporting and just focusses on "topics du jour". An interesting and enlightening piece on policies in action by the current govt, by Prof Hocking. www.echo.net.au/2025/01/main...

on Tuesday this week, I lost my Zia Bruna. She was my aunt, my godmother, and my big sis. She had a difficult life, with a number of complex health issues. But when asked how she was doing, she always replied "I'm good". My heart is 💔

Have I mentioned how much fun asthma is not? Struggling tonight after an icky week

WTAF? How did this win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year? HOW? WHY? www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

oh great, i'm in for a joy ride over the next few months ... www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...