Space photographer Andrew James McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social has captured many epic images of celestial bodies, but this may be his greatest: a perfectly timed photo of a skydiving friend with the sun behind him (shot w/ equipment revealing great solar detail). Behold "The Fall of Icarus."

It is 1992 and BBC Newsround over in the UK is worried about the scourge of something scary called a "computer virus". #hacker #hacking #history

US peace plan: What could Ukraine compromise on? We look at issues where differences will be extremely difficult to bridge and others where compromise may prove less hard to find. www.ft.com/content/c24e... via @FT

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

Today is Holodomor Memorial Day

Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com on.ft.com/43GWpxI

The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine A point by point analysis of the shambles: www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...

Across all the planets in the milky way the average number of trees per planet is at least 30

Watching this is good for your eyeballs. It keeps them healthy and happy. Send more auroras please!

What a terrible day to know how to read

One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.

Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

In a better society, all the men in those Epstein emails were taken out to the middle of the ocean and given a fair opportunity to swim home

Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too! This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.

No words. I’m a block from home.

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

The Aurora made it to Texas. A quick shot. #astrophotography

Reno, Nevada 6:31 PDT 39.4° N, 119.8° W #Aurora

View to our south (my other ones were looking north) (photo credit my kid)

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

Checking in from Roxborough Park, CO #NorthernLights

If you’re in North America and have a view to the north or northwest, there’s heavy auroral activity going right now!

Unreal, pillars even faintly visible with the naked eye from Fort Collins

Wow what a northern lights show in Minnesota! More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weather/spectacular-northern-lights-put-on-mesmerizing-show-across-minnesota

Well pass the whiskey and let’s pause in awe.

Aurora borealis at 9pm

Tuesday Night Magic

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

If you live anywhere in the North half of the US I don't think you'll even need to go outside smaller cities to see them. My partner can set them from inside Cedar Rapids! #aurora #northernlights

The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing." “Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

For the past few months I and others have been bugging you about holding government lawyers to account. Well, this is what we have been working on. Welcome to GLOW - Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog!

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Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

My new article "Immigration is Not Invasion" is now up on SSRN. It comprehensively explains why illegal migration and drug smuggling do not qualify as "invasion" under the Constitution and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Aurora situation in Milwaukee tonight.

Excited to share a new and improved draft of The Limits of Regulating AI Safety Through Liability and Insurance: Lessons From Cybersecurity, co-authored with the brilliant Josephine Wolff. 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The scene at JFK in the departures lounge just unbelievably grim right now. Hundreds of planes showing destinations to cities outside of New York, and not a single plane posted on the departures list shown taking people coming in

Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo

Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads

Thank you for your participation in this experiment by the Harvard Political Science department. The study has now completed successfully, with a positive result in finding the maximum amount of losing that is possible for new york to inflict on Cuomo

You joke but two days ago I was in New York and saw literally thousands of people running away as fast as they could, presumably in anticipation of the mayoral election

Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time

DST is a scam by Big Clock to sell more hours

AGAIN

Absolute cinema

If the game hits 2am Eastern the score is reset to an hour before and everyone has to repeat exactly what they did to preserve the space time continuum, thems the rules