No problem! This should make it easier to grasp: it's way more complicated than this but it gets the general idea across.

Been watching the Integrity/Artemis II splashdown and wanted to recommend the Lady Astronaut book series by @maryrobinettekowal.com - fantastic read if you like space and especially women in space.

This and then stop subsidizing fucking spacex

Avoiding watching the Artemis splashdown stream because 🧠 If I Observe It Something Bad Will Happen To Them. Normal. Normal amount of magical thinking and dread. 🙃

I like how wikipedia uses the infobox for cars here

Psst, hey kid, wanna see some good news?

I'm not having hours of my rent being paid just for storage of my stuff. You won't catch me outside my home like a sucker.

we literally did this with Elizabeth Holmes and nobody learned anything we just went straight into this chapter with zero legislative changes or culture changes we just let these morons run our country/world/lives

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

my best friend is a Wisconsin native and the way they hate Scott Walker over there is truly A Whole Thing

Man, I just want to post about Star Trek and the Moon, not grapple with apocalyptic dread.

this whole thing is very much like being locked in a room with a guy with a grenade who keeps being like IM GONNA DO IT IM GONNA PULL THE PIN and then is like “actually nah” and then everyone sighs but you’re still locked in the same room with the same guy and he’s still holding the same grenade

that being said, [long, piercing shriek]

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!

hey real quick before we all die in nuclear hellfire anyone wanna tell me they got a crush on me?

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

whoever does it is gonna be remembered for centuries and reincarnated as a lotus flower

here's my sales pitch for Farscape if you don't get the reference, A+ television

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

Instead of a song being stuck in my head, today what's stuck in my head is the "fuck ya life. bing-bong!" pigeon video.

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

Proof that data center development isn't inevitable! Maine is poised to enact a moratorium on data center construction through 2027 while they assess the industry's impacts on the environment and electrical grid. www.wsj.com/us-news/main...

Social media en toto is losing relevance + utility. We will not see another "global water cooler" like peak twitter again in the medium-term. This is not specific to Bsky. Threads has a broken algo AND the worst of the griftfluencer class. These are just the times we live in. New things will emerge

Writer friends, it's okay 😭 YOU'RE DOING GOOD!!!

replacing social media with star trek could fix us

it's really incredible how popular these shows were. TNG was one of the top broadcast primetime shows in the nation, period. it was all over popular media and marketing. TNG set the stage for DS9, which wasn't as well-viewed but was still the top syndicated show for adults <54 at one point

using my specialized proboscis to get every last bit out of the pudding cup

MAKE IT WEIRD. MAKE IT WEIRD. MAKE IT WEIRD variety.com/2026/tv/news...

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

is she, you know, a friend of john darnielle?

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

The entire timeline right now

i would gladly give my taxpayer dollars to NASA over like half what this administration is doing

The existence of Forky in Toy Story 4 opens up a lot of uncomfortable questions about the existential nature of toy consciousness.

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

Fundies: RESPECT OUR RELGIOUS RIGHTS Courts: ok Jews: RESPECT OUR RELIGIOUS RIGHTS Courts: ok Fundies: wait no not like that

ON WISCONSIN!!!!! 🦡

I hope you all realize that her shift on this is enormously important. She never voted for it in the first place, which was because of the pressure from the left. Now she is making it her official position, because of pressure from the left

The best gift you can give a trans person is employment. Then it’s marrying them so they can get on your insurance, then it’s a gundam

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.