The whole reflecting pool debacle has to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a very long time.

Good news: I figured out why my Amaranthus caudatus seedlings have been growing so slowly and still seem so weak. Bad news: spider mites.

Platonic form of televised baseball commentary here. Hypnotic

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

An excellent piece discussing one of my favorite pieces of music.

Medal of Honor recipient and legendary Vietnam War helicopter pilot ‘Old Snake’ has died trib.al/XL5Zg0R

‘They are isolated … they are alone’: Zelenskyy on Russia, Putin’s lies – and fighting back

New: this company will add tech to track phones, AirPods, smartwatches, pet tags, and more to license plate readers. The idea is to link devices' identifiers to specific cars and where those people were. It "bridges [LPR] data with sensor-captured device identifiers" www.404media.co/this-company...

An EFF analysis reveals a troubling pattern of mission creep with ALPRs. Without a warrant requirement, law enforcement agencies are shifting from using the technology for specific criminal investigations to using these surveillance networks for minor personal whims. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

‘You can stop your war’: Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin – in full www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Reposting from Facebook because I do not have the energy to reformat for BlueSky. Bottom line is something has to change with this Bz or it’s going to be a long night. But, that change could come, we’ll just have to see. Gn!

EPAM rising again? Maybe this was just an appetizer? We will see... typically EPAM will drop heavily once most/all of the ejecta has been accounted for. It will likely drop heavily if we see the core of the CME. More could be on the way.

Spent all day installing a fiber optic line and I'm absolutely spent. But it looks like a CME just arrived at L1, so now I get to decide if it's worth digging out all of my camera gear and heading out. And here I was, thinking I might actually be able to get a decent amount of sleep tonight.

Insight: How Trump's Ukraine aid cuts undermine justice for Russian war crimes reut.rs/3PY2j9I

"Yet even as Douglass foresaw the coming Civil War and lamented the nation’s flaws, he still expressed hope that 'high lessons of wisdom, of justice and of truth, will yet give direction to her destiny.'"

Roland Garros, a WWI-era pilot, is credited with revolutionizing aerial combat. The major Paris tennis tournament was named after him in 1928, a decade after his death in combat.

A bolide exploded high above New England in Earth's atmosphere on Saturday afternoon, creating a loud booming noise that was heard across the region. The flash of the exploding meteor was detected from the GOES-19 weather satellite's GLM instrument.

Outfitted with a little eyelash glue and tiny, solar-powered tags, Kristen Baum and her team at Monarch Watch will be able to watch the progress of monarch butterflies hatched in Lawrence as they fly across the country. lawrenceks.news/4uBtIgN

Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative promise of the internet

‘We could hear the roof collapsing’: how Russian missiles devastated Kyiv’s cultural sites

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfaremedia.org has preserved and posted it www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

I missed this when it was initially published, but I'm glad I circled back to it. "On the inside, my colleagues and I instead saw cronyism, incompetence, and a series of bizarre moves that would lead to the Kennedy Center going dark."

The judge wrote in his 94-page ruling that it was "crystal clear" that the arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. He also ruled that the center could not wind down its programming and close for two years of renovations – at least for now n.pr/4uIQCD8

It's good to see that there's at least some effort being made to hold some of these agents accountable for their misconduct.

"In the most extreme cases, they wound up in hospitals, bruised or concussed, after being body-slammed or shocked by Tasers, which are prohibited in the state’s juvenile detention facilities but allowed in its public schools." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm really struggling to find the words to articulate how profoundly shameful it is that such an appeal for support would even be necessary. "Even while we remain under attack ourselves, we do not leave our friends without support. Because we understand what is at stake—and how much can be lost."

This is a good read: "The government’s operating ethos during Trump’s second term has followed the dictum that the president and his allies are immune from the law, while his enemies can expect to be hounded. As his party watches silently and cowers, his intentions grow only more naked."

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

"Rarely, if ever, is anyone given a diplomatic posting directly following such a spectacular failure, especially one that did so much damage to American interests around the world." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This genuinely sounds like so much fun.

One of the highlights of my day today was practically inhaling a bunch of cheap pizza in a strip mall parking lot. It was absolutely sublime.

"The U.S. administration has suggested that the troop withdrawal was meant to punish German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for criticizing Washington’s Iran policy. But in fact it punishes the pro-American German middle class" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"They are making a long-term bet that the United States is hastening a decline that will necessitate a more central and powerful role for China in a new world order. Whether this gamble pays off rests in no small part on what the United States does next."

Touching grass isn't enough; you gotta touch dirt. Put some seeds in some dirt, put some plants in some dirt. Remind yourself that the future exists, that you have some power to change it, that life is fragile but incredibly persistent and unspeakably beautiful.

Man, this past month or so has been rough. I massively over-extended myself, and I'm really feeling it.

Nothing quite like driving all the way to the gas station, only to pull up and wonder to yourself "huh, I wonder where my wallet is".

Man, I am just catching it from all sides today. What a mess.

🎉#Artemis II update: Integrity is back on Earth! At 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST, Orion and its crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. 🚀Our European Service Module propelled Orion over 1 million km through deep space, before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, its job complete 🔥 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

This NASA coverage some of the most astonishing live television I’ve ever seen.

Genuinely think this is the most I've enjoyed watching a crewed spaceflight mission since STS-135. I can't begin to tell you how much I've missed the days of NASA running the show.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

✅ #Artemis II splashdown at 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST!

Handing over the reigns to a handful of space barons, and leaving NASA to be hollowed out, was a colossal mistake.

Back on the old site, there was a guy who worked as a controller at the Canberra DSN site. He would often post interesting technical info about what they were up to. It was a fascinating inside look at how the DSN conducts deep space RF communications.

I have to say, the US Navy also deserves a lot of praise for their recovery ops.

There's something about watching NASA missions that's just so much sweeter than watching missions from commercial providers.

And those orange flight suits beat the hell out of those weird, wanna-be, sci-fi abominations that some of these commercial launch providers use.