Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Last night, it was called out when we passed the 144-hour return mark. Why is that significant? Because we’ve designed a crew survival approach for a cabin depressurization scenario through which we could support the crew for 144 hours. Today’s suit tests were part of testing those capabilities.

We need robotic space missions, we need amazing space telescopes, but we also NEED human spaceflight to inspire our imaginations and stir our curiosity. It’s very human to want to see the universe through the eyes of other humans

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

Hey American road engineers:

The crew aboard Integrity heading upwell

I will continue to say NASA PAO is stuck in 2010 at best, you can’t just invite a bunch of “social media types” to launches anymore and have everyone see it on their Facebook feed

sometimes i make the third post on purpose

As a long-time reporter on space toilets, I am utterly unsurprised 1. It already broke 2. It already got fixed Astronauts are all extremely motivated plumbers. Tour of the toilet: m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZJ-...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Yeah, it wasn’t a known problem because we essentially had open borders

Most crazy thing about driving an EV is seeing how low your range gets at the top of a mountain, and how it goes back up like 40 miles by the time you get back to the bottom (not even counting the distance you traveled going down the mountain)

Term limits are bad. There’s very little waste and inefficiency in government.* Members of Congress are seriously underpaid. * this one may not apply to Trump-headed governments

Days away from a lunar mission and it’s devastatingly out of the public consciousness IMO. @nasaartemis.bsky.social should be sending the crews months in advance to Hot Ones, CONAF, etc. to get the word out about these things

I’m an immigrant. This country and this city gave my family a future. It should do the same for everyone. We need City Hall to use all its powers to protect its citizens. We need to abolish ICE. No fear. No kings. Thank you @eastvalleyindivisibles.com!

Elected Democrats who want to keep the focus on “affordability” and call anything else “a distraction” need to understand that the median Democratic voter who plays video games wants to live to see ICE depicted as the bad guys in future video games.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Thought I’d review the launch config of the Orion cabin today. While I’m sure there will be good video of the cabin while crew is being loaded, after the hatch is closed, I expect the lights will be turned real low so I’m not sure what you’ll be able to see throughout ascent.

You know a California politician is a genuine housing policy wonk when they're enthusiastically talking about condo liability reform

Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted.  For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing. Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production.

Key excerpts from Mamdani's inauguration speech about "public excellence." Whatever you think about Trump, he put the public sector at the heart of this political narrative. Mamdani, unlike a lot of Dems, does so as well but for a different narrative. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...

Why would it stop, the buck has never even slowed down to wave at him

vote for Nithya Raman this June and November

On point as always. In Theroux’s new doc and this clip this guy also comes off as the one who’s the least comfortable in the role. Like he still has some bit of a conscious the others don’t, he knows he’s grifting and his attitude is bad for society but he can’t give it up now, he’s addicted

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

This is just the left version of MAGA’s “they’re all corrupt, but at least Trump is honest about it” claim. Corrosive anti-institutional cynicism. Many elected leaders are sincere and thoughtful in their views and work hard to know their communities. But that’s less fun than being angry all the time

America 🤝 China Two strikingly similar countries obsessed with making propaganda about how they’re totally different

Spending a beautiful crisp Saturday morning walking around the neighborhood muttering to myself about what the reaction would have been if President Kamala Harris had begged for military assistance from China

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

it feels like a lot of Dems are suddenly trying "we can run a robust social safety net by only taxing rich people and corporations" messaging and that is a) not a great message, in that we should all contribute b) not actually true, math-wise

"Apartment buildings aren't suitable for families. Kids need a yard."

This news is floating around so I’m compelled to say this is apparently a design approved under Biden referencing some other historic design There were other coin designs that were planned to be implemented but cut for “DEI”/featuring Black people, that’s the real story here it seems

down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU

you may fly over a land forever; … bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men in the mud TR Ferenbach,This Kind of War

Homeownership is fine! I’m one! But if my neighbor wants to build something that doesn’t impact my health—like splitting their lot into a bunch of other homes—why should I have the power to stop them?

More evidence for the Trials

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

It’s clearly a Special Military Operation wait where have I heard that before

“Mostly” is right, at least there’s one woman in the cafe car on my train to LA who was weirdly excited to talk about the fact we killed “a bad man” Yeah lady I bet this accounting student train attendant is no longer living in daily fear and is living a better life now

Ossoff’s statement is 1000x stronger than Schumer-Jeffries. This is a moderate Jewish Senator from a Trump state. The split isn’t moderate vs progressive, but leading vs poll-reacting

What the heck is going on here @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Well well well if it isn’t the exact thing all of us were explicitly worried about

I wonder if the half of America that voted for Trump or who secretly think what’s happening is right will ever even hear that the first casualties were almost 100 school children. We assume major news like that is widely reported, but American friends tell me their parents literally do not know

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

It’s 2037. We’ve reached AGI. Mayors everywhere seek time with the Machine to gain insight: “Finally with AI we will solve our housing crisis! Oh AI Oracle, tell us the way!” “Build more housing, everywhere, according to the thousands of studies I read” “… Ok but what if it’s tall?”

I’m screaming, begging, crying, throwing up with these people, you live in the most populated county in the country! It’s been almost 50 years, at some point I will also have to face my own mortality and accept that places change. Man can never cross the same river twice etc.

Never pay for a view you don’t own, folks

“Gee I’d sure love if my kids could afford to live nearby 🥺👉🏼👈🏼” [Developer lists how to achieve affordable housing through existing markets] “No, not like that! 😡”