Y'all outside of Baltimore don't need us to tell you that despite what the union busting corp might say, that location is fine, right?

Coincidentally watching Artemis splashdown with old friends in Spanish on a Salvadorean restaurant TV, A+. This too is (still) America.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

In case you were wondering about the vibe in space science lately, experiencing both halves of a Star Trek evil mirror universe episode at the same time is physically nauseating.

Thank god we have this data

I think we could all do with some 400-year-old flowering ume (flowering Japanese sour plum-apricot) bonsai in our lives. This is the 75th anniversary Nagahama Bonbai (ume bonsai) Exhibition. And this incredible 400-year-old tree is Furo, meaning Eternal Youth. #JohnDoesJapan

#bloomscrolling #cherryblossoms

The furthest away that anyone has been and passed the Bechdel Test

In addition to sending folks to circle the Moon, NASA will be launching a telescope (the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope) later this year that has Hubble-quality images over a field of view that is ~100x bigger: 🧪 science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

The #ArtemisII crew includes the first person of color, the first woman, and the first non-American to (hopefully) fly beyond Earth orbit. You won't hear much on this from NASA, which has rolled back DEI initiatives over the past year. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

This just in....NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory reveals that dark matter is made up of lost socks, keys, half-gone chapsticks, and spare change! 🔭🧪 We can’t see it, but we know it’s there, lurking somewhere between the couch cushions or in the dryer... . . .##AprilFools

Shout out to archives 🌸

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

It’s almost like public education is in a manufactured budget crisis designed to create a scarcity mindset so they can justify closing programs and firing people.

Fun fact about the IOC's one time only, all or nothing, SRY gene test 'to identify men'. It's entirely possible to test positive after being pregnant with a boy. Fetal DNA can cross the placental barrier and linger in the maternal bloodstream for decades.

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

Side note: Insofar as there are any normative beliefs about aliens, the idea that aliens are actually demons isn't a typical Christian belief, even among Catholics: the Vatican's astronomer maintains alien life is plausible, and doesn't contradict faith. religionnews.com/2014/12/03/m...

Dragged out to Project Hail Mary with a bunch of fellow astro engineers. Very pretty. Did not expect the levels of goofy fun, but it was not unwelcome. Not everything has to be grimdark. Not even all dystopian genre fiction has to be grimdark. We have grimdark at home.

“We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval.” 😍🥰😍

We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.

Maybe this is the Catholic in me, or the climate reporter in me, but I don't actually think about hope much. I just want to do the right thing.

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

So if AI Psychosis is a thing that happens because the human mind breaks when it's trapped by a sycophant who affirms every thought, agrees with every delusion - does this give us a window into what's been happening into the ultra rich , and why they're such broken people?

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

I would like to personally award Afroman the Bluesky Medal of Valor for Exemplary Service in Bringing Back Shame

Honestly I think enemies-to-lovers requires an amount of time elapsed that most collisions don't have! This is why the best analog for the collisional capture of Pluto and Charon is a U-Haul lesbian situation. It all takes place over like 3 days

I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!

Free Library is not so little on the inside. Main Street, #EllicottCity Maryland. #drwho

Free Library is not so little on the inside. Main Street, #EllicottCity Maryland. #drwho

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 To escape from the reality of WWII into the comfort of a fantasy world, Miró turned to the sky as a coping mechanism. “I felt a deep desire to flee,” said the artist. “The moon and the stars began to play a major role in my paintings.” Joan Miró, “The Morning Star” (1940)

This week I am going to continue to try to resist acquiescing to despair. (per Mariame Kaba’s pep talk below)

A lot of things are very bad, and I highly recommend going out and engaging with art under threat as a resolution.

Only ONE WEEK until our outdoor walking tours are back!! Come join us outside as the weather warms up! Sunday, March 8, 5pm: Frederick Douglass’ Fell’s Point (1.5 hours, $15/$12) Friday, March 13, 6pm: Revolution in Baltimore Town (1.75 hours, $20/$15) Info/tix @ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/

Peacock Room, National Gallery of Asian Art, DC

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

As a small child, my grandpa would bring me to the library with my own (Snoopy themed!) roller luggage, which in memory feels like it was close to my own size, regularly filled. I have considered continuing this strategy and bringing a carry-on.

I do enjoy staunchly continuing to call things by their old names - Dept. of Defense, Kennedy Center, National Airport. It is so easy, like boycotting diamonds.

Oh no, if only we had decades of popular culture suggesting that hooking AI up to our national defense networks might be a thing we don’t want to risk.

Yes, the world can be bleak at times. But it really ain't all bad. This story of tortoises returning to a Galapagos island after 180 yrs brought a smile to my face this morning. 🐢 Pretty interesting science behind this too 🧪 www.galapagos.org/newsroom/gib...

Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala