There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

I bet he still put ranch on it.

Why is Flav's career "going to watch sports" now and why have no other musicians ever done this?

The usual argument is you can't keep trying it and failing because that devalues the instrument. But, if you're confident it will fail anyway, what's to devalue? Bring a motion every week on a different basis. It will at least force airtime on it and show that the Speaker is part of the problem.

Only skeet you need on this really.

There is nothing sexier than a man in the kitchen, IMHO. He can be doing dishes. He can be cooking. He can be holding the refrigerator door open, gazing blankly into the interior.

Too right it does. In 26 days' time we will: ✅Abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions. ✅Introduce periodic tenancies. ✅Limit rent increases to once a year. ✅Ban rental bidding and rent in advance. ✅Make discrimination against renters who have children or receive benefits illegal.

No, not FFS, because the thing is, if you are a gamer and you want content hyper-focused on the exacting peccadilloes of gamers then that's the bleedin' GAME mate, buy that

I was expecting people to not know the nuances of orbital mechanics but not knowing the nuances of "photographs" has been a surprise

This is a documentary about Flight Into Danger, the play which Airplane! is built on, to make a different kind of comedy movie altogether. And it IS important right now.

This is spot on. When I bought newspapers it was maybe 3 days out of 6, depending what was going on. Now I don't even look at the Guardian's Westminster reporting when something's going on because I know I'll be cross-sold a tower of Viner's other "digital" shite.

@philplait.bsky.social Well, now Wiseman shot it the low-key way, just to mess with us! images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Reid Wiseman took this on a Nikon D5. DSLR are more radiation-resistant because mirrorless systems have many many more electronic subsystems to get zapped. But I expect a lot of the choice was "it's already certified" too EXIF data available via NASA: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

researchers discovered that a coin, when flipped, overwhelmingly yielded a useful “heads” or “tails” result and almost never landed on edge. this indicates that the coin has situational awareness, intelligently refining its outcomes to those with the greatest contextual value

"Follow the stupid but still somehow funded"

That’s it: I’m done with @theguardian.com. The newspaprr i’ve read for my entire adult life has allowed itself to be compromised by Silicon Valley propaganda. Fuck you, techbro schill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You have to love that it's just a process of wanging it around several times but a bit harder every time.

"Claude's model of emotions" or "Claude's emergent behaviours" or "Claude's 'emotional' model" or even "Claude's apparent 'emotions' " are all things a person can type

Not the usual kind of thing on the #raveyardshift hashtag but ...

This is the best Windows 11 in spaaaaace comment you are going to see, you can all stop now

He went into the replies. He never goes into the replies. The point he made was actually a fair one but it was made aggressively out of the blue, as articulated in an excellent reply. I now think this article is there to cause a binfire in the replies and served no other purpose.

If one of those "what's a take" QT threads is still around you can have "Ubuntu is fucking shite but by god it's very good at making itself the default for everything"

Raise your hand if you still put underscores in file names because you still don't quite trust that computers know how to handle file names with spaces in them

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

I watched a live event yesterday which focused on pilots fiddling with five-point harnesses then doing nothing for four hours, then setting off very fast on a bunch of oval trajectories all slightly different from one another. How is that not NASCAR

I'll stop reading bad articles now.

Piece talks about what has / hasn't worked for Netflix - the explicit message from Bajaria is some stuff works and some doesn't, and Netflix will keep doing that, but the article is all over the place. The headline is pure shite: Reuters, you are still not Axios thankfully but by god you're sliding

Everyone I know, including hundreds of Americans, loved it and I saw essentially zero cynicism, to the extent that me and my other half sat here and discussed what a phenomenon that is in 2026. Sort yourself out, Berger.

"Orion's Toilet" also coincidentally the name of my new Blade Runner podcast

You think they'd have picked a Corvette so they could campaign as Montserrat Chevrolet in the Barcelona 24

@edbiggs.bsky.social @chartlifepod.bsky.social That Fugees sample - the longer take of it in the Tina Marie original does sound familiar to me too buuuut I think it might just be familiar in *style*, because it's not NOT Kirsty Hawkshaw especially how *her* sample is treated in Confide In Me...

In addition to those four, or instead of them? If the former, another way to read this is "there's now ONE person across all senior R4 news"

Weird place to have the Aga but OK

Sora losers, eh readers?

Carl Sagan: To install a toilet, first you need to eat the apple pie.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) keeps coming up on "if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary..." Articles. Well in that case readers, be aware that the conceit is essentially the same as in Larry Niven's State novels and of those World Out Of Time is free on Audible at the moment.

THIRTY-ONE SECONDS

Oh a battery over temperature of course, how very 2026...

If you want the raw engineering, there's that too

This broadcast is great, huge variety of explainers, a bit of audience engagement but hasn't gone mad on it, cutting to audio to tell us what's going on. I thought this would be like watching full course yellow hell but it's actually great #ArtemisII #NASA

Now this IS worse than NASCAR

Honestly NASA need to work on the speed of these driver changes if they're gonna compete with Penske

Shall I look at the comments section on Ars or shall I actually enjoy a launch for a change?

Artemis is launching today because it's a full moon and therefore a bigger target

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

And Swapna is live-skeeting the countdown job list

About 11.2% APR, so possibly cheaper than using a US credit card (and US inflation has been pretty high for most of those two years as well)

This mostly demonstrates that "Industrials" as one sector is stupid and wrong because even Defence and Aerospace have gone very differently from one another, never mind how different "Defence and Aerospace" is from the rest of industry, buried somewhere in that "Inds"