This is good NBA news lolol people.com/steve-kerr-r...

“I know what my friends eat. Which cafés they visit. Which things they complain about. I know when they get promoted because LinkedIn informs me before they do. And yet sometimes I hesitate before calling because I no longer know the emotional weather of their lives.” This is worth your time

Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

This by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is excellent. Shame on the rich women hawking hellish AI-fueled work lives. Btw, I read it working from home, where I am quite successful at my job, and see my children/help at school often. Jeans company CEO is a fool and a coward. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

“Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.” This in @currentaffairs.bsky.social really is worth your time www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

From NASA This is not an eclipse, but an even more rare sight: a crescent Mars as seen by NASA’s #MissionToPsyche spacecraft. The unprocessed image — taken by Psyche today — shows the night side of Mars as the spacecraft approaches the Red Planet for a flyby on May 15. 1/2

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

It’s remarkable in this day and age to hear a politician anywhere say the following: “Support for a diverse, rigorous and accessible body of historical scholarship should be a much greater priority for democratic governments even at a time of stretched budgets.“

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

*Julie Andrews singing* I have confidence in sunshine! I have confidence in rainnnn I have confidence that spring will come again! Besides which, you see, I have CON FI DENCE INNN MEEEEEEEE

Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. -Sappho, trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem as ever

identity has substantially realigned around consumption rather than production

Wow. Artemis II image ART002-E-12613; credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

I teach this in my IP law class b/c when asked in an interview who owned the patent, Salk replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" He looked for vaccine solutions his entire life…including a quest for a vaccine to prevent HIV from becoming AIDS.

“Was chung-chung the guilty thud of a telltale heart, as in Poe? The Gooch knows Poe; it’s digested the PDFs of seemingly every book in creation, in every genre… The complete Ayn Rand, that’s for sure.” @colsonwhitehead.com is one of the greatest writers ever www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Editor's choice: can stars be used to do #cosmology? Tomasetti et al. have dated the 160 oldest individual stars in the Milky Way. This allows them to set maximum and minimum ages of the Universe. ☄️🔭⚛️ #stellarastro www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

The Upper Provo River in Utah The hundreds of billions of worlds in the background: Desperately remote, shrouded in obscurity. The planet in the foreground: Adorned with life, unnecessarily and absurdly beautiful. Yet another massive W for Earth, the best planet in the universe.

The view from yesterday. Happy Earth Day to all

If you’re curious how this hidden layer of biology is changing medicine—and what it means for your health—pick up a copy of BEYOND INHERITANCE. The book is out today: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n (also now available as an audiobook 🎧)

EXCLUSIVE: @theonion.com tells me they've struck a (long-awaited) deal to take over Infowars. New PTFO on how America's finest (fake) news source trolled Alex Jones, with the blessing of Sandy Hook families — and what @bencollins.bsky.social is planning next — will be up soon 👀

“Artemis II was certainly inspiring. But going from there to peddling that the mission went to the Moon ‘for all humanity’ against the backdrop of crimes against humanity on Earth is an unfathomable giant leap.” @moonmehta.blacksky.app in his Moon Monday newsletter today jatan.space/moon-monday-...

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

This is incredible

When you get a 'woe' from the pope you really ought to listen.

Don't miss my new op-ed on how space science is getting demoted to hitchhiker status at NASA: spacenews.com/put-science-...

The editor-in-chief of America magazine, a Jesuit review (and great publication), with a reminder of DJT’s goal here. This was helpful to read. www.americamagazine.org/many-things/...

I am here for all “because Moon” decisions and choices

Pope Leo XIV told reporters en route to Algeria that he has "no fear of the Trump administration," hours after President Donald Trump lodged a vicious attack on the pontiff via social media. https://www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-says-he-has-no-fear-trump-administration-after-attack-president

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

It's Monday post-Artemis and I probably owe you a message back

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

I might actually have an MI at this. Like truly I don’t know if there is a combination of images that could be more perfectly designed to upset me so deeply.

The poor religion reporters just trying to have a normal Sunday evening

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”

The Pope will never get an EGOT. He doesn’t have the range to get a Grammy, let alone a Tony. I don’t want a Pope who can’t transition from screen to stage and stay consistent. EGOTs are for titans of the field and the Pope doesn’t have it!

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders, and the Pope, who popes. These are their stories".

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.” Cradle Catholic and ardent Pope Leo supporter here, should I go on …

Astronomer bat signal! 🔭 I want to know more about something in this image, which, yes, I am staring at again. Why wouldn’t I? This fuzzy thing I circled, what?? Is this a Magellanic Cloud? Is it a nebula? Is it a lens flare? A camera smudge? Window dirt? I really want it to be something … is it?

For many astronauts, what begins as a scientific endeavor becomes something spiritual. “When I was in space, for the first time in my life, I was outside the frame of the masterpiece looking in,” said Ron Garan, who spent time on the International Space Station in 2011. “That changes everything.”