My wife convinced me to watch MAD GOD tonight, and I’m pretty sure I’ll never sleep again

As far as I know, NASA has never put the contract to run the Jet Propulsion Laboratory out for competitive bid. Caltech has run the Lab since the 1930s. In the "up-is-down" times we live in, I'm VERY concerned for the Lab's future. This could go sideways, fast. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Millionaires Tax Erases Only Advantage of Living in Sad, Barren Wasteland: tinyurl.com/37xytbb7

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

Today it’s “Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.”

great stuff google thank you so much!!!!

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Boglins! My mom’s best friend Alice Z”L took me to Toys R Us one summer when I was 7 and bought me this nasty puppet. I loved the heck out of it for a couple of years as its eyes lost their glow-in-the-dark and its rubbery skin slowly deteriorated.

Happy day for those of us who have spent long decades hearing that smug nasty mendacious Reagan quote treated as some kind of witticism.

I’m so furious about how stupid everything is

Alternate universe where everything is the same but instead of DUNE David Lynch directed a big budget INSPECTOR GADGET movie

They'll Need A Crane (infrastructure week) Your Racist Friend (understanding who solidarity is and isn't for) Shadow Government (root out the Trump state) Alphabet of Nations (internationalism) Minimum Wage (labor rights) James K Polk (importance of a clear set of policy goals) No! (vetos man)

My mom got her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and taught there for many years, and I’m pretty sure if she were still alive she’d be proud of these kids.

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

This is me in Congress explaining how some of our most longstanding problems (like the drug war) have counterintuitive solutions and why it traps more dim-witted politicians. The harder you pull, the stucker you get. That’s why prohibition doesn’t work.

all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Canned liver pâté. I can’t explain it, don’t know how I got the taste for it, and definitely wouldn’t eat it now, but age 6 or 7 it was a treat.

at one point this asshole was in charge of two (2) agencies and tried to dissuade Trump from nominating Isaacman to run NASA. I had to sit and watch him give an all-hands talk where he said shit like don't let safety get in the way of progress and Chinese don't play well with others

Gwen did a fantastic job reporting on what has genuinely become an internal refugee crisis among trans people. I know I complain about Sound Transit and bike infrastructure or whatever a lot but like, making my move to Seattle when I did saved my life.

dan more people need to watch the adventures of buckaroo banzai across the eighth dimension because no matter where u go there u are still miserable

Cannibal! The Musical

One of 2026's best movies so far, Is God Is masterfully translates a play into a riveting movie anchored by two unforgettable lead performances. Read my review of this tremendous feature on The Spool at the link below! thespool.net/reviews/movi...

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

On our way to start shooting the new episodes of MST3K this morning. Very exciting! (He’s gonna drive)

The 6-year-old wanted a rainbow on her wall, so this is how we spent Mother’s Day

With an engineering model of the frame for the sapphire window on our DAVINCI probe we will launch to Venus in 2030… (Sapphire because it’s very strong and transparent and won’t etch like glass as we fall through the sulfuric acid clouds…) 🧪

House SS&T top Dem Zoe Lofgren calls on NASA to reverse decision to make Brian Hughes "de facto" head of KSC. “We are not going to beat China to the Moon by putting a political operative in charge of launching our astronauts into space." democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

To add to this, worth remembering one of the most successful adaptations of The Odyssey to date involved George Clooney being obsessed with pomade

Me, trying to convince you to watch Knightriders.

Quantum Leap was the apotheosis of this Kind Of Show. I will not be taking questions at this time.

A kind of tv show they don’t make anymore is “Guy Comes to Town, Then Leaves.” Kung Fu, Incredible Hulk, Highway to Heaven, things of that nature. We need more Poker Face, that’s all we have left.

Was reminded once again that tea-infused gin, while delicious, contains caffeine…and my brain deals with any caffeine intake after 2 pm as an excuse to keep me awake and/or have super weird dreams. Some day I’ll learn 🤷 😴

other than 8 1/2

Today it’s Arsenic and Old Lace

also the fact that the engine cuts off a yard over the surface and you just have to fall down the rest of the way

This is an excellent book, recommended for anyone working in aerospace (and it has a rocket I helped build & fly on the cover!)

Tolkien here summarizing why I generally dislike prequels and yet have a desire to read them

I know it's gauche to quote tolkien but genuinely the most interesting thing in his letters to me is this one from 1963 wherein he laid out in very plain terms what I think is THE fundamental thing that makes so much art have a life in your head beyond what you see on a page or play in a game

not to mention its ongoing Nazi problem arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Substack is an inherently pro-individual, anti-community, anti-new-writer technology and is responsible for the death of so many excellent small literary venues.

Queer kids getting YA love stories to see themselves and learn about relationships is a hill I will absolutely fight for and die on.

Not that long ago I was hospitalized with pneumonia and sepsis, so…I’d be dead

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