More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

No one cares, but I'm stewing over how Trump effectively distanced himself from the filth of the GOP brand by running against the forever wars of W. and the Medicare/Medicaid cuts of Romney/Ryan. And now he's just the most basic bitch Republican carried by the worst dry drunks and neo-Nazis alive.

"I finally understood why bodies grow tall and wide here." Seriously, Whataburger should adopt that as a motto. Now I'm wondering if, next week when I tell my new students I'm from Texas, I'm going to get asked about Whataburger.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

i luv u, stupid time-wasting website

Listen, if you haven't read the horse cake editorial, are you even online?

Wwwwow. Is there going to be a Hegseth vs Vance schism? Are they going to start burning Lollards next?

If you see this, share a TV intro that you never skip(ped). youtu.be/ywz5xLQ_XaA?...

I always wonder about the claims that Bsky is humorless--I see tons of humor here--or that there's more clueless reactions to jokes here--isn't that the case everywhere on social media? I remember Twitter having plenty of that.

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I’m not sure whether it’s the current moment or the general fact of an empty, uncaring universe, but the so much of the latest issue of @theonion.com is hitting me right. You deserve more subscribers than the Washington Post, @bencollins.bsky.social.

"It's unlikely that he would've been able to, given Waffle House's sealing jutsu," said Hiruzen Sarutobi, who holds the Sandaime Chair of Ninjutsu Studies at Leaf University. "But some Sharingan users have been able to use unconventional space-time techniques, so we can't rule it out."

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

Share a GIF from a HORROR movie you love 🖤

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Chuck Tingle live is an absolute delight do not miss this!!

Attention Racists: Racist mountain is firing its staff to now use staffing by Racist company using racist prison system labour.

old town harbour

I would like to expand one of my older zines to book length at some point, perhaps beginning work this autumn. But should it be: Advanced Pamphlets and Pantheons or Advanced Budgets and Bestiaries?

I once met a guy who worked at an eco-friendly cemetery with no embalming or any of that toxic bullshit. It's actually really cool - they keep the natural habitat/wildlife and encourage you to just use a stone instead of a headstone - He said "yeah we just throw them in the ground sopranos style".

Since it turns out my previous nominee was fake BS, here's a real one that, while not intentional, is funny because the clod who posted it forgot to switch to his "black gay guy" account before doing so.

My sister and I laughed so hard at this tweet one night that I named her "she doesnot leave the lizard alone" in my phone. that's still her name to this day

Rachel Lichtman was an all time great. I wish I had some screenshots. One I think about whenever I hear our Secretary of State mentioned was something like "Marco Rubio is the best, wait for it, candidate name to say in an Ed Sullivan voice."

Thank you to EVERYONE for this, we all made a lot of people belly laugh. I don't have a soundcloud but I adore+ support this wonderful organization close to where I grew up in Maine that provides summer retreats for trans kids. Please support if you can. www.transyouthequality.org/donate

Every Friday, we meet a BFS member & peer deep into their soul. And given it’s both Easter weekend *and* we get some lost Doctor Who today, it’s only fair we meet up with one of the Eastercon organising committee & Doctor Who writer @sjgroenewegen.co.uk britishfantasysociety.org/meet-sj-groe...

"i have a unicycle for a frontal lobe and the devil rides its pedals" both killed me and brought me back to life

Perhaps no other incumbent four star was more all in with this admin than General George and it got him nothing.

honestly, if dems/progressive independents don’t clean house during midterms, it’s an irredeemable skill issue

New feature: Which nextgen Covid vaxes are advancing the most? I highlight 3 in mid- to late-stage trials with manufacturers—including a "universal" Covid vax & a mucosal one—and another 6 vaccines. Plus more trial results & 10 preclinical reports: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/02/a...

ICE came to Newford. Big mistake. A free novelet for all of you. www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html

Prettye sure thys joke hath nevir been made onlyne: "The Underdarke Stock Market? You mean the Drow 500?"

One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.

Tipo

The new podcast In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin pairs Le Guin's blog posts with commentary from authors, librarians, critics, and more, including David Mitchell, Emily Wilson, Rick Riordan, Robin Hobb, and Vajra Chandrasekera.

There’s a new streaming series on HBO called ROOSTER starring Steve Carell and it’s about a father and his hot mess adult daughter and it takes place on a college campus and I LOVE IT YOU GUYS also has the guy who played Jamie Tartt in Ted Lasso. (😬 now I have Baby Shark in my head, so you do too)

Japan has ranked last in the world for average sleep duration for four consecutive years, according to ResMed's 2026 World Sleep Survey. Most JP commenters on social media said this is a systemic issue: work simply doesn't give them the time to rest.

Officials in authoritarian regimes signal their loyalty to the leader by making obviously false claims in public (per @mcopelov.bsky.social)

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Reminder that I may block you if you're being a dick in my replies, to me but especially to other commenters. Maybe don't be a dick!

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

The US normalized double-tap strikes in the first drone wars, during the Obama regime. It's been a *standard* war crime for the American military for nearly twenty years.

“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?” “yeah?” “and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?” “… yeah?” “I got some good news and some bad news”

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Tomorrow we remember Trump‘s crucifixion and on Sunday, we celebrate his rising from the dead 🤔

I keep listing in my head all the massive systemic changes that need to happen, and this is at the top. But also, reducing the presidency to something like the presidents in parliamentary nations--presidents who only have such limited powers that most people barely realize they exist--is needed.