Artemis II astronauts pose for a group photo in front of the Orion spacecraft, in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha flic.kr/p/2s6NyEN #Artemis 🧪🔭

cedar stump— a slug polishing the century’s edge #haiku #poetry

by the old fence a girl picking daffodils #haiku

🧵American women (in particular WW) really need to start internalizing this: The ~concern~ that many (mostly) white & male politicians express for women's safety isn't about our safety but about instrumentalizing us as delivery mechanisms for statements about white men's power over non-white men.

@emilylhauser.bsky.social thanks, Emily!

Re-Entry As school kids in the moonshot era, we'd count down loud and often: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BLASTOFF. Now I'm old, its the astronauts' splashdown that opens my heart. earth's curve flattening as the air around them burned finally safe home #haibun #haiku

Artemis II is set to return to Earth in just a few hours. To celebrate, let's take a look at my favorite image taken during the mission. This image captures an Earthset, the Earth setting behind the Moon's horizon. Technically, there's actually no such thing as an Earthset. (1/3) #ArtemisII 🔭⚛️🧪🛰️

return

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

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I’ve had a few requests to offer this image so I uploaded it to my site! (I’m keeping the site running for a few more months) Thank you for the support! 🙏🏻 mikehenry-photography.smugmug.com/Crested-Cara...

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

night pasture— a horse shifting weight thins the silence #haiku #poetry

last night’s forgotten rain dropping from a leaftip into something new

dawn wakes you slowly with the sheen of a dull pearl rolling you downhill

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) yesterday morning, back this morning. Crew flint pen strands lakes & trails Bonita Springs, Florida 4-9-26 Rob & Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme for Friday is #BirdButt, birds flaunting their rears, the Alt Theme is #Grass, birds on Grass. #birds #photography #ECK

Credits: Gummy bear - amber, Mesolithic, Muzeum Slupsk Foxe's Glacier Hippo: rock crystal, Egypt, 2050-1650BC via @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Chocolate beardy man: Basalt, 2nd C AD, via @romaaeterna.bsky.social Wine gum hippo: Nephrite (Faberge), 1900, via @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

This is the part people don't seem to get. (And I'm not sure what I mean by "people" here, maybe like "in my social media comments saying things like 'humans get things wrong all the time!' or 'LLMs are more accurate every day!'") Many. People. Assume. Accuracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

history’s first pope truly equipped to appreciate a visit from the Harlem Globetrotters

Sunset strip - yesterday #Phonetography #justbcuz #i'dtapestrythatestry

I'm 40 been protesting and organizing since I was 16, I've organized a union consisting entirely of people in their late teens and early 20's, I professionally organized students for a decade. I'm STILL around engaged young folks and families. So here's my perspective (cont):

This got to be my office today as Artemis II splashdown countdown begins!!

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

#haiku through the fence the jays taunt you

#haiku it’s still the room with all the flies

Same. Likewise, as a Christian, I resist being personally blamed for warmongering Christians, even my own government. Difference is, in the US, I am not vulnerable to deadly anti-Christian prejudice. Antisemitism makes it more urgent not to blame my Jewish neighbors for what Netanyahu is doing.

My question is how often do we have to go through this, you know? MOOCs were supposed to do this. Pre recorded online classes were supposed to do this. We don’t need to learn that most students don’t teach themselves well, no matter the resources, again

dry grass material for a nest grants me hope #haikufeels #haiku

sun dog . . . each creak in the ice a different voice published in O2 Haiku Literary Magazine, April 1, 2026 #haiku #poetry #poem

Reminded, today, of this Charles Simic miniature

there must be darkness to see the stars #resist

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. #poem excerpt: A E Housman #art Shiho Fukada #resist

Eclipse pinhole, oblique sidelong or not at all light becomes dark becomes light fire flares at the edge of breath whether I am there to observe or not #poem L.C. Goodwin #micropoem #art Quilt - Corona III: Solar Eclipse: Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry #resist

There will come soft rains & the smell of ground, swallows circling with their shimmering sound; frogs in the pools singing at night, wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire #poem excerpt: Sara Teasdale #art Pamela Kopen

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

this guy seems to go one notch further than Leo did in his Holy Week homilies, pretty much flat-out saying “it is a moral imperative for American Catholics to contact their legislators and demand an end to the war” feels like they want us to know they were not intimidated by the Avignon thing 😂

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

waiting for water lilies or for a frog #haiku #shahai #haiga

porch light yesterday's moths in ragged mourning #micropoetry

'got you last' in my rearview mirror their faces almost innocent ceasefire #gogyohoka #micropoetry

mountain spring~ wind drifting through a thousand flowers #haiku

cedar ridge— a jay scatters blue #haiku #poetry #birds

swallowing silence my tongue suddenly feathered with soft inward words

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

One photo per day from my archive. Completely random in subject, time, location. Photos that make me happy. And hopefully you too 😊 Marjans photo #452 #photography #nature #landscape #fens #reflections #bluehour #ECK #eastcoastkin