A simple vector illustration in shades of pink, cream and brown. Large cherry blossom flowers frame a Japanese landscape with a sun rising and mountains in the background.

Blossom season 🙂 🌺

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Steven Madow captured this awesome close-up shot of Artemis ll engine

Steven Madow captured this awesome close-up shot of Artemis ll engine, using a Panasonic GH5 and a Lumix G Leica 50-200mm f/2.8-4 lens. This photo was captured at 1/8000s, f/16, and ISO 100.

Beautiful (and not BS AI)

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Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Simple geometric vector illustration depicting the Artemis 2 splash down.

A quick reworking of my Apollo illustration for today's splash down... #Artemis

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

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This was my takeaway from the presidential ‘library/hotel’ he said he was planning- a little signal

Excited to see the #ArtemisII crew home. But starting & stopping are the hardest feats in all of human space exploration. (Take a look at the Artemis I heat shield post flight). I held my breath for the launch and I’ll do so again for entry tonight. Safe flight #Artemis. Everything crossed for you.

The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

It would be like trying to kidnap someone today and taking a shoulder launched surface to air missile with you just in case. You can’t deny the man had style.

Now. This shooting. Is it a sword or a gun? Because anything he is firing at that point would be small scale artillery….?! This is not a BB gun… he would need a fire lock- a literally smoking match in his hands as he tries to break in?! Wild even by his own high standards.

Pine Marten recorded in Cornwall for first time in a century An individual was caught on a camera trap near Truro, raising hopes that the species could be re-establishing in the South-West.

A Pine Marten has been captured on camera in Cornwall – representing the first documented sighting of the mustelid in the county for 100 years:

Sorry to hear that x

Not because it is easy but because it is hard

Even Trump Unsure How Rambling Speech On Iran Veered Off Into Ranking The ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Films WASHINGTON—As he struggled to remember how his remarks on sending more troops to the Middle East had digressed into a tangent on the blockbuster movie franchise, President Donald Trump reportedly beca...

“The first one is undeniably a classic, number one with a bullet, truly the best,” the president said during a press conference

That's quite the sign:

It’s difficult to express how harmful the country’s current approach to sixth form education is, that at the moment of greatest impact we stop investing in the productivity of our young people and encourage them to see themselves as part-timers, only partially involved and included.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

I don’t miss much about the Tories, but this is a field in which they were unmatched.

It’s different… I’ll give it that.

Thank you so much! This is the kind of nerd life coaching I need. Head of Sixth Form job not quite cutting it joy-wise…

These are both great. Need to go back to Whitelock I think read her a long time ago, but regularly use segments in scheme.

@helenpins.bsky.social - I’m in need of better Tudor gossip and anecdotal joy in my Y12 lessons.

Can you tell me 5-10 fave books that might help?

Is it a giant wooden horse

King Harold's Fleet - Another Major Problem A quick update about Harold Godwineson allegedly sailing his army to the Battle of Hastings. To recap: Professor Tom Licence of the Univer...

Perhaps we shouldn't be tipping all our existing books on 1066 into the shredder just yet.
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