if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you donāt wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.
I wrote a little thing about how we orient ourselves toward the moon, thinking with the work of @blmckean.bsky.social on neoliberalism
"Who gets to decide what future generations will see when they look at the moon through a telescope? Will there be a democratic process for deciding?" š§Ŗšš
You can also donate to Doctors Without Borders, it is never a bad idea to donate to Doctors Without Borders:
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
You can and should donate to PCRF if you want to help Gazans, instead of shady spam accounts on social media:
www.pcrf.net
If youāve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Real nice shots of the toasty capsule bobbing in the ocean
Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones
Things that donāt work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones
Science is good. We should fund it.
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Yaaaaaay chutes
SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED
Perfect descent, "crew sounding hale and hearty." 1 min to splashdown
I really resent āFor All Mankindā for making me feel feelings about Ed Baldwinās simple ass. That man has been working every one of my nerves since season three.
This may be lost in the noise--this is as impactful or more than the cuts to NIH and NSF š§Ŗ
Centrists on college students: "Why aren't they out in the streets protesting every day??!"
Centrists on Democratic members of Congress: "They're in the minority -- what could you expect them to do??!"
Hello? The Gaza protests on campuses were met with heavy-handed tactics that included student expulsions, police being invited to campus, and then severe restriction on protests going forward. I'm sorry but this is just gaslighting.
Well this is unfortunate. An account calling itself "NASA | ESA Space Updates" (@nasaupdates.bsky.social), not apparently affiliated w/ either, has been posting NASA images without alt-text & blocked me when I said the images should include it. (NASA itself is usually pretty good on accessibility.)
The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned. Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?
I mean obviously as a certified non posable action figurine appreciator I'm a biased source here, but I do basically agree with this. Being unironically enthusiastic about weird niche things is one of the true joys of living in a society and if you can gain access to it you should.
that's so wild that Israel did that. if only there had been a way to predict that based on the extremely recent past
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the presidentāthat weāre all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threatsāis the most damning indictment of our political system Iāve seen yet.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
coming today at 8pm eastern
Even if there is no further escalation (and what has been done is already beyond the pale) the casual fucking threat is more than enough. We recognize the words "I am going to kill you and your entire family" for what they are when it's some random asshole saying them never mind the US president.
Iran assures the American people they hold no hostility towards us while Trump talks about destroying civilizations. If you removed the names involved every single person on earth, regardless of political affiliation, instantly knows who the proudly evil ones are.
hard not to fall into even deeper despair when the solution we're all being given is to call our reps and slowly explain to them that people die when they are killed
you all should listen to wolf 359 like right now
I need the joy so I can continue to multitask at my spite. And this morning I'm not sure there is any dichotomy quite as sharp as four nerds asking us to love our shared humanity, and a narcissist whose brain is entirely racist pudding threatening to end an entire civilization via shitpost.
Saw someone earlier complaining about BlueSky celebrating Artemis, considering all the awful things weāre doing to Iran. Iād argue that this is a desperately needed reminder of the good we are capable of in an era when we see over and over again the evil we can do.
