Honestly, that seems like a perfect episode of Boring Books for Bedtime. Excellent choice, Egyptian sleeper!

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Patreon peeps, a flash poll just posted! The 400th episode of Boring Books for Bedtime is next month, and I need your help picking the department of a certain popular catalog to celebrate.

Gogogo!

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As I stare at the grotesquely oversized house that has almost finished construction across the street from our bungalow, I couldn’t agree more. Everything about it is ridiculous. The only reason to buy it (and, presumably, fill it with stuff) is status-signaling.

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Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby.

The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar.

A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Spotted this morning at the birdfeeder: a blue jay appearing to purposefully throw seed out of the feeder to squirrels waiting on the ground. Adorable!

Holy crow, we do not deserve this beautiful world.

Hey, Pond5, I used to love you as a video source. Is there a way to turn OFF your new AI videos so that I know I'm getting real work and not fakes?

I wish actual integrity paid more.

Deep Listening (one hour version), by Lee Rosevere 1 track album

Podcast pal @leerosevere.bsky.social has released an extended track of "Deep Listening" that is suuuuper good for chilling out, meditating, slowing down. Check it out here:

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Kassandra, by a mile.

Another great piece about science and "Competency Porn" 🧪 The paragraph below sums up how I've been feeling lately about climate science and the folks I've been working with ☀️

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100%. There's an entire culture on YouTube of people figure out how to extend things like box mixes to save old recipes because of shrinkflation. So frustrating!

Oh, sad! A truly outstanding and unique voice who paved the way for the wonderful Celtic/folk music explosion of the 80s and 90s.

Exactly 💯

Attention slump is real!

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

These are the NASA projects that the Trump regime are terminating. Some provide vital data to monitor the weather and climate of the planet. Many are already fully operational and are to be discarded.

100% and I fear we will destroy it with deep sea mining before we know anything about our own weird and wonderful world down there.

However, I hope you are following @schmidtocean.bsky.social ? They post really cool videos of their explorations!

Maybe they're just using it in its old meaning, any cereal crop?

Alternately, it's an easy word to say and rhyme in a musical. :D

See NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon in 12 stunning photos The Artemis II mission's 10-day odyssey around the moon and back was captured in stunning photographs at every moment. Here are 12 of our favorite images

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections!

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Patreon peeps, your early access to Monday's brand new Boring Books for Bedtime is live! We're continuing our month of "Long-time Favorites" with more from one that fits the bill flawlessly, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. To the kitchen!

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“Byeee, Maaaaax”

I love that quirky little movie! Thanks for the reminder.

I design science centers & children's museums as The Day Job. This week, the education director for a current client said that, for the first time in her very long memory, a kid in one of her program sessions said she wanted to be an astronaut when she grows up.

Ad astra, dear young person!

Spent the hours of the Artemis II splashdown doing our taxes because, just for a few minutes, I could feel like our money was going to something better than the rest of this godsforsaken grifters' racket.

THANK YOU! And the jumping, jumping, jumping. It's so annoying.

I sent it in and they have indeed agreed to remove it, so that’s something.

Hm, now that you mention it, I haven't passed a Voight-Kampff, either. Maybe I AM an AI!

I miss him so much. It wouldn't be hyperbole to say he changed my life.

But I'm glad he doesn't have to live through seeing his worst visions for our future become real.