#BookHistory people, we gotta join forces with #DHmakes to take care of paper, parchment, and vellum making!

The /r/digitalhumanities subreddit is depressing in a way I can't quite articulate

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia

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NASA's Artemis II crew have successfully landed back on Earth

Artemis II deputy lunar science lead Marie Henderson, and lunar science team members Ariel Deutsch, Maria Banks, Ryan Watkins and Sara Schmidt. In this image they are all reacting with excitement to astronauts' observations of Moon features

Artemis II lunar science team members Debra Needham, Juliane Gross, and Ryan Watkins crowd around a screen, reacting with excitement and joy to the astronauts' verbal observations of the Moon

Artemis II deputy lunar science lead, Jacob Richardson, and Artemis II lunar science team member Kiarre Dumes, react to the astronauts' verbal observations of the Moon during their flyby. Jacob is holding up heart hands

I also love the pictures of excited scientists 🫶

Photo from the outside of the Orion spaceship on the Artemis 2 mission around the moon, showing the moon eclipsing the sun

Wow, this is incredible! I heard the astronauts saying something to the effect of "this feels like sci-fi" and I see what they mean! Even just looking at this picture I got that feeling. Can't even imagine what it would have been like to see in person!

Jet Lag: The Game's home edition of Hide & Seek, and the book "The Making of the Middle Ages: An Atlas of Europe" by John Haywood

A very fun and geographical day in my mailbox today!

In other words, you could do the whole Artemis program (not just this launch, the whole program to date) 16 TIMES OVER for the amount of money Trump is suggesting be spent in a SINGLE YEAR on war. 9 times with the actual DoD budget from 2025 😖

The Artemis program has cost $93 billion to date. But that's $660 million/year over the last 14 years... Trump is asking this week for $1.5 TRILLION/year for his war.

660,000,000 vs
1,500,000,000,000

I, for one, want even MORE of our money to go to creation, not destruction 🚀🌕🧑‍🚀

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

What do y'all think, too late for a career pivot into geology?

It does make me really sad that I'm not a scientist or engineer, though. Extremely jealous of all the people getting to see their hard work pay off! 😅

Cannot stress enough what a joy this is to watch. Tomorrow (Monday) will be a great day to turn in if you haven't so far! The actual moon flyby is happening then!

a girl in a pink pony club playing shirt is dancing Alt: dancing to Pink Pony Club with a chair over her head

Today the wake-up song was Pink Pony Club! 🦄 #artemis

Everyone say goodnight to the astronauts! They're going to sleep soon 💙 👋 🚀 🧑‍🚀 🌕

I love listening to things like Houston + the astronauts coordinating the world's (?) longest-distance wakeup call 😅 The crew just asked whether ground control was planning to play music at the start of "post-sleep"

They've officially reached "closer to the moon than Earth"!

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Shout out to NASA for the super cool all-day livestream! Been extremely fun and informative to see the astronauts, hear comms with mission control, and occasional plain-language commentary. It's like... A+ hopecore--SO cool what we're collectively capable of!

www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Hey #medievalsky, do you know of an English translation of Hildegard's Causae et Curae? What I'm finding via quick searches looks very sus

Navy, gold, and white book next to navy, yellow, and white yarn

Recently picked up this book, Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton-Hill. Today realized it matches the sweater I'm currently knitting! Lovely bit of serendipity

lol, lmao even

Can’t wait to deploy this gif at the start of lecture.

Inkle loom

Pink green and blue band on the loom

I'm taking up mandolin, and I have my grandpa's old instrument, but I need a strap for it.

You know what that means... inkle loom time!!

truly believe that it’s unhealthy to have a take on every single topic. It’s Good Actually for there to be discourse that you are not informed on

Another example of private equity ruining EVERYTHING. Southwest used to have a best-in-industry policy, earning loyal repeat business from MANY people, and they just went and blew that all up

My mom standing in her garden

Grief is SO weird. My mom's been gone for 9.5 years now, but today out of the blue I miss her more intensely than I did 6, 7, 8 years ago.

I'm only in season 1 still, but Niles might be one of my favorite characters. He's like... a WAY less annoying Sheldon

two men in suits are sitting at a table holding cups of coffee ALT: two men in suits are sitting at a table holding cups of coffee

Thought it was SO boring as a kid, but as an adult, Frasier slaps