“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

when you use twitter you ride with elon get off that awful garbage fire site today

You may. It was wearing all my Firefly tshirts in a row that prompted the whole thing in the first place.

We did get tshirts made, but I agree. norm.hasworn.com/tshirts/http...

As 1/4 of the GOV.UK Transition Team that successfully redirected directgov to www.gov.uk in 2012, I endorse this message.

There is a special hell for people who update websites and needlessly break links

Approximately zero, we wrote a test suite with about a million tests in the run up to launch.

Hey, artist! Quote with your warrior art!⚔️

#ttrpg

Three “no”s in less than an hour does not fill me with confidence for ever having another job.

Picture of a bald rat in front of s children's rainbow glockenspiel, captioned Neil banging out the tunes, April 13 2006

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Probably better to check @nasaupdates.bsky.social for the real stuff instead of this ai rubbish

The Power of a Homophone   “Sometimes the power of a homophone
will just come out of nowhere and hit you – like being struck by a ten ton truck,”
articulated Laurie. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Power of a Homophone’.

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

Along with Mr Right, it is the pinnacle one of my favourite mini genres, assassin-turns-good.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.

a difficult choice

hmm

on one hand crunchy delicious

on the other hand freedom from having to pay attention to •waves hands• all of this

oh noes!

All of it or just the wet squishy middle part?

We just got sent our Silver Play Button from #youtube! Thanks for all the love and support everyone!

famous music video with first mate schee in the corner

That’s Smee in the corner

BBEG: Who are you, and how did you get in here?

Player: I’m a locksmith, and I’m a locksmith.

SPARK 4

more rocket experiments
a little nod to one of my favourite rocket designs ever :-D

#space #rockets

4x4” acrylic painting of Nutella floating across the Orion capsule. It is done in a loose style a bit different from my normal work

SPACE NUTELLA

Reminder.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted