the penne opticon

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

A red tailed hawk starting to take flight off a telephone pole with high voltage signage

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Requesting space wonder / moon euphoria each Friday night, is this too much to ask

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

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into space

A photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space.

And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

just thinking about how this was where they were 30 minutes ago

Shoutout to the Mets for this

📸 @mets.com

Now that's a beautiful sight

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones

Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

nasa explaining the communications blackout on entry into the atmosphere as if we haven’t all seen apollo 13 🙄

why am I sobbing watching that little Nespresso pod zoot through the atmosphere with its huge ass parachutes

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Incredible that human beings figured out how to do this. How cool. What if we only did cool stuff

The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

The Seattle Mariners' statue reveal for Ichiro Suzuki had, well, one of the more inauspicious mishaps imaginable.

What Cara Spencer and the Missouri GOP can learn from Tuesday's election results Keeping essential taxes and rejecting data centers.

NEW: What Cara Spencer and the Missouri GOP can learn from Tuesday's election results

connerkerrigan.substack.com/p/what-cara-...

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

BREAKING: study shows men love having young ladies around, but men do not like it when mom, wife, or teacher tells them what to do

this is the most foreseeable and well-known strategic problem in the course of human history, which most straight men in positions of power scrupulously work to pretend doesn’t exist because of the Implications

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

a google trends graph showing a week of flat line zero before a dramatic vertical rise on 4/8 for searches of “avignon papacy”

love to see it, 14th - 15th century ecclesiastical history is a wild ride and curious people are in for a treat