Workers pruning wine grapes

Farm workers at Chateau Ste Michelle Wineryare pruning grape vines with pneumatic scissors. "Julia" shares, "It's good to work at a union company that provides the best tools. These scissors allow us to work more efficiently and creates less stress on our hands." #WeFeedYou

FULL COMMITTEE HEARING: A Review of the President’s Budget Request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Fiscal Year 2027

DATE: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
PLACE: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building

Awesome to track the aircraft from the ground 😊

Keeping your sanity protects the sanity of your children.

Good move 👍

For real.

There are plenty of personal experiences that could drive the popular will to this sort of solution.

Indeed.

"repair & reuse joy" is real, and a wonderful feeling to soak in.

This is awesome!

Love seeing old things renewed instead of thrown out & replaced.

Well done 👍

This feels like an easy win with a large swath of the electorate, tbh.

A renewed threat to JPL as the Trump administration tries again to cut NASA
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Amazing turnout for our Day of Action to Save NASA Science! Truly inspired by the dedication of our members and advocates who are here with me in D.C.

🤔

Cover of the 1980s sci-fi book called "Oath of Fealty" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.

Read about this decades ago, and would like to skip joining any cults.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Koch seems like such a fun person, in all the #ArtemisII content we've had recently ...

Like just a genuinely good human and super playful approach to the world, in a job that has always been defined by very serious white cishet men.

Big fan.

Love birds that look like a cartoon version of themselves 😊

From what I remember, yes.

There seemed to be more litter in general.

The monsoon is tricky to forecast. In Arizona, correlation between El Niño and summer precip is negligible. Weather/climate patterns like the Central American Gyre and oceanic kelvin waves play a bigger role. But if +SST anomalies remain in the Gulf of California, that could amp things up midsummer

Comet with a bright nucleus and wispy tail with streamers rises over a ridge of trees and a water tank. Taken with an Askar SQA55 and modified Sony Alpha 7 III camera. Comet image, 15s at ISO 1250. Foreground image, 15s at 3200 ISO. Processed separately and composited in Photoshop.

Success with Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS this morning! Clouds will prevent future attempts. It reaches perihelion Sunday, swings around the Sun and becomes a southern hemisphere object. This is a composite of a tracked image of the sky and untracked foreground image. Details in ALT. #astrophotography

Evergreen -

Accurate assessment.

Spent yesterday offline for the same reasons.

Sanity is found in the love of and for others.

Twilight, Pacific time. #CAwx #MontereyBay #MitchellsCove

Harrison Ford really hated playing Han Solo if that qualifies.

Yessss.

And yet, Hegseth's incompetence means losing a DDG or 2 is not out of the question.

You are quite correct.

Posted my question before Trump answered it for me -

We will be learning about the damage caused by DOGE for years to come, and we may not ever really ever know the full extent.

Rare moment of honesty -

Something to bookmark & revisit periodically -

That package being sent by air will be shot out of a cannon by June at this rate.