This makes SO much sense

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.”

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Well, except for the Civil Rights movement and a lot of other liberation movements. Once white people were ready to listen there were decades of organising and theory work to draw on. I think that’s partly why terfs got so much traction in the UK - so little understanding of intersectionality.

It reminds me a little of that one guy’s attempt to hype Segways. For like five minutes he managed to get articles in lots of papers about this mysterious transportation revolution that was coming. Then people saw what it was and lost interest.

The ironic thing is that the kids targeted by these rules are more savvy of the dangers than the people making these rules.

Hey London, you taking notes here??

Photo Credit: Reid Wiseman Photo Description: On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles Photo Description Credit: Reid Wiseman

#Artemis II 🚀

Mission Commander Reid Wiseman after being collected from the Orion Spacecraft

“On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles”

In honor of Artemis 2s return, this is Felicette, a French stray, chosen out of 14 others for her temperament and calm demeanor, trained to go to space. She went and came safely home, and now lives in my heart. #cat #NASA #kitty #space #Artemis2

Apparently it’s because there’s less to go wrong?

This, earnestly.

Make it a plank of the party’s platform.

Look at their lil feet and their lil hairdos!

Ahhhhh this hits the spot. 🥰

Just figured out today where I recognised Tanis from too - Dorothy in Supernatural. Absolute legend.

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I went to a US Christian high school in the ‘90s, and this guy’s father David was required viewing there, saying exactly the same things. I left all that behind, and it is freaky to see it all popping up again but with more power.

Like the whole world is getting haunted by the monster under my bed.

I understand living in a misogynistic society that normalizes abuse against women and girls, that makes men not even think of it as abuse, means it's hard to make a hero of any man. But boy does it suck to be reminded of that again and again and again.

A friend and I watched this in the cinema and it is a JOY.

Really enjoyed #StarfleetAcademy in the main but super uncomfortable with them leaning on the Federation’s noblesse oblige in the finale. Trek’s at its best when it resists that urge, and after the pilot ep I’d hoped they’d question it more, DS9-style.

- Let me do the talking.
- What are y-
- ahem GOOD MORROW GOOD SIRS… er… GEESE, GOOD GEESE

What’s wild to me more than anything is how her language immediately changed to mimic them so clearly that it sounded TERFy before I even knew she’d made that connection.

I had missed this entirely, but after her defensive FB posts this week I literally messaged my sister ”I give it a week before the TERFs get to her”. Hate that I was already right without knowing it.

Absolutely guarantee this guy is a nightmare to serve in any customer service capacity.

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

It makes me unimaginably sad to think of looking up at night and just seeing these cold grids. Seeing Orion crossed out.

The Keir Starmer Story

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

Anyway, be a wrench. Do every little thing you can to tamper with the plans of fascists. Be a NIMBY bitch about data centers. Stop using ChatGPT. Refuse service to ICE agents.

I feel like we’ve all been getting a crash course in exactly this. Like if you didn’t get it before, the world keeps turning up the volume on it.

hands down the cutest space update ever in life