HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.

Splashdown!! I'm so relieved and happy I could cry. The Artemis II coverage has been such a wonderful source of joy and delight over what's personally been an incredibly difficult ten days for me. I'm so very grateful for it.

Welcome to San Diego!

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

lol I'm also getting mileage out of how the 2026 one ends by recommending more psych treatment (which means, in their own terms, ........ recommending more psych morbidity?)

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

it's great how this is both reassuring and also very not reassuring

..... side note, lol I just noticed need for treatment (50%) is lower than need for treatment for depression (54%). Not sure what happened there

the method in the 2019 one was retrospective chart review (diagnoses between 2011 and 2017, with Kaltiala having been involved in the assessments so this was based on her actual direct judgement of psych needs at the time)

Here! (doi.org/10.1080/0803...)

It's the same one where she also saw reduced suicidality/self harm after hormones (but left it out of the abstract), before she later tried to control that away in 2024 (doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...)

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

the "tell them to visit the psych, then call it a symptom of harm when they listen to you" tactic is old. it was called out in 1980 when Meyer and Reter 1979 tried it [https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02115944]

Some semi-internal evidence supporting the fatality of the flaw:

in Kaltiala 2019, which studied a GR+ cohort, the "Need for psychiatric treatment" judged during and before assessment was 50%. Certainly not as low as the 9.8% or 21.6% who had prior psych contacts in this register study!

Kentucky Bill Declaring Trans People Mentally Ill and Banning Trans Teachers Set to Pass Largely Unopposed Mirroring the anti-gay movement of the 1970s, Kentucky Republicans are quietly moving to ban trans people from teaching while forcing doctors to consider being trans a mental disorder.

Transgender people will soon be banned from teaching at any level in Kentucky.

As a reminder, Germany did the same thing to Jewish teachers in 1933.

But, it can't happen here. Because democracy and good people or something.

transitics.substack.com/p/kentucky-b...

Look, it is a sign of strength and success when you try to censor press coverage of your unnecessary war.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

it was already spying on Chomsky in the 70s electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

I've preprinted a critique of the Cass Review. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed.

You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

My two cents: Cis editors should be assigning trans reporters to write about trans folks right now.

Cis journos who fancy themselves our allies - one of the best things you could do right now is push some human interest stories about trans people like this into the mainstream.

Pizza Hut Star Wars commercial, 1999 YouTube video by Jeffrey Long

Don’t forget this gem youtu.be/OdDceg15i4g?...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Supermarket rotisserie chickens aren't a "splurge," they're cheaper than raw.

(or rather I was 50% guess that you didn't know who and 50% guess that you were both vaguely referring to but disagreeing about the same thing)

(that's why I answered instead of also vagueposting like she did lol)