someone on the internet is wrong

*takes deep breath*

and that's okay

US Astronaut Christina Koch using an experiment facility on board the ISS

Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

Our civil rights and our very legal personhood are fragile things in this country, especially right the fuck now. Never stop fighting for them.

Yup. Similarly, I was born in 79' 6 yrs after Roe v Wade and 10 yrs after my mom had an illegal abortion. I'll be 47 next week and the amount of rights we've undone in my lifetime is really awful.

Jesus.

This, by the way, is why Trump and the Republican Party must be defeated in every single battle. They want to return us to a past when women and people of color and LGBQT people and everyone else they don't like have no rights and no respect.

And when my white mom married my Korean dad in 1963, their interracial marriage was illegal in multiple states.

The past isn't even past.

That means my mom would have been 34 before she could have gotten a credit card on her own.

The past isn't even past.

Just a reminder that @ericswalwell.bsky.social smeared Mamdani during the campaign by saying “I don’t associate myself with what [Mamdani] has said about the Jewish people.” Mamdani said he’d protect Jews in NYC from antisemitic attacks. Swalwell doesn’t associate himself with fighting antisemitism?

yeah fuck this

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.

it is always 1968

they just said they're getting into harnesses for the hoisting.

real lost opportunity with the nomenclature here.

It's called being a fucking Provider

zeus is an essential worker

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Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

nicky helped

Our cat Tilly sitting in front of the tv with her paw on the screen where the parachutes for Artemis II are open

Tilly ‘helping’ Artemis II to splashdown safely

Look how fast you can get from way up there to down on the ground if you're a little less precious about it. Let's get our jet planes down faster! I'm ready to get to my destination and could stand a controlled plummet.

They should get to take a little swim after they get out of the pod

Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

i like the use of the word "hoisting" here

the astronauts are currently fitting themselves into their own petards

...and another... wait, she's missing. can anyone see her?

"the crew is in excellent shape"

in fact, one of them is... STRONGER than EVER. and another... seems to be INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE... and another...

temporary truce with Namor

they cut a deal with the orcas for ocean access right

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

lol