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.

I think i understand what i was getting at because this is one of the hardest lines in the history of western literature

Confronted by this in my notes app on Saturday morning

Project Hail Mary (2025)

Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath

This is my holy text. I would go into battle for Ella Risbridger 🫡

Just realised I can name the last 5 presidents of Iran from memory. troubling…

giant carrot gotta be top 5 snacks of all time

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

(Translated from the GOAT, Chaucer): www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Englis...

“And there he saw, clear in his ascent, the wandering planets, hearing harmony in sounds full of heavenly melody.”

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Interestingly, the three successor empires that claimed the universal kingship mantle of the Roman Empire *all* fell between 1917-1923. So I’m going for 1923 as fall of the Roman Empire.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Easter bunny using unorthodox transport to deliver eggs.

Peter Capaldi "Friday, I'm in Love" (Cure cover) at La Belle Angele, Friday 27th February, 2026 YouTube video by The (Other) Anonymous Punter

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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

a poster promoting the weird medieval guys pub quiz

HUGE NEWS!!! we are doing the first EVER weird medieval guys live event and it's a (medieval) pub quiz in london!!! gonna be so much fun and i will be THROWING free stickers at everyone present so grab a ticket and come on down!!!!

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Apropos of nothing I was just struck by a thought that people now /both/ underestimate and overestimate how horrible premodern society was thanks to dark fantasy

Tried to pick a few that are foundational for me but nobody ever references

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

I think this is 100 per cent true, but to be a stuck record…it is also 100 per cent true of Andy Weir’s work. You always know that international cooperation will be rewarded, scientific inquiry will make things better, and good people disobeying bad orders will be validated.

I mean my god. The direct comparison is brutal

I mean cmon! Half the trailer looks like Adolescence! A harrowing psychological drama about murder!

I’m not breaking new ground here but it’s almost shocking how much the marketing for this show is aimed at nostalgic millennials instead of, yknow, the actual target audience for Harry Potter

My main feeling was it overwhelmingly reminded me of this:

Little Frog walks along a riverbank. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

“I walked along the river until I came to another corner. I went around the corner to look for spring.”

I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's "not February 2027 yet" but I'm simply too seated

Project Hail Mary is goddamn delightful. Movies? Movies are back folks!

Words of great encouragement!