A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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An absolutely wonderful read, not just for quality of their films but also as myself a recently married person an inspiration for all creative couples that art is a marathon, not a sprint!

TRUE!!! "The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern
history." -- V-Dem 2026 Annual Report.
The USA has fallen back to the same level as in 1965--a 24% drop in its Liberal Democracy Index.
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

sound up for hungry beaver noises

Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

So reciprocal tariffs and boycotts on all US goods until he stops threatening to colonise a peaceful European-owned country

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Ex-U.S. Attorney Rips Trump's DOJ Probe Of Walz And Frey: ‘Different Level Of Outrage' “It's gotten worse in the last week or two before he was doing tawdry, petty, nasty personal recrimination,” said former federal prosecutor Harry Litman on MS Now.

“It's gotten worse in the last week or two before he was doing tawdry, petty, nasty personal recrimination,” said former federal prosecutor Harry Litman on MS Now.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

DOJ Resignations Over the Renee Good Shooting Confirm Our Worst Fears Justice officials are obviously trying to insulate Jonathan Ross from accountability. And four senior career people couldn’t take it anymore.

Excessive force by officers is not new. What is novel for the United States is the use of federal power afterward to stifle investigation and shield wrongdoing.

That path is unprecedented and indefensible. trib.al/SRjZES5

You can't have all the benefits of equality without the equality, but she could stop working. Others will serve Elon Musk and do racist podcasts. She's right that her work isn't helping anyone!

Amazing how anyone made anything before 2023!

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

I've been thinking lately about how when Trump won last time many of the building that bore his name weren't actually owned by him - they licensed the name - and they removed the names from his buildings. He's trying to create a legacy for himself.

Trump is a physical rapist. But he's a spiritual rapist, too:

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

A promised vote on the ACA? See, they can’t include the ACA without having to bring the House back into session - and they’d have to swear in Grijalva. That’s what this is all about. Protecting the Epstein files.

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

Also, being scared to go to #NoKings in your big blue city or nice blue suburb feels extra dumb when you see these people doing it.

Video of ‘anti-fascists’ being attacked is AI deepfake of Portsmouth protest – Full Fact A video showing a group of people with an anti-fascist flag being attacked isn’t real—it’s an AI deepfake made using an old image.

A viral video shared with claims it shows “anti-fascists” being attacked is not real, and was made using an image from September 2024.

Clues such as the text on a flag changing halfway through are evidence the clip was made using artificial intelligence.

I was talking to a 22 year-old who is doing the same sort of work I am right now and through a weird twist in the conversation Gamergate was brought up and he looked honestly confused and said "wait, that was real?" and I've been thinking about it ever since. I don't know what to do with that.

Quick reminder that we don’t actually have to live like this, there are several men who have simply decided to allow it. For profit.

With awful news about Conor Gearty’s death, it’s apt to listen to & reflect on this searching & v recent discussion about the threats to human rights in Britain & what on Earth to do about it …

In his gentle tones he forcefully convey the answer is NOT just to lie down & accept that decency is over

But the libs were so triggered

What a stat.