I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.
Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely
Seeing The xx perform live again 🥰 Wish I were there!
(PSA the Coachella livestream is online today through Sunday!)
XD people gotta know
A selfie of Robin with a slight smile gazing at the camera on a spring day. Behind her are a leafy liquidambar tree and a silver maple that hasn't leafed out yet, standing tall in front of patchy clouds broken up with little bits of blue sky. Robin has her hair pulled back into a ponytail, and is wearing a dark gray turtleneck under a black Bay FC vest with orange accents. She's wearing her glasses with thick black wooden frames, a pair of bone conducting headphones, and sterling silver earrings in the shape of little birds with green gemstones, with her silver tree of life necklace draped around her neck.
Feeling cute; won't delete later 💖
Oh, but when *I* fall dramatically into the water while everyone is watching, I'm "ruining your kid's baptism."
The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis
Right?! 🥹
"Guess we'll have to go back!" #ArtemisII
fun realisation: the time from entry into the atmosphere to splashdown of #ArtemisII is approximately 2/3 of a controlled descent of a short-haul passenger aircraft
yeah that's fast
this space better not break, it's load-bearing
SPACE
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
Out of respect for the many survivors of SA I won't be boosting the news about Swalwell. You can find it easily if you want to.
I'll just say I'm glad it's coming to light, and I'm wishing the survivor in question as much peace and support as can be found. Her bravery is a gift to us all.
Screenshot of a TikTok from Washington Spirit’s Hal Hershfelt where she is holding a plastic decoy coyote whose legs she just screwed on. The caption says “you never know what’s happening in someone else’s locker room fr”
Apparently the Spirit have a new good luck charm: Jose the decoy coyote!
(There were fake coyotes on the training field they used at SJSU before the Bay game. It became a trophy for small-sided games and per a TikTok from Hal Hershfelt, @hccarter.bsky.social got one for the training facility.)
A swanky 1955 sewing machine, looking glamorous atop a shelf full of colorful bolts of fabric. The machine is all metal with a green-grey enamel finish and ivory-colored knobs and controls.
A cute little somewhat-modern sewing machine. It has a white plastic body with gold painted accents. An assortment of accessories are arrayed in front of it.
Two newly refurbed machines are now available at Bolt on NE Alberta!
* A stunning Pfaff 322 from 1955: https://evergreensewing.com/2026/04/09/pfaff-332/
* A tidy, reliable Janome Jem Gold 2 from ~2000: evergreensewing.com/2026/04/09/janome-jem-go...
#Sewing #PDX #Portland
I am going to NYC later this month for an awards ceremony at the Cipriani since the AP package I contributed to won an Overseas Press Club of America award.
I'd like to meet people doing cool or interesting work in the cybersecurity/privacy/human rights/etc. space. Anyone I should connect. with?
I want to do a bigger BADBOOL update this month so if you have requests, now is the time! You can post here but ALSO file a pull request or send me an email with BADBOOL in the subject line or it may get lost in the ether.
github.com/yaelwrites/B...
yael@yaelwrites.com
We got to spend time with member Joanna Paun at No Kings III in Petaluma!
A local community leader, Joanna shares our values and belief in a fairer world, and we couldn't be prouder to endorse her for County Supervisor.
To learn more about Joanna's campaign and volunteer, visit socodsa.org/paun/!
In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has:
-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies
-Cracked down on predatory landlords
-Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program
-Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets
This is what leadership looks like.
On Monday, I and four colleagues launched a month-long subscription drive for Ravenous (@weareravenous.com). We are a worker-owned food and culture site, aiming to publish thoughtful and incisive reporting, opinion pieces, and blogs about everything food touches. www.weareravenous.com/about/
The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.
It's my birthday and I'd like everyone to subscribe to one worker-owned/nonprofit outlet (pick @404media.co, @hellgatenyc.com, @boltsmag.org, @flaminghydra.com, etc)
and one print magazine (pick @newrepublic.com, @thenation.com, @nymag.com, @thebaffler.com, etc). Let's keep our pubs alive!
I grew up on a farm where we regularly had to fix our own tractors. I also briefly worked for John Deere and watched as they tried to justify why people shouldn't be allowed to do that. Get absolutely fucked Deere, right to repair forever and ever
www.thedrive.com/news/john-de...
low key why the Climate Corps is a idea. men should graduate college, get a few years romping around the forest planting trees and shit to get these hangups out of their system so they can realize working in AC sending emails is chill instead of making it everyone's problem
It's an account for Atmosphere apps.
It's not a "handle" for the whole "internet".
It's not a "Bluesky" account, a lot of us don't host our account there, and hopefully less will over time.
Atmosphere came from the community, we build as a community.
Don't overcomplicate it.
Atmosphere Account.
"Do not use the names of women athletes to target, shame or exclude transgender women. Transgender women are women. Women with intersex variations are women. I welcome these women – and all women – onto my teams."
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
“…the most pointed lesson in the book is that art draws its power from the resistance of its medium and the traces of creative labor left behind. It’s why you would use an oscillator that can’t maintain pitch rather than a digital filter that pretends it can’t.”
@oaklandreviewofbooks.org is so good
i'm fine actually if government services don't make a profit and actually think it's probably a good thing when they don't
this is literally what taxes are supposed to be for
like, maybe we don't need billions in war machines so much as we need medical care, education, mail and transit
