The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath

Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…

Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.

If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

NASA's philosophy with the SLS rocket is very literally "test like you fly". Despite being behind schedule and over budget, it got to the moon and back on its maiden flight. SpaceX (also being schedule and over budget), makes explosions to entertainment. Very very different work cultures.

MERE, Sorrow Spring, Greater Sins, Witch Bottle, Meet Me at the Surface, Barrowbeck, Secret Lives of the Dead

Harvest home the autumnal the ritual the twisted ones slew foot something in the walls ghost wall the plague stones never whistle at night the boatman's daughter white pines lost in the garden revelator gorse withered hill devil's day the only good Indians the bone mother the lottery double walker

I will be enjoying a Folk Horror Summer this year!

A banner that reads OLDER LGBT SCIENCE FICTION: A DATABASE in big letters, and tinyurl.com/oldgaySF in smaller print below. The background is an orange-tinted retro-looking photo of a row of radio telescopes.

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀

LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

Joined!!! I am not great at Storygraph but I miss y'all so much!

Okayyy i redownloaded Storygraph! How do i do anything?? How do I friend you!

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

Oh no, this might get me back on Storygraph!

NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045 WASHINGTON—In what is being described as the most ambitious mission ever undertaken in the space agency’s history, NASA officials announced at a press conference Tuesday their bold new plan to still e...

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Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive.

RFK Jr. is speaking to a specific slice of parents (mostly) who believe their autistic child is not like the autistic people who, for example, post on this app. Those parents are committed to a diagnosis of "profound" autism. They are wrong. Please read this from me and @juststimming.bsky.social

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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It drives me crazy. To dare to talk about protecting the Earth when all you're doing is a PR stunt that pollutes the equivalent of a decade of a Westerner's life who already pollute a lot.

I love space exploration, but space tourism for selfish rich people is a cancer.

I hope everyone remains safe and also that people know that a corporate spaceflight of only women astronauts for a company owned by a deeply destructive billionaire who is enabling fascism is just public relations for fascism and has absolutely nothing to do with feminism

starting a conspiracy that the katy perry who came back from space isn’t the same one who went up.

Five teeth taken out, and she is completely zooted.

There's a lot of talk about inspiring future STEM workers, including girls, at Jared Isaacman's hearing today to be the next NASA administrator. That will be harder to accomplish since NASA has recently demolished many initiatives to bring underrepresented groups into science.

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...

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So so excited for this! Just backed.

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

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I absolutely loved it! 🤍 Can't wait to run through your back catalog, too.

Just finished reading an ARC of "These Heathens" by @miamckenzie.bsky.social - a longer review on GoodReads is to come, but can I just say: what a hilarious, bittersweet, fascinating look at the intersection of the civil rights movement and Black queer history. Doris is now one of my fav protags.

Alabama resident, can confirm that this past November we had 31 individual positions to vote for, and out of those, 23 were Republicans running unopposed.

What did you think of ODW? I bounced off of it but am curious about this one because I thought the quality of writing was higher than average.

As a NASA employee with all the shit happening right now, this really hit me hard. Beautiful. Thank you.

My birding life might have peaked.