An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today.

This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Honestly I’d frame that. 😅 you threaten them, apparently!

YES!! Yes. Nice to know I’m not alone in calling out “the horrors”-fixation

Yes.. YES!! So much yes.

Point being, you can enjoy and be excited about something and that doesn’t mean you’re denying the horrors or oblivious to the horrors or somehow taking away from the seriousness of the horrors.

I reserve the right to be HAPPY about something DESPITE the horrors. And if that’s a problem, unfollow.

True! My mom told me she didn’t remember Apollo 11 because she was planning her wedding. (So ashamed.)

There are posts in my feed obliquely shaming those of us that were (and still ARE) experiencing Moon Joy. For anyone born after 1972, this flyby is something we’ve waited a lifetime for. I refuse to apologize for enjoying it. That little crumb of joy is all that keeps us from the brink of despair.

A view inside the Artemis II Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center, where the Artemis cat plush is clearly seen in the background behind the CAPCOM desk. Someone has brought him a coffee and a special donut, which is really kind. It’s been a long day for both humans and moon kitties.

They got Artemis a coffee and a donut. That’s so nice, it was a long day for him! #SailorMoon #ArtemisII

I feel justified in the screaming, but also I recognize that not everyone is experiencing as much moon joy as I am. In the interest of NOT presenting fabulous amounts of autism, I’ve decided NOT to talk the ears off any victim I can successfully corner.

As much as I want to. 😅😅

I’m sitting in the break room eating my lunch, watching the live Moon flyby feed on my phone, as coworkers buzz around going about their days, and I want to scream “WE’RE FLYING AROUND THE MOON RIGHT NOW!!” at everyone, which I’m choosing not to do.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Danielle wearing her space trucker jacket (now no longer missing the all-important STS-133 pin) and Woman on the Moon tee, because fuck this administration’s erasure of anything DEI—and I’m sorry, fuck NASA for going along with it—WOMEN BELONG ON THE MOON.

You say “casual Friday at work”, I say REGALIA DAY TWO.

THIS MAKES MY ENTIRE YEAR RIGHT HERE 😭😭😭😍😍😍

OMG!!!!!!!!! 😭😍

Dean Pelton" April Fools Day is officially banished, okay? April 1st is officially March 32nd forever

Happy March 32nd

I guess I’m the only space artist posting a non-Artemis/Moon related piece today, but you know what, it’s my first space painting in over a year. So wtf-ever. 😅

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. It’s a vivid memory from the summer I graduated high school, and it’s stayed with me ever since.

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. Shown on my art desk with several pans of sparkly watercolors used in the piece. There’s a lot of sparkle going on.

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. Shown at a slight angle to capture some of the blue-purple color shift in the paints.

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. Detail of the tail area, where a whisper of purple can be seen amid the blues and greens.

New painting just dropped!! HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS, 10x8”, pearlescent watercolor on black paper w/aluminum mount. (Really!)

#watercolor #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #SciArt #comet

I found the black and gold NASA worm
Patch in my dad’s things after he passed… I bought it for him at Space Camp when I was 15, and he’d saved it on the card for 30+ years. 😭

Danielle wearing her STS-133 NASA Tweetup lanyard and badge, and “space trucker” denim jacket covered in space and nerdy pins and patches (including Artemis I, Woman on the Moon, and authentic shuttle-era Pilot position patch. And astronaut socks, astronaut earrings, two moonstones, and solar system bracelet for MAXIMUM GOOD VIBES.

So if you thought I was showing up to work NOT in full regalia… you’d be wrong.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

That IS a full-time job, and an important one!

Thanks! I’m slowly mending. It’s my own fault, too many weeks working late trying to prep for our first (local) gem show of the season. It was super successful! But alas, now I have the crud. 😅

I have what I’ve described to my coworker as a classic Danielle-did-all-the-things-too-long burnout cold (see: every finals week of college, about halfway through. And sick through whatever week of vacation followed.)

[SNERK] 😓

18k print giveaway graphic - square photo of a selection of my fine art prints all spread out at various angles. On top is a large white rectangle with a black transparency border and the text PRINT GIVEAWAY. Below is the logo for BABE&OAK and the URL Babeandoak.carrd.co

✨18k Print giveaway!✨

Winner can pick any one s/m size art print in my shop 💖

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Ends Thurs March 12 MIDNIGHT EST
Open to US & Canada

Winner will be contacted through DMs
I’ll use a random number generator to select the winner

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Thank you! I welcome any opportunity to nerd up a public institution.

That’s important! Celebrate any win, big or small! 😂

A photo of an envelope from the Library of Congress, US Copyright Office, with a black business card lying on top showing a Jolly Roger-styled illustration of a “skull and crossbones”. The skull wears a fedora hat, stylishly tilted, and the “bones” are a crossed rock hammer and shovel.

This is a tiny victory amid all the horrors [waves hands around] …but sharing because this is my first official copyright EVER, and I fuckin LOVE that @rckhnd.com‘s nerdy Jolly Rockhound is now in the Library of Congress. 😍

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes