"Captain, can I PLEASE target their warp core? I have been VERY good this month!"

Absolutely right to have Artemis there, but where is Luna?

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

A photograph of a $20.10 top sirloin steak, at the store.

Nobody tell Wayne. Unclear whether it's 'berta beef, but i still wouldn't pay twenty apiece for top sirloin from anywhere. Berta beef, Japanese Wagyu, Australian Wagyu.

Coastal landscape showing several red wooden buildings scattered across grassy terrain near the water. A small red house with white trim stands in the foreground on the right, while additional red sheds and houses sit farther back along the shoreline. Wooden fences run through the grass, and a couple of small white boats rest upside down on the ground. In the distance, more houses line the opposite side of the inlet under a clear sky with warm evening light.

There is a unique dialect of the Irish language that evolved in Newfoundland and became forever linked with the island.
It is called Newfoundland Irish and many work to keep the language alive.
This is the story.

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A teardrop-shaped campfire blanket crest with a yellow border, showing the Scouts Canada logo, a watering can pouring water onto some plant leaves, and the campaign name, "Scout Seeds 2026."

I apologize for putting an ad in your Bluesky, but my Scout Group is starting fundraising for the year, and I'd love to help folks get their gardens started! Just visit the shop (makeitsow.com/seeds/shop/#...) and enter the code KINGSTON_2026 to help Kingston Centre Scouts with our fundraising!

Isadore of Seville, pray for us...

Well now, I spoke too soon about what my opinion of Dylan Larkin was going to be this week.

I am... deeply disappointed by everybody on the USA men's hockey team. And especially Dylan.

Today? Dylan Larkin can fuck off.
Thursday? That'll be a different story.

I got into following sports, in a border town, at a time when the Jays were on fire and the Leafs were just a dumpster fire. Made choices. I've cheered for the Wings almost the whole time. I also lamented their having hired Todd Bertuzzi, while wanting the rest of the team to win. Just not Todd.

...why do I suddenly have the X-Men cartoon's theme song in my head?

I don't mind. I'm just... where did that come from?

An oldie but a goodie. I'm sure my parish priest would get a kick out of this.

... when there's work to be done in Skeleton Park (not quite its real name, but it's how it's known) they call the anthropologists and police before they call the contractors!

... there was a good chance of finding remains that had migrated their way to the surface. Not so much anymore, but any time the city does any work on the playground, odds are good something will be found. It makes the process take much longer, because work has to stop, right? Locals joke that ...

Where I live, there's a park nearby that used to be the "Upper Burial Ground" once upon a time. When they moved the cemetery to a new address, they didn't disinter everyone, just moved the headstones. Except for the 20' tall obelisk, that remains as a cenotaph. But for decades, after a hard rain ...

Maybe? I seem to recall them walking in a similar way. Prints are usually about 2" wide, and you'd see claw marks. Can't quite tell from the picture.

... like that such that the resulting tracks will either seem to be just two, or I'd believe this sort of line if it's a big fat tom.

I'm thinking cat. Rabbits and hares have wildly outsized hind feet, and tend leave roughly triangular sets of prints. It's probably too small to be any squirrel I've ever seen, judging by the surroundings. But when cats are trying, and walking from place to place, they can line up their paws ...

... who's visiting the school just sighs and says, "yes, I'm sure God would take that into account, Izzy, sit down."

... ridiculous. "You're on a ship at sea, on Pentecost Sunday, and you haven't done your Easter Duty yet. And the chaplain falls into a coma. Then it's midnight, too late. But you cross the International Date Line! And you really wanted to receive! Would that then be a sin then?" And the priest ...

In the bit, he's talking about trying a couch a sin in absurd circumstances to try to relieve the guilt, and he mentions that when he was growing up in Brooklyn in the 30s, it was still a mortal sin to deliberately miss Communion between Ash Wednesday and Pentecost. So it becomes more and more ...

That's a really neat metaphor, and one that even my lifelong Catholic self finds beneficial for trying to separate "crap thing to do" even from venial sin.

But I also can't get George Carlin out of my head now. "Would that then be a sin then, Fawdah?" Is missing the Easter Duty still a mortal sin?

The cover art of Joy DIvision's 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures. On a black background, the band's name and album name are written in plain white letters at the top and bottom, separated by a graph of apparent mountains on otherwise horizontal lines. The album art is a ridgeline plot of the radio emissions of a pulsar, CP 1919.

It is with some hesitation that I admit that it was in the Year of our Lord 2026 that I finally listened to any Joy Division beyond Love Will Tear Us Apart.

I'm offended by my own failure in this regard. But, in the same vein as the second-best time to plant a tree being today, I'm fixing that now.

I was follower # 8001, sorry not sorry I broke it.

That feels... adjacent, anyway, to the plot for all the X-COM games.

Paging Ashley Johnson...

I can hear it in his breathing in the first half of the video. He's short of breath not because he's cold but because he's holding onto his calm with every fibre of his being, in order to clearly convey the story of what happened. What's the saying? Beware the fury of a patient man?

...kind of impact that one person can have on those around them, just by taking those values and living them out loud. 4/4

...into it. Don't expect anything in return, just do that good turn because it deserves doing. Set the example for the next person to follow. Be kind. Be considerate.

Maybe this feels reductive? But the youth group I volunteer with espouses these values. And it was just delightful to see the... 3/4

...suddenly on their best behaviour after having interacted with him. Definitely goes a long way to show what kind of an influence we can have on others by our mere presence.

Sure, Santa's a special case. But if you'd like to see a kinder world, start by putting a little bit of kindness out... 2/4