In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Thank you, I was not aware of this and I love it!

You asked for a tactile dashboard interface, so now the screens are exclusively operated via keyboard + mouse

Oh hello, is this pop modern physics through a mixture of science and poetry?

More furry art on my feed I see

Just ordered a print since I've agonized over it three times now every time I'm reminded of you 😁

To be fair, I do this with big rocks

This is fake

Wow the pixel barrier distortions look AMAZING

Lovely calcite, what cave is that?

Some of us like our existential horror stories with a side of whimsy, thank you very much.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and Also This AI was Trained on Early-2000s Geocities Fansites

Wow, well, we certainly wouldn't want to frame any actions by Dem leadership as tacit approval of Trump's conduct.

I wondered that too, and haven't found any info. Pretty sure it's just window glare.

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:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

A south-up image of the Earth, centered on the Atlantic Ocean and bordered by Africa on the left and South America on the right.

For anyone else curious, here's the rough orientation of the image. It feels surprisingly novel to see a South-up Earth picture!

Okay. This flyby mission makes sense as a step towards reestablishing human presence on the Moon, and there's no substitute for having astronauts there to test the equipment & procedures. I don't agree that human space travel is frivolous, even if Mars is a long way away.

The Artemis program is intended to get humans back on the Moon for the first time in 50 years, and to progress towards getting humans to Mars. During this flyby, they'll test systems that will be used to land on the Moon on subsequent missions.

Just off-center enough. Sublime

I learned about you from your covers, and I'll cherish my memories of your MAGFest sets. But you've clearly found your voice with JER; DotH is a protest music masterpiece, and I look forward to raging with you at Ukie Club again 🤘Cheers to your new chapter!

That's interesting, how are you checking the true status?

✋If you're up for explaining, I'm one of the people who has no idea what you're talking about

I love this piece, and also the phrase "threat of a fern" in the alt text

Our Momo has the best lapel drip though. That's worth something.

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The BLACK MAGE

FINAL FANTASY
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Pombon final stage leaked

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

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NYPD are investigating after an officer received a mustard stain while responding to a food fight in a local elementary school cafeteria

There are ways I could see an LLM helping with structure around learning, but that's almost certainly not how they're being used by teenagers. I was glad my graphing calc wouldn't do symbolic calculus in high school, because I knew I would've cheated to get through my homework. And I LIKED math.

I'm having trouble figuring out an adequately robust response in 300 characters. Power and privilege and culture are complex, and all interwoven with gender. I don't intend to minimize that, nor to make you exert any rhetorical effort on my behalf. The initial tweet just read too pithy to me.