A screenshot from the TV show Parks and Rec showing Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, showing off a quilt she'd made
Congressional Quilt Show Resolution of 2026 - A couple US representatives have introduced a resolution to establish an annual Congressional Quilt Show (www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/hous... to foster cultural pride and ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93744
Your what now? - My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative (www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligen... – This article wins the award for the weirdest headline and weirdest consumer pr... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93742
A photo of a mirror reflecting a woman wearing dark jeans, purple socks, a black belt, and a black-and-gray striped shirt
Another non-scale victory 👖 - I know clothing sizes are bullshit and they get bigger every year, but my Mom set aside a pile of size 12 jeans that were too big for her in January, and they didn’t quite fit me then, but today every single pair does.
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A screengrab from a Madonna video showing three women dressed in blue dancing in front of cloudy sky coloured with purple and yellow. The woman on the right has dark hair pulled back in a ponytail with a bow on her head.
Is that… Debi Mazar in Madonna’s “True Blue” video?! According to Wikipedia, it is! Well spotted, self.
In related news, it’s a relaxed Sunday morning.
Look at the women at NASA.
They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.
And they are doing it all with joy.👇
I told my husband “The parachutes looked just like Moominmamma’s apron.” 🤣❤️🚀 #moomins
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
It was amazing watching Artemis II successfully return to earth. I realize we've had countless other successful landings but I was a school aged child during the Challenger disaster, so hyped up space missions have made me nervous ever since. It was glorious to see them land safely.
Anderson Cooper: “There’s nothing AI about this… gas-powered helicopters winching people out of the sea!” A-fucking-men.
A nerdy woman in glasses and a hoodie, holding a beer bottle in front of a television showing the Integrity spacecraft floating in the ocean
Integrity splashdown - That was amazing. I decided it was the perfect occasion for the last of my beers.
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Another project for the To Do list… - Me: Hey, Matt Haughey used Claude to code up a home dashboard (a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-vibe-code-your-ow... That’s a valid use case, I think
Rodd: There’s been quite a bit ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93736
Exit 8 - It both amuses and horrifies me that there is a new movie based on a video game (www.theverge.com/entertainment/908944/exi... about being trapped in a Tokyo subway station and trying to find your way out, an experience ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93734
Re-entry day - Someone on Reddit last year asked the same question I’ve been wondering: Why can’t spacecraft slow down before re-entering the atmosphere so that they wouldn’t have a fiery re-entry? (https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceflight/comments/1k6p https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93732
A yellow bag of Better Made Special brand Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel pieces.
Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels - Everything’s terrible, but these pretzels (and the Artemis II astronauts) are the bright spark in my day.
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I liked the part where they explained that the crew trained by going to different weird places and practiced describing them
Hm this almost sounds like humanities might matter lol
My “crying at the noble bravery of the Artemis astronauts” was briefly paused after one of the talking heads on CNN said, when talking excitedly about why we’re so excited to see the far side of the moon, “The backside of the moon has really been pounded.” 😳😂
A screenshot of the Artemis II Mission Tracking dashboard showing the "Deep Space Network Tracking" section, showing that 2 dishes in Canberra are tracking Orion.
Artemis II and the Deep Space Network - I’ve been following along with the Artemis II mission using Jakob Rosin’s excellent tracking dashboard (https://artemis.jakobrosin.com and I get a thrill every time I see that the dishes in Canberra are tracki... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93727
A person's feet wearing mottled pink hand knit ribbed socks
Strawberry Swirl Socks - They’re finished!
These are Kate Atherley’s Basic Ribbed Socks (kateatherley.blogspot.com/2007/12/by-popular-deman... knitted out of ms.gusset sock (https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/msgusse https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93721
A half-eaten Russell Stover peanut butter-filled chocolate Easter bunny
Happy Easter - I was going to get a Reese’s egg before I remembered that Hershey ruined the recipe (www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/he... so badly they had to publi... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93720
A chart for knitted lace showing a red circled numeral "5" in a row of purl stitches
Knitting chart syntactic sugar - It’s not every day I find a new-to-me burgeoning standard for knitting notation. This Redditor asked (www.reddit.com/r/knitting/comments/1s4i... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93714
Rocket emoji app 🚀 - I don’t think I’ve posted about it before, but Rocket (https://matthewpalmer.net/rocket/ is one of the first apps I install on any Mac I use. It’s a very simple little app that allows you to use Slack style notation to easil... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93712
A screenshot of a tweet from @parsfarce that reads: american birds: chirp chirp european birds: cheep cheep australian birds: FUCKIN АНАНАНАНАНАНА
Aussie songbirds 🎵🐦 - There was a Bluesky thread recently asking for the funniest ever tweets from the Other Place, and this one made me LOL.
I sent it to Rodd, who replied: “Joke’s on them. They’re all Australian. (https://www.csiro.au/en/ne https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93709
I never thought of this as funny
It speaks another world to me
I wanna be your Easter bunny
I wanna be your Christmas tree
Palia on MacBook Neo - I’m super stoked to report that Palia (https://www.palia.com worked really well on a MacBook Neo, using the steps and Launcher I mentioned previously (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/25564 It’s way better than playing on ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93706
Mural Wallpapers from Astek - These are so lovely! (www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/astek-wallpapers... See, if I were going to go full maximalism, this is what I’d do. But ugh, I’ve been subscribed to the /... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93704
A white woman in glasses, wearing a pink shirt, holding a beer in a brewpub
A flyer that reads: YARN RAVE APRIL 3 JOON UNWIND GR AT HARMONY BREWING COMPANY ON FRIDAY, APRIL 3 FROM 9PM-MIDNIGHT FOR A LATE NIGHT YARN RAVE! THERE WILL BE A STITCH MARKER BAR, DJ, DRINKS, AND SNACKS. BRING YOUR PROJECT AND COME CRAFT!
Yarn Rave 🧶🍻 - When someone asks if you want to go to a Yarn Rave, you say YES!
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
A person’s foot wearing a hand knit pink and red sock, with their toes sticking out the unfinished end
Strawberry Swirl Socks - Progress! Time to start the toe decreases.
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