Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

lots of bees out taking flying lessons late afternoon, foragers bringing in plenty of dandelion

ever just sit in a cloud of bees?

lilacs are taking off, malus is about to bloom, apple in full flower, the real spring has arrived

spiderman pointing meme

they look great! watched a couple emerging for the first time as well

my afternoon with the bees! transferred them to their full size hives, saw the queen in each colony, lots of healthy baby bees developing so they should expand quickly!

she's charging

did a quick check through the hive floors on the way to work, big cluster where i assume the brood nest is, both colonies still had foragers out flying even in the rain!

they're so cooooool

ahaha i was hoping bluesky would actually function enough for you to see this

i made such a good call doing this, if you've never sat on the ground in a cloud of bees it's unbelievably cool

i have beeeeeeees!

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

oh but i can't attach a large powerpoint without being forced to use onedrive, the devil's storage medium

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

apollo II (foto da terra parcialmente sombreada tirada da lua) "that's one small step for man, one giant leap to mankind" - neil armstrong artemis II (foto da terra um pouco mais sombreada com o horizonte da lua à frente/ "i have two Microsoft Outlooks, ans neither of those are working" - reid wiseman

these motherfuckers said it would splashdown at 8:07 and it splashed down at 8:07. after going to the fucking moon. fucking a man. god damn

i can't sit with them

probably the first plant I got when I started this garden was this jasmine so it was slightly overdue a bigger pot. managed to do it without pulling the whole plant off the wall netting!

if you have to deal with dogs in the absence of their owners in an already stressful environment i cannot tell you how immediately obvious it becomes that we've done a tremendous amount of damage. like generationally we have wreaked havok on these animals and it gets worse every single year

like "he barks a lot if i leave him alone" yes and you did that to him and you're reinforcing that behaviour every time you demand to take him somewhere dogs don't need to be. good luck when he has some kind of cardiorespiratory compromise and tries to stress himself to death over being hospitalised

this is just another flavour of entitled behaviour from people incapable of living in a community but fwiw as a veterinary professional a huge percentage of dogs are now riddled with behavioural problems incl separation anxiety that literally endangers their lives when they need hospital care

spent the sunny afternoon getting the final prep work for the beehives finished ready for the Great Arrival next week!

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i'm Wiped but it was a gorgeous day!

0 deaths, a tyre change and 100km later, i made it back to the car with 20mins of daylight left

its like 20 degrees and sunny so everyone wish me a merry not die while I try to beat my best cycling distance record