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My favorite dinosaur is egret

Oh you’re right they do plan to

Did they actually sell their shoe IP?

I predict tomorrow Leavitt will say something like “The President was joking. He has an amazing sense of humor.” Followed by Trump being like “No, I am Christ.”

Gotta go with my favorite mission photos for this #stunday

There's something utterly fantastic about the WB-57 footage of launches, like the one we just got for Artemis II, and I clipped it just after SRB separation.

FR this is one of my biggest frustrations with bsky

Screenshot of an intentionally minimalist 1990s style website called BannerDepot 2000 that shows a search and filter interface with banner ads on the left column that you can choose from, and then banner ads arranged as a poem in the center. The banner add poem in construction reads "Greetings Earthlings / are you lonely? / Do you love your Mother? // EARTH NOT ALL THAT YOU HOPED FOR? / Behold / VISIT A PLANET YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. / You see? It's simple..."

A bit of lightness. The BannerDepot 2000 Poetry Maker is so fun.

It's an archive of banner ads from the 1990s and early 2000s, and you can make poems from the ads.

Amazing work by Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao.

BannerDepot 2000: banner-depot-2000.net

I also cannot ship my work today because it’s too powerful to release publicly

Israel != Jews. Israel is a state with its own goals, one of which was to get the U.S. into this war, via a particularly stupid and malleable president. And they did! It is not antisemitic to state this plainly. It does not absolve Americans and their government.

That’s a beautiful color though

A demented and evil Trump in a position to launch a war like this in the first place is an indictment of America. Of course our system bears responsibility. But it’s also an indictment of Israel for taking advantage of that.

This is real

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

••• captive dreamer & @captive_dreamer It doesn't even matter at this point. Of course there are no "boots on the ground" in Iran but even if there were, I don't care anymore. I've been wary of foreign intervention my whole life but at this point, as long as He control's immigration, I don't care what happens. Cucker Tarlson • @MozApologist • Mar 3 Replying to @captive_dreamer Where's the vid? If there's a single US boot dropped on Iran during Trump's presidency l'Il make a video denouncing the entire MAGA movement 12:33 AM • Mar 4, 2026 • 915.3K Views captive dreamer @captive_dreamer X.com

Erick Erickson • @EWErickson x.com Look, I don't think it's appropriate. Wish he hadn't. But if I have to choose between this and Trans Recognition Day or whatever on Easter, okay. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • 34m Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP 1.46k 7:28 PM • 4/5/26 • 367K Views ** 1.69k

These two tweets sum up the modern Republican party pretty well:

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

42 minutes until Artemis II goes around the moon!

Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d
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Watch 1 minute and 50 seconds of the Artemis II launch from the Orion capsule, including booster separation and adapter panel jettison...

...set to "No Time for Caution" from the Interstellar score.

NYT screenshot: As the sun was rising, the three planes launched in succession from the remote airstrip. The plane carrying the rescued airman went first followed by the others. When word reached the White House that the aircraft had cleared Iranian airspace, Mr. Trump announced the mission's success. "WE GOT HIM!," Mr. Trump exclaimed in a social media post a few minutes after midnight in Washington. "This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour."

I think this confirms he posted it like 5 hours before the WSO was actually out of Iranian airspace

Incredible

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Who TF would leak this *IF* it’s true

How do we know the U.S. official is not this guy

southern african hedgehog (Atelerix frontali) with chestnut

pondering the chestnut