doodle!

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

An illustration of Huckle Cat as a streaming gamer. Text reads “A streaming cat just got a follower notification. His stream is very active tonight.”

A Busy streamer

dinner,,..

environmental storytelling

Dam him up!

Reid Wiseman Well, Jeremy asked me to move in with him when I was looking for a place to live when we first got here, and I was like, there is no way I’m moving in with that guy. Like, we’ll never graduate from our astronaut candidate, period. So I said no, and I rented a little apartment down by Kemah, Texas for our transition here with my family. And I look back and really regret that. I think we would have had a lot of fun if I said yes to that request. Jeremy Hansen Yeah, you should regret that life choice. Nilufar Ramji Anything to counter that, Jeremy? Jeremy Hansen Not really. No. I’ll leave it at that. You got enough from that. That snippet.

Nilufar Ramji So the four of your names were announced to the world in early 2023. I want to know a little bit about how you were told and how you were feeling in that exact moment. Reid Wiseman Everybody always asks this question. Nilufar Ramji I know. The world always wants to know. I actually don’t know the answer to that question. Reid Wiseman First, we’d have had to have shown up to the meeting on time. Christina Koch We were all late. Victor Glover We’ll never forget March 7, 2023. A date that will live in infamy. Christina Koch We really demonstrated to our leadership that they chose the right crew. None of us were on time. Reid Wiseman I missed it all together. Christina Koch You had to video chat in. Reid Wiseman Oh, yeah, I did.

Christina Koch Yeah, we were late because I had the wrong impression that it was a virtual meeting, which I took from a different NASA site here. And yeah, I guess I know my impression was when I finally did make it, which about 15 minutes late, walked into the room, saw my boss and my boss’s boss and you. And thought, were you? You weren’t, yeah, just Victor, and those, those other two. And I thought, Oh, wow, we’re in for something here. And sat down and got the question. Reid Wiseman Joe Acaba put a meeting on my calendar that was about some Soyuz related thing. And I just, I completely ignored it. And then at some point he texted me, and was like, Are you going to join the meeting? And I said, I just thought this was like, arbitrary type of thing. And so I teamed in from the lobby of a doctor’s office, and I saw those two sitting there with our Big Boss, Norm Knight, the director of flight operations, and then Joe Acaba, the chief astronaut. And I was like, oh boy, I picked the wrong meeting to miss.

If anyone wants to laugh a fair bit from NASA's podcast with the Artemis II crew that was done ahead of the flight, with it here: www.nasa.gov/podcasts/hou...

Guards! I want that twink abliterated!

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

digital illustration of helgi, my fursona. he's a brown wolf with black neck and head with white star on his forehead and golden eyes. he look at the viewer. the sun is rising between the mountain in the background. the text reads "yesterday's woke nonsense is today's normal human rights and you probably are benefiting from it right now!"

Helgi have a word

#berensart2026

please go play hypnospace outlaw it's possibly the best game I've ever played

The scene is ALEX KARP, CEO of Palantir, sat in an armchair by a fireside with an open children's book. His hair is wild, his stare intense, his eyes shifting round the room. The comic has many panels of silence where he just stares at us intensely. [Silent pause] [Silent pause] ALEX KARP: Hi there. I'm Alex Karp. CEO of Palantir. [Silent pause. Shifty eyes] [Silent pause] And if you're an enemy of America something really bad is going to happen to you. And your friends and your cousins and your parents And you need to go to bed scared and wake up scared [Waving his arms around now] Because the American people don't wanna hear your woke pagan ideology anymore And you need to know that this technology will take power from educated female voters and - VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE Alex... ALEX KARP: Huh [Pull wider to show that this is in fact the set of the CBEEBIES BED TIME STORY and a CBEEBIES PRODUCER is talking to him from next to a camera operator]. CBEEBIES PRODUCER: This is the Cbeebies Bedtime Story [The book Alex is supposed to be reading is on a screen. It is titled: THE TECH BRO AND THE MAGIC BUBBLE] ALEX KARP: I could destroy you CBEEBIES PRODUCER: Sorry [Ends]

tech people used to tell optimistic stories

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

Eternally tapping the sign that the Applegates are unfathomably based and you need look no further than this open letter Kate wrote in June 2001 in response to people complaining about the book's ending.

Xenia the fox just woke up, looking groggy. Coffee mug reads "Don't talk to me until I fix this broken Xorg update [Arch Linux logo]", and the oversized t-shirt reads "this cat's name is [bash fork bomb] you should type his name on your linux's terminal (don't do that)"

She spent the evening debugging something

White,

that stands out against the dark pavement.

A series of buttons for different levels. The bottom level is labeled "Earth" and the top level is called "Space"

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

A drawing of Sticklordy's sona, a bat-deer hybrid, sitting and looking at the viewer. She wears a dark gray crop top and shorts.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!🏳️‍⚧️ I'm Stick and I'm a trans artist~ I wanted to make something for myself so here's a lil ink, watercolour, and coloured pencil drawing of my sona.

I wish all trans folks find acceptance, love, safety, and hope today and always 💜

#furry #furryart #traditionalart #tdov

Glad you got your thumbs back

Is that avatar an AI generated Ted Kaczynski

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Unfortunately

happy trans visibility day !!! 🏳️‍⚧️
made this real quick ^^'

Commissioned Painting for @hackainax.bsky.social

We are THRILLED to announce that our Ecma standards will now use UUIDs instead of integers.

ECMA-262 is now ECMA-39c506d7-731f-4220-8ffd-a68970945a65.

Far more scalable. No two specs will ever collide again. Perfect system.

Shortened forms like ECMA-39c506d7 are acceptable in casual conversation.