Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"

Black and white photo of Mary Jackson standing in front of banks of computers and machinery. She is holding a pen or pencil in her right hand, and pieces of paper in her left hand. She wears a light colored jacket, dark pants, a dark sweater, a blouse with polka dots, and glasses.

Mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson was born #OTD in 1921.

Jackson worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics until it was succeeded by NASA in 1958. She then became the first black woman to work as a NASA engineer. 🧪 🚀 👩🏾‍🔬

www.nasa.gov/history/mary...

I'm waiting for an import to finish at work, so I pulled up youtube and am watching a live-feed of the moon from a spaceship.
Feeling a little emotional.

Ever find some documentation you previously wrote that explains the thing you're confused about now, and it's just like, "thank you, past me"

It's been 15+ years since I was in grad school and I *still* get those nightmares.
It's always a math class.

I realized while shoveling this morning that if I go to hell, it will be an endless driveway with a foot-plus of snow

Always a good idea to turn off auto-play videos; choose what you see and what you don't.

How I know I need a break:

Coworker: y'know, what you're doing would be easier if you use this functionality
Me: oh! I didn't even know we had that!
*looks at function*
Huh. This looks familiar.
...
Wait a second, I *wrote* that!!

Thank you!!

a happy diwali greeting card with a lit candle and flowers Alt: a happy diwali greeting card with a lit candle and flowers

Sending big Diwali blessings to everyone who celebrates!!

🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟

I am in the same position

fun fact: columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade and genocide

Every day is Indigenous Peoples' Day

Landback flag

#Landback today, and every day.

Mantises in your plantises?
...I'll see myself out

Sending this to a friend 💜

Those are super cute!!

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson sitting at her desk. She is wearing glasses and white or light dress with short sleeves and a collar. Johnson is looking to the right of the photographer. An analog adding machine sits on the desk in front of her, along with several papers and a translucent globe with multiple axes used for orbital calculations. She is holding a pen or pencil in her right hand, and wearing a bracelet or watch on her left wrist.

Mathematician Katherine Johnson was born #OTD in 1918.

Her orbital mechanics computations played a vital role in many early NASA missions. Astronaut John Glenn trusted her calculations more than those of his onboard flight computer. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Image: NASA

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

Hello, I'm a programmer in a film. I work in a dark room surrounded by monitors that reflect off my glasses. I type without stopping, and when I finally hit "enter" a whole series of programs run flawlessly on the first try.

I go to the library for a meeting, telling myself firmly that I won't get anything because I already have several at home plus another hold on the way.
But we all know that was a lie.

I second this!

My office assistant

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Perhaps for no particular reason you might be interested in long-term access to a handy guide to US vaccine guidelines as they stood at the end of 2024: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

This looks nice but I’m worried it might cost me an arm

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies is scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center left lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. At center top, another smooth elliptical galaxy is oriented horizontally, with a wispy tail extending right. At right, a group of interacting galaxies is connected by delicate streams of stars like spider silk. All throughout the image, millions of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

The Virgo Cluster is about 55 million light-years away from Earth, and is the nearest large collection of galaxies to our own Milky Way.🔭🧪

Rubin captured this stunning image in "survey mode" using the 3200-megapixel LSST Camera.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

A new view of two old friends 🤩

Feast your eyes upon NSF–DOE Rubin's view of the Trifid & Lagoon Nebulae!

This image shows what makes Rubin unique: its wide field of view, & speed that allows it to take lots of big images quickly. 🔭🧪

rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/trifid-lagoon

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13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is

Happy No Kings Day!

I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest today, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.

No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...

I had exactly this problem with algebra. I couldn't understand *why* certain actions had to be taken before others (PEMDAS). It wasn't until years later that I realized PEMDAS is basically just grammar for math, and has no mago-mystical origin.

Color photo of Sally Ride in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-7 in 1983. The front window is illuminated by blue-white light from the Earth below. Ride is seen in profile, from the wait up, floating in front of a console. A binder is open in front of her.

Physicist and astronaut Sally Ride was born #OTD in 1951. She was the first American woman and the youngest American in space.

After NASA she worked on arms control and physics, investigated the Columbia and Challenger disasters, and promoted STEM through Sally Ride Science. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 🚀

Image: NASA