My Year as the Killjoy Notes on Walking Away

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hadows at the Edge of Lunar Day art002e009281 (April 6, 2026) – The Artemis II crew captures a portion of the Moon coming into view along the terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – where low-angle sunlight casts long, dramatic shadows across the surface. This grazing light accentuates the Moon’s rugged topography, revealing craters, ridges, and basin structures in striking detail. Features along the terminator such as Jule Crater, Birkhoff Crater, Stebbins Crater, and surrounding highlands stand out. From this perspective, the interplay of light and shadow highlights the complexity of the lunar surface in ways not visible under full illumination. The image was captured about three hours into the crew’s lunar observation period, as they flew around the far side of the Moon on the sixth day of the mission.

A Room With a View art002e012279 (April 6, 2026) - A view from the window of the Orion spacecraft approximately 9 minutes before Earthset during the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6, 2026.

A Solar Eclipse Like No Other art002e010782 (April 6, 2026) - In this view captured by the Artemis II crew on the Orion spacecraft, a wedge of the Moon in nighttime is visible in the foreground, as the Sun is setting on the opposite side. This image captures the beginning of a total solar eclipse that astronauts were able to observe at the end of their lunar observation period during Orion’s closest approach to the Moon on April 6, 2026. Unlike minutes-long eclipses as viewed from Earth, the Artemis II crew witnessed the Sun hide behind the Moon for nearly an hour. Because the astronauts were so near the Moon, it appeared much larger than the Sun; because of this, it took longer for the Sun to make its transit across the Moon and peek out the other side. From Earth, in contrast, the Moon and Sun appear about the same size, so even small changes in their alignment quickly bring the Sun back into view, making totality much shorter. The bright rays of light, or streamers, that are running outward towards the bottom of the Moon disk are part of the Sun's corona. The corona is the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere and is only visible during a total solar eclipse. It is normally hidden by the bright light of the Sun's surface. In addition, the jagged edge of the Moon visible in this image reveals the topography of backlit mountains on the horizon.

there are more!

[newscaster voice] indie animation has come a long way since RWBY!

(prepping the posts for when the majority of reviews don't talk about gender for some reason 🤪)

goddamn

Begging folks in salaried editorial positions within a multibillion dollar industry to actually learn about how their industry works, and how certain historically attached products impacted the livelihoods of writers that came before them.

omg

great holes secretly are digged,,,etc

Austrian artist and inventor Martin Kunze has led an expert group on long-term information preservation at the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He has developed a system that he calls the “nuclear message” — crucial information for future generations that is printed on a solid ceramic plate below a hard glazed surface. Kunze said that the ceramic plates are “inexpensive and very robust” and should ideally be buried “in large numbers” in the area around the repository as well as “inside the foundations” of every house in the community. The goal should be to distribute as many ceramic plates in the area as possible.

SHOW ME THE CERAMIC PLATES

ctrl+f honor no results

smh

A 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock will soon house the world's first permanent nuclear waste site The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of construction.

honorless

Sign posted at library entrance “please be aware there is a bird Stuck in the library”

the birds
they are learning

really should've let them kiss tho

rereading my review like wow this sounds neat www.polygon.com/reviews/2410...

Let's Imagine More than Dragons — Gamers with Glasses Games can easily fall into the same traps for imagination as science fiction and fantasy books. Ursula Le Guin wrote that Americans were afraid of fantasy, and in 2026, we still face a captured imagin...

Here's what happens when you start with a year-end wrap-up, wind up making a better point about games, fantasy, science fiction, and imagination, and then free the piece from being a year-end wrap up. @optional.bsky.social on games and writing about games: www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/let...

i read a lot of reviews of the ending of chainsaw man that could not make it three sentences before trying to write fanfiction about its author or wax poetic about how much meaning has been generated from Being A Fan

really glad Autumn is here to close read the actual text.

Is it still Chainsaw Man Tuesday?

I wrote a reading of Chainsaw Man that resists the metatextual reconciliation that's dominated its reception.

Solar Eclipse of the Heart art002e009573 (April 6, 2026) - The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

ru kidding me

They Don't See You as a Person YouTube video by peterspittech

They Don't See You as a Person

youtu.be/m1Yk3QJuzo0

Artemis Era Earthrise art002e009280 (April 6, 2026) – Earthrise captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 7:22 p.m. ET during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon’s far side. Earth appears as a delicate crescent, with only its upper edge illuminated. The planet’s soft blue hue and scattered white cloud systems stand out against the blackness of space, while the lower portion fades into night. Taken with a 400 mm lens, the image, Earthrise, reveals a striking alignment of Earth and Moon, with the Moon in the top foreground and the Earth below. Along the lunar horizon, rugged terrain is silhouetted against the bright crescent Earth. Both bodies are oriented with their north poles to the left and south poles to the right, offering a unique perspective of our home planet from deep space. This photo was rotated 90 degrees clockwise for standard viewing orientation.

the nasa propaganda is very good

A New View of the Moon art002e009287 (April 6, 2026) – Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.

they posted more moon www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Life Is Strange: Reunion gives fans everything they want, and is worse off for it Life Is Strange: Reunion cares more about placating fans than giving this story and these characters the ending they deserve.

Reunion is the worst Life is Strange has ever been. But this is what you wanted.

www.avclub.com/life-is-stra...

Why We Fly | Defector It was a lovely day above the Moon. The Artemis astronauts did some science, took lots of pictures, didn’t die or get replaced by bodysnatchers, and perhaps most importantly, made me bawl a couple of…

Why we fly: defector.com/artemis-moon...

Is it still Chainsaw Man Tuesday?

I wrote a reading of Chainsaw Man that resists the metatextual reconciliation that's dominated its reception.

From space, the moon fully blocks the sun, casting a dark silhouette surrounded by a glowing corona, as seen by Artemis II astronauts after reemerging from the moon’s far side.

After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experienced—a total solar eclipse in space.

📷 NASA

A crescent Earth seen setting behind a vast lunar landscape of craters.

NASA's first image from the Artemis II close flyby of the moon shows "Earthset," with a crescent Earth seen over the moon's cratered surface.

Mario Kart World Bobomb Blast is a dogfighting game

I need to rewatch the wind rises

tuning into the artemis livestream
everyones having a good time

wait there's an Americana 250 logo

wait they're calling trump

he's spelling out manifest destiny for space