While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.
NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...
The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.
NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
Dear @papajohnspizza.bsky.social,I do not need an AI assistant to order pizza on an app. I do not need AI anywhere near my pizza.
AND WHY DOES IT RANDOMLY CAPITALIZE WORDS NOW. AND THE APOSTROPHES!!!!
I just want whoever reprogrammed AutoCorrect to put a comma every time you breathe to hit the undo button.
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.
It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke.
Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".
"The Pope isn't responsible for the American Congress of Bishops banning trans healthcare" so the thing about the power of the Pope is that he could just overwrite them if BANNING ALL TRANS HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE ADULTS AND MINORS ALIKE was something he cared about
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
don’t tempt me with a good time
I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!
Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!
No democrats should be able to get elected without painstakingly detailing how they’re going to ensure people are held accountable and that this never happens again. Bare minimum.
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized
I gotta say, teaching a high percentage of military kids has been a really eye-opening experience. They are a unique and strong group of babies and it’s a very complex set of circumstances.
That they have to find emotional connection and fulfilling human relationships through violence — like anything else is now too effeminate but this is the acceptable fraternity they’ve found. (2/2)
“Within these sites, there is also this notion of, almost, brotherhood. [Participants find themselves] creating bonds [that meet and reinforce their narcissistic needs]”
Hot take but this feels like a result of men alienating themselves so completely from emotions (1/2)
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
The board voted at its March meeting to require transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms that match their sex assigned at birth. The superintendent said social workers would meet with the affected students to go over the changes.
In case it is unclear: your ethical and moral obligation is to refuse to participate in enforcing this. To validate that this is wrong. To push back and stand with trans kids. To offer safe bathrooms. It is not to make it palatable or tolerable for other adults.
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a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will
- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%
- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...
- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined
stand.earth/press-releas...
babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped
“Whether they’re Catholic or Protestant” be nice!!!! dude has no idea what a pope is bc he’s only been Catholic since just after the stranger things finale aired.
Just a reminder that JD Vance has been a Catholic for less time than Nacho Fries have been on the Taco Bell menu.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
he showed up to a mostly empty auditorium, got heckled by anti war protesters opposing the war he just humiliatingly failed to negotiate an end to, erika kirk stood him up, and he tried to explain catholicism to the pope. the only way he could’ve had a worse time is if he pissed his pants up there.
IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead.
This is a VERY big test case.
Dear Pope Leo,
If you excommunicate JD Vance, I will return to the church.
Lapsed Catholic,
Parker
French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Bitch take: occasionally a teacher will be like, “oh I tried teaching that, but it was boring and the kids hated it,” and I wanna respond… okay but like…were you good at teaching it?
(But I don’t.)
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
It’s nuts to me how many of our encounters with AI are just, “do you want me to help with XYZ” in a random spot that you’d never want help with XYZ in. Like frantically trying to create and then force use cases.
As soon as I saw it I knew this would be it for many evangelicals, and I had the exact same (whitewashed tombs) feeling.
