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.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Heads up: Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch Book 1), by @annleckie.com, is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway.

Attn: Democrats running for office! Coming out strong on AI regulations will only make me want to vote for you harder and tell all my friends to do the same.

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

This is an interesting article on the important topic of holding corporations accountable for atrocities and war crimes.

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

Ah, here it is. bsky.app/profile/alas...

These are beautiful.

Academic work can be bad or misconceived or subject to partisan capture, of course, but a field’s misalignment with the political spectrum outside the field isn’t reliable evidence of that.

Indeed. Didn't @alaskawx.bsky.social post a map the other day with the number of upper air soundings available at the Alaska launch locations?

So the relatively irrelevant mention of Pelosi was only what ? sexism? I mean, you could have said Bernie. I’m sure there’s a reason for your choice, and it’s not sharply oriented towards a goal.

I’d just like us to focus more.

I have been noticing no such thing.

This is all great, but the point of the OP is that work is needed by the next *leader* to be able to credibly counter Trump.

You said Pelosi.

Fair point, also true of Tusk in Poland in 2023, and good recommendation!

Whether it's Donald Trump attacking the Pope or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard on a hot dog, both men shattered Washington norms.

My brother, btw - a middle aged technical project manager who travels to events regularly - doesn’t currently own a car. He gets around by public transport and shared electric scooters, and is considering buying one of them for himself.

So I’m just back from ASSW in Aarhus and a few days with my brother in Düsseldorf. The “we’ll do we really still need much oil?” Sentiment is a widespread vibe.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

what is he doing to Jon Stewart, and why is he on his death bed?

Well this pope anyway. Not any pope.

Zohran did not mutter "affordability" like it was a spell he could cast to win an interview. he was like okay so here's how x makes food trucks more expensive, here's how y fucks your rent, here's how z fucks your bus ride, and here's what I want to do about it.

De gustibus non est *disputandum*. No disputes over matters of taste. Doesn’t mean they don’t exist, can’t be mentioned, or can’t be meaningful to any particular person.

Our documentary, "Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages", has an Emmy Award nomination

Reminder: You don't have to give right-wing chuds attention & you *really* don't have to share screenshots of the dumb shit they say on Twitter!

We came to Bluesky to get away from it. If you want to engage, go there. Don't bring it here like a dog dropping a rat at our feet & expecting praise.

I don’t want to be controversial but I do think it’s turned out that the possibility of nuclear war is a bigger threat to the future of humanity than the woke mind virus

Far side of the moon released by NASA

Far side of the moon released by NASA today. 🧪🔭

If it eats its own children, does it mean it’s a revolution?

“Even I”? You don’t know me, buttercup.

The version without the spelling error isn’t any better. I still have no Idea who “he” is (I tend to use “you” for whoever I’m responding to), nor who you’re addressing as “sir” because it ain’t me.

Maybe lay off the AI use, huh.

This comment is incomprehensible. Who is “he”? Preston? His editor? What’s a sop-reader?

I haven’t even started to look into what resources they’re defunding. For FIRMS I’m hopeful, a) b/c it’s a NASA product and b) b/c they moved wildfire out of the USFS and the other agencies (BLM, NPS, Zimmer…) into its own thing first.