A US Navy Diver photo of the Artemis II Heat Shield underwater showing a near perfectly even wear pattern across the spacecraft.

After much debate from certain people over whether or not the people working on Artemis II knew what they were doing when they said they understood why the heat shield on Artemis I wore unevenly, I think it's safe to say that the scientists and engineers got this one right.

Literally had this argument with someone last week who said "AI does have some uniquely good uses" and then we explained everything they were doing could be done through an excel script and mail merge.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Aging comedy writer holding an art book from Star Trek: Lower Decks

Oh by the way: it’s real and it’s SPECTACULAR.

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Strands #780
“Earth Day”
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I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:52. 🎉
No. 623 | 22 April 2026
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Minute Cryptic - 22 April, 2026
"Dictator's hasty, ranting from time to time?" (6)
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Slightly in love with this Alfa Romeo 75 fire safety car on standby at Verano circuit.

Just 9,000km from new – although almost all of them driven on-track…

I've fond memories of Chuckie Egg, but I really don't see how you can say it "defined" 8-bit programming. There were many other better games. It was frustratingly hard at times, that's what made it stick in people's memories.

Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

had put together an all-lesbian team for one last bank heist, and we had distinct roles and handcrafted disguises and even some enemies-to-lovers subplots, but now we're all visible this week! MONTHS of planning, just down the drain...

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

The government deliberately created a benefits system so bloated, cruel, and unintuitive as possible, then named it “Universal Credit” to establish a negative connotation between it and Universal Basic Income.

I think if it’s going to be legal to wear pervert glasses that film people in public, they *should* be this obvious(ly hideous)

What kind of vampire is your favorite?

My stunning beautiful talented friend Delaram made this simurgh corset/skirt for me and I’m beyond in love 😍

She’s @delashhhh on Instagram!

illustration of some dragon pokemon featuring garchomp, gible, flygon, trapinch, salamence, bagon, goodra, goomy, tyranitar and larvitar tyranitar and larvitar are not dragons but pseudo legends

little guys 👾
#art #pokemon

come on man.

In response to some bullshit going around:

Can we please fucking destigmatize men being nice to / caring about / engaging with kids? These are normal adult mammal instincts; what's fucked up is that we beat them out of people based on gender and/or assume they're inherently predatory.

The Spring Sketch-a-Thon has drawn to a close! I decided to end the event at 50 hours, 100 total sketch requests raffled off to chat, so many cool characters and great sketches!

Thank you everyone who contribute, and everyone who watched, entered the raffles, and won all these cool characters!

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Oh well, guess I'll never see it then.

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Minute Cryptic - 21 April, 2026
"Party leader backtracked, opening parts of the Strait of Hormuz?" (4)
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I solved today’s #Gisnep in 03:37. 🎉
No. 622 | 21 April 2026
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It's their new all-purpose terms of use, apparently.

Exactly.

A digital drawing in purple and sepia tones. Saitama and Genos, from One Punch Man, are painting pottery on a table covered with painting supplies like brushes, palettes, paint bottles, and water cups. Saitama is frustrated and broke his cup by being too strong and aggressive. Genos looks at Saitama sympathetically while holding his finished painted cup, still steaming from being fired, and scorch marks on the table from where he fired it. Genos wears an apron with a running anthropomorphic egg on it. Saitama wears his signature oppai hoodie. A poster of Mankato the monster in a bikini is on the wall. There is also a poster with various shapes of pottery, and a framed photo of Genos and Saitama running together. There are plants on the window ledge behind the characters and faint bright outlines of buildings outside.

painting pottery

Exclusive: Jonathan Frakes Confident Star Trek Will “Resurface,” Decries ‘Starfleet Academy’ “Trolls” The veteran Trek actor and director weighs in on the status of the franchise.

Star Trek

Jonathan Frakes: "I think, sadly, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of our incredible franchise, it seemed very unfortunate that they’ve chosen this moment to not have any new Trek in production. It seems like a very unfortunate irony."

Comic chapter cover with Ansel and Ren in bath towels, walking away from each other. Ren is hunched over self-consciously and blushing while Ansel strides away with confidence. Text blurbs are scattered around the image: "T 4 C transhet" "shared trauma" "post-apocalypse if it were just boring and funny". One points to Ren and says "smol bean secretly an insatiable adrenaline junkie" and another points to Ansel saying "California's most dangerous man secretly just very tired". A final blurb points to them both and says "both not so secretly into each other".

Ansel and Ren walk down a street in the late afternoon, heading back to their motel room. Ren: What the hell was that anyways? You wasted that guy like he was nothing! Ansel: He was nothing. Ren: I wasn't even in any real danger. Ansel: It sure looked like danger to me! Ren: I couldda just slugged him in his stupid face but go on, Slab McChuckRoast. Ansel: Is that a reference I'm supposed to get? Ren: No. So let me get this straight. Twenty minutes ago you were drying my tears and then you... do this. Ren's next line catches him off-guard. He frowns and blushes. Ren: Did you have some wiggles to get out or is big bad Dune finally warmin' up to me? Ansel: I contain multitides. Ansel: You ready to hit the baths now or what? I'm pretty ripe and I'd like to wash this blood off. Ansel: That shit corrodes, you know. And it's probably full of hepatitis too. Ren: Shit, baths? Like bathtub baths?

Comic page with three panels. In the first panel, a farm truck has lost control and has careened right through a guardrail on the side of the highway. There's a slope on the other side, not too steep. The driver inside the cab is yelling" Lord Jesus take the-!" Inside the back of the truck, Ansel gathers up a panicking Ren as dates go flying around them. Ren: Oh my god, we're going to die, aren't we?! Ansel: We're not gonna die! Ansel has secured Ren in his grip and holds his pistol between his teeth as he readies himself to jump out.

Comic page with 5 panels. Ansel and Ren sit next to each other on the ground in the shadow of a large bush as they talk. Ansel: Maybe it's better that way. You never wanna meet your heroes. Ansel: 'Cause then you might find out they're like me. Ren: Shut up. You're only half bad. Ansel pretends to get mad at her. Ansel: You're supposed to say not half bad. Ren, quoting somebody: Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. They pair bust up laughing. Ansel: Oh fuck off. They settled down and in the last panel Ansel is giving her a warm and maybe flirtatious look as Ren blushes and draws her shoulders up coyly. She lets out one last little "heh".

Meet my comic THE TITAN! Looking for a romance that lovingly takes the piss out of the action thriller genre? Or how about a post-apocalyptic world grounded in reality? Or what about a stealth, straight, middle-age trans male MC?

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