A photo of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II.
Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe.
Happy Earth Day.
Up on the big screen at TED this morning with some rhyming humor in between talks.
Book is Exhalation by Ted Chiang! All are welcome to join for free on patreon. Come hang and discuss at the livestream later this month: Patreon.com/ellecordova%...
Elle stands next to a bookshop sign that says “Spring into a new book.” She is holding a copy of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation.
Hi there. I am Elle, host of a science fiction book club, and you are cordially invited to read this book with me this month. I just picked up my copy tonight at my favorite local bookshop and I’m on page 16. Brain is happy.
Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.
SPLASHDOWN!!!
Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation.
Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists.
Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!
in space being written. Let’s go Artemis II!
Fellow human beings are bravely flying out into the cold darkness of space today.
With this mission, NASA is laying the groundwork for so much more exploration over the next few years. I’ll be watching, hoping, dreaming with them at launch time, and I’m so glad to be alive to see the next chapter
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Also it’s been a while since I’ve seen something on an IMAX screen. There’s a POV shot where Ryan Gosling leans through the open hatch of his ship before going on a spacewalk and I felt like I personally was being swallowed by deep space. Amaze!
Got to see an early screening of Project Hail Mary with the @planetarysociety.bsky.social folks last night. A fantastic adaptation. Highly encourage sci-fi fans to check it out when it hits theaters later this month.
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
For these duped masked fools, their pretend cop time will have been short but the consequences will be forever.
From the heads of state to the boots on the ground, everyone complicit in these abuses will have to be prosecuted under US constitutional law. Our reps must put an end to this now or be voted out, the courts will catch up, and there will be no protections, no immunity.
pay. They were festooned in costumes of authority and given automatic weapons and then sent slipping and fumbling into the streets of Minneapolis without planning, training, or public support. They believe that serving at the pleasure of the president means they have legal safe harbor. They don’t.
These guys are so clearly terrified. Spooked by their own wrongdoing. Alarmed that it’s all being recorded and disseminated before they can rewrite the story. Each bystander has a billion eyes, a billion ears. This is not what they signed up for. The recruitment propaganda promised glory, power, and
Grammarian and Errorist are at it again! 🖊️
Not many career paths lead to being friends with the dictionary, but I’m happy to find myself in one. Thanks for the early copy of the Twelfth Edition, @merriam-webster.com!
Narrative is a bit disjointed and it’s kind of a slow burn, but by the Qs I couldn’t put it down. Five stars.
I never feel more saintly than when I put a pristine copy of a desirable book in someone’s little library box.
Nerdy items for your consideration (grammar, fonts, oh my)
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Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker
Hey Instagram, maybe give @britannica.com their checkmark. I’ve heard the references look out for their own and you don’t want to find yourself in verbal fisticuffs with @merriam-webster.com
Well that was cathartic. #NoKings
the illegal hijacking of the US military to ramp up chaos and spectacle as we protest the fascist excesses of this regime.
No kings. Nationwide marches on June 14. See you out there.
No, in this country we don’t tolerate senators being forced to the ground and cuffed for asking questions. We don’t tolerate masked agents rounding people up on the streets and disappearing them in unmarked vans. And we sure as hell don’t tolerate
This song is going to be on my full length album Curiosities coming out later this year, btw. It’s almost done (just working on the cover art) and I can’t wait to share it with y’all!
Our van broke down in Roswell so naturally we wrote a song about the 1947 UFO incident while we were stranded there.
Now our song is featured in the latest episode of the Via Podcast. It’s a fun trip through UFO lore and bizarre desert mysteries. Tune in here: mwg.aaa.com/via/podcast/...
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