It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?
i could make an argument that adopting words and phrases from the right inevitably means you're adopting the right's framing of the world, even if you're subverting how those words are used or using them ironically
instead i will make this argument:
the language is ugly and we sound dumb using it
Again, no other president in history has been treated by the national political press with such deference and shrugs.
It should be wall-to-wall front page, breaking news that the U.S. president is either deliberately attacking the Catholic Church while positioning himself as Jesus, or he is unwell.
A very happy fuck all fascists day today and every day
and thank you to Hungary for giving us all hope
I'm just going to reiterate:
Turns out I never lost my enthusiasm or wonder for spaceflight, I just fucking hate Elon Musk and his idiotic bullshit.
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
Fascinated by the contrast between the incredible precision of everything up til splashdown with the bobbling little boats circling now
NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE
Nice that there's still space and desire for wonder in the world.
THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED
EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH
Last shot from the Integrity capsule as it begins to hit Earth's atmosphere, flame beginning to wreath the capsule.
On the most serious note: holding my breath. Godspeed, Artemis II crew. See you in a few minutes.
I am so so anxious for these astronauts but the earth is really beautiful and humans are amazing
Artemis II is now approaching a closing velocity of 5,800 metres per second.
At that speed, they'd fly from LA to NYC in about 11 minutes.
I don't want to alarm anyone but there's a spaceship heading straight for Earth
both Duke’s and Hellman’s make excellent mayonnaise
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
I don’t know how to express this more clearly
Every time you do a war I’m against it
I’m against it in all forms
I’m against from All sides
I’m against the careless loss of life
Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
the world won’t end, i know that. you and i won’t die. even if the worst happened, we’re not going to die today and the worst won’t happen. but this is a kind of worst. even if he does nothing, there are lines that we don’t uncross. a certain kind of world order has already died today.
timeline’s full of people saying they don’t REALLY think the president will detonate a nuclear bomb in 10 hours but he did kind of imply he planned to. he’s a liar & he says stuff all the time that’s never going to happen. but it’s still weird to exist in the hours before the off chance of the end
today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments
Trump is literally a civilization-scale threat to humanity
popular opinion here but personally am fine with focusing on the threat of annihilating an entire civilization right now and dealing with the wealth funneling later
Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.
View of the spacecraft (bright, on the left), a dark thin crescent of Moon, and a very small, bright thin crescent of Earth next to it
"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.
Everyone in one picture
"The earth is so bright in window 4 that they have had to temporarily cover it with a t-shirt"
I mean this unironically. Humans are amazing
I love that NASA's high-tech moon observation involves astronauts looking out the window and describing what they see