Artemis II launch live updates: Fueling begins as NASA aims to send 1st crew to the moon in 53 years Launch preparations have begun for Artemis II, NASA’s planned lunar fly-around by four astronauts. It would be the first moon trip in 53 years.

BREAKING: NASA launches Artemis II astronauts to the moon on humanity's first lunar voyage in 53 years.

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

this is a really great thread!! I think about these things a lot (transitioning from early career to…career? myself atm). I lead a program to help with PD and mitigate this transition for artists in NJ but it’s so hard to get structural connections and funding to make meaningful impact…

AOC on the Kennedy Center: The renaming is completely illegitimate. All they did was screw some nameplates onto the building. That’s coming right off. Enjoy your name on there for a year or two, but that’s getting ripped right out.

✌🏻

‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump

Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights

the good that you do persists in this world

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Researchers try bold new approach in a race to better treat autoimmune diseases There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases. Today's treatments tamp down the friendly fire but don't fix what's causing it.

Scientists are exploring how cancer-derived cell therapies like CAR-T could reprogram immune cells and help people with autoimmune diseases like lupus.

I’m a Zillennial, but yes 😘

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Jim McGreevey and James Solomon have advanced out of a crowded field to a December runoff for Jersey City mayor. No candidate in the seven-person field received the majority of the vote in the all-party contest, which is necessary to win the seat outright.

There are more of us than there are of them.

sure, pal
/s

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

A young woman sits on a couch knitting a scarf, looking down at her project with focus. She is wearing an orange NY Mets hat, a black shirt, and light blue ripped jeans.

vacation going well so far!
📍Berlin

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

if I’m being totally honest, I feel like that’s a reason I often don’t join in and feel my efforts are better placed in other ways. it sometimes feels more like a social hour for a certain age/income bracket

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

uh oh feeling that horrible "hope" other people have once described

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

of course! pattern is the Tea Cozy Cardigan by Hook Mountain Handmade. stash yarn and Bad Sheep Yarn fingering in Folklore 😊

The fade is a whole bunch of stash skeins held double with Bad Sheep Yarn in folklore 😄

A white woman standing outside against a blue sky. She’s wearing a handknit cardigan sweater that is a rainbow gradient!

A white woman standing outside against a blue sky. She’s holding up the back a handknit cardigan sweater that is a rainbow gradient!

SWEATER SUNDAY 🥹🌈 #showmeyourknits #knitsky

My dog, the extremist

Took my dog to a pet psychic today and they told us that he is an extremist

New Jersey Transit train engineers reach tentative deal to end strike that halted NYC routes New Jersey Transit’s train engineers have reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.

New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.

Close to once a week! They seem more tailored to the JC election than to NJ Gov race

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources