Yeah that was the point at which I started breathing again, too.

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

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A streak of fire entering the Earth's atmosphere made using overlapping letters and punctuation marks from a typewriter, inverted to white on black, and colored with watercolor Caption reads "welcome home"

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Saltapared común norteño
(Troglodytes aedon)

Bosque Pedagógico del Agua, Jalisco

Test thread (again)

Ah, thank you! I’ll have to do the best I can with this bot 🙂

I don't think it's expected to be visible from shore at any point, but the sonic boom may be audible

Which team tho?

Plus they feature in mythology worldwide: uncannylounge.com/2024/06/18/t...

Discovering, as I experiment with @avesparatodos.bsky.social, that Wrens have great names not only in German ("Zaunkönig / Fence King") and French/Latin ("Troglodyte"), but also Mexican Spanish ("Saltapared / Wall Jumper").

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The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

“And to think my kid looks up to these sharks.” Tristan Weiss, Dividend Calculator

Cocaine, Caffeine Detected In Sharks theonion.com/cocaine-caffeine-detecte...

I didn’t know any MLB team *had* that many two-way players.

"practical effects"

Is Schoolwork Optional Now? Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.

There's a sophomore quoted in @lilashroff.bsky.social's latest who sought help at Barnard's writing center and watched as a tutor copied and pasted the essay prompt into Perplexity and handed her the resulting outline. "I had a crashout about that afterwards... Why am I even here?”

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

… but at least this birdbath isn't frozen now.

Still no fish in here, but hope springs eternal. #mammals

TIL I can't spell Pewee.

Close crop from a video still of the little gray flycatcher. Beak open, side profile.

The bird turns its head slightly towards the camera.

The bird spreads its wings to take off.

The bird, wings fully raised in flight, showing white sides.

Some stills for a closer look.

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Eastern Phoebe or Eastern Wood-Peewee? (MA, yesterday)
#birds #trailcam

The most destructive intersection of alt text and AI isn’t that the former is being used to train the latter.

It’s that people are really excited to use AI to produce alt text, which it is generally very bad at, and expect blind folks to be grateful for it, even though it’s shit.

I think it's ludicrous you're more worried about what a stranger chooses to purchase with their very limited assistance that a tiny fraction of your taxes go to than you are about the large fraction of taxes you pay to kill strangers all around the world & at home.

Fix your heart.

If only there was a book where someone had explained all this…

Global hegemon getting its shit kicked in by Iran is just stunning

It's not even quagmire level, which one could theoretically claim as a draw

Just a straight global Trump-induced L only the Confederacy could love

Earworming the four people who know the tune of “Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable”.