May her memory be a blessing to her family, and all those who knew her. She was an inspiration and an icon, a perhaps unlikely hero who rose to meet the need and the challenge. RIP.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

RFK Jr wants “government-run farms where Black youth would be “reparented” away from their families”

I am so fed up of people telling me to “find common cause” with RFK Jr & his MAHA movement. Absolutely nope.

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.

The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

"Excuse me, this is not the holy war I ordered."

learning today that a lot of you didn’t collect Eastern European stamps as a kid

great news out of hungary but for those who don't speak hungarian it's important to know that "magyar" means hungarian so they basically elected their version of Johnny American

The Video NASA’s Laser Communications Experiment Streamed From Deep Space YouTube video by JPLraw

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters

youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear

A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.

A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.

A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

On the theme of kids of astronauts, this is Maya Glover, the daughter of NASA astronaut Victor Glover and Dionna Glover. Maya is at Cal Poly doing architecture.

From her Insta: mayalorinnn.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander

I'm gifting this article on Carroll Wiseman, for whom a crater on the moon was named today by the Artemis II crew.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

The Artemis II crew just gave us an 80's sitcom intro and it's absolutely hilarious! Freeze frames, cheesy grins, theme song energy. These are the four humans who are about to around the Moon. NASA said fun and we are here for it!

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears
(read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

We're forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire States have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 115 years ago tomorrow, galvanized a century's worth of workplace safety laws that are now getting shredded.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

@adamsmith.house.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

This thread is a masterpiece.

History books will include this.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

A reminder that destroying historic/heritage sites is a war crime. It is, to put it bluntly, a terrorist tactic, deployed by deplorable groups such as the Taliban (Bamiyan Buddhas) and ISIS (Palmyra).

A disc jockey who took a job and in doing so became an example for education, curiosity, precision, and conducting yourself in a gentlemanly way. He funded full scholarships to Fordham for the underprivileged, gave money to libraries, schools in Canada, etc.

Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.

I was there, and this was true.