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Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

#Artemis II 🚀🪂🌍 Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Pilot Victor Glover are greeted by the crew of the USS John P. Murtha

#Artemis II 🚀 A beautiful sunset illuminates the USS John P. Murtha as the astronauts make their way to the medical bay waving to the crew onboard

So I licensed my artwork for set dressing in a TV show but I didn’t know it was this one! So we were all surprised. My husband say, “See buddy, you wanted more monsters and Mommy put them in the show for you!” I wonder if this gains me any credit with the kaiju-loving 12 year olds?

Omg this KID

Wonder if they picked up any hitchhikers?

“Tell the world... to keep this energy going. Let's invest in togetherness.” ~Victor Glover, Artemis II crew member

Shoutout to the Mets for this 📸 @mets.com

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

"Four green crewmembers" which refers to their status as in everyone is good. HOWEVER I've heard from other astronauts who've done water landings that it's pretty rough, even with smooth seas. You've had no gravity, then 3 g, then you are bobbing without a clear view of the horizon.

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Ok, this contrast between the Goldman Sachs projections for oil flows and the actual oil flows out of Hormuz are hilarious. But also it really is remarkable how disconnected the current futures markets remain from, like, the actual 1-2 month future.

oh shit they did the meme

New: The escalating cost of California's climate-driven wildfires now adds $41 to the average monthly power bill for customers of the state's largest utility - nearly 20% of the bill. Such "climateflation" undermines electrification of the state economy. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am speaking, of course, of this delight.

@repyassansari.bsky.social @repgregstanton.bsky.social and Rep Grijalva just conducted an unannounced oversight visit to this facility. Said there were at least 250 people (facility holds 157) with over 40 people in rooms with listed occupancy of 21. Deportation aircraft were there when they arrived

New: A surge in calls among Democrats to pursue Trump’s impeachment is hitting a wall with party leaders, who believe it will distract from their midterm focus on costs and corruption, according to interviews with over a dozen Democrats. Some also view 25th Amendment as a nonstarter

We invite you to treat yourself to the healing power of watching a rescued baby goat boinging around.

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

portland commute

My friend who did this would wait until her cover was blown, find the guys’ wives in Texas or wherever, and forward them a history of the messages

NEWS: Jonathan Caravello, the philosophy professor accused of assaulting federal agents after removing a tear gas canister from a crowd — the same canister that a U.S. Border Patrol agent had thrown at protesters during an immigration raid — was found NOT GUILTY www.huffpost.com/entry/jonath...

A: Look, those Lego videos may be “funny”, but the Iranian regime killed an estimated 3000-20000 of its own citizens between January and March. They executed a 17 year old kid, 3 weeks ago by public hanging, www.bbc.com/news/article....

"Climate science is not innately politically charged, whatever the administration says. ... It was our job to study the laws of physics, which remain true no matter who’s in power." - Kate Marvel, Sr. Scientist, Project Drawdown 📰 Full article in the @newyorktimes: https://nyti.ms/4tBNtEf

I am back from our annual Patagonia photography tour and adventure and I wanted to share with you the Patagonian breeze that my group enjoyed on a beautiful morning! Some winds were more than 120 km/h! Torres del Paine, Chile. #bluesky #photography #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

On Monday this week, as four humans flew around the far side of the Moon, Nature correspondent Alexandra Witze sat at the heart of the Artemis II mission’s science operations. Here's what she saw. go.nature.com/4dE5gpv

"The agreement also confirms that previously terminated grants have been reinstated, agency staff reductions have been reversed, and the administration will not take further steps to implement the executive order targeting IMLS." huge news for federal library support:

We're in court this week to protect endangered Florida panthers from a massive new development within the panthers’ occupied breeding habitat in southwest Florida. More details: biodiv.us/4vjJoWH

Do I need to do a margins and clearing thread, it's only where I started my career and is almost painfully boring*, probably need to do a thread. *except in the very rare situations where it isn't, in which case pucker up we're in for a rough one

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

And NASA noticed and gave him a look behind the scenes smart move ! and well done Hilt Boling :) #Artemis

With big losses mounting, big investments getting canceled, and big factory sites sitting empty, EVs have quickly become a case study in how politics thwarts US industrial policy. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com piece surveys the predictable wreckage (🎁): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I do find it ironic how we have to have all these delicate conversations about what to do about ICE when Trump and co. have executive fiated USAID, DOE, the Wilson Center, institute of peace, CFPB, and now the Forest service

We warned that H.R. 1's SNAP cost shift could drive states to make it as difficult as possible to access SNAP, leaving eligible low-income families without the food assistance they need. In Arizona, that prediction appears to be coming true — with a heartbreaking human cost:

The same day Trump posted that the military was "looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest."

The concentration camp at the Mesa Gateway Airport is not only far overcrowding the detention center and keeping people much longer than the site is designed for but they’re also going to lengths to try to hide it. Shut it tf down.

Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge. Literally the only evidence Columbia submitted came from sealed records of dismissed arrests—records that Columbia shouldn't have even had.

TPUSA (Action) dumped an obscene amount of money and man power into this local utilities race. This low-turnout election (that literally measures your vote by land owned and excludes a ton of people) saw record turnout and they still lost 8-6. Hilarious.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age