After a competitive procurement process, we have decided to change nothing and continue holding our conference in the location that wants you dead.

The really miserably painful part about the "debate" about whether trans women have the "right" not to vote for candidates who are actively throwing them under the bus is seeing how many self-declared "allies" are only allies when it's convenient for them.

New postcard from Curiosity using Navcams taken on Sols 5000 & 5003 science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA Science

While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times

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A little obsessed with how many times it felt necessary to say "yes it's out of focus, yes that's expected, yes it will be fixed later."

Space Telescope Science Institute@stsci.edu · 2w ago

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: https://go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned

Sometimes I wake up and I just genuinely cannot believe the state of political discourse around my life and the lives of everyone I love

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gina Hinojosa responds to Greg Abbott's ads hitting on her votes on transgender people by saying "My pronouns are mom/Texan and soon-to-be governor." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1g...

Oh, my H-Index? Well,

I would like to challenge everyone, whenever the question of mandatory genetic sex testing in women's sports is brought up, not to be like "Don't they realize that this will hurt more cis women than trans women?"

"Democrats are too focused on culture war issues" he says as he picks up a gun to shoot every trans woman in the back of the head.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4w ago

Iowa Democratic Governor Candidate Rob Sand becomes the latest to throw transgender people under the bus. In an interview this weekend, he told Politico that "girls sports are for girls," decrying Democrats for being too caught up in "culture war" issues. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Ohio may be political hell right now but it's where I lived for 20 years, where I grew up and became the person I am today, and where many of my friends still live. Seeing people try to write it (and other areas) off as fundamentally unsalvagable is deeply sad and frustrating.

On a whim, I wanted to see if the York Observatory all-sky camera could detect the Moon getting redder during the eclipse.

Fearing that her brave and principled stance against trans women in sports didn't alienate enough of her party's base, Amy Acton has now come out as pro-ICE and pro-qualified immunity. Who needs enemies when these are our allies?

Came across another one of those "night sky as seen by the Curiosity rover" images where (1) the sky was painfully obviously edited in, and (2) the rover in the image was Perseverance.

I wrote about how angry I feel watching people write columns about trans women in sports.

Just call me a man already and get it over with

I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can even get t...

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The willingness of the median Democrat on this site to engage in wild and enthusiastic transmisogyny is truly a sight to behold.

you wouldn't know it from the sophie cunningham discourse but there actually are some cis people who understand sports. i mean i don't, but i know some who do

1. In the aftermath of forcing the Ohio Progressive Caucus to delete criticism of Amy Acton for calling trans girls "boys," progressives were promised a meeting with Acton. Now, we have learned she didn't show up, and kicked trans people out of the meeting. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Dem. Ohio Gov Candidate Amy Acton Scheduled a Meeting With LGBTQ+ Advocates, Didn't Show Up, And Kicked Out Trans People Who Did

The meeting was supposed to be Acton's way of making up for calling trans girls "boys."

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What I'm hearing is that we need to relocate the Leafs to Vaughan

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 2mo ago

"I hope the next investment made by one of these major franchises happens outside the downtown. Because I think you have enough!" says Councillor Mike Colle. He laments the traffic caused by "jamming everything downtown."

My moderate position is that anyone telling me that I need to suck it up and learn to live with Amy Acton voluntarily choosing to concede ground on my right to exist in public because Ramaswamy would be worse should be fired directly into the Sun.

Me when I'm in a scoring pointless own-goals competition and my opponent is the Ohio Democratic Party 🙃

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 3046 (2021-03-02) at approximately 17:39 LTST and a solar longitude of 11.11°.

Over a combined decade of MSL experience in this office today and we could not come up with what the "S" in REMS stands for.

Unlocked a new experience (going to the library to pick up a hold and discovering that they've somehow managed to lose it in the 63 hours since they told me it was ready).

Fun fact: This is how we produce the overhead navcam ortho images. No nerd shit with math and algorithms. Only rad jumps for this rover!

Seán Doran@theseaning.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I remember.

I love living in a normal province.

NASA Announces Rover Has Found Beauty In The Mundane On Mars

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Battle of the Phase One Alto High Speed Rail Corridor (coming to you circa 2040, maybe).

RUNNING IT BACK