Pulled out the kids telescope tonight for the very bright crescent moon shining in the western sky (located in Melbourne Australia) and got a great view of a big crater. Claude favours Petavius or Langrenus - what say you #astronomy experts?

Googled myself. I now have an AI slop page filled with both correct and incorrect information, plus my private work email addresses appear to have been scraped. @damienmiller.bsky.social how do we stop this scourge!

Timeline cleanse for the space nerds - the Artemis II crew talking about their experience. So much emotion on full display for the world, they have just made my year. 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1c...

Artemis II Crew Goes Fully Emotional in First Words After Moon Return

YouTube video by Scientia Plus

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NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE

This beaut just came from space. Frikkin space.

My 8 year old is in the backyard looking for #artemis2 🥰

Happy Artemis II splashdown day!! 45 minutes-ish to go!! Good luck crew!!!! #nasa #artemisII

In case you haven't seen one of the most beautiful displays of humanity this century. 💖

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤@saltybitchables.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just saw this. Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman named a newly discovered moon crater after his late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020 following a 5-year battle with cancer. #ProudBlue #ArtemisII

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Jim Lovell Source: NASA TV. #ArtemisII

DutchSpace@dutchspace.eurosky.social · 7mo ago

Ah crap, hearing Jim Lovell hit me right in the feels... #ArtemisII

Watching the #ArtemisII mission and thinking of my 8 year old self being told "girls can't become astronauts". Still feel the crush. No matter how unlikely you think a childs dream is, tell them to go for it. They will remember feeling inspired, not crushed, even if it wasn't going to happen.

Thank goodness for the NASA livestream is all I can say at this point in the timeline.

We are not here to wage war, and pay taxes. We are here to love each other, and protect this magical planet.

If North America wasn’t so hopelessly addicted to gasoline, we could have nice things too 💔

Major Japan railway now powered only by renewable energy

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo's Shibuya is famed for its Scramble Crossing, where crowds of people crisscross the intersection in a scene symbolizing urban Japan’s congestion and anonymity.

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After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act

In its first meeting in three decades, the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.

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Total collapse is failure and totally wasteful. What we all need is real leadership to unite people and lead us away from these people who misrepresent abuse and manipulation as 'leading the free world'.

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For those suggesting total collapse is a viable pathway to revolution and reform: no, please can we not?

Meanwhile, while everyone is conveniently distracted by the ICE-Epstein news cycle, Mohamad Safa leaves the UN on conscience as he cannot be complicit in nuclear weapon use...

No government gets to call healthcare an expense or a resource drain when they pour trillions into a war machine that brings no net good, no net profit.

Struggling to remember the last time the US promised a short war that was actually short. When the US president got on TV and informed us all this war would be 'over quickly', I was reminded of early 2020 when he confidently told everyone Covid would be over by Easter. Easter 2020.

basically the only thing they have accomplished is killing an 86 year old man before he could die of old age they have also *checks notes* murdered a bunch of kids, done significant damage to the world’s energy infrastructure, sent the world economy into the worst energy crisis since the 70s…

Watching so-called leaders threaten mass violence against each other is more like an abusive relationship than it does 'leadership'. Leaders lead through motivation and shared vision. Abusers use fear and violence against the innocent, always confidently justified.

I’m just a geriatrician, wondering how its possible that my older migrants professorships in the ancient form of their own languages from their countries werent recognised on arrival to Australia. Forced to work in factories for a ‘better life’. What a grotesque loss of knowledge for this country 😩😭

The EPA's tailpipe emissions standard is one of the most successful regulatory programs in US history. Tailpipe emissions cause asthma and cancer, especially in kids. This is the NYC skyline in 1973.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump: "We're canceling the EPA's absurd tailpipe emissions standard, one of the worst ever"

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 8mo ago

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

I'm not an expert in any of this, but I think it's pretty likely that a whole bunch of nasty diseases are precipitated by viruses that we currently dismiss as merely acute and relatively minor, and that ridding ourselves of those viruses could avoid a lot of suffering

Infection with Epstein-Barr virus is very strongly associated with Multiple Sclerosis, so much so that it's probably causative. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Halting development of an EBV vaccine will help bring this awful disease into the lives of millions more people.

Longitudinal analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with multiple sclerosis

Epstein-Barr virus infection precedes symptoms and biomarkers of multiple sclerosis and markedly increases disease risk.

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#itson 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Some doomscrolling to encourage as many people as I can to get rainwater/grey water tanks if you have the means. #ecosky #greensky #globalwarming www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-t...

Goodbye to drinking water: “Day Zero” will arrive sooner than you thought, and science already knows when and where it will happen

Day Zero is closer than it looks. A new study maps when and where drinking water shortages could hit first.

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I'm old enough to remember when Nixon tried to impose his will on unarmed citizens at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970, I never thought this could happen again.

Relevant to the end of all empires “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci