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you: please act normal you need these people to like you me: ok! people: hi me: Space toilets are incredibly complex, break often, and require training to use and maintain - the ISS toilet trainer has a camera in the bowl so astronauts can practice “docking”! Apollo astronauts pooped in bags!

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

There is only one answer, and Halloween is its middle name. Gar Halloween Field

RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

The Phoebe Bridgers show last night in Seattle was pretty magical. Having no phones in sight made it extra so.

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From today's NASA Presentation. Graphic of how the Artemis III mission will unfold.

Couple takeaways (No inside information): 1. It is notable that Blue launches first and loiters in orbit. NASA really cares about not wasting a crew launch, so they want everything up there first and the crew goes last. This is hard and drives power/prop budgets because payloads may need to stay

OTD in 1975 a machine from Earth took the first photo ever from the surface of another planet. Venera 9 at Venus. 🧪

NASA Safety Panel Concerned About Artemis IV, Future Access to LEO spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-sa...

Oh no…not again

This is getting traction so, evergreen i wrote a few years ago: insideevs.com/features/755...

if the rest of malignant was as good as the police station scene it would be an all-timer, it's so ridiculous it looks back around to awesome. Nothing 1/10th this interesting happens in any of the four Conjuring movies. youtu.be/mLzY0tWUtFo?...

gift link: www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

This is a thread worth paying attention to if you care about your space agency, it's direction , the way it does science.

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

A tale as old as time

(Ralph Wiggum voice) I’m a class traitor!

I’m in Houston for the week, and gotdamn the anti-trans ads on TV are fucking unhinged

You are not ready for how insane, and I mean insane, the BACK TO THE FUTURE novelization is. @ryannorth.ca wrote a whole ebook about how bonkers it is. www.tumblr.com/btothef/2941...

KMFDMF Doom

They Might Be Young Marble Giants

Eric Roberts says don’t forget about “A Talking Cat!?!”

My favourite bit of reporting for this story was finding out ISS astronauts were growing little gardens in their quarters in secret—and only this summer have NASA explicitly permitted them to do this. Astronauts are, in many ways, just regular, hopeful humans. 🌱

It is ALWAYS that deep

For Indigenous Peoples Day, here’s a talk I gave explaining how Columbus was basically the original trans-Atlantic drug trafficker. You will be never think about the colonization of this hemisphere in the same way again. The “drug” economy powered hemispheric growth (and enslavement) for centuries:

True story: I was at an Odyssey of the Mind competition in high school when I heard that Kurt Cobain died. We were watching MTV in a motel the night before the competition.

I listened to a *lot* of Tori Amos my freshman year

What can I say, it’s a classic. youtu.be/2ZyJCV_dyug?...

There’s a good reason the Kickstarter for the new MST3K episodes was funded so quickly and thoroughly. It has, as they say, the juice. And the jellyfish!

This book is amaaaaazing! Go get it

Hey, so @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social is having a sale over at Threadless, with many fantastic Halloween kitty shirts among others! (Why yes, I got them in orange, because HALLOWEEN!) www.threadless.com/shop/@poorly...

Behind the scenes of the new MST3K episodes, from @variety.com variety.com/2026/tv/news...

A cheerful discovery for me just now: The Little Free Bakery Book is available for pre-order! I wrote this with a dear friend, and along with the expected recipes there are the loveliest profiles of little free bakers from Alaska to North Carolina. Also cute as hell. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

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I had a colonoscopy yesterday and of course I wrote about the experience. Come read why my colonoscopy was not bad at all, why I encourage those of you putting it off to actually schedule it if you can, and what a teddy bear has to do with the whole experience: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/08/c...

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

One of my favorite descriptions from Victor Glover: There’s just so much magic in the terminator, the islands of light, the valleys that would look like black holes. You’d fall straight to the center of the Moon if you stepped in some of those...

A visualization of a dark Moon eclipsing the Sun is marked with handwritten notes in this Apr 6, 2026, screenshot from an Artemis II crew member’s tablet. NASA astronauts observed impact flashes and their locations, which are noted on the image.