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art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.
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BennyTheIcepick
I don’t need to cut the world open. It’s plain to see.
@BennyTheIcepick /heard
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Oh Ziggy of 2020! The bar keeps getting lower and lower in 2026!
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A black and white print on paper of a photograph of clouds and a valley in Spital, Austria is held in my hand against the wall. Upon close inspection it can be seen that the image is made up of many small dots.
Hokay, so…
Working toward starting a print club because I really like the idea of making accessible art, and I’ve been experimenting with some processes and materials toward that end.
This is the first experimental image - I took a photo near Spital, Austria, and after some editing I converted it to halftones, because I’ve long been a sucker for vintage offset printing in comic books (grew up around Archie and Sad Sack comics from the 60’s) and Roy Lichtenstein and screen printing, etc.
When I was a photography student in undergrad I was always drawn to alternative photo processes, especially those where I got to remove intermediate machines/tools, etc., and feel like I was working more directly with the image with my hands.
Here I pushed that a little farther, with a rubber stamp of the halftone dot pattern. Felt like I was pushing a photograph into existence with my bare hands, which was fun.
This print of the Austrian sky I sent to my friend and longtime beloved critic JD in Michigan both because he deserves nice things and as thanks for his insight and opinions as I’ve thought through things around this print series.
When I finally get around to it in the hopefully near future, my first print club image will be related to this image and will be free (as a promotional effort to hopefully land on folks’ radars again with my art). I’ll let y’all know when that happens so you can check it out.
Until then, I’m just pleased with and proud of this li’l experimental piece.
Working toward starting a print club because I really like the idea of making accessible art, and I’ve been experimenting with some processes and materials toward that end.
This is the first experimental image - I took a photo near Spital, Austria, and after some editing I converted it to halftones, because I’ve long been a sucker for vintage offset printing in comic books (grew up around Archie and Sad Sack comics from the 60’s) and Roy Lichtenstein and screen printing, etc.
When I was a photography student in undergrad I was always drawn to alternative photo processes, especially those where I got to remove intermediate machines/tools, etc., and feel like I was working more directly with the image with my hands.
Here I pushed that a little farther, with a rubber stamp of the halftone dot pattern. Felt like I was pushing a photograph into existence with my bare hands, which was fun.
This print of the Austrian sky I sent to my friend and longtime beloved critic JD in Michigan both because he deserves nice things and as thanks for his insight and opinions as I’ve thought through things around this print series.
When I finally get around to it in the hopefully near future, my first print club image will be related to this image and will be free (as a promotional effort to hopefully land on folks’ radars again with my art). I’ll let y’all know when that happens so you can check it out.
Until then, I’m just pleased with and proud of this li’l experimental piece.
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illustration of a racoon standing on two legs while wearing a cowboy hat and boots, looking at the viewer with uncertainty, with the text, "My body hurts and I'm mad at the government."
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Two photos, one atop the other, at top, an actual photo of the moon seen from space during an eclipse, with glowing sunlight in the background, at bottom, a screenshot from Star Wars, showing a spaceship flying in front of a bright flash.
Okay, not to trivialize the real and awesome science here, but I'm a very visual person (I know, go figure), and this (incredible) real Artemis photo of the moon eclipsing the sun triggered some deep memory, ("I know there's a similar image somewhere in my brain... what is it?"), then it just dawned on me - Han Solo to the rescue at the end of Star Wars.
The second one is such a fine image that I regret having to call bullshit on the lighting. But ... bullshit on the flat z-axis key light.
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A view out the window of a spaceship. The window is tall, with rounded sides, and surrounded by a heavy metal frame. The gray wall of the spaceship, with various beams and bolts, is visible beyond the frame. Out the window is the starry black of space, with a bright white-gray moon in the center. We're pretty close to the moon. The surface shadows are sharp and visible. Clamped to the upper frame of the window is a small consumer GPS unit, the kind you'd have in your car, displaying the words "keep right" in white lettering, along with "50 thousand km". The GPS displays the usual pink route and arrows indicating how to get to the moon. In the lower left of the screen is a small round icon indicating that the local speed limit is 90km/h. Fortunately there are no cops in space, yet. Good luck out there, Artemis crew. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
(voice of Carl Sagan) In order to make a right turn, first you must create the universe.
This is excellent.
I love this
@dreyfusslugado ++
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This is [YOUR NAME], a constituent living in [CITY, STATE, ZIP]. I can be reached at [PHONE NUMBER] but I do not require a call back.
I am asking you to impeach, convict and remove President Trump.
His latests message regarding ending civilization in Iran is yet more evidence that he is unfit to serve as president.
There is no greater priority for you, my elected representative, than to impeach, convict and remove President Trump from office.
Thank You.
I am asking you to impeach, convict and remove President Trump.
His latests message regarding ending civilization in Iran is yet more evidence that he is unfit to serve as president.
There is no greater priority for you, my elected representative, than to impeach, convict and remove President Trump from office.
Thank You.
April 7, 2026 - A variant of the voicemail and emails I sent to my three congressional representatives this morning. Alt text contains the text as well.
I do not understand how Dems in the house have not been filing articles of impeachment constantly this year.
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A (fake?) advert in Japanese for a USB hub that looks like a snake.
(badgerbadgerbadgerbadger)
@MackReed +++
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Screenshot of a GitHub pull request: "fix: enforce always use billing period id".
At the bottom is a bullet point: "Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast"
At the bottom is a bullet point: "Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast"
source: https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-...
Can't imagine why people wouldn't embrace this technology.
Can't imagine why people wouldn't embrace this technology.
Liked, but you know, not liked. :/
[LIKE]d @ckoerner’s don’t like like.
BLAME
Super dumb of Microsoft here.
‘Rogers (Principal product manager) said, has helped him realize that "on reflection," letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge "was the wrong judgement call."’
The VP of devrel said later it was a programming logic issue. Copilot strikes again?
https://www.theregister.com/2026...
‘Rogers (Principal product manager) said, has helped him realize that "on reflection," letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge "was the wrong judgement call."’
The VP of devrel said later it was a programming logic issue. Copilot strikes again?
https://www.theregister.com/2026...
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Spent the weekend in a Yurt near Newport, Oregon. It was a super low tide weekend with lots of beach to comb and tide pools to explore!
Ain't no yurt like Pistol Yurt!
I want that!
Spent the night in Newport
In a yurt up in the hills
In a yurt up in the hills
Yurts at the Oregon Coast are the best!
How's the ventilation in those things? Looks... stuffy?
Back in the day, the internet provider I worked for ran a T1 line out to a yurt down in Big Sur. That always struck me as hilarious.
@jpoulos - The windows open and the top opens about 6 inches. You can get a good breeze, especially at this time of year.
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May be an image of turtle
Concept art from a film version of Vonnegut’s Galápagos?
The unsexy mermaid version, unless you live in South Dakota, ( then whatever.)
long live the new shell
That boy needs therapy!
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I am totally in. I want to live in a world where we think about doing this for each other all the time.
It's April 1st somewhere in the space time continuum
"... from chimpan-A to chimpan-ZEE..."
The hard part will be burying the Statue of Liberty up to its chest.
I'm in.
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A page from an 1862 issue of Harper's Weekly showing, on the left, an engraving of Robert Smalls, a bearded young Black man in coat and tie looking forward, and on the right, the Planter, a small ship at rest on the water in front of a pier.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Robert Smalls' birthday was yesterday; Smalls, who became one of the most remarkable figures of the Civil War, was born into slavery on April 5, 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina.
After working as a sail-maker and longshoreman, Smalls achieved a position of responsibility as a pilot in Charleston Harbor. On the evening of May 12, 1862, Smalls and the enslaved crew of the CSS Planter, a small Confederate transport, had been left aboard the ship overnight.
They arranged for their families to visit and bring them dinner, then hide on the wharf. In the pre-dawn hours of May 13, they picked up their families and, with Smalls mimicking the Planter's captain (wearing his uniform and a straw hat) and delivering the correct hand signals, sailed out through Charleston Harbor past Fort Sumter. They then raised a white flag and delivered the Planter, four artillery pieces, and a naval code book into the hands of the US Navy.
Smalls, with his excellent knowledge of the harbor (including mine placement), began serving with the Navy as a consultant and civilian pilot. In August, 1862, he traveled to DC to help convince Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to allow Blacks to enlist in the US Army.
In 1864, Smalls was invited to Philadelphia to serve as an unofficial delegate to the Republican National Convention; following the war, he purchased his former enslaver's house in Beaufort after it was seized for non-payment of taxes. He used his savings, including significant prize money from the capture of the Planter, to form a short-haul horse-drawn railroad (with an almost entirely African-American board of directors) and start a newspaper in 1872.
Beginning in 1875, Smalls, who had learned to read while in Philadelphia, served five non-consecutive terms in Congress as a Radical Republican, including sponsorship of a (failed) amendment to integrate the Army.
Smalls is commemorated in a number of ways, including the Army transport vessel USAV Major General Robert Smalls and the Robert Smalls House, a National Historic Landmark in Beaufort. Smalls died of complications from diabetes in 1915.
Robert Smalls' birthday was yesterday; Smalls, who became one of the most remarkable figures of the Civil War, was born into slavery on April 5, 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina.
After working as a sail-maker and longshoreman, Smalls achieved a position of responsibility as a pilot in Charleston Harbor. On the evening of May 12, 1862, Smalls and the enslaved crew of the CSS Planter, a small Confederate transport, had been left aboard the ship overnight.
They arranged for their families to visit and bring them dinner, then hide on the wharf. In the pre-dawn hours of May 13, they picked up their families and, with Smalls mimicking the Planter's captain (wearing his uniform and a straw hat) and delivering the correct hand signals, sailed out through Charleston Harbor past Fort Sumter. They then raised a white flag and delivered the Planter, four artillery pieces, and a naval code book into the hands of the US Navy.
Smalls, with his excellent knowledge of the harbor (including mine placement), began serving with the Navy as a consultant and civilian pilot. In August, 1862, he traveled to DC to help convince Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to allow Blacks to enlist in the US Army.
In 1864, Smalls was invited to Philadelphia to serve as an unofficial delegate to the Republican National Convention; following the war, he purchased his former enslaver's house in Beaufort after it was seized for non-payment of taxes. He used his savings, including significant prize money from the capture of the Planter, to form a short-haul horse-drawn railroad (with an almost entirely African-American board of directors) and start a newspaper in 1872.
Beginning in 1875, Smalls, who had learned to read while in Philadelphia, served five non-consecutive terms in Congress as a Radical Republican, including sponsorship of a (failed) amendment to integrate the Army.
Smalls is commemorated in a number of ways, including the Army transport vessel USAV Major General Robert Smalls and the Robert Smalls House, a National Historic Landmark in Beaufort. Smalls died of complications from diabetes in 1915.
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A child's chalk drawing of a car on an asphalt walking path. The chalk is blue, there are shadows of thin tree branches crossing it and a single brown leaf covering the windshield or rear window of the car.
I went for a walk this afternoon. For the first time in a long time, my walk was completely unrelated to either patrolling my neighborhood, dealing with anxiety, or both. I made the specific decision to return to a former (rough) route that is outside my immediate neighborhood and to listen to music instead of be on high alert.
It was glorious. I listened to Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee, prompted by a friend who I reconnected with last night over dinner after a relatively short, yet significant deliberate stretch of time apart.
There were many chalk drawings on sidewalks, undoubtedly from yesterday when the afternoon was warm and families were gathered for Easter. Those all made me smile, but I was moved to photograph this lone car drawing on the walking path along Minnehaha Creek.
It was glorious. I listened to Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee, prompted by a friend who I reconnected with last night over dinner after a relatively short, yet significant deliberate stretch of time apart.
There were many chalk drawings on sidewalks, undoubtedly from yesterday when the afternoon was warm and families were gathered for Easter. Those all made me smile, but I was moved to photograph this lone car drawing on the walking path along Minnehaha Creek.
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An illustrated hippo with the top of their head and eyes poking out of the water.
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Mrs. Otaman was busy creating pysanky for customers & clients. I think she made about 36 just in the past week! I only got a few snaps of the leftover ones here. Top right is my favourite – a new design for this year. I also love the wonderful accident on the bottom left. This egg got some moisture inside during one stage of dyeing (my wife works on emptied eggs), and the moisture negatively affected how the blue dye adhered. The resulting starry-sky effect is really cool though, and I'm calling this the Artemis II egg.
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Screen capture from the 1984 film 'Night of the Comet.' Two young women sit on the hood of a police car, both of its front doors open. Downtown Los Angeles is behind them, the sky an eerie red. Subtitled dialogue text reads "Hey, I'm sorry if the end of the world makes me a little nervous."
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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meatloaf and tim curry on a card titled "Meat Loaf with Curry" and "Follow me for more recipes"
source: https://www.tumblr.com/...
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Is Jack Black, Meatloaf's love child?
@0y3ahSansAcut3 and if so, did Meatloaf leave a long-time bandmate to dangle after stating what everyone was thinking? Is that where Jack learned it?
I used to draw the figure a lot. My comment was from watching Jack Black on SNL, then seeing a portrait of Meatloaf, in here. My brain came up with a striking resemblance. I have never followed or listened to either of these performers, except in a peripheral way.