Sci-what?!

Protect this dude at all cost. Also I need to find this place sometime when in that area and eat myself stoooopid. 😁

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

This is an especially adorable photo of her. 💚

It looks like a larger version of a BodPod for body composition testing. 😄

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

apnews.com/article/henr...

"It also appears to the ASAP that NASA adopted an overly supportive orientation toward Boeing. That is, NASA tends to view its contractors as “partners” and is thus less skeptical and less intrusive in its risk management. For example, NASA relied on contractor systems as a substitute for Government inspection and testing even though no comparable commercial human spaceflight product or market existed at the time of direction to justify that approach. This observation is consistent with interviews in which the crew noted hesitancy to report concerns that might appear unsupportive of contractor “partners”—a worrisome indicator of a suppressed safety culture reminiscent of the dynamic identified after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger.

"At the same time, Centers Johnson, Kennedy, and Marshall often applied insight provisions differently, leading Boeing to describe the experience to the panel as “working with three different companies.” This speaks to a more general concern that oversight approaches are inconsistent across NASA Centers, a fragmentation documented in NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) 2024 Top Management and Performance Challenges, the ASAP 2023 Annual Report, and Starliner CFT crew debriefs from 2025. Ahead of and during the CFT flight, organizational and cultural issues inside NASA further exacerbated these risks. CFT contingency planning was colored by lack of clarity about who possessed final authority for crew return decisions. While NASA ostensibly retained ultimate responsibility, internal debates and reputational sensitivities delayed decisive action. It appears the option for the crew to remain on the ISS was considered “real,” but had not been rehearsed nor procedurally preauthorized—revealing gaps in the risk- acceptance framework. Likewise, anomalies such as helium leaks and reaction control thruster malfunctions were treated primarily as “engineering findings.” The Agency’s failure to declare a mishap or a high-visibility close call—despite repeated anomalies and a loss of control in at least one axis in close proximity to ISS—contradicted the intent of NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) 8621.1D, weakened the institutional learning process, and represents a diffusion of safety accountability (a finding consistent with NASA OIG Top Management and Performance Challenges 2023–2025). Ultimately, the Agency did make the sound decision to return the crew on a Dragon, underscoring both the level of risk that remained unquantifiable and the value of the independent role of the Technical Authorities in the decision process."

"When a commercial service contract is used, a commerciality determination ensures that prior use reduces risk to the government, has the “bugs worked out,” and that the government is buying a service “off the shelf.” In the case of CCtCap, however, NASA ultimately “owns” the risk for the service (crewed flight delivery) and provides the operators of the system that provides the service. This requires NASA to have an appropriate level of oversight of system development, which is inconsistent with the very nature of a commercial service contract. The use of commercial contract structures such as limited data rights constrains NASA’s technical and engineering insight into the system, increasing dependence on the vendor and complicating independent validation of contract performance. NASA OIG IG-24-001 and NASA’s procurement analyses show that these types of structures effectively locked NASA into continuing Starliner purchases to maintain nominal redundancy, even amid delays and underperformance. As the 2024..."

"ASAP Report notes, persistent Starliner delays have forced NASA to procure additional SpaceX Dragon flights. Moreover, the negative effects of the contractual countercurrents and cultural pressures we have highlighted here have been exacerbated by significant workforce and industrial base constraints. NASA’s aging technical workforce, together with recent hiring freezes and the Deferred Resignation Program, have reduced oversight expertise and capacity at precisely the moment when commercial partnerships require stronger—not weaker—government insight. In sum, both SpaceX and Boeing had fixed price commercial service-like contracts with the same risk management imperatives and yet the oversight and outcomes were extraordinarily different. Looking forward, NASA needs to better govern its contractors with respect to effective risk and safety management through appropriate contract mechanisms and consistent application of insight and oversight."

Was looking at the NASA/ASAP report. Some interesting observations on the Starliner incident and scolding NASA on overall contractor governance.

Sorry, SpaceX: It’s Getting Too Crowded Up There Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.

Elon Musk wants his company, SpaceX, to launch one million satellites. But researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.

That SOTU could have been an email. Or a late-night social post. 🤣

Why America Fails Adults Who Struggle to Read The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them.

A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them?

(Published Dec. 2022)

No longevity for him. 😜🤣

Looks like the longevity doctor lacked longevity. 🤣🤣🤣

Byeeeee, ya creepy c**t.

💯💯💯💯💯💯

This part.

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Also, the Instagram ads running during the Olympics 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Nice try, Zuck, but we’re not buying it.

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled in Social Media Addiction Trial That Could Cost Platforms Billions Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled about social media addiction and social media's impacts on mental health in adolescence as he testified in a landmark trial on Feb. 18. In the hearing, Zuckerberg ...

I hope this is the lawsuit that finally brings these greedy mofos to their knees.

people.com/mark-zuckerb...

This really is a great picture:

Some really good views of the Space Launch System on the LC-39B launch complex from the NASA stream - According to the crawl it looks like the communications issue has been solved as of 11:41 AM. EDT

Yeah. He got arrested on his birthday. Seems like karma was being extra karmicky.

And there’s no more mumsy to bail him out.

How the mighty and the privileged do eventually fall.

Yet.

If y'all have old film lying around, go to a good lab* that gives negatives back and does high quality prints/scans & get them developed before they degrade too much. You never know what treasures you'll find.

Don't use Walmart/Walgreens/CVS... they're low quality, throw your negatives away, &... 👇

Yes, or at least once a year. When summer ends, I need to peace out to some place tropical or Southern Hemispherical.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Things are in fact getting stupider

My husband said it was odd that they used the song “Like a Prayer” for ice skating in the Olympics, and I’m like, my brother in Christ, there are multiple Dune dancers

We will not be mansplained to on these attempts to disenfranchise us.

Thanks for the mansplainin’, but we know this is intended to disenfranchise voters, including women. Take your BS and shove it.

This genuinely might be the most important “follow the money” story in the history of journalism, and I deeply worry that the industry is too depleted and waterlogged to stay on it with the ferocity it requires