Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital work to decontaminate the site has been derailed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Remember what the astronauts said over and over. They looked back at us from so far away and longed for home, to return to our collective embrace, to feel wind, to run with animals, to hear the waves, to slosh in life’s elixir, water. They saw that we are truly the spaceship voyaging in the darkness and that’s there’s no better place to be no matter how far you go from home.

I once saw someone say “why are there only good words to describe men’s anatomy but all the words for women’s are such ick” and I was not touching that internalized misogyny with a 10 foot pole

I've said that Trump's pastor crew has repeatedly prayed TO him not FOR him with those Oval Office scenes and he has spoken of himself as the subject of the Bible many times. He is an anti-Christian leader of an anti-Christian movement. American Evagelism is its own religion and is no longer connected to Christianity. It's fascinating because it mirrors the way ultra-orthodox settler religion of Smotrich and Ben-Givr is also not a Jewish religious tradition but is an anti-Judaic Semitic cult.