Things are looking up.

Every day Mission Control wakes them up with a song, they plan that - they put time and thought into every moment these four astronauts will spend up there, and part of that is choosing a song to wake the astronauts each day. On flyby day they had a recoding from Apollo 8 Astronaut Jim Lovell, welcoming them to the neighborhood and passing on the torch to them. Apollo 8 who flew the first lunar fly by in 1968. One team of firsts, to another. In what they do here in these few wonderful days, they are some of the best of us.

one day it'll happen to you. you will stay up a bit too late playing a video game and not get to bed on time. I've done it before, you'll think. I'll be fine. but no. you will make it through most of the next day and then at about 2pm you will feel like a reanimated corpse whose sim meters are all completely fucked and nothing hurts exactly but everything does feel very bad. and you'll think oh yeah. I'm not twenty anymore

As a trans masc who discovered they had CERVICAL CANCER upon my first adult check up at 22, please yall, get checked out even though it’s hard. You deserve care.

Still love this.

we should adopt this strategy with more things! "We understand some politicians may feel uncomfortable using some of the correct pronouns for their trans constituents. For the sake of coherent discussions, we encourage politicians to process their discomfort and participate in politics only once they're able to use the correct pronouns."

don’t understand where people get the energy to be an active participant in their own lives. the days just happen to me for real

i think im getting better! :) [another event occurs]

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck