Old enough to know better, too young to care

Everything has to come after guaranteed housing. Everything has to come after guaranteed food and water. Everything has to come after guaranteed healthcare. Everything has to come after guaranteed electricity and internet in this day and age.

If you can be unhoused, you can have everything taken from you. If you can be underfed, you can have everything taken away from you. These are not liberties or privileges. These need to be the absolute floor for human rights.

Happy dogs

My dad sent me this…

The Wright plane swatch was in the keepsake payload, but the “pieces of Challenger and Columbia” means some reused legacy hardware from the space shuttle that was actually part of the launch & ship. So the shuttle bits weren’t just passengers in a box, they were part of the active machinery of space travel.

A Threads post by schechterelizabeth and reply by saganstardust. Schechterelizabeth writes:

I've heard that there was a very special payload on board the Integrity capsule.

A 1 inch square piece of canvas from the Wright Brothers plane, provided by the Smithsonian.

A piece of Challenger.

A piece of Columbia.

Tonight, the Wright brothers have flown higher than they ever dreamed possible.

Tonight, the Challenger made it safely into space.

Tonight, Columbia finally came home.

Saganstardust adds:

One more: the flag from Apollo 18, who never got to go.

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

I'm just in a little bit of a time crunch and I need just a few more responses to the survey for my thesis, it's about video game mods. If you have a moment to fill it out, I'd be incredibly grateful. It should only take 2 minutes! (You can switch the language to English at the top)

In return, I can offer you some napping cat pics from my camera roll:

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.