Hubble deep field of over 10,000 galaxies and more than a quadrillion stars.

2023 Board: Bobak, what caused the anomaly on the spacecraft? Me: well you see there’s random bits of garbage text in the flight software code, like “jnm,n” Board: how did that happen? Me: uh, we were all in lockdown and, um, the cats. They just kept sitting on our keyboards.

To all of my sane brothers and sisters out there. This is crazy. But we have each other. Stay sane. Stay focused. Don’t let any of it take you down into the pig slop. Breathe.

We’re going to gather sample from an asteroid today if all goes well! Always incredibly cool to do interactive work from 200 million miles (320 million km) away. Knowing how we can do these things only makes it more amazing that it works.

Lunar far side and Earth from the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 spacecraft.

The first photo of 2020 in my camera roll.

What y’all need is waves, sunlight, dogs playing and Catalina on the horizon.

"He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down." This is how the Igbo people would describe the way richer western nations are buying up #COVID19 vaccines to the detriment of poorer nations. Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity Atlantic Fellows npr.org/sections/goats…

So lovely!

Once again, my brain barely understands how we are able to capture an image of a vehicle parachuting down at hundreds of miles an hour by an orbiter traveling thousands of miles and hour on a planet millions of miles away

Voyager launched carrying recordings of 56 languages: 55 human & 1 whale. So maybe Aliens will answer in whale?

Some of my shop’s work on #Indigenous people and respect for ecology, including a piece I wrote about the Kalingas’ struggle to preserve their identity in the northern Philippines.

Not to be the retweeter of bad news, but…

Bipartisanship is not the goal—that is an empty talking point. The goal is justice. Abolish the Jim Crow filibuster & protect our voting rights.

At the start of each new year, my colleagues and I develop predictions related to religion, politics and other trends in American culture. And each year we’re remarkably prescient. Tinfoil hats, dystopian imaginings and glimmers of hope are all in the mix. Check em out.

“We know we were colonized. We know they took over our schools. We know they took away our language. We know all of this, so we're just trying to bring all those things back.” CRCC's Richard Flory & Nick Shindo Street profile #Hawaiian #Indigenous activists. indiancountrytoday.com/news/a-very-ha…

Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater. Credit: Shelton Dupreez

Crazy how I was constantly bombarded with heterosexual propaganda since birth and somehow didn't turn out straight