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[AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_]

Current figures from Venezuela earthquakes:

- 1,430 dead
- 3,238 injured
- 68,900 people are missing, families tell Venezuelan government

Aerial footage from La Guaira:

[beka ✿ @whore4matcha]

on my bday 🥳

[Movie.Takes @Takes2Movie]

Curry Barkers’ ‘OBSESSION’ uncut version will also be released digitally with the theatrical release on June 30th.

[Dutch ambassador to Japan @GillesBP]

The ‘girl with the pearl earring’ by #Vermeer will come to #Osaka in August during the renovation of the #Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. Judging from the press-conference, she is very popular in #Japan. Maybe this is her last tour, since she is ‘advancing in age’ like all of us

[Astropics @astropics]

The famous Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 36th birthday today!

I'm sharing with you some of its breathtaking images that I admire so much!

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

THE MOST INSANE #TORNADO INTERCEPT ever in the Dominator 3 north of Rockford, Illinois

#Dominator #stormchasing

[Cole Bennett @_ColeBennett_]

SUMMER SMASH 2026
CHICAGO JUNE 12-14

UZI
CARTI
SKRILLEX
CHIEF KEEF
BABY KEEM
LIL BABY
YUNG LEAN / BLADEE

HANDMADE FLYER 🎨🍋

[bri @bribrisimps]

some people think it’s low for 60 minutes to interview someone like clavicular but i feel like it’s important for these new age influencers to be forced to answer for their behavior at the hands of journalists and established media publications and not just twitch streams they can edit and doctor to make themselves look better

[Pubity @pubity]

Artemis II's landing was so perfectly calculated by NASA scientists that they managed to predict the exact time the astronauts landed, down to the second.

8:07:27PM EST was the time they predicted, and they nailed it.

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Around-the-clock doulas are now available in UChicago’s labor and delivery ward. https://t.co/d0LyCbKfvZ

[Variety @Variety]

The dog star of “Beef” Season 2 arrives to the premiere.

[Xaniken @Xaniken]

They should add proximity chat to traffic

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

NASA has 32 cameras on the Artemis II spacecraft. The top science priority during the Moon flyby was the four astronauts looking out the window and talking about what they saw.

NASA's lunar science lead confirmed it. What the crew says out loud about the Moon's surface matters more to the science team than anything the cameras capture. NASA trained this crew in Iceland's volcanic highlands and at an impact crater in Labrador, Canada, teaching them to read rock textures and spot geological details at 25,000 mph.

There's a reason NASA trusts human eyes over cameras. In 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was walking near a small crater called Shorty when he scuffed the dirt with his boot. The soil underneath was orange. Schmitt was the only trained geologist to ever walk on the Moon, and he got so excited he blurred most of his own photos. That orange soil turned out to be tiny glass beads from a volcanic eruption 3.64 billion years ago, one of the biggest finds of the entire Apollo program. A boot and a pair of trained eyes caught what no camera did.

For this flyby, NASA sent the crew a final list of 30 surface targets. They killed all the cabin lights to cut window reflections. They worked in pairs, rotating every 55 to 85 minutes, calling out craters and lava flows while scientists at Johnson Space Center analyzed everything in real time. Pilot Victor Glover reported that the Moon's south pole, where NASA wants to land astronauts by 2028, looked "more jagged" than the north with much steeper terrain. One observation from a human eye at 4,070 miles could shape where the next crew touches down.

At 6:44 PM Eastern, Orion slipped behind the far side and went radio silent for 40 minutes. Four people, completely cut off from every other human alive, the Moon blocking every signal back to Earth. The last time humans experienced that was December 1972.

They broke the all-time distance record on the way. Apollo 13 held it for 56 years at 248,655 miles from Earth. Artemis II passed that mark and kept going to 252,760. Jim Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13 and held that record his whole life, died last August at 97, eight months before these four beat it. Before he died, Lovell recorded a message for the crew. "Welcome to my old neighborhood," he told them. "Don't forget to enjoy the view."

The crew named two craters during the flyby. One for their spacecraft, Integrity. The other, Carroll, for Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, a nurse who cared for newborns and died of cancer in 2020 at 46. Wiseman has raised their two daughters alone since. When Jeremy Hansen read the name to Mission Control, his voice broke. The crew hugged. Wiseman and Koch wiped tears. Then they got back to work, because they still had hours of Moon left to map with their eyes.

[sᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴛᴠ @superTV247]

The Artemis II crew woke up today to a custom version of “Stateside” by PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson, changing the lyrics to “I’ve been flying moon-side”

[Brent (Starship Appreciator) @SonoranAstro]

i love humanity

[Maxarick @Maxarick]

Victor Glover will now forever be known as the first person to do the 67 pose in the lunar sphere of influence

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

A newly found bright spot on the moon has been named Carroll by the Artemis II crew.

This is named after astronaut Reid Wiseman's late wife.

[PERVERTBALLMASTER3000 @snqper]

I'll block a bitch on github

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores — who found that:

• There are 306 Black-owned bookstores nationwide (8% of independent bookstores)
• 14 states have no Black-owned bookstore
• Nearly 90% report annual revenue at under $250,000
• Sales of books by Black authors declined by 14%, despite an increase in overall print sales

Check out the directory: https://t.co/1AuCvzBThm

[araña @xanathgum]

was gonna skip the gym today but i saw this gif

[b 🪐 @nothowyouhoped]

If you ever see me scroll past this video call the ambulance because something is wrong with me https://t.co/4rNKXLg83F