For years I have been affectionately teased for my love of notebooks and stationary. Which is FINE, families gonna fam, I dish out all that I take, rest assured.

But an hour ago Jupiter was like, “You know, I really want to start cooking, and have a notebook where I put recipes,” and I was on it like white on rice. Here, want to check out my blank notebook collection and pick one? They did. Want to use my corner cutter to round all the corners? They did. Want to use my rainbow of index cards and specialized hole punch to make colored notes for your sections? Want this cute food-themed washi tape? Want me to write up tonight’s soup recipe? YES!

They were just standing at the kitchen table, putting their notebook together using all my stuff, and they’re like, “Mom! This is so cool! You’re so magical!” And I’m standing there with the gazillion-watt glow of my decades-long niche nerdy obsession saving the day, and being loudly recognized and appreciated about it. 😂

#notebooks #analog

This year's April Fool's Day science papers are coming online.

First, from our favorite astrophysicist @sundogplanets

1. Cow-culation: Reentry Impact Risk to Livestock in the Satellite Megaconstellation Era

... is launching more satellites into LEO every year.
This could intersect with NZ’s famously large population of livestock. We predict this will be an udder disaster for any cows that are hit, as they are squishy and moo-ve much more slowly than space debris.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29324
1/n

all military members … remember what you are fighting for

#EpsteinFiles #TrumpSteinFiles #politics #War #military

just noticed it's How DNS Works' 4th birthday soon! https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/

it's still one of my favourite zines, and it comes with a free ★★ playground ★★ at https://messwithdns.net where you can create DNS records and see what happens!

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
We're everywhere and we're cool.

Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

I've translated the Tao Te Ching rap from A Chinese Ghost Story. And in this thread, I'm going to annotate every single line of lyrics, explaining all the jokes to you.

Let's speak some nonsense.

FCC reply comments are due by 5pm EDT Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital. If you wrote in a comment, please please please write in again saying that they did not address your concerns in their letter (which is very hard to find in the FCC dumpster-fire-of-a-website). Instructions here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

The most horrifying part in their "consolidated reply": they agree that they could in fact cause permanent eye damage to people using medium-sized telescopes. WILD.