Edgar Silvestre Peña

Our home. Same perspective. 56 years apart.

The Artemis II crew got to watch ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ while in quarantine ahead of their mission to space. “They sent us a link to view at home with our families… the movie is a pretty extraordinary example that we can all follow. We all thought it was uplifting and inspiring.”

my husband fixed the sink today and tried to do a “sexy plumber” roleplay bit after with the whole “how are you gonna pay for this?” and i panicked and asked if he had an installment plan

Les recuerdo que uno puede ser ateo sin ser un idiota, pero sobre todo sin ser irrespetuoso con la fe de los demás. Hay que superar la adolescencia y dejar la pose de ateo irreverente.

La primera foto es cómo la tripulación del Artemis II veía al planeta con sus propios ojos. La segunda fue sacada dos minutos después con mucha más apertura, ISO y exposición. Ambas fotos fueron sacadas por @astro_reid y publicadas por la @NASA.

Lowkey funny that the sudden rise of Catholicism being trendy amongst the American right wing coincides with the current Pope being American but the exact opposite of them and is directly and openly rebuking them.

Someone in my replies thought King Arthur was invented for the 2004 movie starring Clive Owen. He was not aware of the centuries of previous stories about Camelot. Every day we are exposed to people who are less literate than a child in 1992 quoting Monty Python.

This woman's career is ridiculously impressive, yet you just know there are sad little men all over social media claiming she's only on Artemis II as a "DEI hire", and probably saying the same thing about her black crewmate, Victor Glover, who also has an extremely strong résumé.

Just two babies

Someone trained AI on her music, got a distributor for it, the distributor then copyright claimed her videos and music that the AI was trained on, effectively stealing her money. An absolute outrage, AI and AI powered scammers are strangling creatives.

whomp whomp

I'd say that the first Hollywood 80s movie was THE EYES OF LAURA MARS in 1978. A great movie in which we see 70s grittiness side by side with unmistakable 80s glamour.

Wonder Woman

Nobody is talking about this!!!! Father Pierre was trying to help displaced people and families, last month, and was killed by Israel. He stayed to serve his congregation, and other Lebanese displaced and impacted by the invasion. He lost his life because of it.

After a journey lasting 9 years, 5 months, and 27 days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby of Pluto, sending back these remarkable images.

In her final semester at Harvard, Amanda Nguyen was raped. She did everything survivors are told to do. Then she discovered that the physical evidence collected from her own body would be destroyed in 6 months — unless she filed paperwork to stop it. And then filed it again. Every 6 months. Forever. She was 22 years old. She decided to change federal law instead. 🌟 Amanda had interned at NASA. She had big plans. The kind of future that takes years of hard work to build was finally within reach. Then everything shattered. She went to the hospital. She reported the assault to police. She endured the forensic exam. She made the careful decision to file her rape kit anonymously — worried that an open case could affect security clearance applications for her dream careers. That's when the system revealed how broken it truly was. Because she was anonymous, Massachusetts law gave her only 6 months before her rape kit — physical evidence collected from her own body — would be permanently destroyed. Not the 15 years the state allowed for pressing charges. Six months. No official process to extend it. No clear instructions. No one to guide her. She had to figure it out herself, every 6 months, forcing herself to relive the worst experience of her life just to preserve her right to eventually seek justice. She started researching rape kit laws in all 50 states. What she found was staggering. Some states kept kits for years. Others destroyed them in as little as 30 days. Some states charged survivors for the cost of their own kit collection. Others never notified survivors what happened to their evidence. No consistency. No standard. *"Justice should not depend on geography,"* she said. But it did. In November 2014, Amanda founded Rise — a nonprofit dedicated to changing that reality. Everyone who worked with Rise was a volunteer. They fundraised through crowdfunding. Their goal was rewriting federal law. She met with lawmakers across Washington. Staffers told her it wasn't a priority. Some questioned her story. She kept going. She learned that the most powerful thing she could do was stop being abstract — to walk into a room, look a senator in the eyes, and say: *this happened to me. I am sitting in front of you.* Together with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, she drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act — proposing that survivors should never be charged for their rape kit collection, should receive testing results, and must be notified at least 60 days before their evidence was scheduled for destruction. In February 2016, the bill was introduced. It passed the Senate unanimously. It passed the House unanimously. Not a single vote against. On October 7, 2016, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act into federal law. Amanda Nguyen was 24 years old. Rise continued working state by state. To date, Rise has helped pass 33 laws across the United States, covering protections for over 84 million rape survivors. A movement started in spare time, with no budget and only volunteers, became one of the most effective civil rights campaigns of its generation. And Amanda never stopped reaching for the stars — literally. In 2024, Blue Origin announced she would be the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space. The young woman who had once feared that fighting for justice would cost her a future in space proved the two didn't have to be a choice. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Named a Time Woman of the Year. She wrote a memoir called *Saving Five.* But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Amanda Nguyen's story is not any single achievement. It is the fact that she turned the most painful moment of her life into something that made the world more just for millions of people who will never know her name. She was a college student who needed the system to work. When it didn't, she rebuilt it herself. **At 24 years old.

and she was mad as hell about it. for the record.

Es muy difícil aprender el español📀