Tootfinder

Elon Musk: “I was inspired to build a base on the Moon by the classic Heinlein story about a base on the moon…no, not ‘Moon is Harsh Mistress’, the other one.”

The Influence of Space Weathering on the Far-Ultraviolet Reflectance of Apollo-Era Soils: #Moon

Fly me away to the bright side of the moon ...

Musk makes another totally unrealistic plan. And let‘s not forget the strategy shift here: originally it was the moon, then it was Mars, now it‘s the moon again. With a rocket which still is in development.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/…

elon musk is shifting the focus from mars to moon because he doesn't think planet earth will be politically stable for that long. i wonder whose fault that is...

xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/elon-musk-lunar-factory.html

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moon Duo:
🎵 Stars Are The Light
#NowPlaying #MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/stars-are-the-light-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/19xLlmWwfG7uXfGcjkdnjO

Isotopic evidence for volatile loss driven by South Pole-Aitken basin–forming impact: #Moon Is Asymmetrical: https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical - analysis of surface samples from the Chang’e-6 mission suggests that an asteroid may have vaporized parts of the lunar mantle, suppressing volcanic activity on the farside of the Moon.

Thanks to The New World Paper, I'm listening to Mong Tong, a Taiwanese ambient band that uses a Creative Commons Licence, the album is Sun Moon Darkness.
It's very cool and rhythmic.
A long way from the romantic ballads of the early 90's in Piano Bars.
#Music #NewMusic<…

Beautiful night in the woods. It didn't rain at all and we woke up to an awesome sunrise instead of the pouring rain we usually get. I'm not used to packing up my shelter and having it be dry.
Should be a good day of training.
#SearchAndRescue #SoOthersMayLive

Musk over-promises and under-delivers.
Again.
And again.
Everyone laughs at him, but he's still the richest person on Earth and press reports do not continually ridicule him.
WTF is wrong with the world?
https://science.s…

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says - Slashdot
"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X s...

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

Another #GlasgowByNight pic (the Bell tower of the university of Glasgow)
Taken yesterday by R. Grieves
#Glasgow #UniversityOfGlasgow

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sugar:
🎵 Man on the Moon
#Sugar
https://neilnathan.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-man-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pwTc1VuyBD5pPRzfiFyzt

Skate Story came out! And it's on PlayStation Plus, which is a Plus!
https://skatestory.com/

Skate Story | Out NOW!
You are a demon in the Underworld, made out of glass and pain. The Devil has given you a skateboard with a simple deal: Skate to the Moon and swallow it — and you shall be freed.

As NASA moves closer to launch of the #Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its #SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the first time at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals: #VehicleAssemblyBuilding to Launch Pad 39B.

"Another threat to reefs: Microplastic chemicals may harm coral reproduction"
#CoralReef #Microplastics #Plastic

Another threat to reefs: Microplastic chemicals may harm coral reproduction
As the sliver of a new moon shines over Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, millions of tiny orbs ascend from a reef and swirl in the water column. These spheres are bundles of coral eggs and sperm responding to lunar cycles and chemical cues in the water that tell them when to fertilize and where to settle […]

Today’s moon.
Thanks to @… for telling me about the video stacking feature.
#silentsunday

looking good tonight, #SanFrancisco

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- Gold, Silver, Bronze and Brass
From golden birds, the silver moon, bronze spears to brass bands - a programme inspired by the materials used for Olympic medals - but we couldn't leave out the sound of brass.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00214rb

The successor to "Kentucky Fried Movie" just got delivered: "Amazon Women on the Moon", both works by John Landis.
Fun fact: It was originally supposed to be called "Kentucky Fried Sequel".
▶️ ''Amazon Women on The Moon' (1986) Deleted scenes & Bloopers
https://

The moon, this morning
By the way, there was a lot of red in the sky earlier - but the forecast is for more very pleasant weather so that old saw about "shepherd's warning" was proved wrong. Again.

Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point. 
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Big Moon:
🎵 Pull The Other One
#TheBigMoon
https://thebigmoonband.bandcamp.com/track/pull-the-other-one
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zF0PFdUHTTwRZmYGv1ieO

#Northumberland

PRICES TO THE MOON, LIFE IN THE DITCH! 🚨 Why Are Russians Panicking About 2025?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/prices-to-the-moon-life.html

I found this statue of Guanyin at the #Rijksmuseum in #Amsterdam oddly calming.
«Here the Buddhist deity Guanyin, saviour of people in peril, is represented meditating on a rock. According to legend, he was once found in this position, meditating on the reflection of the moon in water, a symbol of ill…

#Theia, the giant impactor that created the Moon, and Earth were neighbors! Read more about Theia's likely "birthplace" in the inner Solar System here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/theia-and-earth-wer

Sediments Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
"Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos" #Mars
https://

Sediments Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says.

Absolutely stunning moonbow out tonight. The belt of Orion is visible in the lower left. The planet Jupiter, the top left. And Capella shines brightly to the right. Gorgeous! #Astronomy #moon #tennessee

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text.
If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap.
Try it on this page:
https://srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l

This photo raised some eyebrows (and some warnings) just before a total solar eclipse...
(I had real solar protection glasses underneath.)
My explanation was that the 3-D glasses let me see the back side of the moon.

My hip pain, what I’m pretty sure was bursitis, disappeared after several days of rest. 🙌 I waited another couple of days and felt pretty good about trying it out.
So, we begin again. Again.
Stopped at the halfway point to take a few pictures and let my HR come down a bit. Felt good early and sluggish late. What I expect, for a while anyway.
#Running

Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507

Because I do not see it repeated on my TL nearly enough:
To hell with the Trump regime for sending National Guard into DC for absolutely • no • reason • whatsoever • except inflaming the situation. They’ve been desperately waiting this whole time for something to blow up and some troops to get harmed so they’d have an excuse for more escalation. Hurting troops was the goal. The •goal•.
And now Epstein’s off the front page. They’ve got to be over the moon.

🌡️ Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
#moon

Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might not have succeeded, allowing them to try again. A group from MIT's Space Enabled Research Group, part of its Media Lab, recently released a paper in Space Science Reviews that describes the design and testing results of a pair of passive sensors sent to the moon on the ill-fa…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
The Waterboys:
🎵 The Whole Of The Moon
#NowPlaying #TheWaterboys
https://polarmaxbit.bandcamp.com/track/the-waterboys-the-whole-of-the-moon-polarmaxbit-tech-house-special-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MYtWkoEiUNZmMe5CgCczM

I bought a Seestar S30 and it arrived with all the clouds and rain. But tonight was a clear night AND the moon is almost full…

How are you just now figuring this out? #newyear

I'm #ActuallyAutistic, and I love this woman deeply. I have been a huge fan of her music, especially my special interest in her song “Loin d’ici” (ESC Version) since May 14, 2016.
But now, watching Taylor Swift, Cœur de Pirate, and other artists slowly take her place feels like an unspoken farewell, like a song fading softly into the distance. It’s as if she herself is tell…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cat Power:
🎵 The Moon
#CatPower
https://fernandobocadillos1.bandcamp.com/track/six-feet-under-a-k-a-the-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/108WYctcaX1PWLyQuzP6gF

La Luna

The moon is jealous
Of the North's fresh snow cover
Gleaming silver bright.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
#haiku
#poem

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Doris Day:
🎵 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
#DorisDay

NASA began a two-day practice countdown Saturday
leading up to the fueling of its new moon rocket,
a crucial test that will determine when four astronauts blast off on a lunar flyby.
Already in quarantine to avoid germs,
Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew will be the first people to launch to the moon since 1972.
They will monitor the dress rehearsal from their Houston base before flying to Kennedy Space Center once the rocket is cleared for flight.
The 3…

NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years
NASA has begun a two-day practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in 53 years

I feel like NASA's "we're going to the Moon to stay" is "stay" like in "AI is going to stay"

Driving through the desert at like 7am. Moon was still showing

Little to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today: #Europa: https://www.reuters.com/science/study-casts-doubt-potential-life-jupiters-moon-europa-2026-01-06/

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, opening their 3rd series of the year at the reopened kaiser auditorium, 3 show thanksgiving run billed as “dancing under the harvest moon”. fall ’85, show #16, now on “enjoying the ride.”
soundboard:

IEEE Spectrum writer Dina Genkina compiles this list of top computing stories from 2025. The list includes subjects ranging from the year's top programming languages, to data centers on the Moon.
"The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-computin

This week’s #ThursdayFiveList is all about #Children, courtesy of @…:
1. Almost Vinyl, “That's a Fucking Ugly Baby”—

Sediments on #Mars Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
"Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos" | Eos |
https://…

Sediments Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says.

Moonrise over the roundhouse.

B02 - Shadow
CALLY: Yes. Once the moon discs had broken through my isolation; as soon as I was no longer alone I could fight it. fight it.
VILA: But what about the key? How did you get Orac's key while he was up here and you were down there? Long arms?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/611

When the Moon Hits Your Eye https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8125918883?utm_medium=api

A Lost Planet Created the Moon. Now, We Know Where It Came From. https://www.404media.co/a-lost-planet-created-the-moon-now-we-know-where-it-came-from/

ALS -To The Moon And Back
I'm Lisa Wright, and with me is Portia Turbo. We talk honestly about friendship, joy, and my recent diagnosis of ALS — and what it means to face something big with humour, love, and the people who hold you up...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.great…

Sailor Moon Daytona USA
https://dkomaran.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/sailor-moon-daytona-usa/

Screw It. Let's Rename the Moon. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-lets-rename-the-moon-trump-institute-of-peace-kennedy-center-coin-epsitein-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p44#a251219p44

Hey! Go look at the moon. To the right is a bright dot, that is the planet #jupiter, a giant ball of gas 484,578,623.31 miles away. #lookup #space

Finished "Moon of the Crusted Snow" by Waubgeshig Rice.
As winter approaches, an Anishinaabe reservation in Northern Ontario loses contact with the outside world when a blackout takes down power, internet, and eventually hope for resupply. They slowly begin to realize the blackout is much more widespread and that they're on their own. That is, until some outsiders begin to trickle in.
Sparsely written and beautifully bleak.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe commu…

Timeline cleanse: tonight’s moon and Jupiter and its moons

1 Player Raiders HC Pete Carroll is Over the Moon About https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/1-player-pete-carroll-is-over-moon-about

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "
Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"
really fun, worth reading.
ht…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ozzy Osbourne:
🎵 Bark at the Moon
#OzzyOsbourne
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/73bpm-ozzy-osbourne-bark-at-the-moon-dj-chris-diablo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2E7W1X4maFFcjHrVrFA7Vs

NASA’s #Arcstone instrument, designed to improve the accuracy of lunar calibration, successfully completed its technology demonstration, and now begins extended operations: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/smallsatellites/2026/01/28/nasas-arcstone-instrument-successfully-completes-primary-mission/ - Arcstone launched on June 23 on a SpaceX Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on a six-month mission to measure light reflected by the Moon, which is a stable and potentially highly-accurate calibration source, for satellite sensors

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
R.E.M.:
🎵 Man On The Moon
#NowPlaying #REM
https://triple-m1.bandcamp.com/track/r-e-m-man-on-the-moon-triple-m-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jLv3tDBu8ww2R07DvL12s

I never could have been literate in Chinese. Not that I could not read those 2 characters as different, but I’d never be able to write characters with that fine a distinction with any sort of reliability. American cursive was bad enough. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115651531673910237

Today’s moon

🌔 The origami wheel that could explore lunar caves
#moon

The origami wheel that could explore lunar caves
Beneath the moon's cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar bases from cosmic radiation and wild temperature swings. These underground structures represent some of the most scientifically valuable areas in the solar system, but they come with the very real challenge of simply getting there.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 To The Moon (feat. André 3000)
#ShabakaHutchings

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Spencer Cullum:
🎵 Look at the Moon (feat. Erin Rae)
#SpencerCullum

Neil Young - "After The Gold Rush" (1970)
Somehow I went all these years without acquiring this record, until today. Apparently this lp was inspired by a Dean Stockwell script for a movie that never got produced.
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung

Orion will fly by the far side of the Moon
(the side that always faces away from Earth).
For ~6 hours, the crew will observe and photograph geologic features that humans haven’t seen in person since 1972.
This is the part I’m in Mission Control for! Squeeeee!
-- barbylon.bsky.social

NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Science Operations to Inform Future Missions
While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions, including a lunar science investigation as Orion flies about 4,000 to 6,000 miles from the Moon’s surface.

When I was a kid, I had a couple well-loved issues of G.I. Joe Special Missions, and this art from the cover of one of them was my absolute favorite. And I ran across it the other day again, and it still strikes me as extremely badass, even now. Just something about Snake Eyes scaling a wall in moonlight.
#art #comics …

Considering that the US currently lacks the capability to safely land payloads on the moon, the timeline seems rather aggressive.
NASA, Department of Energy To Develop Lunar Surface Reactor By 2030 - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
George Harrison:
🎵 Here Comes the Moon
#GeorgeHarrison
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bIdIeFq2cOUAxGo5AHBI0

One more #ArtemisII piece in https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-artemis-ii-astronauts-getting-ready-for-flight-to-far-side-of-the-moon-60-minutes-transcript/ (13-minutes video and transcript) - it also highlights the renewed 'race' between SpaceX and Blue Origin for building the Artemis III lander. And falsely claims that they are the first to actually show the Blue Moon MK1: see https://www.instagram.com/p/DRVZLMkkVgO/ from last November ...

Oh, is that why it feels cold… 🥶

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista

Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users
Google has announced that it needs a bit more time to make Gemini the new default digital helper for most of its users.

If you watched cartoons in the 90s or early 2000s, you probably heard some of Guy Moon's amazing theme songs and scores. Guy passed away earlier this month after injuries from a car accident- I wrote this short piece over at Animated TV Blog to commemorate his work: https://animatedtvblo…

RIP Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon
Guy Moon, an Emmy-nominated composer known for his work on animated TV shows, passed away January 8 following a traffic collision, according to a statement his family posted on Facebook. For animat…

Last night’s skies

Thank you Cory🙏🏻
This blew my mind 🧘
https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/115812098090569002

Corey S Powell (@coreyspowell@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos. Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home. Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover. https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

Multiple Ecco the Dolphin games in development, new website launched #EccoTheDolphin

Multiple Ecco the Dolphin games officially in development
“Several new Ecco the Dolphin products and games” are officially in development, developer A&R Atelier announced. A&R Atelier is a studio founded in Half Moon Bay, California …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
!!!:
🎵 Fast Car
#
https://chkchkchk.bandcamp.com/album/fast-car-man-on-the-moon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Go:
🎵 Christmas on the Moon
#TheGo
https://listentothego.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-on-the-moon-sp

Hi Iceland! That was a nice sunset you greeted me with… London gave me the moon on takeoff.

RE: #Luna9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon!

Cool picture of the #ArtemisII stack in front of the first quarter #Moon at the #KSC - supplied by ULA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ulalaunch/55063964129/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dead Kennedys:
🎵 Moon Over Marin
#DeadKennedys
https://aaronjshay.bandcamp.com/track/moon-over-marin-the-dead-kennedys-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/46MRcStjaWUGmTKUDP8ykO

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Sepulchral Curse:
🎵 House of the Black Moon
#SepulchralCurse
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-the-black-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zPHIt9PkABaERGrQnB2Tr

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Thee Spivies:
🎵 There’s No Christmas on the Moon
#TheeSpivies
https://flyingtartretrospective.bandcamp.com/track/theres-no-christmas-on-the-moon

Origin of the lunar #farside highlands from Earthshine-induced global circulation in lunar magma ocean: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11199 -> There's a side of the Moon we never see from Earth. Scientists think they've worked out why it's so strange: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/moon-far-side-near-side-difference

Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo: #moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/science/moon-stealing-earth-atmosphere-magnetic-field