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2026-04-12 07:13 UTC

@therealahall And this: "Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Humans have survived sub zero temperatures, plagues, and every catastrophe a universe indifferent to our survival could produce. We have also painted caves, written symphonies, and this week sent a NICU nurse’s husband to the moon, where he named a crater after her and cried while his crewmates held him. That is the species. That is what we actually are when we are trying." 🥺

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@valentine@flickering.style 2026-04-12 07:19

@therealahall What I think is so fantastic about this mission is that it felt very immediately inspiring. Like, I'll probably never circle the moon myself, despite being into space since I was a little kid. I'm alright with that. But I'm also not just living vicariously through other people, NASA astronauts whose lives matter more than mine or anything like that. The vibe of that crew was not that they mattered and we didn't. Inclusion means ALL of us. That we're all beautiful, that we ALL matter, and that my little space stories matter, and so do the babies in the NICU, and the people who tighten bolts on the spacecraft, and it's everyone on the planet, not any one country. Because we're all here on this shining rock, and that we're living through all this crap and still reaching for beauty, that MATTERS.

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