"NASA Has Been Implementing the President’s Proposed FY26 Budget Cuts Since Early Summer—In Clear Violation of the Constitution" Appointees & politicians telling you the US will do more and be leaders in human spaceflight with this budget are lying to you. www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Methinks this math ain't mathing

Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom… I was born in 1970, and was an only child and a latchkey kid. PBS and the CPB raised this Gen Xer. The thought that anyone else in my generational cohort had a hand in electing the folks who killed all of this??? Hell is too good for them.

Maybe you woke up today and said 'I need to do commentary and presentation using authentically-researched fonts from WARGAMES." You're in luck - the work has been done for you. mw.rat.bz/wgterm/ (Terminal Fonts) mw.rat.bz/wgtitle/ (Title Fonts)

Sharing this picture for absolutely no reason at all... Also, thanks Ars Technica for being the only place online I could still find a copy of this poster.

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

Valkyrie, my beloved

In case you want some launch cost info for arguing with people on that other site that they will conveniently ignore.

The image says: If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

I replaced my old laptop with a Framework 13 I had been eyeing a bit earlier than I had originally planned because I feared something like this would happen... Glad I trusted my gut on that one.

IYKYK

Why the "we'll just make everything here" crowd is wrong. Even raw materials, production tools, distribution logistics overhead, etc. always end up requiring something to be imported. To truly be self-sufficient, you have to have _everything_ available in-country and that just won't happen.

o7 Iceman

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

We've been saying this on @talkingspace.bsky.social now since the 2016 International Astronomical Congress in Mexico. We caught a ton of slings and arrows for it too. I'm happy to see we're in very illustrious company.

Caught this tripe from the "commander-in-chief" over on the "dumpster fire" site. For truth's sake , here's a history lesson. 🧵https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1901696619839361362

Anyone know what this is?

A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...

They're not just firing her. They are eliminating the entire role of Chief Scientist. Along with the office that houses the Chief Economist and the Chief Technologist. So three roles intended for high level advice to the Administrator. Who needs advice on something so complex anyway (/sarcasm)

I totally have a girlfriend, but you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school

Well if you listened to this #NASA/SpaceX media event concerning the #Crew10 launch and Mr. Musk's assertion that he offered to bring the Starliner crew home early, plus the President's assertion this was the case, it was all garbage. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq5C...

Thanks to @willcain.bsky.social and Fox News for having me on today to talk about bringing our astronauts home from the ISS. We were cut off early, but I’d love to come back on the show to talk about rocket debris over Florida and government contractor ethics. www.foxnews.com/video/636969...

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

When they say ‘America First,’ they really mean ‘Russia First’—and they’re not even hiding it anymore.

Web archive of Childhood and Adult vaccine recommendations from the CDC. Just in case. web.archive.org/web/20250122...

Spoke with Pam Melroy, NASA's former deputy administrator, about the claim that the agency was offered an earlier return of Butch and Suni from the International Space Station: “An offer to bring the crew home early, it never came to headquarters." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

world's richest man who hires people to secretly play video games for him so he can pretend he's good wants to make sure everyone is doing the work

Idiocracy was a documentary

Elon Musk is now also pushing for the ISS to be deorbited as soon as 2027 instead of the current plan of 2030. Notably that is approximately how far out that Dragon is currently capable of supporting with its fleet without another crew vehicle, as each is currently only certified for 5 flights.

If this doesn't concern you, then you didn't learn anything from the Cold War.

@zorg2044.bsky.social can cook!

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

FCI Leavenworth exists for a reason....

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

I saw this over on LinkedIn and am sharing here in case this information is helpful to anyone - data that was available on the CDC before January 28th has been archived and is available on archive.org. We should probably be making a few extra copies... archive.org/details/2025...

I think with current events it's probably relevant to bring back this post I saw (on the other site) last year. "If you recognize this, you understand why kids from the 80s don’t trust ai"

Anyone remember when like every civil servant and federal contractor got free identity theft monitoring for almost a decade after OPM got hacked in 2015. This is likely going to be much, much worse than that... www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

This is why Millennials and Gen X don't talk to their parents.

Drink more water

Drawing a Gonk droid every day until I don't: Day 6

After it was such an abject failure at Twitter, what better place is there to try the _exact_ same process than... checks notes... the United States government........ 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

HODL www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

Disgraceful. NASA has always represented the best of humanity because of its diversity—in thought, background, and talent. NASA’s success has been built on the contributions of people from all walks of life, breaking barriers and fostering unity in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.