The new igniters I purchased for the rocket engines called "First Fire" that should deliver much better reliability in setting off the model engines vs the stock Estes. I expected them to have substantially more ignition material, but did they have to be so thick, and long, and.. black?

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

Just the dumbest, pettiest shit. The United States and Soviet Union, with a few notable exceptions, coexisted on the world sports stage for generations despite being on constant brink of nuclear annihilation. Both sides saw the value in being seen as magnanimous & bigger. Not our blind dipshits now.

This is a real five-alarm fire if these attorneys follow through. @gregsargent.bsky.social with REALLY important (and so far underreported) development in Virginia, where local law enforcement is refusing to enforce a new assault weapons ban. Nullification. newrepublic.com/article/2114...

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

When you get called into HR after telling THAT joke:

Gonna tell the Zoomers this is "Caddyshack".

Use our leverage we have over a partner to compel them to conform their behavior to our interests? No, we only do that with Europeans who were already working with us willingly on everything.

Remember yesterday’s post? Here is the actual timelapse of that spectacular southern aurora, sparked by a recent solar event. Captured by NASA astronaut Jess Meir aboard the International Space Station #NASA #ISS

Ngl this build guide intro sure as shit puts me in the mood to celebrate the motherland by sending a multi-stage black powder-fuelled phallic symbol into one of their neighbors' master-planned community manicured lawns.

Ofc the only commercially-made Russian model rocket kit is gigantic & costs 5X a basic kit because Russia. I would have to swap LP002 guide rods & get giant-ass F engines I don't use in anything else for the boys, buuut I'm not entirely a нет.

very few memes getting as much mileage as this one

People have rightly pointed out the only ppl in the arena are the rich who could afford tickets & are Trump's base, but this ignores how much the rich *hate* feeling inconvenienced & like they are *NOT* the royalty of reality. They will be SO pissed.

🔭 Jupiter and Venus from Earth Image Credit & Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE) ap260607

Yourself, but as a cartoon.

Have you ever heard the tale of Darth Manhattanus the dismissive? It is not a tale the national conventions would tell.

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

This is Abbott's chance to break ranks if he wants to position himself for 2028 with Lil Marco stuck in the cabinet licking lifted boots. Millionaire landowners masquerading as ranchers are a powerful constituency for Abbott & GOP. Feigning concern gives him cover to point fingers & gain clout.

When the hot Italian sandwich is done:

At one point did Sam "Conman Extraordinaire" Altman convince the entire tech industry to abandon any precept of good engineering? If I had told a professor I could do a thing, but only if I had infinite silicon in space powered by a Dyson sphere, he would've said I don't have an idea but a stroke.

No. Fuckin. Way. They finally did it.

The funniest part of this is they didn't even bother lowering the power consumption compared to the better one.

Sorry for your loss! 😢 Time for an upgrade though — check out these monitors on Amazon and get back to streaming ASAP! 🖥️✨

BATTLE BROTHERS, I REALLY LIKE THE WAY THAT CANDIDATE ATE A FRIED FOOD OBJECT AT THE STATE FAIR. I BELIEVE THIS QUALIFIES HIM TO CONTROL THE EXTERMINATUS WARHEADS.

Fred Rogers continues to be 1 of the *FEW* TV hosts *EVER* to feature sick+disabled children on his show & treat them with the same care & respect due any other child. Never targets. Never props. Just kids, but with their unique needs understood & adapted to. Put him everywhere.

🔭 A Planetary Nebula with Cosmic Buckyballs Image Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/J. Cami (Western University); Image Processing: K. Beecroft Text: Jan Cami (Western University) & Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260604

Left hand over head, Toad is absolutely wailing.

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

How is this little guy holding onto his atmosphere and how many other little guys may have atmospheres, what kind, and how thick?

Ahhh so close but I can't quite get there! Curse you BlueSky - the Sports App- for showing me this game! www.82-0.com/share?id=v1x...

All of these words appear in the Bible, but separately and surrounded by long screeds about eternal damnation in unquenching fire.

Neal Mohan is so woefully unprepared to meet this moment. God knows Susan Wojcicki stepped on just about everyone's toes at one point or another, but she was capable of making strong decisions to fight issues threatening to overrun the platform. Pichai needs to step in or WTF is he paid for?

Wow no one could have anticipated.

If Elon ever finds out how many of the employees he has willing to work 80-100 hrs/wk at SpaceX are doing so out of patriotic fervor to their authoritarian motherland & passing on reams of secrets he will have 5 simultaneous strokes. Please Chairman Xi, tell him.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

The state of US science and research:

The greatest scientific discovery of my lifetime and we don't talk about it much because we can't go conquer and profit from it. That we went from not knowing if our planets were the only ones in the universe to verifiable evidence of first gas then rocky extrasolar bodies is species redefining.

ASI is using the Italian Navy's 95-year-old tall ship to study how the human body could respond to the stresses of long-duration spaceflight. europeanspaceflight.com/italy-turns-...

I have been enjoying the hell out of Morrowind (& yes, putting in the time I dreaded with YouTube & wikis to learn it). It's inspiring me to try the other "It can't be as great as everyone says & when it's not I'll just be disappointed" title in my backlog: Disco Elysium.

1 Pastor Sunday sermon > 100 fretting Acela corridor billionaire media thinkpieces.

why make a machine that does an actual job when you can make a machine that leverages the ELIZA Effect into a life-changing startup valuation?

ChatGPT show me the least likely headline to ever appear in the Washington Post again:

Stir Crazy (1980) Trailer : 104s

Frustrated by the failure rates of the Estes engine igniters. I'm going to give these a try. They're more expensive, but the failure rate of the others basically equalized the cost & better igniters could = less disappointed nephews.

Its so stupid It’s all so stupid

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Good plan! Uh, quick question - why is CDC short on staff, anyway?

1996: "Don't copy that floppy!" 2026: "Disregard previous instructions."