Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON. Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

Jobs for #ScienceWriters

Judas priest. Look at this absolutely shocking presentation of The Sand Pebibles by the Great! Action channel. People should lose their job for this.

Can you identify the ship in @cosmicrami.com’s picture? Or comment on what sort of vessel it is? Or pass this along to someone who can? #SailSky

Here's a second source for the story that employees have been laid off at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Department of Energy lab operated by Battelle. #PNNL #DOE

Significant layoffs at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA) today. Hundreds of people lost their jobs and were given under 30 minutes to gather their things and be walked off the premises.

Teen me expected space colonies or a thermonuclear war by now, maybe absurdly capable fusion rockets. Teen me did _not_ expect email from his doctor explaining vaccines are safe and have desirable health outcomes. Or rather, teem me never envisioned that that would be necessary. Or controversial.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

"Is she even in there or did she just put her clothes on a coat rack and sneak out." - @desilydic.bsky.social, @thedailyshow.com

Was awake for almost 36 hours while traveling yesterday and woke up today to find I was briefly afflicted with true genius in my notes app

Is any other science fiction buff thinking “Ace Double!” right now?

Friends, I am as excited as heck to tell y'all about the NEWBERRY MEDIEVAL MINICOMIC PRIZE! It's for emerging cartoonists (i.e. no major publisher work, excepting anthologies) considering making a short work that engages with a medieval subject (fic or nonfic). 1/ www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

What’s interesting/amusing to me here is the impact of the Mercator projection making the map silly (bc D)

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose? For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose? (Spilhaus-Adams projection map by Tobias Jung, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Do I know any science book agents who want to hear a pitch for my latest book idea

Is anyone aware of a particular good critical book either on Stanislaw Lem's work as a whole or on Solaris particularly? I figured the Palgrave series would have one, but didn't see one in the series. Just wanting to fill a few more gaps over here.

"Aeolis 14 Umbra. Come in please. Do you read me? Mission accomplished. Mission accomplished." Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) made his debut on this day in 1965. LOST IN SPACE.

Still intrigued by plutonium core case canvas cover w/ atomic logo that @atomicanalyst.bsky.social notice in Tinian photos I posted. @wellerstein.bsky.social @nuclearanthro.bsky.social @cherylrofer.bsky.social any clue? Have Alan Carr looking into it too..

In a golden moment, among the Seattle Worldcon hucksters, I was browsing vintage hardcovers, and found this: SEETEE SHOCK, by "Will Stewart" (Jack Williamson), in the 1950 Simon & Schuster first edition. I opened to see the price and got my own shock: Only twenty dollars! 1/n

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74.

To Pope Leo XIV on his 70th birthday, welcome to the International Confraternity of Septuagenarians! May God bless you and bring your life light and fulfillment until the day, ten years from now, when you graduate from our group. Photo by Gregorio Borgia for the Associated Press. #PopeLeo

At a Dollar Tree store this week, I spotted a license plate holder made of many, many little gold hexagons. I mention this in case some crafts-loving astronomer should feel moved to make a license plate frame that says MY OTHER VEHICLE IS A 6.5-METER SPACE TELESCOPE. 🔭

Today and tomorrow, Billy Basso of Animal Well fame will be joining us at Chicago Gamespace to talk about the game! www.chicagogamespace.com/exhibitions/... Come by if you're in the area - or if you're at VCF Midwest, Gamespace has a booth there!

A development in the story of frozen shrimp, possibly contaminated with radioactive cesium-137, that had been recalled in the US in August. The Indonesian government, the JAKARTA GLOBE reports, has isolated an industrial site that appears to be contaminated.

Deep cut on Screen Actors Guild history.

I've looked at Rick Guidice's painting, of the interior of an O'Neil cylinder, a hundred times. It just now occurred to me that neither the Earth nor the Moon would look that way out the window. The L4 & L5 settlements would be 400,000 kilometers from the Moon, and also from the Earth. #spaceart

Before the internet nobody moved at internet speeds. But sometimes British radio announced Soviet rocket launches before the Soviet Union did, all because some weirdos in a British elementary school were operating radio sets trying to detect satellite launches.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear: A loose global (papermail) network of civilian detectives was patiently unraveling the mysteries of Soviet spacecraft over many years. Dwayne Day reviews a posthumous memoir/logbook by satellite-watching hobbyist Saunders Kramer.

I was today years old when I learned that "parishioners" is correctly spelled with two "i"s. 👀 It's not a word I have written very often. Has everybody been pronouncing the second "i" all this time, with me just ignoring it? Or is it the case that nobody pronounces the second "i?"

The best of my readers, (note, I don't say the best of my books), go on resonating after the reading is done. The director of this film will make a film not from the book but from the resonance within himself. This is the best possible way a film can happen. And no work at all for DMP! 😃

An ad came up. A trailer for a horror movie. Was startled to hear a familiar voice. #ArthurCClarke. Talking about the future. Juxtaposed with creepy images of terrible things happening to characters. And even creepier music. Disturbing. 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE opens in January. 🧵 1/n

Hat tip to @genejm1017.bsky.social for pointing out a @science.esa.int page on Comet 3I/ATLAS. It linked in turn to an FAQ page with a bit more info about observing the comet with spacecraft. I will quote the juicy part. Thread: 1/n

Lovers of art may wish to take a look at this instance of Adam Rowe's newsletter, devoted to black-&-white SF and fantasy illustrations.

Looks like this happened again! This time, Maxar's WorldView Legion 6 satellite spotted a Starlink satellite while imaging Dingxin Airbase in China. www.linkedin.com/posts/susann...

The IAU announced official names for Donaldjohanson's surface & shape features 2 weeks ago, but nobody has mentioned the news. They're all named after archeological sites and hominin fossils, which is fun and awesome haha (Afar Lobus = small lobe, Olduvai Lobus = big lobe, Windover Collum = neck)

As Comet 3I/ATLAS passes Mars, European Space Agency plans to observe it using spacecraft orbiting the planet. Both Mars Express & ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will turn their instruments to gaze upon the comet.. We armchair astronauts had speculated; glad to see it become real. 🔭 #planetaryscience

Your aero engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

today i learned you can buy wikipedia merch which is great because i would love to give money to an organization that is actively fighting online censorship store.wikimedia.org

apparently, yesterday was National Hummingbird Day, and it reminded me of something I saved off the other place a few years ago - someone (I’ve lost who, sorry) made this KC-135 Hummingbird feeder! It got me thinking about a fighter-sized bird.. 1/3

Wow big dust devil captured 11 hours ago by Perseverance 🌪️ Time intervals between each shots: 5 sec, 3 sec, and 84 sec #Mars Sep. 7, 2025 - Sol 1617 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

William K Sullivan, on William Higgins: "He was incapable of making his age comprehend him."

Regarding the making of comics, Chris Schweizer shares what he's learned. Thread.🧵 Also consider investigating the thread he's responding to.

Today at Mass, I learned that the Church is about to canonize a Webmaster. Blessed Carlo Acutis (1991-2006) was an energetic Italian who, among other activities, compiled a Web site listing recorded miracles. He died at the age of 15. Tomorrow, he will become Saint Carlo Acutis.

So It has come to this.

England is playing Andorra in a World Cup qualifier. Andorra plays an important but little-known role in the economy. In 2024, 88.7% of world bureaucracy's supply of "and/or" came from the mines in that little country in the Pyrenees.

I post a piece of good news every day (climate, civil rights, disease eradication, science, sanitation, conservation) because, to keep our activism & resistance going, we need reminders that, when we try hard, we do succeed. They *want* doomerism; Despair is how we lose. #ShareGoodNewsToo

I'm happy to share this advert for a permanent part-time role in the library of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social share.google/K1v6wLMnhxQp...

Trace Elements, a collection of essays about the Project of Science Fiction, by me and @adapalmer.bsky.social coming out March 24th 2026, available now for pre-order from all good bookstores www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...