You know, I was in a meeting, and I was about to apologise for talking so much. Then I caught myself and didn't.

Don't worry! If some nation attacks the GPS network which so many rely on, the US military will still be able to conduct war! 🔭

'ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Europe joins the constellation-launching game with debut of Ariane 64 🧪

The sun sparkled, the sky was clear, and all the colors he saw seemed to be richer and brighter than he could ever remember. The flowers shone as if they’d been cleaned and polished, and the tall trees that lined the road shimmered in silvery green.

It goes without saying, but someone should say it: they're all men.

Human material culture on an asteroid #SpaceHeritage 🏺

45. In 2025, we in the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Aerospace Heritage successfully nominated the Moon for the World Monuments Watch! 🏺 🔭 #PlanetSci #TabClosed2026 @icomos.bsky.social

'ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

As the announcement stated, it was a beautiful map, in many colors, showing principal roads, rivers and seas, towns and cities, mountains and valleys, intersections and detours, and sites of outstanding interest both beautiful and historic.

AI is not inevitable, as long as enough of us don't use it

Artemis moon landing is litmus test for ‘American exceptionalism’? I'm not sure Isaacman understands what American exceptionalism is. It's not being at good at stuff. It's 19th century philosophy that the rules don't apply to the US.

Support the Australian Friends of Palestine Association to continue the fight against genocide. #HerzogOut #Gaza #AusPol

International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why is this a thing? Because under the patriarchy, all women are stupid and only fit to be servants to men, so that men can thrive.That's your male privilege right there, and the cause of discrimination against 4 billion humans. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Over on FB, mostly men are insulting or trivialising Grace Tame. What does that tell you? #HerzogOut #GazaWillBeFree

"ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

44. The Lunar Policy Handbook is a reference guidebook for government personnel and private actors in the space industry. 🔭 #PlanetSci #TabClosed2026

PhD place @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social available: Autonomous sensing and tracking under severe uncertainty - observe satellites in megaconstellations and work out how to track them with incomplete data using machine learning & other techniques. www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science Here’s to raising the next generation of scientists, engineers, and problem solvers. #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #STEMEducation #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #ScienceForEveryone #JuniorEinsteins

It's why so many men, even progressive ones, automatically don't believe anything women say. I remember seeing a post by a guy who realized he was doing that to his partner despite thinking of himself as a feminist. That his reflex was to question/challenge anything she told him.

“I can’t see the point in learning to solve useless problems, or subtracting turnips from turnips, or knowing where Ethiopia is or how to spell February.” And, since no one bothered to explain otherwise, he regarded the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste of time of all.

Good news from the European Association of Archaeologists #Archaeology

In which France supports genocide

This group got the Moon listed on the World Monuments Fund's Watch List www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/a...

Where are the heritage professionals? We're all on an ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Aerospace heritage iscah.icomos.org

This is such good news! Meanjin, Australia's flagship literary publication, will survive. Thank you QUT!

@drspacejunk.bsky.social on preserving the ISS www.iflscience.com/what-if-we-d...

'ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

And, in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere, and things to invent, and make, and build, and break, and all the puzzle and excitement of everything he didn't know—music to play, songs to sing, and worlds to imagine and then someday make real.

It is so fundamentally obscene and offensive that any data centre developer feels brave enough to tout "jobs created" as selling point when the core selling point of the product they offer is to explicitly cut as many jobs as possible www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jesus Tapdancing Christ... aje.news/s1ry02

One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.

The Guggenheim museum shares its art books 12/n #TabClosed2026 archive.org/details/gugg...

43. The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies 🏺 #TabClosed2026

After losing about 20% of its civil servant workforce in the past year, Jared Isaacman says NASA plans to bring more expertise in-house and reduce its reliance on contractors.

'ACCORD, n. Harmony. ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Blue Origin announces TeraWave, a new constellation of optically linked satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), geared toward enterprise users and data centres.

In Conversation with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and Louise Adler AM: 'Discipline': Silence is complicity — but what is the cost of speaking up? Sunday 1 March 2026, 6-7pm, Adelaide Town Hall #Gaza #AusPol

The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising. It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever

I started reading an article, and thought gosh this interesting, and so relevant to what I'm doing! Turns out I wrote it. #Forgetful

We will not give up, Australia. The people know what's right even if our venal politicians pretend not to. We are with you, Palestine. We will not give up. #HerzogOut #Gaza #AusPol

Mehreen Faruqi Sydney. She referred to Herzog’s visit as a “normalisation tour”. “I have long lost respect for the Albanese government. Never even but never even in my wildest nightmares would I have thought that we would reach this level of depravity and immorality.” #auspol

“Back in Sydney, the Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has just spoken at the protest here. She waved handcuffs in the air while saying that Herzog should have been arrested “the moment he set foot on this land”. She referred to Herzog’s visit as a “normalisation tour”. She continued:” #auspol

“They are going to protest every day while the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, is here but are encouraging the crowd to join them on Thursday at 3pm after he lands in Melbourne. We are the people. We won’t be silenced. Kick Herzog out, out, out.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#RealHeroes #Protest #Fascism and #Genocide support by @australianlabor.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Yallah Pauline

Pov: You invited a genocidal maniac to your country, then made it illegal to protest (Looks like the Australian people don't give a fuck 🤷‍♂️)

I'm completely fascinated by this