for some comparison, in the quarter before, alaska spent $796m on fuel. they're expecting it to go to ~$1400m

Evidently that future lunar base will even have a Ferris wheel, but you’ll have to pay in crypto to ride it.

APRIL 2026 KHAMENEI IS MASTER OF THE STRAIT ONLY EUROPEAN CRUISE LINES STAND BEFORE HIM ROYAL CARIBBEAN ARE NOW BLOCKADE RUNNERS

Voyager 1 has had another instrument shutdown. On Friday, the team at JPL sent the command to shut off of the low energy charged particle instrument. That means that there are now only two operational science instruments on the spacecraft. science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

Use of assembly by the Terminator: "Modern programming is often like asking politely through several layers of management and hoping that a committee eventually approves your intention. 6502 programming was more like being handed a soldering iron and a deadline." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebv...

otel spans are just journal entries your services write about their feelings

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Orks teleported the planet of Armageddon back to where Ullanor belongs. The Ad Mech would be so pissed off. Not to mention everyone still living there. #warhammer40k

PRC Oilship captain: are you really gonna shoot at us? really really? you really wanna do that US Navy Captain: .... well, this is a sticky wicket

Thankfully, though, we are currently clean on OPSEC.

War is the continuation of sports betting by other means

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Here is the reentry path of Starlink36340 as it burnt up over @heardislandgov.bsky.social on Apr 10 about 0908 UTC

i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure

Feedback from an Authentic Mac User™ who used to be happy with Tailscale. My suggestion that he fix the problem by installing Linux was of course warmly appreciated.

Just yesterday Trump told Jon Karl that he wanted to form a “joint venture” with Iran for charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. Now he claims he doesn’t know if Iran is doing so and pleading with them to stop if they are.

Best take here is Trump loves being a winner so much he decided to join Iran's side.

Paying someone billions they didn't previously earn so they let you stop attacking them is a chapter I missed in "Art of the Deal".

Next space mission needs to do some research on what happens if you send a werewolf to the moon; does it just make you go full wolf, full time? Or does the novelty wear off due to exposure? @jthutt.bsky.social please weigh in

The fact that there's multiple versions of the 10-point plan is wild, there hasn't been this much confusion about a 10-point plan since Moses came down the mountain

Pay attention to where the George H.W. Bush CVBG and Boxer ARG are. I don't think this was like a conscious chess move to buy time for them, but those are still deploying and have a momentum of their own and should be in theater in two weeks.

i don’t think anyone involved here has any idea what’s happening other than some very faint understanding of cease fire

…I think we might have surrendered in a war because our president gave the treaty the ol’ Apple Terms and Conditions skim before clicking agree. Don’t see how this holds for two weeks. Or two days, for that matter.

The Artemis II crew just reported several impact flashes—explosions from hypervelocity impacts of meteoroids with the Moon—during the solar eclipse. We make a big effort to see a handful of these from Earth with telescopes. That astronauts flying by the Moon saw >4 in tens of minutes is AWESOME.

nous sommes tout science lady

I'm watching a live stream of astronauts at the moon looking at photos they just took of earthrise. I have waited my whole life for this. #wearegoing

My weekly update on war and strategic competition has just been published. This week, Ukraine disrupts Russia's spring offensive, the potential for U.S. boots on the ground in Iran, Pacific security and my Big 5 reading recommendations. mickryan.substack.com/p/strikes-su...

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

There's easter egg hunting and then there's easter egg hunting www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Listening to trickle of rules reveals for upcoming 11th edition of #warhammer40k all I can think about is "where do I buy forest terrain?". I want trees adorned with purity seals, ganger graffiti, and imperial propaganda over aeldar runes and chaos symbols carved into the sides of man-eating plants.

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

Will I ever get over this image? I don’t think so

The crew aboard Integrity heading upwell

“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?” “yeah?” “and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?” “… yeah?” “I got some good news and some bad news”

Artemis II's real-time orbit in @ahwoo-official.bsky.social @deanhall.bsky.social's Kitten Space Agency

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so excited to tell you that for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, human beings have left Earth orbit." -- Dr. Lori Glaze, opening the Flight Day 2 press conference

Wait... Christ could lay eggs???

lmao, turns out that no viziers won because he has no fucking idea what he’s done or what he’s going to do, every day is big boy global war by vibes and the president’s vibes today are bad

A national address needs a national leader and a clear set of actions, this one had Albanese and a series of empty phrases workshopped through focus groups. What an empty man he is and what a hollow government.

Regardless of what you think of SLS as a design, there are thousands of people who have worked their hearts out to make today possible. Go Artemis 2! #wearegoing

You'll like the War Room this week, then. www.economist.com/united-state...

Senator, sir, I think you mean "raising the question." "Begging the question" has a distinct meaning of "assuming an unproven premise is true" and does not mean the same thing as "raise the question." Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Northern European countries have fuel reserves in excess of a year. How does Australia have 30 days? This is exceptionally poor www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #auspol

I know what to do !

The problem here is that there is more thought and planning in this thread than will go into the actual decision.

that's not normal, I'd like to make that point quite clear. They're normally built so the front end doesnt fall off

What security flaw in a document management system causes federal police to wake executives middle of the night? One which impacts the place where design schematics, component diagrams are stored by manufacturers. The depth of supply chain attack this would represent if quietly exploited is obscene.

Scenes from “Star Wars: Revenge of the Chick” being filmed on our Island

Centimeter Wavelengths xkcd.com/3224/