This is a vile document, but it is also a really funny read in light of the last few weeks.

#reads: White House, ‘National Security Strategy of the United States of America’, November 2025.

Is China a great power in space? Join me on 26 March for an online event hosted by the Astropolitics Working Group of @BritishIntS. Register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

#reads: Laura Ingels Wilder, Little Town on the Prarie (1941)

March 17 is the anniversary of the launch of Vanguard 1, the oldest human object in space! In this post I look at Vanguard 1 and other satellites as part of the cultural landscape of Earth orbit. 🧪 #SpaceHeritage #SpaceArchaeology

#reads: Initial Draft Set of Recommended Principles for Space Resource Activities: Note by the Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities, A/AC.105/C.2/L.339 (United Nations Committee on the PeacefulUses of Outer Space Legal Subcommittee, 2025).

RIP to one of the greatest German philosophy posts of all time.

A guitar used by David Gilmour to record the iconic solos and riffs on six Pink Floyd albums has sold for $14.55 million, becoming the most expensive guitar to be sold at auction.

#reads: Bas Jacobs, ‘A Comparative Study of EU and US Regulatory Approaches to Cybersecurity in Space’, Air and Space Law 48, no. 4/5 (2023).

Just before I retired, the public affairs team at the Center for Astrophysics did a sort of exit interview with me that is now available as a podcast... www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19c...

The making of Fargo at 30: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog’

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I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

#reads: Stephen Gorove, ‘Cosmos 954: Issues of Law and Policy’, J. Space L. 6 (1978): 137–46.

While I completely agree with this, I think that we also have to admit that "Piiiigs in Spaaaace!" is a clear exception to this rule.

Can't think of much worth teaching at the university level that isn't controversial.

I keep thinking about how the greatest political screw up of our time, maybe all time, is Biden not just releasing the files.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Some people are taking the Bad Bunny show harder than others

I said 'no' to something today, which means I have peaked on personal growth for 2026.

Absolutely fucking repulsive.

During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4

Sculptor Ivan Misko working on a sculpture of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1962).

Pretty much

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Call for Papers: @rgsibg.bsky.social | London | 1-4 September 2026 Investigating the geopolitics of private satellite infrastructure: new pathways for connectivity and conflict Full CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪 #satellites #geography #Starlink

Space expert here. I've seen this claim since late 2020 and dont think I've ever seen any description spell out how "Italian military satellites" would be able to communicate directly with vote tabulating machines in Fulton Co., GA. I am not aware of any plausible way they could do so.

Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.

#reads: Penny Griffin, ‘The Spaces between Us: The Gendered Politics of Outer Space’, in Securing Outer Space, ed. Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan (Routledge, 2009).

#reads: Linda Jaivin, The Shortest History of China (Old Street, 2021).

of interest: found, in my photos on my laptop, a pic from the hotel notepad on which I started work on "no children." I mention in the "This Year" book that this began on a boarding pass envelope. once I landed and got into my room I did this. "Derrida" I think refers to thoughts about erasure etc

EXC: The multibillion-pound contract to build ‘Skynet 6’ next-gen military satellites is shaping up as key flashpoint in UK govt, as Trump’s threats to western allies are fuelling concern about London’s reliance on Washington for defence giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds playing CSNY’s “Ohio” with a little “Killing in the Name Of” thrown in.

#reads: Roald Dahl, The BFG (1982)

From the party that brought you Dobbs v. Jackson

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

A bit more of this, please

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

#reads: Sergio Marchisio, ‘The Evolutionary Stages of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)’, Journal of Space Lae 31, no. 1 (2005): 219–42.

📢 New article: Holding up the skies: Is #Starlink occupying Low Earth Orbit?' We calculate that the megaconstellation, which forms a privately-owned planetary infrastructure, equals → 52% of all mass in LEO 🛰️ → 75% of all mass launched LEO btw 2019-2023 🚀 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#reads: Jonathan Havercroft and Raymond Duvall, ‘Critical Astropolitics: The Geopolitics of Space Control and the Transformation of State Sovereignty’, in Securing Outer Space, ed. Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan (Routledge, 2009).

#reads: Dave Webb, ‘Space Weapons: Dream, Nightmare, or Reality?’, in Securing Outer Space, ed. Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan (Routledge, 2009).

😪 Fare thee well, Bobby

No, no, I don't think this is really the case here, CNN: "Despite the overwhelming amount of video footage, questions remain as to exactly what happened during the incident."

Arrived at CDG 7 hours before my flight and still ended up running to make my flight. Amazing work Paris.

Between the efforts of KLM and Flixbus i may never be able to leave the EU.

#reads: Sara Corrin & Stephen Corrin, eds., More Stories for Seven Year Olds and Other Young Readers (1978)

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸