Well, now we see if the House Dems collectively have a spine.

Reminder: I need to get a lotto ticket. It feels as good a use of my time/money as spending 2 weeks unpaid writing a grant proposal at the moment.

I am kind of digging this fail.

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

Going to step away from this mess in the Senate right now but will just say I intend to make life a living hell in any way I can for any @democrats.senate.gov that surrender to the GOP for nothing.

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

In the race of the tortoise and the hare, Blue Origin is the tortoise or heavy lift giants. Go, New Glenn. Go! (Once the weather clears, that is)

Come hang out with a rocket!

Hey - that's me! Come watch?

I'm trying really hard to stream with fewer mistakes. Because of who I am as a person, I just did unholy things with Stream Deck Multi-Action to open all my tabs in a new window as well as files for each stream identity. And then I put it on Medium starstryder.medium.com/launching-ch...

Dear @elgato.com, I'm a science educator at a non profit. My studio is powered by Elgato (2 cameras, 4 lights, stream deck, teleprompter, many many arms). You don't sponsor us... but you could. And that would enable bertter scicomm. (I have fantasies of presenting using your new teleprompter.)

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

The Predator: Badlands movie is weirdly endearing with a side of Kaiju.

A weird thing about James Watson is that he auctioned off his Nobel Prize and then pivoted to extreme science denial and racial essentialism and became a darling of Gamergate and then we learned that one of the currently sanctioned Russian oligarchs bought it for millions and then gave it back.

Did you know that as part of the FAA cutbacks, they are eliminating daytime launches? If New Glenn doesn't launch Sunday, it is unclear when it can launch. The ESCAPADE mission waits on board. Screen cap from Duffy's twitter. Full order here: www.faa.gov/newsroom/FAA...

The back of my brain continues to mull the paper on "time variable Dark Energy" & age-dependent Type Ia SN luminosities. I'm not going to wade into the cosmological discussion. Nope Nope Nope. I do want to think on what's at the core of the age-dependent idea because it's a neat contemplation. 🧵

lol

Secret Lair #MTG

But people who need SNAP are lazy??? No more bailing out for profit companies. More taxing for profit companies and the rich. Trickle down economics failed.

This @sciam.bsky.social article reminded me I can get my booster in 3 weeks. Vaccines booked: www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

Come get your fresh hot science: - 8pm E / 5pm P This month's Full Moon Science Discord will look at I3/ATLAS. Join me on the Starfront Observatories Discord discord.com/events/12499... -9pm E / 6pm P EVSN's new episode premieres on youtu.be/_JuGZHaIIBU?... & Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX

This almost went poorly for me and very poorly for the stink bug. That is my spacebar it is standing on.

We're getting ready to go live mapping the Moon (as one does). Watch Pamela and team scientist Kirby Runyon map Lunar Melt on twtich.tv/CosmoQuestX and then do your own mapping at mappers.psi.edu

"Here's the stats that show most people who get SNAP are working" is a good way to refute their fake arguments but seeing it over and over is driving me bonkers-- look at how many people are working full time and still can't afford enough food, what a terrible fucking country

Do you know how hard it is to work when you're fucking hungry? Even if you were only looking out for the capacity of people to labor you should still want everyone to be well fed. Not scraping by on a little SNAP money. Like, well fucking fed. Ghouls.

Every time we have to argue for WIC or SNAP I just lose my mind a little more. I just fundamentally don't agree that people should have to work to eat and it feels ridiculous to have to argue with people who think our labor matters more than our lives and wellness.

I showed up to a telecon, but the green screen algorithm did not.

This campaign is in overtime and has killer comic and cool stuff that appears aimed directly at me (there is a box I can put magic cards in, and STICKERS, and and enamel pins...) Don't get FOMO if you're a DCC fan. #Thewillnotbreakme www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

Me wakes up with migraine & every old injury reminding me I was never really good at horses back riding. Worst sleep ever. My phone:

Astronomy Picture of the Day Comet Lemmon Beyond Lomnický Peak Credit: Robert Barsa www.instagram.com/rob.barsa/ www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... #APOD 🧪🔭

It's more difficult to fight injustice when you are hungry.

I want to know whose phone call led to this at a time when Teen Vogue and Wired are leaders in political reporting

ep 770 Records today! All because we can launch humans toward Mars, should we? @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space discuss in this live recording at 2pm EDT / 12pm PDT / 7pm GMT. www.youtube.com/live/14QKJkt...

I'm very excited to announce `usaspending-orm` a new Python library to ease access to data from the USASpending API. Available now on PyPI and GitHub. Repo link in thread.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

saw this @skepchick.org video and it's stunning how effective snap is, 0.004% of tax to feed 40 million people and the return on investment is 14:1 youtu.be/l8-oYPtfsRo?...

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Come watch Ally and me do our thing where we rabbit hole and laugh and just delight in insane science fiction.

Grant draft: soft sci-fi Grant editing: hard sci-fi CV: heroic fantasy

Life is short, cosplay when the whim takes you. This afternoon I'm going to see the new Frankenstein and @msneonkitten.bsky.social are going to dress in Victorian(-ish) dresses. Pictures will follow. Halloween is not allowed to end.

Now live! I'll be reading the entire story this evening.

Happy Halloween! It's Story time :-) This year I'll be reading Carmilla (1872) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. This is a sapphic story of a young woman taken in by a powerful female vampire. This is a charity fundraiser for CosmoQuest. Join me at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific on Twitch.tv/StarStryder

I have been looking forward to this stream with @mwatzke.bsky.social for months! Please come. It's going to be glorious, awesome, and creepy - just like our Universe.

There are ten toilets in space: International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Tianzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Tisnzhou on way to TSS: 1

It turns out that coffee plus scrolling through the news in the morning is a good way to start the day with an anxiety attack. My 1st reaction was, I should cut back the coffee. But really the whole “you need to *always* be aware of current events” stuff they taught in school needs to unlearned.

“A handful of White House officials have lived in military housing in the past, but it appears to be unusual for several cabinet members and other officials to move into military quarters in such a short amount of time.”

This is the face of a dog that knows she has just stolen her mom’s seat. I stood up for five seconds, but that was all it took. She is about to get displaced so my iPad and I can get back to work.

I have, "I'd like to buy a new sofa as retail therapy," levels of anxiety on a "is that IKEA throw pillow really 70% off?" budget.