You know what? Sure, I'll say yes. It also explains why aliens don't come here. Either they'd be afraid of the giant lizard monsters, or they're disappointed the dinos are gone. www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...

Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before' www.space.com/space-explor...

I guess the Falcon 9's must really actually be grounded, because Jonathan McDowell's Starlink count hasn't gone up in the last 4 days since my last talk! (It's actually gone down slightly due to reentries). There are now "only" 9,631 Starlinks in orbit. (Sigh.)

I talked to Pitchbook about the proposed million sat constellation pitchbook.com/news/article...

You can already comment on SpaceX's application for one million satellites www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-fas...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence

SpaceX has put in a kinda-sorta-application to the FCC for an orbital data center constellation with a MILLION satellites. However, the description is rather vague without the usual specifics of the orbital parameters of each shell. fccprod.servicenowservices.com/icfs?id=ibfs...

tee-hee - reviews from critics on the new movie #Melania

Sending love to all of the O’ Hara’s. My heart goes out to you. Another hard day on the planet just got harder.

apart from this it was a fantastic cinematic experience  www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

1992: a song about gay culture and hockey and family. Here’s a live version of Rheostatics “Queer,” sung from the perspective of the younger brother whose family, and small town, cast the gay son out. m.youtube.com/watch?v=l8yv...

In an exclusive conversation, Atom Egoyan joins director Alison McAlpine to discuss her Cannes premiere and Oscar contender perfectly a strangeness ahead of a NYC screening this weekend.

Le film québécois PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS de Alison McAlpine est finaliste pour l’Oscar® du Meilleur court métrage documentaire.

Serious Oscars post: It's really nice to see a short film as curious and contemplative as Alison McAlpine's PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS register with the Academy, and I'm glad this means more people will get to see it on a big screen.

Outrageously exciting, as ever, to see Rooftop alums and grantees land all-too-well-deserved Oscar nominations! This year, we couldn’t be prouder of or happier for Alison, Geeta, Josh, and Sam—and we’ll be loudly cheering the four of them on from our couches come March! 🥳

Plein(s) Écran(s) débute aujourd'hui avec la présentation de Perfectly a Strangeness, en nomination aux Oscars® ctvm.info/pleins-ecran...

⭐ 𝐄𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 Plein(s) Écran(s) est lancé! Pour l'occasion, le festival met à l’honneur le film de Alison McAlpine, Perfectly a Strangeness, nommé aux Oscars® dans la catégorie du Meilleur court métrage documentaire! 🏆 🔗 Pour découvrir le film 👉 pleinsecrans.com.

FYI: you can now stream the Oscar nominated donkey doc PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS for free. povmagazine.com/watch-oscar-...

These donkeys are off to Hollywood! 🫏🫏🫏 #perfectlyastrangeness

I know for a fact that I’ll be stuck at like a red light in the next few days and I’ll suddenly whisper to myself “Perfectly a Strangeness” and I’m fine with that

The National Socialist German Workers' Party were not socialist. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is not democratic. Trump's Board of Peace is not about peace. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Appeasement will not work. Trump is already threatening us. Enough with this dithering.

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

My take: if space is going to be a place where humans live and work, they will sometimes get sick. This incident is a feature, not a bug.

You can’t "lone wolf" your way to 93%.

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

‼️ ALERT. The Trump Administration is dismantling NASA’s Goddard Library and destroying irreplaceable archives. While Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Jared Isaacman talk about Mars, Russ Vought pushes deep cuts to NASA Science. You do not reach Mars by burning knowledge.

A stellar lineup of the year’s best Canadian films from @hertzbarry.bsky.social, including Measures For A Funeral at #6!

Happy Friday! If you're a paid subscriber to SHINY THINGS, you just got my reviews of THE SECRET AGENT, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG and MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL in this week's What's Worth Watching newsletter. And if you're not, I'm sad for you! It's fun to be in the loop! (You can subscribe at the link.)

To tell a tall, uncontrived, surprising tale in picture and sound and re-define what a story can be. “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of the soul.” Ingmar Bergman #oscars2026

perfectly a strangeness shortlisted for Short Doc! @academyawards.bsky.social @secondsightinc.bsky.social

Three Netflix Titles Plus An ‘Undesirable’ Film Make Oscar Doc Feature Shortlist, Matthew Carey reports for @deadline.com mailchi.mp/docnyc.net/m...

"This whole nightmare would end if someone would just tell Trump that Obama can hold his breath for 15 minutes."

Seasons greetings, or whatever

Really incredible full map of the star-studded sky.

perfectly a strangeness shortlisted for Short Doc! @academyawards.bsky.social @secondsightinc.bsky.social

Oscar Contender ‘Perfectly A Strangeness’ Imagines Donkey Perspective One of the most cinematic documentaries of the year comes in short form, with no dialogue. Alison McAlpine’s Oscar contender perfectly a strangeness, winner of more than a dozen awards at film festivals around the world, runs a…

I'm not a subscriber, but I imagine this story for the FT by Anj on the idea of AI data centres in space is a must-read. www.ft.com/content/cc07...

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

The Cinema Eye Honors 2026 Short List has recognized perfectly a strangeness! It's a great honour to be included with the other great short films on the list 🎞️ 🎉 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival

🎬 perfectly a strangeness will be screening in New York and Los Angeles as part of the 2026 Cinema Eye Honors Shorts List. With the other great films being shown, it's not one to miss! New York: www.dctvny.org/s/firehousec... Los Angeles: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-... #cinemaeyehonors

The clippity-clops of donkey hooves fuel the offbeat donkumentary 'perfectly a strangeness', screening this weekend as part of TIFF's Canada's Top Ten. 🫏 povmagazine.com/alison-mcalp...

SpaceX claims close approach to Starlink satellite by payload from Chinese launch A reported close approach between a Starlink satellite and a recently launched Chinese spacecraft highlights the challenges of coordinating spacecraft operations and verifying potential close calls in orbit.

Measures for a Funeral: my favorite type of ghost story, one where the resonances of reality flicker back and forth with the spiritual, asking the viewer how it reflects upon them. if not for April, i would call this the best sound design since Memoria. incredible autistic-coded lead performance