In honor of Dick Van Dyke turning 100, I just tripped over my ottoman and landed right into a little dance flourish.

Got the best surprise treat today - spacetweep hugs! Amazing to see @anthrogeek.bsky.social and @redshift42.bsky.social again and share a delicious Ukrainian meal at an old favorite haunt, Veselka. Some things never go out of style, like friends and hearty winter nosh!

I was so excited for the 2025 election season to end with today's vote! And then I got my first 2026 campaign ad. Not fair. I just want a break for a few weeks. Is that a huge ask?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans out there! And I hope everyone else takes a moment to appreciate the people, places, and things they are grateful for, too. Gratitude really is best practiced all the time, not just on a holiday. ♥️ Feasts are probably best kept to holidays, though.

There is a special place in my heart for every designer and manufacturer who ensures the spray bottles they make always have the straw go all the way to the bottom front to make it easy to use almost every drop of the product. Thank you for your diligence!

It seems very fitting that the last farmer's market is the Tues before Thanksgiving. I'm starting to think of going to grab apples as the real start to the holiday. This year's pie will again feature Winesap, Macoun, Gala, and Empire apples grown in Sussex County, NJ. Blend killed last year!

Italian figure skater Matteo Rizzo is skating to Interstellar for his free this year and the commentator keeps saying his steps are supposed to make a "constellation star." I assume he means the shape of a constellation and am trying to find out which one to no avail so far. But really cool idea!

I’ve had the honor of working briefly with Sen. Kelly during the Shuttle program. STS-121 was my first and I helped train the crew on the Emergency Egress Slidewire (and the rest of the missions of that program). To see this non-sense from our government is just beyond words.

The best way to really dig into cleaning is to have something even worse to procrastinate. This includes different cleaning projects. The rest of my kitchen is starting to look amazing while I masterfully avoid decluttering the table.

There are two kinds of people: Those who live by, "Yes, and..." and those who live by, "Yes, but..."

Turning 50 next summer has made me really confront how much I haaaaaaaaaaate my birth date. I just want to enjoy my birthday one year without heat and misery. Just once. To be able to go outside and enjoy some nature. Where can I go for July that's *cold* but cheap from North America?

FYI: If you have multiple gmail accounts, the setting to turn off smart features is under each account.

Apparently 16 years ago today was my 1st time ever meeting tweeps IRL. 5 met up to see Mike Massimino give a talk to mostly HS students. Great day! This led directly to SDO and my first launch, + a whole host of new friends and amazing adventures. Was so nervous to go. 😂 @genejm1017.bsky.social

Pet peeve: When people call a meal on actual Thanksgiving a "Friendsgiving" just because it is spent with friends. That's just Thanksgiving.

This is horrific. This cannot happen.

I adore Isabeau Levito's skating and think she was born to skate to Zou Bisou Bisou (well, really, the English version, Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo). But also a little mad at her for the endless #earworm. That song is catchy af. Even worse, both people in my home sing it non-stop now, so no hope to nix it.

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

#HappyHalloween from the 4077!

First there was the life-sized gnome on our corner carrying a banana costume. Then there was the sad bunny being comforted by a friend wearing a paper bag for a head. Is it just #Halloween or did I step outside and into The Sims? #Hoboken

15 years ago today, I started one of the greatest adventures of my life, #STS133 part 1. 13 years ago today I started one of the worst adventures of my life, hurricane Sandy and not being able to go home for 3 months. Life: Hell comes right to your door, all the good stuff must be sought out.

During these difficult and often-miserable times, certain songs have become staples for keeping me going. This is one of the most effective, maybe it could help someone else, too... nativenyc.bandcamp.com/track/aint-g...

Not an editor, but a few audio producers, who are the editors of musical ideas and it's really good to have one who is neither the songwriter or artist, because they will almost always improve your music if they are even decent at their jobs. Last line of defense against yourself!

What do people with keyless cars that aren't chargeable electric ones do to get in when their battery is dead? I've simply never considered it until I was opening my car with my key to try and jump start it today. I've rented a few keyless models but never had the battery die on me.

Fresh MMR and Tdaps done to kick off 2025 vaccination season. Just a couple of GenXers listening to scientists instead of assholes. 2 local measles outbreaks=time to make sure our MMRs are still working at full throttle.

Ladies, which annoys you more? 1. A lack of pockets in clothing Or 2. When they go to all the trouble of putting in pockets that can't hold anything

Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101. Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11) Credit: Steve Breen Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com

I keep feeling like I need to write another song about why NASA funding is critical to many aspects of our lives and those of basically every being on this planet. But? Bake Sale still covers most of my thoughts, it's just all that much more dire now. Hoped it would be antiquated in 2025.

Living the “American dream…”

Yet more reasons that if you love music you should despise Spotify. It never ends. They make record labels look like they take marvelous care of their rosters! www.angrymetalguy.com/angry-metal-...

Why is the global hydrologic cycle accelerating, with increases in both wet & dry extremes like heavy downpours & flash droughts? Blame the increased water vapor-holding (and water vapor-evaporating) capacity of the "expanding atmospheric sponge."

I always thought if I had a wedding it would be huge and a rager. Instead, I got tiny and very rushed and could invite 1/60th of my guest list. But the really cool things? Having a legit spacetweep from the best times of our lives/our soul sister @spionchen.anomaly.moe as officiant and...

It feels hilarious to celebrate our 1st anniversary when we just celebrated our 28th together. Marriage makes 0 difference in our lives. But any excuse for a celebration, especially w/ great food and even better champagne!!! Instead of saving cake, we saved champagne. Much tastier a year later!

Does this mean I now have the answer to life, the universe, and everything in italiano, too?

So grateful to people who alert me about my internet stuff gone awry. Spotify stealing my music, my FB hacked, my dad's FB hacked... I would never know without the eagle eyes of kind people. Thank you for keeping my faith in humans intact even while other humans are doing their best to wreck it!

@akanel.bsky.social My dear SMURFETTE!!!! I have never been this happy to see an avatar pop up. Didn't even have to look to know it was you. How are you?!?! ♥️🫂♥️

Decades ago, when I first started learning guitar, I picked up a really weird habit of using an alternative open G. When @urbanastronyc.bsky.social pointed it out, I was scratching my head on where I got this. Finally found the answer: Jimmy Page In Tangerine, one of the 1st songs I learned. 🎸

The world around me is falling apart and every day brings fresh dumpster fires to add to the glut. And then the silliest happy thing crosses my mind, like the idea that oven season will come soonish, and it's like a mental life raft. The effect is all out of proportion. I'm so grateful.

My dad was convinced that most personal problems could be helped by having a milkshake. Sometimes he was a very wise man.

"For the last 350 years the title of Astronomer Royal has been held by a white male astronomer, and that kind of reflected what the astronomical community has looked like for the last few centuries. But things are changing," 👏👏👏

Put on "shuffle all" on my most random collection of owned music in one place. In a pile of Dylan tunes, "Sleigh Ride" as performed by the American Boychoir, came on. And I swear, it actually made me feel a little relief from the horrendous heat, just imagining the icy wind of a ride...

I used to love sharing a birthday with NASA (NACA). It almost made up for being stuck with the misfortune that is having a summer birthday, even. This year it's rather bittersweet.

Why did the equine go to the doctor? Because he was a little hoarse. #horses #badumtis

Couple weeks ago I went out with @souphead.bsky.social and lost my favorite hair clip. I didn't notice until the next day and never mentioned it to her. Today she dropped off something else and said she had thrown in her own clip that is identical for me. Pure coincidence that feels like fate.

The amount of amazing art and creativity our society would see if we just had a basic income would blow your mind. So many creative minds are trapped in a cycle of survival when they could be inventing and creating.

Nothing like seeing a classic in a classic. What a film! They just don't make them this entertaining in this millennium.

Canceled my Paramount subscription today. I was prepared to go spend a bunch to replace my #StarTrek channel, but it turns out the economics of the future are a bit different. globalspin.com/2025/07/stre... I'll miss SNW, but hopefully it won't be too long before I can pick up Season 3.

My local library recently started a Library of Things. It doesn't have a lot yet, but it does have a starter telescope! How cool! What a perfect thing for a library to lend.

Tè, Londra, latte, Inghilterra, tazza, acqua, colazione... I feel like my Italian word review in Duolingo today is trying to tell me to make some English breakfast tea!

My friend @souphead.bsky.social is moving and listed the many instruments her musical kid has that need special care and said it was a lot. And that's when I realized musicians have a really skewed perspective on this, because I thought the list was somewhere between normal and quite short. 😂

Just saw Heathers on Broadway. They cracked a joke about the Coldplay cheaters during a scene. Already. 😂