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Another day, clear at noon, cloudy by sunset. No photons for me tonight.

And yet the people building these "constellations" keep telling us, "Oh, come on, there's plenty of room up there, thats why it's called space!!" It's way past time for regulation.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

THIS 👇 HERE.......

NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months. n.pr/3SK34oz

“60 Minutes” — once a fearless national treasure — has been largely gutted. Over a year ago, I appeared on “60 Minutes” because I trusted the leaders of CBS to report the news with honesty and bravery. That will be my last appearance on the show. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

Launch Abort at 6:45 PM EDT (unofficial) First abort after lighting the Raptor engines, scrubbing for the day. Will be looking at the data that caused the abort. There was a quick hold at T-50 seconds, then the count started again. SpaceX is offloading the fuel and will look at the data.

So, it's okay for a cat to run away and hide under the bed when visitors come, but, when I do it, it's "rude" and "antisocial."

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Well, this is an amazing image

Need help flying your favorite spacecraft? GMAT R2026a is now available for download and use at sourceforge.net/projects/gma...

Nice. Inclusive and accessible. Well done, @standupforscience.net and @cdelawalla.bsky.social!

We’re regressing full on to 1960s programming. Waterfall model to develop software on rented time on mainframes, using proprietary programming environments from a handful of monopolistic manufacturers.

Hey, if you want your mind absolutely crushed into dust today then read my article at Scientific American about how much energy is released when two supermassive black holes collide. To borrow from Douglas Adams, it's the best bang since the big one. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🧪 🔭

Nice job, 'Heels!

Just a bit of play in the Hubble palette; I haven't tried this color space before (Sulfur - S II - is mapped to red, Hydrogen - H alpha - to green, oxygen - O III - to blue).

I can see by the clouds in my sky that Santa must have a sleigh full of astro gear this year.

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

Spent 5 hours imaging the Lobster Claw, and struggling to find an edit I like. Then on a lark I spent 10 minutes on the Orion Nebula (60 10 sec subs, stacked in PixInsight, processed with PI and Affinity). So what do I spend my time on? This:

Thank you for your service!

5 Hours on the Pleiades

Nice job, Blue Origin!

Just something I threw together tonight

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Remember when Texas Dems broke quorum & in response TX AG Paxton & Gov Abbot demanded their arrest & removal from office? Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of last 100 days, absent since Sept 19, & he still won't swear in Rep-elect Grijalva. Rules for thee but not for me.

Emerald Lucille Lovebird 🕊️ tests her EMU before her EVA 👩‍🚀. She wishes all peace. 🕊️ #TheDailyLovebird

Last night's moon:

My take in Comet Lemmon. 10 30s images, Askar 60F, ASI533MC Pro from Tucson, AZ

A 🧵: Was looking at the activities list for this week in space over at @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social ( suggest you do too on a weekly basis ) Ther's one event that sadly is invitation only but I see it as a canary in a coal mine. The French Institute of International Relations is ...1/

While everyone else is posting about comet Lemmon, here is a short video of my Swan images:

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

Working a bit on the Eagle nebula while waiting for clear skies in Tucson.

Final prep is underway for the Space Software Summit next week. If you are using or interested in GMAT or Astrodynamics Workbench, come chat with me or listen to my talk in Boulder! www.spacesoftwaresummit.com