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"We always assumed there would be people gunning for it, but we also knew it was something people wanted. We knew it was an idea whose time had come." — @merici.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 2 days ago • 854 comments

We have been adding to our Space Pride collection since March! Everything is available here, and a blog post with all the credit for this design is coming soon: shop.startorialist.com/collections/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I tried to explain this to a reporter today. When you are constantly under threat of budget cuts or have actual budget cuts, shit gets efficient real quick because it is that or cease to exist.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

Not an astronomer? Do you think the cuts to NASA 🔭 don’t affect you? Check out this spending and economic impact dashboard which shows you the economic impact, district by district. 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Anyway my hottest take is that there are an infinite number of sexual and romantic orientations and gender identities and expressions and no two people will ever have exactly the same ones, but most people aren't ready for that conversation yet.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Now would be a great time to start advocating for science funding. @planetarysociety.bsky.social has some great resources 🔭🧪 www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc... Save NASA Science - Action Hub | The Planetary Society

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I mapped out the whole United States immigration process a few weeks ago and started to make a video game about it. There are almost 300 nodes and they have changed the rules on all of them three times since then and I give up Anyway here is the ugly broken version

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Btw.... that early warning came because scientists and technicians were monitoring the glacier above the town. #climatechange 🧪

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

unions: they get the job done

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

This is a lie (not just because Nick Clegg said it, tho that's one indicator at least). You absolutely can make "AI" systems while fairly compensating people for data. And even if it weren't a lie, then any industry that can't survive without theft and consent violations shouldn't survive anyway 🤷🏾‍♂️

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Needed some coasters, so I'm back on my nonsense.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

NWS Houston down 10 of its normal staff of 24 going into hurricane season. 🎁 link:

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Fun fact: international students’ cannot generally qualify for scholarships. They must pay full tuition. But their tuition cannot legally go to endowments. They go directly to operating costs. This gives schools financial wiggle room to create scholarships for working class Americans.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

one thing I believe is it’s important to celebrate good things 10x as hard and to look for them 10x as often because our animal brains are hard-wired to pay 10x as much attention to bad things; it keeps us alive, but it doesn’t keep us happy happiness has to be fought for, survival will tend itself

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

It's not just you - it's hypernormalization

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Reminder that computer programming was first considered a female job that was menial and low skill; it wasn’t seen as something difficult until men took over the field

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

To be clear, that’s not because AI can actually do those jobs, but because those jobs are devalued by men in charge

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

yes

submitted 67 days ago • 159 comments

Not sure I've ever seen such amazing, multi-layered imagery before as with this dust storm. This is a NOAA appreciation post. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-sa...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I know this was an unexpectedly long thread but I guess ultimately what I was trying to say was that we put something like $25 Billion into #NASA but get back about $75.6 Billion in economic activity in return. The 2026 "Skinny Budget" aims to disrupt that, with potentially catastrophic results.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is a neat little trick, and even neater is if you have your own Windows app and you want to hide that content from Microsoft Recall, it's very straightforward to use it yourself: it's just a one liner: SetWindowDisplayAffinity(hwnd, WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE)

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

No…next question. There is a clear reason so few other countries have the research infrastructure our country does.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"Ten deaths are being reported in southeastern Kentucky, according to the Laurel County Sheriff's office, which said a tornado caused numerous severe injuries as it pummeled homes and buildings late Friday night." -Accuweather

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes its about the making rather than the profiting.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Notable for many reasons, one of them being Tyrone West's inclusion on the list of deaths that should have been considered homicides. His sister has led weekly rallies seeking justice for Tyrone for almost 12 years.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

I will say, I know a lot of devs who made good choices like this to take care of their users, quietly doing the right thing. I wish more people knew how often some programmer made a thoughtful decision to protect their interests that they never knew about.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Those undulations aren’t clouds—they’re Jupiter’s aurora as seen by #NASAWebb. Webb observed light from a particular molecule, represented in orange, and found that the planet’s aurora fluctuates on timescales of minutes or seconds: webbtelescope.pub/4kbsB20 🔭 🧪

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Over the weekend, the Library of Congress posted this video message Dr. Carla Hayden, whom Donald Trump unjustifiably dismissed as Librarian of Congress, that makes clear how much the nation has lost. Props to whoever put it up. I hope everyone watches it.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway

submitted 25 days ago • 102 comments

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 25 days ago • 117 comments

Garden puttering day, a/b testing lemon thyme plants for shade tolerance in prod.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment