When we reach, we believe in eternity.
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When we reach, we believe in eternity.
Aw dang!
I mean "Europe's Spaceport" is in South America, in French Guiana, which is an "overseas department of France," meaning France considers it part of France as I vaguely understand it. JWST launched in 2021 from French Guiana.
Same same
Remy, but not as cute.
*gasp*
You remember there’s funnier, better stuff out there and move on.
(I, maybe we, saw something like this at LPSC in 92 or 93.)
Option 4: A big sheet of newsprint with just your bsky handle written in marker so interested parties can DM you.
If ever there was a call for Büttklënch…
Sweet Jeebus the NX hack is hilarious: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/v... Vibe coded tool vibe-codes a vulnerability into the github auto-actions. Oops, revokes that, BUT because you can branch attacker has the action in a PR in the branch execute "gimme creds"
Nor is it fa-ti-gyew.
I still have no idea how to pronounce that one.
This is incredible. It looks like this is the tool she's using: strudel.cc
Here's a tiktok where she talks about her setup a little bit. It is Strudel.
Yes, exactly! Like working with the SID chip in a C64!
Oh hell yes.
Hell yes.
Sonic-Pi is a live coding music tool that DJ Dave uses. Here is the interface and its creator. He looks exactly like I expected. sonic-pi.net
Oh this feels related to (but different from and better than) programming the SID chip on a Commodore-64! Neat neat neat.
Fatigue.
Would
It’s a crucial component of software development, I argue. Frequently.
It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...
Any of the Cs. If they were of any interest, they'd've been discovered first, as a B.
OMFG
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
Tom Clancy's The C Programming Language
I'm not fond of the heart icon for "liking" this, nor really with the thought of "liking" this, but there we are.
BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪
This is real and vital!
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title… bsky.app/profile/asri...
Tom Clancy's Dwarf Stars
We got Twinkies and Bud Lite for a friend of mine who got her citizenship a few years ago. Plus of course a bunch of little American flags to wave around.
It's not a proper CaSSIS ops telecon without a reference to Marillion.
The very same!
(Also I was fortunate enough to be able to relate the strontium ptys/geos sorting tale yesterday.)
(Maybe that was the course, not the textbook, but you know what I mean.)
Well I was thinking that as well. Like Tom Clancy's Chemical Evolution of the Earth? I'd read that.
Tom Clancy’s Protostars and Planets III
While folks are eulogizing the LCM, at Roguelike Celebration 2018 and 2019 we had a selection of vintage teletypes playing historical roguelikes and versions of Rogue. A number of them were telnet’d directly into the LCM’s PDPs that they graciously provided free access to from anywhere. What a gem.
Gus has great big bat wings!
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Good.
Well, you see, they were quite horny… I’ll see myself out.
#poetry
Today our team released findings on the nature of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, based on our first round of JWST observations. The data are incredible: Not only did we detect and map gas and dust in the coma, but we found that 3I is one of the most CO2 rich comets ever seen! Check it out:
The US *scientific* consensus about vaccines is still unbroken. The US *political* consensus about vaccines was already broken.
A very hungry planet! 🪐 What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/ 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets 📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
Holy crap!
Proud supervisor moment: #LeidenObservatory graduate student Richelle van Capelleveen led one of two papers on our discovery of WISPIT 2b, a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet clearing a path in a circumstellar disk. Laird Close and his team saw it in H-alpha, indicating gas accretion #astrodon 🔭 🧪
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
I dimly remember this… I’m getting memory cross-talk about drowning my food, though.
That emoji TM is a typographic hate crime™.
(This was the first year in…30? 40? that my mom hasn't entered anything. I don't I've actually come to grips with that fact yet. At least someone else has a shot at the medal this year, though.)
Oh I've been looking at posts from the Fair all week, including from a MN seed artist.
What kind of bumblefuck… Ugh.
God almighty, your font has a perfectly good TM symbol right there™ that matches the style and everything. No need to use that garbage dump emoji™️. Look at that thing, an eyesore™️™.
Oh hell no.
The Pillars of Creation’s neighbor is finished! Will need to come up with a better name than that though, open to suggestions ☺️
Do not keep the King in Yellow waiting... My latest flash fiction story, "The Meter Reader," is included with many other stories and poems honoring stories by Robert W. Chambers published in 1895 that have haunted readers and writers ever since.
Even the spaceflight training for astronauts sounds like fun: www.flyingmag.com/nasa-artemis... Nice to see Colorado as part of the lunar simulation stuff.
‘How am I supposed to explain this to my children?’ is one of the laziest copouts that bigots have been allowed to weaponize against social progress. “I don’t know.“ is perfectly acceptable in any situation and “Let’s find out together.” is one of the most precious ways to engage with your child.
Live today: JMARS Office Hours! From 12–2 pm MST, our JMARS developers are online and ready to connect—we’re here for questions, walkthroughs, or any JMARS-related conversation. Join us at jmars.asu.edu/office-hours
It’s gorgeous! It looks like one dancer holding another aloft.
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Wait, there's a comet?
When Paizo unionized, I got a raise amounting to thousands of dollars. I also get a higher cost of living salary increase every year in addition to my seniority salary increase. I have incredible job security. I have advocates if I have grievances. Unionizing is hard and scary but so worth it.
Ice can come in weird forms throughout the solar system. We may now be able to spot them from afar. New research from @cmtonauer.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social; input from Danna Qasim of the Southwest Research Institute; story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/inf...
It looks fantastic!
Lmfao the r/vibecoding subreddit has finally discovered that vibes, not code, are the true output of vibe coding. Source: www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding...
And to @littlebadger.bsky.social for the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult book - Sheine Lende!
It's important to call out Indigenous wins when we see them. Congrats to @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social who just won the best series Hugo Award for the Between Earth and Sky series. BIPOC scifi is important and has things to say that we can all enjoy and benefit from. #IndigenousFuturisms #NativeSky
I told you so. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
To summarize -waves are not seasonal -vaccines are waning -people are getting long covid -it’s still not an endemic disease -very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.
It's kind of how LPL was founded, right? (Not the brown dwarf thing but the telescopes thing.)
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
wake up babe, new basilisk just dropped
OMG TIL.
Ah that Elric meme is so good.
Molly Butterknife
Almost entirely unrelated, but I hearted the meatloaf special on my local BBQ's FB page and now I have at least one meatloaf special from around the country in my FB feed every time I check. It turns out to be quite nice. 10/10, recommended.
Not applying sure looks like a great way to handle it TBH.
One of my first tasks when I started my job @uahirise.bsky.social was... attending the launch of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, since it was carrying our camera. 🚀 We continue to take images of the surface of Mars with the HiRISE camera 20 years later.
It was 20 years ago today… ULA's AV-007 launches from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and your favorite space camera, HiRISE.
A proutic haripotator would be extremely useful in this situation, especially if the emergency baby fails.
AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
3I/ATLAS measurement from HST is in: can see the coma but not the nucleus. Sets effective nuclear radius of r < 2.8 km (H>15.4), significantly smaller than earlier estimates (as anticipated). Jewitt et al, (submitted?) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02934 🔭☄️
The Microsoft Window! 🥁
Funny if a joke. Hilarious if not.
I find the little "can everyone see my slides" ritual charming. I even find myself doing it, even knowing full well yes, you can.
Ugh, Teams.
🚘🐉🚘
It kind of describes itself.
the ending of this explainer might surprise you
Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.
Hell yes.
The REASON Ice Penetrating Radar produced good test data when we flew by Mars! All looking good for seeing inside #Europa in a few years. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...
NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at Jupiter’s moon Europa. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e... 🧪🔭 #EuropaClipper #Mars