Jason Cerundolo
@jasoncerundolo.bsky.social
I build space computers! CEO/Co-founder of Colossus. Let's talk about space!
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1/3 Here is one of several flyovers our digital terrain model group created from a DTM of our 100,000th observation of Mars!
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
1/3 Here is one of several flyovers our digital terrain model group created from a DTM of our 100,000th observation of Mars!
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This Nativity Scene at a church in Charlotte
December 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This Nativity Scene at a church in Charlotte
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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A total solar eclipse.
By Earth.
Taken from the Moon in March this year.
By Earth.
Taken from the Moon in March this year.
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A total solar eclipse.
By Earth.
Taken from the Moon in March this year.
By Earth.
Taken from the Moon in March this year.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
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Space themed tartans: Apollo 11, Mars Exploration, Space Force & Glasgow Space
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Space themed tartans: Apollo 11, Mars Exploration, Space Force & Glasgow Space
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Juice Earth Moon portrait - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qhyLDY
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Juice Earth Moon portrait - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qhyLDY
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Another unexpected major-flare player AR 4298 just fired off an impulsive X1.14 flare!
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Another unexpected major-flare player AR 4298 just fired off an impulsive X1.14 flare!
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Today in 1972, as Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, and Ron Evans were rocketing toward the Moon, one of them looked back and took this iconic photograph, the first to capture a fully-illuminated round Earth and the only one taken by a human being.
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today in 1972, as Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, and Ron Evans were rocketing toward the Moon, one of them looked back and took this iconic photograph, the first to capture a fully-illuminated round Earth and the only one taken by a human being.
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The spectacular fireworks of two eruptive M-class flares from AR 4299 today. First, an M1.1 around 1921 UT followed by an M8.1 around 2039 UT. Both flares were near the center of the Earth-facing disk and eruptive. The M8.1 CME looks the most Earth-directed.
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The spectacular fireworks of two eruptive M-class flares from AR 4299 today. First, an M1.1 around 1921 UT followed by an M8.1 around 2039 UT. Both flares were near the center of the Earth-facing disk and eruptive. The M8.1 CME looks the most Earth-directed.
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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There is NO PARKING at the ISS.
Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit - NASA
For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft...
www.nasa.gov
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
There is NO PARKING at the ISS.
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Saturn’s rings take on the appearance of a golden record as the planet approaches equinox in May, 2009.
flic.kr/p/2ogCo4k
flic.kr/p/2ogCo4k
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Saturn’s rings take on the appearance of a golden record as the planet approaches equinox in May, 2009.
flic.kr/p/2ogCo4k
flic.kr/p/2ogCo4k
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Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
www.usni.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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The city of chicago & state of illinois are putting up an impressive fight against trump’s outrageous overreach so it’s especially demoralizing to see one of our premier universities cave like this.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The city of chicago & state of illinois are putting up an impressive fight against trump’s outrageous overreach so it’s especially demoralizing to see one of our premier universities cave like this.
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
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Democrats should commit now to disregarding any presidential pardons issued before charges have been filed. Whether or not Trump tries to sign blanket pardons for officials like Hegseth, they should be arrested as soon as Trump leaves office.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Democrats should commit now to disregarding any presidential pardons issued before charges have been filed. Whether or not Trump tries to sign blanket pardons for officials like Hegseth, they should be arrested as soon as Trump leaves office.
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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A new version of Saturn by JWST Space Telescope
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rHUzZs 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Instrument: NIRCAM
Target: Saturn-Centre
Time: 2023-06-24 (not a new release)
Filter: F322W2-F323N, F212 (partially reconstructed)
PI: Leigh Fletcher ID: 1247
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rHUzZs 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Instrument: NIRCAM
Target: Saturn-Centre
Time: 2023-06-24 (not a new release)
Filter: F322W2-F323N, F212 (partially reconstructed)
PI: Leigh Fletcher ID: 1247
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A new version of Saturn by JWST Space Telescope
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rHUzZs 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Instrument: NIRCAM
Target: Saturn-Centre
Time: 2023-06-24 (not a new release)
Filter: F322W2-F323N, F212 (partially reconstructed)
PI: Leigh Fletcher ID: 1247
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rHUzZs 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Instrument: NIRCAM
Target: Saturn-Centre
Time: 2023-06-24 (not a new release)
Filter: F322W2-F323N, F212 (partially reconstructed)
PI: Leigh Fletcher ID: 1247
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Who doesn’t like a heaping helping of thermostabilized wet meat product on Thanksgiving? Behold of a turkey with gravy prototype for NASA’s Apollo program, cooked up by the kitchen labs at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center in 1969.
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Who doesn’t like a heaping helping of thermostabilized wet meat product on Thanksgiving? Behold of a turkey with gravy prototype for NASA’s Apollo program, cooked up by the kitchen labs at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center in 1969.
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Holy fucking shit this is a *real* image from a *real* (presumably peer-reviewed) paper in [Nature] Scientific Reports.
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Holy fucking shit this is a *real* image from a *real* (presumably peer-reviewed) paper in [Nature] Scientific Reports.
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
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dems should be putting out new “dont follow illegal orders” videos every day, they should be replying to announcements of investigations of dems with new videos, they should be posting at hegseth to not follow illegal orders nonstop
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
dems should be putting out new “dont follow illegal orders” videos every day, they should be replying to announcements of investigations of dems with new videos, they should be posting at hegseth to not follow illegal orders nonstop
It's always cool seeing spacecraft photograph themselves. Now with two, they photograph each other!
Now this is cool.
These are among the first images from the newly launched NASA ESCAPADE* mission—showing the port solar array from the Gold twin spacecraft in both visible light and infrared.
*Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers
(1/2)
These are among the first images from the newly launched NASA ESCAPADE* mission—showing the port solar array from the Gold twin spacecraft in both visible light and infrared.
*Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers
(1/2)
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It's always cool seeing spacecraft photograph themselves. Now with two, they photograph each other!