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Not at ALL affiliated with NASA except for the schwag I took working there. Space, science, tech, video games, angry outbursts. Stuck in isolation until you believe in disease again.
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Big Build 2025 complete! It includes a hand-built frame, metallic paint markers, & a laminated copy of "The Exoplanet Zoo". The lamination & lauan plywood backing ensure we can do hours of star charting w/o destruction. A real wall-eater at 54"×37" overall. www.halcyonmaps.com/the-exoplane....
Sure it costs more, tastes worse, and supports a global empire with terrible labor practices, but now a resource-guzzling bot can give you your horoscope while you wait for the last dreams of a third space to die.
“The company is trialling an AI-powered chatbot, which can help match drinks with customer moods, and is introducing the ability to schedule orders in a bid to reduce customer waits.”
Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround and win customers
Chief executive Brian Niccol explains why he thinks AI will help the coffee giant regain its buzz.
www.bbc.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Perseverance landing Descent Stage Downlook Camera - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qMq2yK
February 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Please lock me in a deep space probe with the VHS Vault of archive.org and a half-decent collection of vinyl and I stg wherever it is, I'll get there.
February 2, 2026 at 9:54 AM
DESTROY them with FACTS and LOGIC (bombs)!
operation logic bomb, screenshot, snes (1993) www.mobygames.com/game/12694/o...
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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The Nut.
February 2, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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Is The Tetris Company going to celebrate what should be "Tetris Month"?

In February 2026, the four weeks are lined up perfectly as four lines - which is exactly what a Tetris is!

The last time this happened was in 2015, and the next two times will be in 2037 and 2043.

#Tetris
February 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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A fine is merely the cost of doing business. We need to be throwing C-suite level people in jail.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Oh good our stupid and our cruelty are colliding and mutating and we may all soon see the peace and finality of the hereafter.

And somehow there still won't be any affordable housing where we want to live.
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Chad Mizelle is married to Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, the Trump judge who unilaterally lifted the CDC’s mask mandate for airplanes and public transportation while Omicron was spreading like wildfire.
This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Almost there (maybe).

If you've ever known the pain of going 1,500+ miles to middle of nowhere Florida only to see a launch scrubbed you know not to count those chickens till they break atmosphere.

At which point the chickens die. I assume.
NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years
NASA began a two-day practice countdown Saturday leading up to the fueling of its new moon rocket, a crucial test that will determine when four astronauts blast off on a lunar flyby.
phys.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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The singer, 1903 #kandinsky #wassilykandinsky
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
As someone who has dealt with Adobe as they devolved from "software you own" to "fuck you we fucking hate you we piss on your corpse now rent our shit monthly, peasant", I'm delighted to see the censored Internet shorthand for the worst criminal imaginable is now "PDF file".
February 1, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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This is a GREAT time to primary your “centrist” rep from the left in blue districts.
You know who really ought to pay attention the result in TX Sen 9? Democratic leadership in Congress.
February 1, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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10/10 ICE protest sign
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Tucson Sector CBP agent Efren Lopez Cornejo was sentenced in Jan 2025 to lifetime parole with NO JAIL TIME after being charged with 14 felonies, including child molestation, sexual abuse of a minor and sexual conduct with a minor. The two victims were family members. One was 9 when the abuse started
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I want to watch 300 episodes in a row of "The Pitt" and I feel someone needs to be held to account for denying me what I need right now.
January 31, 2026 at 1:34 PM
It is an art to be able to treat voters like vested, responsible adults while keeping the material approachable enough for an electorate with a broad range of education & abilities.

This is where he is *now*. I'm not sure where his ceiling is.
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 31, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Something old, something new.
Something borrowed, something.. probably swiped from an old STS parts pile.
Artemis II Prepares to Return Humans to the Moon After 50 Years
Artemis II is set to take astronauts around the moon for the first time in over 50 years. How will this mission build on past space achievements?
spectrum.ieee.org
January 31, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
January 31, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Does your son have someone in his life to make him rayviolies?
Been overwhelmed lately but my partner made me manta rayviolies

So things aren't all bad
January 31, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Like half of Bluesky would shank a baby for this poster.
"Socialism is our launching pad", Soviet poster from 1962
January 30, 2026 at 8:54 AM