Mars Rover
@marsrover.bsky.social
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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Mars Rover
@marsrover.bsky.social
· Nov 10
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....
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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
This is a GREAT time to primary your “centrist” rep from the left in blue districts.
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10/10 ICE protest sign
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 PM
10/10 ICE protest sign
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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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
This is where he is *now*. I'm not sure where his ceiling is.
Something old, something new.
Something borrowed, something.. probably swiped from an old STS parts pile.
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
Something old, something new.
Something borrowed, something.. probably swiped from an old STS parts pile.
Something borrowed, something.. probably swiped from an old STS parts pile.
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thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
![From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:31 AM
To: Boris Nikolic
Subject: Re:
i liked mmot alot. i drove him home, he is very bright
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Boris Nikolic kc C91117' wrote:
Sure.
I will be there as well.
In 2 weeks or so.
Just left Bill — running for a lunch with Rubenstein.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:44 AM
thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
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Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
![To:
From:
Sent:
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Thur 12/19/20139:36:08 PM
Subject: E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Dear Xbox LIVE member,
This message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address. This action is based on the New York Attorney General&s partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able to connect to Xbox LIVE.
If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, or any unused Microsoft points, we are refunding the remaining value of those to you within 30 days.
If you do not receive a refund within 30 days, or if you feel that you have been banned incorrectly, please send Microsoft a notice using the process at www.xbox.com/notice.
Sincerely,
Xbox LIVE
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January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
Tired of these:
Snakes on trains: King cobras are 'hopping railways' to unsuitable habitats in India
King cobras are the world's longest venomous snakes. So, imagine seeing one a few feet away as you embark on a train in India. The Western Ghats King Cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga)—a vulnerable king cob...
phys.org
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Tired of these:
@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
So things aren't all bad
January 31, 2026 at 3:16 AM
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Does your son have someone in his life to make him rayviolies?
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
Like half of Bluesky would shank a baby for this poster.
A decent EE friend spent 3 yrs of his life trying to use "AI" to get a few electric buggies to clean solar panels.
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
Musk posits a hypothetical scenario where Optimus robots could build a rare earth refinery, but they would need an "orchestra conductor" to guide that work, which is where Grok would come in.
So basically, Grok would replace Tesla management?
So basically, Grok would replace Tesla management?
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
A decent EE friend spent 3 yrs of his life trying to use "AI" to get a few electric buggies to clean solar panels.
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
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Tesla will unveil Optimus 3 in a few months, which Musk says "will surprise people." It's not clear how, considering he's set expectations at "will be able to do anything, and usher in a post-scarcity utopia that overturns the laws of economics" but I guess we'll see.
January 28, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Tesla will unveil Optimus 3 in a few months, which Musk says "will surprise people." It's not clear how, considering he's set expectations at "will be able to do anything, and usher in a post-scarcity utopia that overturns the laws of economics" but I guess we'll see.
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I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"!
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
January 28, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"!
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
Inside your living room are three tables
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Inside your living room are three tables
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Baily's Beads, Aug. 21, 2017 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/WK3u9e
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Baily's Beads, Aug. 21, 2017 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/WK3u9e
Let college kids put my face on t-shirts and posters for 100 years.
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Let college kids put my face on t-shirts and posters for 100 years.
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Is Uranus icy? Or is it rocky? New modelling suggests that the composition of the outer planets (Uranus + Neptune) could be radically different from what we previously assumed. But if we want to know for sure, we'll have to send a spacecraft to investigate. 🔭⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/uranus-and...
Uranus and Neptune may be more rocky than icy, say astrophysicists – Physics World
Novel modelling approach suggests that the traditionally ice-rich image of these planets may be skewed
physicsworld.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Is Uranus icy? Or is it rocky? New modelling suggests that the composition of the outer planets (Uranus + Neptune) could be radically different from what we previously assumed. But if we want to know for sure, we'll have to send a spacecraft to investigate. 🔭⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/uranus-and...
Hire through it, Bari. If there's anything bosses love, it's a pile of expensive new hires that don't fix the problem & leave quickly.
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Hire through it, Bari. If there's anything bosses love, it's a pile of expensive new hires that don't fix the problem & leave quickly.
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YOU - I don't think anyone's being promiscuous with me. I wish they were, though.
January 27, 2026 at 11:32 AM
YOU - I don't think anyone's being promiscuous with me. I wish they were, though.
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Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
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Only if @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had this kind of instinct (or Nancy Pelosi had operated with the same sense of urgency after J6 - instead of wasting an entire weekend to move).
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Only if @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had this kind of instinct (or Nancy Pelosi had operated with the same sense of urgency after J6 - instead of wasting an entire weekend to move).
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
They are sitting by the phone waiting anxiously for their billionaire handlers to call and tell them that is/is not exactly what they should do.
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
They are sitting by the phone waiting anxiously for their billionaire handlers to call and tell them that is/is not exactly what they should do.
Me and the boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
Spider monkeys pool their knowledge to find the best fruit
When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to share what they know, according to a new study pu...
phys.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Me and the boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
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we’ve spent decades creating data compression systems and the new hotness is a system that takes a small amount of text and turns it into a large amount of text so that the recipient can take that large amount of text and turn it back into a small amount of text, at great cost
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
we’ve spent decades creating data compression systems and the new hotness is a system that takes a small amount of text and turns it into a large amount of text so that the recipient can take that large amount of text and turn it back into a small amount of text, at great cost