JP
@yatpay.bsky.social
Space, F1, games, photos. Otakon AMV team. Software/Aerospace engineer working on Lunar Gateway, returning humans to the Moon. I make NASA human spaceflight history podcast The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us
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I think one aspect of analog revival, or even piracy & peer to peer resurgence, is more than simple nostalgia. It's getting to be about anti-surveillance at this point. A company keeping track of every little thing you did in a year while also constantly interrupting it is actually not that cute
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I think one aspect of analog revival, or even piracy & peer to peer resurgence, is more than simple nostalgia. It's getting to be about anti-surveillance at this point. A company keeping track of every little thing you did in a year while also constantly interrupting it is actually not that cute
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Introducing Discotek Deep Dives!
We're adding 20 to 30 Discotek titles to the MediaOCD store each month w/ pre-orders for a few weeks before.
Others have canceled backorders & more, we'll take care of you w/ great shipping & a rewards program.
www.mediaocd.com/post/alien-n...
We're adding 20 to 30 Discotek titles to the MediaOCD store each month w/ pre-orders for a few weeks before.
Others have canceled backorders & more, we'll take care of you w/ great shipping & a rewards program.
www.mediaocd.com/post/alien-n...
January 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Introducing Discotek Deep Dives!
We're adding 20 to 30 Discotek titles to the MediaOCD store each month w/ pre-orders for a few weeks before.
Others have canceled backorders & more, we'll take care of you w/ great shipping & a rewards program.
www.mediaocd.com/post/alien-n...
We're adding 20 to 30 Discotek titles to the MediaOCD store each month w/ pre-orders for a few weeks before.
Others have canceled backorders & more, we'll take care of you w/ great shipping & a rewards program.
www.mediaocd.com/post/alien-n...
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“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 AM
“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
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Whether you love the vehicle or question it, there’s something undeniably stirring about watching a rocket bound for the Moon roll out to the pad. For a moment, the debates over budgets and priorities fall away, replaced by a shared focus on the mission itself: extending humanity’s reach.
January 20, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Whether you love the vehicle or question it, there’s something undeniably stirring about watching a rocket bound for the Moon roll out to the pad. For a moment, the debates over budgets and priorities fall away, replaced by a shared focus on the mission itself: extending humanity’s reach.
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This is a perfect piece of technical writing. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
alexharri.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:07 PM
This is a perfect piece of technical writing. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...
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This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it
January 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it
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It gets much, much better!
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
January 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
It gets much, much better!
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
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Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky
“It’s an unfair world, child. Be glad you have friends.”
“It’s an unfair world, child. Be glad you have friends.”
Discworld QOTD, from Eric
“‘There’s a door.’
‘Where does it go?’
‘It stays where it is, I think.’”
“‘There’s a door.’
‘Where does it go?’
‘It stays where it is, I think.’”
Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero
January 17, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky
“It’s an unfair world, child. Be glad you have friends.”
“It’s an unfair world, child. Be glad you have friends.”
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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They shouldn't allow videos of podcasts. That content should get taken down
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
They shouldn't allow videos of podcasts. That content should get taken down
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Spotify is made by vampires. Use any other service — they’re all better for the artists.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Spotify is made by vampires. Use any other service — they’re all better for the artists.
@sbarky.bsky.social I've been using your art as covers for the aerospace engineering classes I've been taking. Any suggestions for who best matches "Nonlinear Dynamics, Systems, and Control"? It doesn't go anywhere public, so it's just for fun.
January 14, 2026 at 9:43 PM
@sbarky.bsky.social I've been using your art as covers for the aerospace engineering classes I've been taking. Any suggestions for who best matches "Nonlinear Dynamics, Systems, and Control"? It doesn't go anywhere public, so it's just for fun.
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One day tech media won’t credulously report fantasy bullshit from trust fund kids with single person companies
But today isn’t that day
But today isn’t that day
You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000
We can't keep everyone living on that first ship that sailed to North America."
arstechnica.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
One day tech media won’t credulously report fantasy bullshit from trust fund kids with single person companies
But today isn’t that day
But today isn’t that day
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An interesting tidbit from NASA's ISS update today: Crew-12 will stay for NINE months. www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces...
January 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
An interesting tidbit from NASA's ISS update today: Crew-12 will stay for NINE months. www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces...
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this format is how 75% of Americans now get their news
January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
this format is how 75% of Americans now get their news
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Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
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It's a fresh Saturday in a fresh year... so we're back on our bullshit. Catch up with the 2025 lore if you missed it 👇, & join us tonight!
⏰ 8:00 pm-ish eastern TONIGHT
🧑🤝🧑 Most of the usual gang
🎮 Mario Kart World
📍 www.grabyournearest.com (aka twitch.tv/vegettoex)
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRr...
⏰ 8:00 pm-ish eastern TONIGHT
🧑🤝🧑 Most of the usual gang
🎮 Mario Kart World
📍 www.grabyournearest.com (aka twitch.tv/vegettoex)
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRr...
Mario Kart Highlights: 2025 - Kanzenshuu & Friends
YouTube video by Kanzenshuu
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
It's a fresh Saturday in a fresh year... so we're back on our bullshit. Catch up with the 2025 lore if you missed it 👇, & join us tonight!
⏰ 8:00 pm-ish eastern TONIGHT
🧑🤝🧑 Most of the usual gang
🎮 Mario Kart World
📍 www.grabyournearest.com (aka twitch.tv/vegettoex)
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRr...
⏰ 8:00 pm-ish eastern TONIGHT
🧑🤝🧑 Most of the usual gang
🎮 Mario Kart World
📍 www.grabyournearest.com (aka twitch.tv/vegettoex)
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRr...
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The double whammy of Discord moving towards an IPO and sending out a survey to see what sort of AI garbage they could get away with sends a pretty clear message about where they want to go.
January 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The double whammy of Discord moving towards an IPO and sending out a survey to see what sort of AI garbage they could get away with sends a pretty clear message about where they want to go.
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discord is asking everybody about how they feel about AI. have at it folks
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January 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
discord is asking everybody about how they feel about AI. have at it folks
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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
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Rollcage (1999)
January 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Rollcage (1999)
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In the difficult years ahead, we should remember that the snows of Olympus lie silent beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren.
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur C. Clarke
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
In the difficult years ahead, we should remember that the snows of Olympus lie silent beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren.
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur C. Clarke
Incredible movie
#Anime Limited Schedules ‘#WolfChildren Ame and Yuki’ Anime Film 4K UHD Release
#Anime Limited Schedules ‘#WolfChildren Ame and Yuki’ Anime Film 4K UHD Release
While we’ve seen re-releases in Japan and the US with a number of Mamoru Hosada’s...
dlvr.it
January 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Incredible movie
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It moves! We can watch as the Kepler supernova remnant changes over a quarter of century in X-rays from Chandra. #aas247
chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...
chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 PM
It moves! We can watch as the Kepler supernova remnant changes over a quarter of century in X-rays from Chandra. #aas247
chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...
chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...
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discord is about to get so much worse
Discord has confidentially filed for an IPO, according to Bloomberg.
Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 7, 2026 at 2:26 AM
discord is about to get so much worse