Paul Wren
@elevenpointtwo.bsky.social
Avionics software engineer, adjunct Astronomy professor, occasional planetary scientist, former developer of @jmars_gis.bsky.social he/him #SaveOurOceans #BlackLivesMatter #SaveOurRepublic
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Well, in fairness, any time the House Republicans do nothing they are indeed doing the best work of their careers.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well, in fairness, any time the House Republicans do nothing they are indeed doing the best work of their careers.
I"m really missing the old diverse, equitable, and inclusive LPSC. Looks like it's dead, for sure.
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I"m really missing the old diverse, equitable, and inclusive LPSC. Looks like it's dead, for sure.
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The more I think about this, the more it pisses me off, and I was pissed off to start with
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The more I think about this, the more it pisses me off, and I was pissed off to start with
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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#Tennessee #Nashville
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November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Folks should follow @aftynbehn.bsky.social and support her #TN07 GOTV effort at:
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#Tennessee #Nashville
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#Tennessee #Nashville
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We have been asked to hit corporate America in the pockets and in the pocket books.
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We have been asked to hit corporate America in the pockets and in the pocket books.
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“Stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled” is a great line to end that with. 🔥
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled” is a great line to end that with. 🔥
"I don't think Tom Homan is a friend to this country, but he sure is a friend of the president"
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"I don't think Tom Homan is a friend to this country, but he sure is a friend of the president"
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Maryland Delegation Presses NASA on Goddard Closings, NASA Replies to Lofgren spacepolicyonline.com/news/marylan...
Maryland Delegation Presses NASA on Goddard Closings, NASA Replies to Lofgren
Posted: November 14, 2025 4:33 pm ET | Last Updated: November 14, 2025 4:38 pm ET | The Democratic members of the Maryland congressional delegation have written to Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy...
spacepolicyonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Maryland Delegation Presses NASA on Goddard Closings, NASA Replies to Lofgren spacepolicyonline.com/news/marylan...
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Metaphor of the day
Big short guy shutting down shop, putting plywood on the windows while the rest of wall street is caught up in building condos on sandbars right next to Hurricane AI.
#AIPop
The pop is inevitable but what could be the precipitating event? Whatever it is, Burry smells it. It smells like shit.
#AIPop
The pop is inevitable but what could be the precipitating event? Whatever it is, Burry smells it. It smells like shit.
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Metaphor of the day
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I’m back.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.
Post a picture from your first #StarTrek movie
I was so psyched for this when I was lucky enough to see a trailer for TMP at the Phoenix Fan Convention (where I was a volunteer "gopher") over a year before the film was released in 1979.
I was so psyched for this when I was lucky enough to see a trailer for TMP at the Phoenix Fan Convention (where I was a volunteer "gopher") over a year before the film was released in 1979.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Post a picture from your first #StarTrek movie
I was so psyched for this when I was lucky enough to see a trailer for TMP at the Phoenix Fan Convention (where I was a volunteer "gopher") over a year before the film was released in 1979.
I was so psyched for this when I was lucky enough to see a trailer for TMP at the Phoenix Fan Convention (where I was a volunteer "gopher") over a year before the film was released in 1979.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
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Recreating the end scene of TMP with TOS physical model by NJM Productions
I quite like the TOS doing the TMP style of warp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gl...
I quite like the TOS doing the TMP style of warp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gl...
TMP End Scene with TOS Enterprise Instead [Motion Controlled] Physical Model
YouTube video by NJM Productions
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Recreating the end scene of TMP with TOS physical model by NJM Productions
I quite like the TOS doing the TMP style of warp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gl...
I quite like the TOS doing the TMP style of warp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gl...
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Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
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Prof. Wendy Freedman recognized with 2026 Franklin Institute Award in Physics
Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant. 🧪 #Cosmology
news.uchicago.edu/story/prof-w...
Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant. 🧪 #Cosmology
news.uchicago.edu/story/prof-w...
Prof. Wendy Freedman recognized with 2026 Franklin Institute Award in Physics
Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant
news.uchicago.edu
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Prof. Wendy Freedman recognized with 2026 Franklin Institute Award in Physics
Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant. 🧪 #Cosmology
news.uchicago.edu/story/prof-w...
Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant. 🧪 #Cosmology
news.uchicago.edu/story/prof-w...
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This description of “science as practiced in its best form” is a great example of Everyone is 12 Theory. You can disagree that it’s impossible for you to throw a football to the Moon, but you’re not practicing science by doing so.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This description of “science as practiced in its best form” is a great example of Everyone is 12 Theory. You can disagree that it’s impossible for you to throw a football to the Moon, but you’re not practicing science by doing so.
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time for liberals to start asking themselves why the Democratic party, confronting a historically unpopular, pedophile president, is completely unable to resist his agenda
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
time for liberals to start asking themselves why the Democratic party, confronting a historically unpopular, pedophile president, is completely unable to resist his agenda
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In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
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It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is
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