yellowstoneten
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spaceflight nerd, if the banner pic didn't give that away
new name time! Tali, if you please.
(they / them, in a "gender currently under renovation" sort of way)
new name time! Tali, if you please.
(they / them, in a "gender currently under renovation" sort of way)
stopped by there on a trip last month - can confirm, the food's pretty good
(the tricky part is guessing how much to eat/drink in the lounge, such that you're not unpleasantly full or tipsy after dinner on the plane)
(the tricky part is guessing how much to eat/drink in the lounge, such that you're not unpleasantly full or tipsy after dinner on the plane)
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
stopped by there on a trip last month - can confirm, the food's pretty good
(the tricky part is guessing how much to eat/drink in the lounge, such that you're not unpleasantly full or tipsy after dinner on the plane)
(the tricky part is guessing how much to eat/drink in the lounge, such that you're not unpleasantly full or tipsy after dinner on the plane)
looks like it was the service cabin that collapsed - it was retracted out of the way like normal before launch, so something must have gone wrong when sliding it back out
www.russianspaceweb.com/vostochny_so...
www.russianspaceweb.com/vostochny_so...
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
looks like it was the service cabin that collapsed - it was retracted out of the way like normal before launch, so something must have gone wrong when sliding it back out
www.russianspaceweb.com/vostochny_so...
www.russianspaceweb.com/vostochny_so...
NASA posted the photo on the left of Zena Cardman on the ISS working through hatch opening procedures after the arrival of the latest Cygnus cargo vehicle - but what caught my eye was the Sauce Wall just above their dinner table
(velcro is a wonderful thing)
(velcro is a wonderful thing)
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
NASA posted the photo on the left of Zena Cardman on the ISS working through hatch opening procedures after the arrival of the latest Cygnus cargo vehicle - but what caught my eye was the Sauce Wall just above their dinner table
(velcro is a wonderful thing)
(velcro is a wonderful thing)
hey, i've played this game before!
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
hey, i've played this game before!
relevant xkcd #641
![[A shelf holds 3 boxes of cereal. Each box shows a bowl of cereal.]
GenCo Ⓞat Cereal
StayPuft Oat Cereal
RedFarm Oat Cereal (with additional text in a star) Asbestos-free!
I hate whatever marketer first realized you could do this.
Title text: Asbestos is bad; definitely get the one on the right. Wait -- this one over here has no swine flu! Now I can't decide.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yr6cnffzhtnukskmt3bphj6d/bafkreigv2ctlrujrejfuf3dfv7qq4za22ttrtnuuudwxrwwugsuy4cqhte@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
relevant xkcd #641
over here in the US we have sparkly maple syrup
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
over here in the US we have sparkly maple syrup
with apologies for potentially spoiling the joke:
in three dimensions, those four ethyl groups are in a tetrahedral configuration, not a square planar one
in three dimensions, those four ethyl groups are in a tetrahedral configuration, not a square planar one
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
with apologies for potentially spoiling the joke:
in three dimensions, those four ethyl groups are in a tetrahedral configuration, not a square planar one
in three dimensions, those four ethyl groups are in a tetrahedral configuration, not a square planar one
i have had goose only once - was flying from India back to the US on Lufthansa, and since it was early December they had a holiday-appropriate as well as regionally-appropriate dish on the menu
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
i have had goose only once - was flying from India back to the US on Lufthansa, and since it was early December they had a holiday-appropriate as well as regionally-appropriate dish on the menu
we've got some aerial photos now too
to quote Jim Lovell - "there's one whole side of that spacecraft missing!"
to quote Fred Haise - "it's really a mess"
to quote Jim Lovell - "there's one whole side of that spacecraft missing!"
to quote Fred Haise - "it's really a mess"
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
we've got some aerial photos now too
to quote Jim Lovell - "there's one whole side of that spacecraft missing!"
to quote Fred Haise - "it's really a mess"
to quote Jim Lovell - "there's one whole side of that spacecraft missing!"
to quote Fred Haise - "it's really a mess"
there's an Edgar Mitchell quote (he walked on the Moon as part of the crew of Apollo 14)
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
there's an Edgar Mitchell quote (he walked on the Moon as part of the crew of Apollo 14)
sadly I didn't get around to having carbonara on my recent trip, but I did have bucatini all'amatriciana (in Rome) and pici cacio e pepe (in Siena), both of which were delicious
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
sadly I didn't get around to having carbonara on my recent trip, but I did have bucatini all'amatriciana (in Rome) and pici cacio e pepe (in Siena), both of which were delicious
the two skips were Seychelles and the Comoros, only because I assumed it would cycle back to skipped countries at the end and I wanted to think more on which island country was which
the one error was a stupid misclick on Botswana instead of Zimbabwe
the one error was a stupid misclick on Botswana instead of Zimbabwe
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
the two skips were Seychelles and the Comoros, only because I assumed it would cycle back to skipped countries at the end and I wanted to think more on which island country was which
the one error was a stupid misclick on Botswana instead of Zimbabwe
the one error was a stupid misclick on Botswana instead of Zimbabwe
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
obligatory repost of possibly the best ntsb report ever, and a cautionary tale:
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
obligatory repost of possibly the best ntsb report ever, and a cautionary tale:
take a listen to the BBC Scotland call
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
take a listen to the BBC Scotland call
it still amuses me that this is why it's called the Shrike
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
it still amuses me that this is why it's called the Shrike
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
i had like a 10-hour layover on the way back from Hong Kong last year, and i definitely spent a couple hours of that over at the in-n-out. no inbound heavies, but i did see the Lufthansa 747-8 in the retro paint scheme depart
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
i had like a 10-hour layover on the way back from Hong Kong last year, and i definitely spent a couple hours of that over at the in-n-out. no inbound heavies, but i did see the Lufthansa 747-8 in the retro paint scheme depart
famously, the park across from that one in-n-out
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
famously, the park across from that one in-n-out
Catholic theology also holds that she was taken up, body and soul, into heaven - which (setting aside the truth value of that claim) led to this absolutely exquisite altarpiece by Titian i got to see on my Italy trip last month. (it's over 500 years old!)
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Catholic theology also holds that she was taken up, body and soul, into heaven - which (setting aside the truth value of that claim) led to this absolutely exquisite altarpiece by Titian i got to see on my Italy trip last month. (it's over 500 years old!)
orange fact that i learned recently: the town of Orange in southern France, home of this really neat ancient Roman amphitheater, is why (via a few historical leaps) certain residents of the north of Ireland get really weird about that color
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
orange fact that i learned recently: the town of Orange in southern France, home of this really neat ancient Roman amphitheater, is why (via a few historical leaps) certain residents of the north of Ireland get really weird about that color
Finished up both Africa and Asia today in #skycards - next week's project will be Oceania, then I'll just have one country left (but I might be waiting a while for that last one... 🇺🇦)
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Finished up both Africa and Asia today in #skycards - next week's project will be Oceania, then I'll just have one country left (but I might be waiting a while for that last one... 🇺🇦)