@alejandroturnbull.space
Spherical cow wrangler at UC Riverside and writer at @spacescout.bsky.social - working on dark matter detection, high power rockets, and whatever else catches my interest. 2025 Philmont Staff. www.alejandroturnbull.space 🏳️🌈
The comment period for SpaceX's proposal has ended. Now we wait, but overall, over 1300 comments were submitted, and many of those from viewers of this post. Thank you all so much for commenting, and if you haven't, Reflect Orbital's comments are open until the 9th. Instructions in the link below.
SpaceX comment period has ended, but the link has instructions for commenting and templates for the Reflect Orbital proposal, which is open until the 9th.
"We will use this to lower prices" does not mean "we will refund all of our customers the tariff money" and I don't know why Cohen is saying it does.
Actually, no, I do know - because that makes it into better libslop that will get more likes on here.
An old problem on social media has been people posting articles that directly contradict their point but sound like vaguely point-adjacent, and it's one that's alive and well on Bluesky. The headline of this article implies the exact opposite of what Cohen is saying, but he got 3k likes anyway.
Last week, Jared Isaacman announced major changes to the Artemis program. Read my update on those changes, and the confusion they've caused, now in @spacescout.bsky.social:
The very next post was the same picture and the caption was just "PLOWED"
oh it's actually over
Absolutley psychotic and shameful behavior from Sen. Sheehy.
The GOP is out of control.
Please god tell me that we're gonna get audio of Trump saying "fact-based feeling" out loud because this is as good or maybe an even better Trumpism than "concepts of a plan"
While I'm whining about software I'll also note Discord's unbelievably frustrating habit of just constantly making little woo-whoop! noises to try to get your attention without giving you any indication as to what it's trying to get you to look at
People are really on here like "wow, major #respect to her for not blowing this up and turning it into a delusional 'stolen election' cagefight" and like, no. It's a primary, and she lost. When you lose a primary, you either hop onboard with the winner or you shut up and get the hell out of the way.
Personally I'm not a fan of the effusive praise being heaped on Rep. Crockett for making a dignified concession. In a functioning party and nation a cordial concession to the winner after a primary is kind of the bare minimum baseline expectation if you want your party to actually win.
Absolutely this. My brother is a surgeon; he's used Claude to write an app for his patients. It's not a masterpiece and it won't change the economy, but it is easier for them than trying to fill in timesheets of how much exercise they are able to take. Sensible scepticism has to recognise reality.
I just submitted my comments to the FCC, asking them to deny the requests for these terrible, catastrophic satellite constellations.
More info here: aas.org/action-alert...
Just reboosting this to remind everyone that there's just two days left to submit comments to the FCC on these proposals. Hundreds upon hundreds of comments have been sent since I first posted this, which is fantastic to see. Make sure you send in a comment using the guide in the link before Friday!
like obviously this is ghoulish but also gambling is a stupidity tax and I would be lying if I said I wasn't sorely tempted to collect it in this case
They're selling dollars on polymarket for 79 cents
100% unironically true
Microsoft Outlook has to be the worst piece of email software ever written
I've been saying we're getting a Yoon Moment circa December - in addition to all the [gestures broadly], he's also spinning up exactly the same lie machine he was this time in 2020 about "stolen election" stuff.
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did The Line not prove this?
SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION TO DENUKIFY IRAN
We should not allow people to gamble on war or on human lives. Full stop.
did you leverage frontier ML/AI systems to support enhanced space domain awareness? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite palmer luckey?
We're really in the Final Form of Punisher Logo military. As @contrapoints.bsky.social explained in one of her videos, there's a kind of chud military/police guy who sees their job as nothing more complex than "find the bad guys, kill the bad guys," and sees RoE as fake&gay. This is their takeover.
this isn't really the huge font headline you want to see when you're launching a war of choice that you can't explain to your allies in congress
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He's just so bad at this, it's kind of unbelievable.
