we don't protect child actors enough. especially women.
Dr Pamela L Gay
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I am an astronomer, technologist, and creative focused on using new media to engage people in learning and doing science. Note: I have dyslexia and will typo. OMG will I typo...
I’m not sure what rocket news this weekend is the most “well huh”. Candidates include; - Cards Against Humanity”s anti Musk monument, - the Soyuz program getting literally blown up, or - NASa planning their own version of the Osh Kosh air show during hurricane season.
Shoebill Stork: Da F*** You Say?
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I'm listening to the 2nd Wandering Inn book & they are having a long discussion about pizza. My god awful progressive Latex+Chitinase protein allergy means I can no longer eat tomatoes, peppers, or spinach. My progressive MCAS means no more mushrooms, pepperoni, or cheese. But I remember pizza.
Puss in Boots: Cute Cat, Cute Eyes
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With regard to the Progress Rocket Center hit in Samara yesterday. In short, it could be the most consequential hit of the war. Thread below.
The Northern Sun@thenorthernsun.bsky.social · yesterdayThe MSM completely missed the gravity of last night's Ukrainian missile strike on the Progress Rocket Center in Samara, Russia. This isn't just another industrial fire. This is the definitive end of independent Russian space dominance and a massive blow to their national pride. 1/5
Just because it's an amazing stat, the Chicxulub asteroid impact, the one now almost universally cited as the decisive cause of the dinosaur era mass extinction event is thought to have had the force of roughly 5 billion Nagasaki nuclear detonation blasts.
While looking up info on William and Caroline Herschel, I discovered Herschel's Minecraft backpacks. I now want to be 7, rich, and in need of a new school backpack. herschel.com/products/min...
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I haven't seen anyone note this yet: SpaceX is phasing out the Falcon 9 arstechnica.com/space/2026/0... Ukrain just damaged the Soyuz factory spacepolicyonline.com/news/ukraini... Without these rockets, Starliner is the only crew capsule designed to ferry to the ISS.
SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket
Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX's busiest launch site—for now.
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My husband finally tested Covid negative last night. We’re waiting for a second test to see if it’s real. I think Stella may be the most grateful one in the house if we can stop this isolation.
Forgive typos, can't see well rn. At the hospital, had a sudden spike in brain issues that impacted my spine, ears & eyes. They're currently running tests. In between jobs at the moment so all positive vibes & support of any kind are appreciated. www.venmo.com/ThatJayJustice cash.me/$ThatJayJust...
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ZOMG, I caught a meteor (not a satellite, THIS IS A METEOR) right next to Andromeda! I was using one of the starfront.space seestars in both telescope and wide angle mode.
May I recommend occasionally joining in when your dogs howl with the firetrucks. 
During times of transition, I always think of the opening of Dune: "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct." When I created this desert world, a drop of a more fertile future was added - a lake full of potential. #exoplanets from fiction #sciart
Maybe you need a less all-consuming hobby like, oh I don't know, heroin.
Reason #998 not to take my phone to bed: At 2:44am I woke up, decided the telescope I had setup & running should be pointed somewhere different. Since I could do this from my phone... I did. This would have been fine, except I forgot to restart the imaging sequence. The Perseids were not well met.
Just spotted a cool open source job: The Document Foundation is hiring someone to help with marketing and comms - Global remote - Nonprofit role w the team behind Libre Office - Apply by Aug 31st I have no connection w the role, but if you get it, try and snag me a Libre Office sticker? 👀
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“Moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks…half a cup of rice and two tortillas.” This admin is failing our troops, fueling a mental health crisis during one of the longest carrier deployments in modern history. Suicide attempts thwarted. Our troops deserve better. Bring them home.
Mental Health Crisis Brewing Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln Amid Near Record-Breaking Deployment
The USS Abraham Lincoln is supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran.
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Remarkable photo from Reddit user u/karantza of the solar eclipse today in Mallorca. Ethereal.
If you happened to have, say, 500+ fits images that you wanted to align and stack without removing streaks, what software would you reach for?
The good folks at starfront.space are letting me borrow a Seestar 30pro. Last night I managed to catch at least one Perseid Meteor (I have like 500 more images to review...). If this looks like it worked, I'll stream tonight, weather and internet willing. TIL: Wide-field remote obs are my jam.
It is day 5 of isolating in my home office next to the back bathroom while my husband with Covid isolates in the bedroom and uses the front bathroom. His covid is still a thing. I am still clear but will retest tonight. He is still definitely sick. The dogs are unimpressed.
This was the first moon found since Kuiper's 1949 discovery of Nereid. It surprised me at first blush that this didn't come from HST, but they need light collecting area more than resolution.
CosmoQuest@cosmoquest.org · 6d ago#OTD in 2002, Neptune's moon Halimede was discovered. This (and its companion small moons) may be the remains of a disrupted larger body. patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/166318...
Today in horrifying -- did I really make that mistake? -- realizations. A podcast that started in September 2006 has had 20 seasons, and is about to turn 20 and start season 21. They are not turning 20 and starting season 20. <Stares in "there was no season 0">
Judges Give No Score
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My husband has Covid from a work trip. This means the dogs & I are hiding & I'm masking when I head into the kitchen. Being immune compromised means never letting up on masks & always worrying about those around me carrying germs. I'm grateful to at least live in a time when remote work exists.
This astronomer sits at her computer, jaw clenched and nerves frayed, waiting to hear on storm-evacuated observatories and hoping to hear about a newly formed crater. patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/waitin...
Waiting... Moon crash, Rubin Storms | CosmoQuestX
This is a week where I have spent an undue amount of time scrolling Twitter and BSky while hoping for news that refuses to come. On Tuesday
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um.... "Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct viral lineage of smallpox that was brought across the Atlantic during European colonization of the Americas. www.scientificamerican.com/article/chil...
On road trips we go out of our way to EV charge at a mall in Longview, WA, that’s been abandoned by most chains but has quirky local stores, a food pantry, a public library, and a bobo tea place with superb homemade steamed buns. All “dead” malls should be reclaimed by local communities like this.
