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.

Space X to destroy Louisiana wetlands.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · yesterday

There have been persistent rumors about this acquisition for months, but new reports indicate Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is expected to announce an agreement in the next few weeks.

I agree and I know you meant "algorithms", but I like the idea of a predatory logarithm. Evil slide rules everywhere

In January 2025, I got to see a Falcon 9 lift off with Blue Ghost and Hakuto-R on board and on a journey to the Moon. Tomorrow night the second stage of that rocket is crashing the party as it smashes into the Moon. Do we expect to see anything? Nope. Am I going to watch anyway? Hell, yes.

CosmoQuest@cosmoquest.org · 2d ago

Sometimes the trash takes itself out. An empty Falcon 9 stage that is just a piece of drifting space debris at the moment is about to become part of a brand new crater on the Moon. patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/falcon...

I’ve felt for a while that education, medical care, and prisons should never be for profit endeavors. @chanda.blacksky.app ‘s latest essay made me realize anew the dangers of for profit weapons manufacturers who may sell to all sides. news.chanda.science/archive/we-c...

We can't have metaphors anymore because everything is literal

or How I'm still worried about nuclear weapons

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I ❤️ planetarium. Go hug the sky with your brain.

I'm dialed into the NASA presser on the upcoming launch of the Roman Space Telescope - which is launching 9 months early! This scope is similar in size to HST, but works in IR like JWST. It's a survey scope that will do a census of planets around nearby stars, in surround systems SN, & galaxies.

My Monday inbox includes email from the Royal Astronomical Society highlighting that Jodrell Banks is at risk of closure. This is both a historic site and a super important research facility. This is one of the few facilities capable of both radio astronomy and radar measurements of space objects.

It is Monday. It is 29°C inside because my house is old and the AC is doing its best, but it's just a lil' guy. Take care of one another out there and remember to bring pets inside if you can and provide all day well ventilated shade for the critters you shouldn't bring inside (like horses).

Alongside my multiple to be read piles, as a fiber hobbyest , I also have the to be wound pile. Anyone else have this kind of pile building up?

This is foolish: People don't need natural gas. We need warm housing, hot water, and cooked food, all of which can be done better with electricity. Saying utilities have a constitutional right to sell natural gas is like saying Sherwin-Williams has a constitutional right to sell lead paint.

Somewhere in my yard there is poison ivy at ground level. I know this because I have dogs and now I have poison ivy. The horrors persist, and so do I. The horrors are itchy.

Who decided it's Grabby Satellite Summer? This is a theme we were not prepared for. With India's Cosmoserve Space launching the Embrace mission, Katalyst Space launching the LINK Swift Reboost Mission, & SpaceLogistics/Northrop Grumman launching the Mission Robotic Vehicle-1, orbit is grabby grabby

Current status: Have all the spoons and none of the F***s Let's see what can get done today.

Girl's Angry Face with Spoon and Fork

ALT: Girl's Angry Face with Spoon and Fork

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Apparently, humans aren’t the only assholes. I mean, we knew that, but I had no idea that orcas were “blowing up sunfish“ www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Orcas filmed ramming one of the world’s heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun

A sunfish being blown to bits is the result of a never before described behavior of an orca pod in the Gulf of California. Researchers observed two separate events in which one orca held a sunfish car...

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I need to schedule breaks between telecons so I don't get dehydration migrains...

Stranger Things: The Point Is, Mistakes Have Been Made

ALT: Stranger Things: The Point Is, Mistakes Have Been Made

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Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.

It is surreal to see so many places I’ve been to in Russia burning.

Reminder: When it's stressful, you will take extra good care of yourself You will stay present-focused and take it one day at a time You choose to be optimistic You're doing what you can to remain physically, emotionally healthy This too shall pass You will get through this I'm proud of you

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

I have a progressive immune disorder called Latex Fruit Syndrome. It means my body gets more & more sensitive to Chitinase proteins like those in Latex over time, and I can eat fewer and fewer plant-based foods. Today, I started reacting to cherries. I really love cherries. Loved cherries...

Inanimate Insanity: Cherries' Reaction

Alt: Inanimate Insanity: Cherries' reacting with horror

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What’s a woman? We asked The Odyssey and you’ll never believe the answer…s! 1. Bird with a lady head 2. Shapeshifting witch 3. Baddie who came out of a bird egg 4. A whirlpool maybe 5. Tentacle monster who barks like a dog 6. More different shapeshifting witch 7. Weird horny island hermit

Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · 3w ago

It cracks me up how mad people are about Eliot Page existing in a story that pretty famously contains Tiresias the Transition Enthusiast, an mpreg headburster, and a chick who hatched out of a swan’s egg. Yes hi I am Homer my gender is “lol” (Yes I said chick she’s a swan & so’s her sister. HONK.)

The thing that gets me about the diarrhea producing produce is the couple weeks to incubate in your body. This means I am having very concerning thoughts today about next week because I ate a hamburger with lettuce last week. Any one of us, who ate produce, could contain life growing inside us.

Chestbuster Aliens

ALT: Chestbuster Aliens

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As a scientist, a lot of different numbers live in my brain. Weirdly, the most often brought up is the number of toilets in space. This number is the perfect way to change topics in any conversation.

CosmoQuest@cosmoquest.org · 3w ago

With the launch of Soyuz MS-29 carrying crew to the ISS, the total number of toilets in space has incremented up to 10! International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at / on way to ISS: 2 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Total: ten toilets in space

It lasted less than 10min

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

My dog, Eddie, just prevented me from living through the worst possible dog versus robot meme. You see, my husband just bought a robot vacuum/mop. I have no idea what it is. It’s not a Roomba. And my dog Stella, apparently, is having stomach troubles. Eddie woke me and dragged me downstairs. …

I'm having a 2am existential crisis over when optics are a lens vs a refracting telescope. Take a refracting telescope, pull the eyepiece, put a camera body on, and ... it is now a zoom lens? Did the planetary camera on the 24" at Lowell Obs have lenses? Or was Lowell a telephoto lens? 🔭

This Science news lede is brilliant. www.sciencenews.org/article/hobb...