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@astro-cowboy.bsky.social

Spacecraft operator Democracy and bureaucracy enjoyer Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin Signal: @kevinhicks.77

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02.11.2025 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

02.11.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2176    πŸ” 963    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 240
the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

01.11.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5835    πŸ” 1407    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 128

Shoutout to the wives

02.11.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Holy shit look at this

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), photographed by Chuck Ayoub on 30 October 2025.

The comet made its closest approach to Earth (90 million km) on October 2025.

Source: Chuck's Astrophotography (@chucksastropho1 on Twitter), h/t @p-s-v.bsky.social

01.11.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7

The president and his biggest boosters have never had a moment of self reflection in their lives and are trying to avoid thinking about their mortality by engaging in wanton cruelty and desperate grasping for material wealth. Their empty existence would be pitiful if it wasn't also our problem

01.11.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1539    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4
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Elon really named one of the starbase streets β€œMeme Street”

Truly one of the least funny and out of touch humans of our time

01.11.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Elon Musk is stupid but not so stupid he doesn’t see the obvious heat dissipation problem. He knows it’s bullshit and just wants more investment money and government grants.

01.11.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice will do, it would be aerospace related! Either way no rush

01.11.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Morgan! Do you do commissions? Looking for someone to make a website logo

01.11.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Bumping this article because it’s so well done and deserves a read if you have the time.

01.11.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shhhh, Trump is clearly draining the entire federal budget with marble toilets

01.11.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you think the brazen greed and corruption on this will get through to the general public?

In a sane world it would, but I have doubts that current media coverage will do it justice.

31.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Climate denialism as a form of targeted, mass political violence.

Statistically, Trump is burning Californians alive.

31.10.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It Cuomo wins, all of politics and media is fundamentally and entirely broken and we have to build it up from scratch.

31.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Record-breaking COβ‚‚ rise shows the Amazon is faltering β€” yet the satellite that spotted this may soon be shut down The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.

Trump, Musk, and Duffy want to destroy NASA Earth science to suppress critical climate observations like this one, that can only be done from space.

30.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredibly sad and infuriating stuff

31.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown β€” and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say "There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"

Pains me to say, but there are many cowards currently at NASA that are conceding in advance to authoritarian demands.

31.10.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

No I will not be going to tik tok, but if these morons won’t shut up we may just send them to the moon.

31.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The flag is 'blowing' because there is very obviously a stick holding it up, this argument gives me a nosebleed whenever I hear it

31.10.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1081    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 10
Yet, despite being fit and healthy and having enough fuel to keep it going until 2040, OCO-2 is at risk of being shut down due to proposed Nasa budget cuts.

We wouldn’t be blind without it – but we’d be seeing far less clearly. Losing OCO-2 would mean losing our best tool for monitoring changes in the carbon cycle, and we will all be scientifically poorer for it.

The Amazon is sending us a warning. We must keep watching – while we still can.

Yet, despite being fit and healthy and having enough fuel to keep it going until 2040, OCO-2 is at risk of being shut down due to proposed Nasa budget cuts. We wouldn’t be blind without it – but we’d be seeing far less clearly. Losing OCO-2 would mean losing our best tool for monitoring changes in the carbon cycle, and we will all be scientifically poorer for it. The Amazon is sending us a warning. We must keep watching – while we still can.

Prior to this rogue federal regime, shutting down active satellites for "budget" reasons was unheard of. Operating spacecraft costs are literally negligible compared to development costs.

30.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Record-breaking COβ‚‚ rise shows the Amazon is faltering β€” yet the satellite that spotted this may soon be shut down The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.

Trump, Musk, and Duffy want to destroy NASA Earth science to suppress critical climate observations like this one, that can only be done from space.

30.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

anyways, the reason i don’t like people calling rfk jr. insane is because i am technically insane (i get very depressed without medication).

but i’m not an egotistical, willfully ignorant, corrupt nepo baby sexual predator shit sipper, which is the real problem with him

30.10.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Coughing baby with hydrogen bomb codes

30.10.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œknown by our intelligence to be” is not gonna hold up in a war crimes tribunal

30.10.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kat meaningfully altering the β€œrate of speed” of an ICE military vehicle would imply she is literally a superhero

30.10.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The funniest outcome would be for this to get no-billed (or thrown out) because "rate of speed" is at best redundant and technically means acceleration, not speed, so the indictment is wrong

29.10.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

My culture is not your costume

30.10.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Williams, A former executive with US defense contractor L3Harris has pleaded guilty to selling digital spy tools to a Russian broker, the Justice Department announced. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets reut.rs/49o7Q0I

29.10.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

29.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4214    πŸ” 1023    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 45

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