Todd Austin

Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence.

Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.

Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts

The “What Would Putin Do?” theory of the American presidency remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

Very cool, John! Takes me back to Air & Space. 🚀

I’ve never heard of them. Could you point us to examples on major platforms?

The distraction I didn’t know I needed - thanks @benfeist.bsky.social !

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

DOGE Cuts Hobble Office That Would Aid NASA and SpaceX Mars Landings

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/s...

Do you know the article’s title and/or author?

Monday demonstrations in East Germany - Wikipedia

These really need to be weekly. Look to the example of East Germans and how they brought about change in 1989: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_...

My survey response - if you decide to sell clothes, offer tall sizes.

Wonderful news! I wish you and Brandon a beautiful day and a long and joyful life together. For me, joy has recently come from travel, journeys long and short, to places nearby and far away, some of them brimming with humanity and others brimming with squirrels. (The cakes sound yummy!)

How to add alt text to images on Bluesky (and why you should) Alt text is far more important than you might think, and Bluesky makes it fairly easy for you to add it to images you post.

ALT text, please: www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

A Kyiv school declared a week of mourning after 12-year-old student Oleksandra Polishchuk was killed in a Russian strike.

She died at home during the attack, while her mother was hospitalized in critical condition.

Not opening links to Disney-owned @espn.com, but thanks anyway.

Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to:
1. Quit baking; or
2. Use an inferior recipe; or
3. Import cake instead of making it

I was just recalling Kukly today. It did not last long in Putin’s Russia.

Pull the *cord*, not chord, @thr.com …

Guilty. I’m holding on to my irrational exuberance for when it’s actually warranted. (Though I suppose that would make it rational exuberance… 😉)

This is a heavily Democratic district. The result was completely unsurprising.

Montrose Harbor, just north of Wrigley Field in Chicago

Interesting. I don’t see that. Any hints?

Isn’t SLS built by Boeing, Lockheed, Aerojet Rocketdyne, etc., rather than by NASA?

When I bring up this concern with doctors, my words vanish like steam on a dry day. It’s as though I said nothing at all. No one ever responds.

Plagiarism. You copied this post that went up seven hours earlier. This ain’t Instagram, bro: bsky.app/profile/astr...

Someone needs to tell @nytimes.com that parroting press releases is not journalism. If that’s all they’re going to do, then there’s not much point in subscribing. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m wondering if this comment is meant to be ironic. Of what use is high-visibility clothing when drivers aren’t even looking up from their phones? 🤔