Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
#IndependentBookstoreDay

Why not name your favourite independent bookshop/bookstore here. Tag them if they are on Bluesky.

U.S. Debt Interest Payments Reach $1 Trillion U.S. debt interest payments have surged past the $1 trillion dollar mark, amid high interest rates and an ever-expanding debt burden.

How does this graph make you feel?

www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-debt-int...

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?

This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

I am one of 28 former NASA Astronauts who signed this letter supporting Jared Isaacman for the position of NASA Administrator. In the words of the letter, "Jared has a genuine passion for space exploration and will bring a renewed energy and sense of purpose to NASA."

I have a goal of reading 100 books this year. I have 21 completed so far. (Some of them really really short :-) ). And I have thoroughly enjoyed that. I think I’d rather spend my energy on that goal then getting distracted by random messages.

Wish you all well!

If you want to get in touch with me feel free to email (Nathan.price@gmail.com). (I get a lot of spam and sometimes an email gets lost. So if you don’t get a response it may be it got lost, so email it again)

Or call/text….

Or best yet, we should meet up for a cup of coffee or something.

I’ve been doing an re-evaluation of what really offers value in my life. And I have determined that apps like X and BlueSky really doesn’t do anything for me other than use up time.

I’ve decided to give it up for a while.

“I want you to be yourself— not your idea of what you think is somebody else’s idea of yourself”

(The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail p. 29)

“Every creative event that ever happened in the world was an interruption. Unexpected. Unplanned for. The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”

(Th Night Thoreau Spent in Jail p.27)

Wow!! It made it on the front page!!!

@andrealeinfelder.bsky.social

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.

A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Houston's NASA employees are bracing for layoffs this week NASA's Johnson Space Center is expected to lay off probationary employees this week.

NASA employees in the Houston area are bracing for layoffs this week.

Managers at the Johnson Space Center told new employees still in their probationary period — which lasts at least one year — that they should prepare to be let go as early as Tuesday.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Thank you Andrea for letting me share my experience with the world.

It was a great learning experience. I think it goes to show that there can be a lot to learn by listening to each other

@galaxisgal.bsky.social howdy!

Giving Blue Sky a try