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• Post #4385233

  You can special request a US passport with Trump's face on it. I look forward to the stories of red hats whining about getting denied service at hotels because of it. https://apnews.com/article/trump-passports-state-department-d149546cb15c8e6b67356168d248ccf4

• Post #4385232

  Anyone know anyone at Atlas Obscura? Can you email them and ask them to fix the thing in the map where it believes there are hundreds of locations in a single point?

• Post #4385231

  Woo US debt is $40T! https://www.us-debt-clock.com/live No one will say anything about this until a Democrat is in power, at which point it will become a national emergency. It is also useful to know that the percentage of GDP spent on interest on that debt is still lower than it was for basically all of the 80s and 90s. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XNEY

• Post #4385230

  New Lego Hubble. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/hubble-space-telescope-11382?consent-modal=show&age-gate=grown_up

• Post #4115805

  India's Skyroot Aerospace appears to have made orbit on the first try, which is pretty unusual. Congrats to them!

• Post #4115804

  I hadn’t realized that Anderson Erickson invented the “missing child” milk carton. That was the brand of our milk growing up. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/100-objects-009-missing-children-milk-carton/ (If you gave up on 99pi after they sold out, it seems like they have recovered; the 100 objects series has been good, as have been the normal episodes.)

• Post #4115803

  The p value on most futbol games is <0.05.

• Post #4115802

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_cH5-daLjg

• Post #3884932

  Madrid is still rainbow in June. Most of the world isn’t falling into Trumpism.

• Post #3884931

  A big fault movement seen at the beach in Trinidad apparently as a result of the two 7 mag earthquakes hundreds of miles away in Venezuela. So sever that fish ended up out of the water. Also the comments love the way the dude pronounces "instantaneous" in the Trinidad accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXHVsZ9o0c

• Post #3884930

  Somewhere over southern Illinois I could see a line in the sky toward the front of the plane and I didn’t know what it was, roughly southwest. Took a photo and didn’t look at it closely. Landed, and woke up a bit, and it’s quite startling aurora. I wish I’d taken more than one photo and gotten it to focus!

• Post #3884929

  My profile pic is a self portrait in infrared, from about twenty years ago, of a house near where I grew up. Today went to see the slightly more famous depiction of the same house.

• Post #3884928

  Mostly a note for myself, above gate A4 in T5 at Heathrow is a good spot to spend a layover. Never got busy, good A/C, and directly faces the landing planes.

• Post #2576534

  The US will do anything it can to avoid building high speed rail. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-high-speed-buses-b2976716.html

• Post #2086172

  Tesla Europe needed a way of moving employees at their factory outside Berlin. So they did they Tesla thing, and dug a tunnel and filled it with self-driving cars. No of course not, they got a train.

• Post #1516070

  The degree to which the US’s export economy is focused on the past and accelerating global warming, and China’s is focused on the future and not, is striking.

• Post #878941

  @reedmideke Impressive video of an interceptor blasting a shaped charge up the back of a Shahed. https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mibkib6gek2g

• Post #858275

  Used to spend a lot of time doing project/program management, and as such also trying to learn about it. I haven't gone looking for it recently but was linked to https://thesearesystems.substack.com/p/task-estimation-conquering-hofstadters and thought it was a good read, it's frustratingly rare to find writing based on real data. The short of it is that experienced people are good at estimating the median of how long tasks will take, but it's a log-normal distribution an...

• Post #742248

  New Nasa admin released his first "what the fuck was Nelson doing" message. I'm hoping another follows for Mars Sample Return, and another for Russia's role in ISS. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1r98f1h/comment/o6airtr/

• Post #571032

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116131989419314280 This would be nice. I spent a good chunk of last year in Kosovo and Bosnia. In Kosovo I had to go to the telecom company and stand in line to get a piece of paper to scan with my phone to get a reasonably priced local esim.

• Post #571031

  I listened to the Nasa press conference on Artemis with one ear and the most specific and new thing I heard was "Artemis 3 will be a rendezvous with one or both landers in low Earth orbit in 2027. So we're basically pulling in Artemis three and recognizing just the reality that going right from a free return around the moon to landing on it is too big of a gap, and we cannot accept the flight rate of a vehicle this important and complicated every three years." cont...

• Post #571030

  https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533 Absolutely badass. The deminers who gave their lives to that project are heroes of humanity. If I was a billionaire, I'd fund mine removal in Bosnia.

• Post #571029

  It’s Andalusia Day, I probably missed a parade. Spaniards love parades! It’s also new fountain day in Almería; this fountain as the peak of a new pedestrian street is flowing for the first time.

• Post #571028

  "chemical formulas written on a whiteboard heightened concerns and prompted the FBI to bring in experts from Quantico, Virginia" So dumb. Incredible waste of resources to raid the house and seize a bunch of stuff for a chemistry youtuber. https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/28/teenager-in-irvine-hazmat-probe-poses-no-threat-family-lawyer-says/

• Post #571027

  How do you sink a frigate in international waters with a fucking submarine-launched torpedo while claiming you aren't at war?

• Post #571026

  Really nice bit of linkability from the UK government. They have a "check if you need a visa to enter" choose your own adventure at https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa and it just encodes the answers into the URL like directories, so you can easily share the results of it with someone as a static page. https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/india/transit/somewhere_else/no for example.

• Post #571025

  Well dang. It was something to look forward to. https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Asteroid_2024_YR4_will_not_impact_the_Moon

• Post #512290

  Spain being some kind of crazy outlier by suggesting that the UN charter is worth following. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-aircraft-leave-spain-after-government-says-bases-cannot-be-used-iran-attacks-2026-03-02/

• Post #507429

  Early DAQ and remote control of rocket testing: "[Robert] Goddard at his launch command post, Eden Valley, late 1930s. The telescope focused on gauges connected to pressure lines on the rocket in the launch tower. When readings were right, he could operate fire, release, or stop keys on the panel in front of him."