Holly 🚀⚜️

@absolutspacegrl
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NASA engineer on Fuel Cells for human lunar exploration & alternative energy on Earth.

New Orleans transplant in Houston.⚜️

Acadienne qui parle un peu de français; ça va? 🇫🇷

I’ve managed to attract the ire of many of the chief twit’s fanboys over the past decade plus; this place seems blissfully free of them 😊

She/her; opinions are mine & do not reflect my employer.

❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#nasa #space #science #engineering #WomenInSTEM #StarWars #StarTrek #nola #louisiana #catsofmastodon

LocationHouston, TX
ProfessionFuel Cell Engineer
FormerlyArtemis Systems Engineer
FormerlySpace Shuttle Flight Controller
Holly 🚀⚜️Sep 6, 2025
Texas ObserverSep 5, 2025

Kendall Scudder replaces Gilberto Hinojosa, who chaired the party through a 12-year period of brief-lived hope punctuated by profound disappointment. Hinojosa, whose native South Texas veered toward Trump last fall, resigned his position midterm. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-democrats-kendall-scudder-the-interview/

#politics #Democrats #Texas #USpol #news

'Disrupting Systems to Help the Little Guy': Texas Dem Chair Embraces Economic Populism

Kendall Scudder on Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, disaster politics, and his state's economic success

The Texas Observer
Holly 🚀⚜️Jun 22, 2025
I missed #caturday, but here’s Leia on a lazy Sunday, listening to the rain in bed.
Holly 🚀⚜️Apr 14, 2025
PomarančMar 25, 2025

A view of Earth from Saturn, by the Cassini spacecraft on September 15, 2006.

#space #science

Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 29, 2025
Show threadFediFollowsJan 23, 2025

#Space picks of the day (continued):

SPACE AGENCIES
@cnes
@DLR
@dlr_next
@markmccaughrean
@absolutspacegrl
@astroptere

SPACE EDUCATION & OUTREACH
@ARISS_Intl

OBSERVATORIES
@esoastronomy
@BGO
@mbo
@spacelizard
@WestportObservatory
@StellaLunaObs

MARS
@andrealuck
@65dBnoise
@kevinmgill
@PaulHammond51

SATELLITES
@AkaSci

SETI
@setiinstitute
@stephenwebb

ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
@stargazerrob
@naz
@CosmoSidewalk
@spacegeck
@philo
@PhotonPhanatic
@cathieleblanc
@jjdreese

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Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 28, 2025
Electronic Frontier FoundationJan 27, 2025
Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. Here’s what you need to know if you want to limit the company’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 22, 2025
o hai, #NASA Glenn Research Center! Y’all picked the coldest week in a year to do this test…I think you’re trolling us southerners! 🥶🥶🥶
Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 21, 2025
Show threadEleanor SaittaJan 21, 2025

[Edit: So, there seems to be a lot of uncertainty and a lack of clear efficacy around TransRescue right now. I'm looking for alternate orgs to suggest, but there's nothing else in exactly that space.]

If you at all can, this is a really great time to donate or otherwise assist with...

Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 21, 2025
Torlais NeoiniJan 21, 2025

No worries! The universe is expanding too fast to fit theories, so it's time to update the theories.
#Astrophysics

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250117161235.htm

The universe is expanding too fast to fit theories: Hubble tension in crisis

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models, and faster than can be explained by our current understanding of physics. This discrepancy between model and data became known as the Hubble tension. Now, results provide even stronger support to the faster rate of expansion.

ScienceDaily
Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 21, 2025
AI6YR BenJan 21, 2025

Meanwhile, in New Orleans...

Tuesday forecast:
"Snow and sleet, becoming all snow after 3pm. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 32. Wind chill values as low as 17. North wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow and sleet accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. "

#NewOrleans #NOLA #snow #winterstorm

Holly 🚀⚜️Jan 21, 2025
Eugen RochkoJan 21, 2025
Just saw the headline "Elon Musk accused of making what appeared to be fascist salute" from CBC. Is mainstream journalism too cowardly to call a straight up, broad daylight nazi salute for what it is now? How can you still be in denial about it?