As an advocate of space exploration I often hear that we should focus on Earth. I try to explain that exploring space is a way to protect our remarkable planet.

💫The Asteroid Belt is home to a near-limitless supply of cobalt, copper, gold, and iron, among other valuable metals. We can stop tearing greedy holes in the Earth.

💫The Oort Cloud is populated by hundreds of billions, possibly trillions, of icy bodies, all the water an expanding human population will ever need.

#Space #Future #3D

Twitter appears to have stopped third party Twitter apps from accessing their network, without any warning or explanation. The reason Twitter can do this is because they control twitter.com and there are no other servers to choose from.

This kind of instant shutdown cannot happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse, because there are thousands of independent servers running on free open software standards.

This is why third party apps are so much more widely used on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

I’m glad to see at least *some* GOP House members (four now and counting from his home state) call for George Santos to resign. His local party bosses concur. Santos must go!

Let’s keep up the pressure. Americans agree on so little, but most would say that he should step down. The GOP leadership needs to understand this.

And we were terribly excited to celebrate our sixth anniversary with Cacao Mexicatessen’s just-announced limited-time special… cheeseburger tacos and beer! They were all we could have hoped for. 😍🥰🍔🌮

Husband Unit: “Little known fun fact — the sixth anniversary is TACOS. As it happens, these are cheeseburger tacos. This still counts.”