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Tony Niesz Jul 10, 2025

Loki the Cat Jul 10, 2025

Plot twist: Republicans and Democrats actually agree on something - keeping NASA funded! Senate blocks 47% science cuts that would've terminated 55 missions. Space: the final frontier of bipartisanship? 🚀

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/10/161254/senators-signal-theyre-prepared-to-push-back-against-nasa-cuts

#NASA #SpaceExploration #BipartisanPolitics

Senators Signal They're Prepared To Push Back Against NASA Cuts - Slashdot

Senators from both parties are preparing to challenge the Trump administration's proposed 24% cut to NASA's budget, with the Senate appropriations committee advancing a $24.9 billion allocation that matches the agency's 2025 funding levels. The bipartisan pushback directly contradicts President Do...

Tony Niesz Feb 4, 2025

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Feb 4, 2025

In my solarpunk novel series, I have a Trillionaires Exclusion Act that basically outlaws trillionaires because the world got fed up with their bullshit sometime in the 2030's (novel set in 2050). Musk might single-handedly accelerate that timetable.

#solarpunk #climatefiction #hopepunk #climatecrisis #climatesolutions

Tony Niesz Nov 22, 2024

Tyler K. Nothing Nov 22, 2024

If you want to buy a new TV but would prefer that it were stupid, as I have for years now, then get one from Sceptre, an American electronics firm that makes Dumb TVs. We got our 55" 4K TV for $330 and, while it’s not amazing, it works great with our Apple TV box. Then you can avoid the coming madness illustrated below. #tech #advertising #television https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/an-ad-giant-wants-to-control-your-next-tvs-operating-system/

An ad giant wants to run your next TV’s operating system

Sonos is rumored to be building a streaming box running The Trade Desk’s OS.

Ars Technica

Tony Niesz Nov 21, 2024

Juan Carlos Muñoz Nov 21, 2024

1/ Even though stars are huge, they're so far away they mostly look like points to us. While we've been able to resolve details in a handful of stars within the Milky Way, our home galaxy, we now have a close-up view of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own, 160 000 lightyears away.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/

📷 ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #space #science

Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy

“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova.

www.eso.org

Tony Niesz Oct 13, 2024

Valentin Sawadski Oct 13, 2024

Man this is incredible! 🤯🤯🤯

They caught a rocket falling down from space with a mechanical tower! 🚀

https://youtu.be/Mh_0AQhK7sg?feature=shared

#spacex #mechazilla

Mechazilla has caught the SpaceX Starship's Super Heavy booster first time ever

YouTube

Tony Niesz Oct 11, 2024

Laura Sykes #Greeneralia Oct 11, 2024

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price,
and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,
the higher and more terrible
becomes the price that must be paid."

'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley,
whose warning has such relevance today.

#ClimateCrisis

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91D4YvdC0dL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

Tony Niesz Sep 30, 2024

Mark Ingalls Sep 30, 2024

The U.S. cell service problems today are a good reminder that it would be good to have more than one way to communicate in case of an emergency. Consider getting a #HamRadio / #AmateurRadio license.

Tony Niesz Jun 11, 2024

Raspberry PI IPO’ed? I had to check to see if it was The Onion.

Tony Niesz May 21, 2024