Builders and Dev. Land is worth more as housing, economics win.

Your Guide to NASA's Budget How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.

NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...

The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.

NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

They forget you have to have a world people want to live in.

When you’re tempted to suggest that we should forgive and embrace MTG because she’s turning on Trump

Remember that she rose to prominence in part by fueling hate and harassment against families who lost children in school shootings

NASA Breaks Silence on Deaths and Disappearances of Scientists With Ties to Space Tech Eleven missing or dead scientists are now at the center of a federal investigation, and three had direct ties to NASA.

NASA Breaks Silence on Deaths and Disappearances of Scientists With Ties to Space Tech gizmodo.com/nasa-breaks-...

Great to hear! I hope you keep going and that it's fulfilling. I've tried to get some writing in, but it's fits and starts. Feels better than nothing though.

how ridiculous for Tampa Bay Lightning fans to chant "USA, USA" last night against Montreal Canadians? Montreal has more USA born players than Tampa, and Tampa has more than half its team from Canada.

A depleted Space Force races to prepare for Trump’s spending spree The six-year-old service is hiring like "there’s never been a tomorrow" to execute a potential budget boon.

Almost like wildly chainsawing at the federal workforce can have negative consequences. Who could have foreseen this

www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Mmm, food ...

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

damn, dark as shit

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Countdown Standard

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Gotta have a whomp whomp? 😂 I agree with you and also might add/consider "that and a dollar will buy ya a cup of coffee!" type language that anchors pricing in the brain for some generations.

Another week/weak we made it thru?

something that’s really been wild to me, as someone raised in the ‘freedom of religion’ usa, is how my other nation, the U.K., quite literally has a state religion and is somehow a hundred times less religious functionally than the USA

To add a little detail for curious followers, that's the control room previously used for shuttle; the ISS mission control is down the hall. (It has an observation room as well.)

Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly!

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(there's several kinds and the mechanism of ship danger is such that it sinks whole ships by breaking them in half)

I thought some of that was covered in this episode: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Neon-athon is back! At your local Chevy dealer

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

this is pretty much spot on imo

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.

One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

Screenshot of a Twitter exchange in which user @kimerrikin notes that the city of Lynchburg VA declared April 7 2008 to be Leland Melvin Day, and Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow) thanking them for reminding him.

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

I wonder how much that has to do with "good enough description" versus "math and scale and location are difficult to represent without technical jargon"

the issue is that the language he used has the feel of nukes (civilization ending), and the president has no constraints to using them unilaterally. We used to try not to elect crazy people for this reason. I think its perfectly appropriate to yell about nukes.

I had to tell a member of the cast of my community theater group this same thing . If you shut NASA down, redistributed its budget to other priorities, the agency's budget is so small it wouldn't make a dent in those problems, we lose an agency that puts back more $ into the economy than it takes.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

When the spaceship is performing even better than planned 💅🏼