A dropdown menu presenting options for different ICE detention data-points to overlay on a map visualizer.

A map of the United States, covered in multi-colored placemarkers. Each dot on the map represents an ICE field office, detention center, check-in office, or proposed warehouse.

The question we get asked the most? "Why doesn't your tracker list existing ICE facilities?" Short answer: it does!

Use the dropdown above the map to see hold rooms, field offices, detention centers, and more. Best viewed on a desk/laptop. This data helps visualize the scope of ICE's jail network.

Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...

BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]

Brooklyn Books & Booze Readings - Tue 4/21 7PM
Marcus's Virtual Novel Group - Mon 4/27 7:30PM
The (Virtual) Afterwork Social - Tue 4/28 7PM
Marcy's VIRTUAL Short Story Meetup - Sun 5/3 3PM

www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

FAA orders investigation into Blue Origin's New Glenn mishap | TechCrunch The New Glenn rocket will have to stay grounded while the company investigates what caused the apparent failure of its upper stage.

The New Glenn rocket will have to stay grounded while the company investigates what caused the apparent failure of its upper stage.

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

An important thing to note when discussing this topic is that NASA has a MANDATE to do outreach and education and messaging about its science. It’s a core principle for them. And as such that outreach is FUNDED.

What we need is for more agencies to be rewritten to add mandates like this!

We won.

Tesla Chicago is closed.

Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.

Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com

Much Sereneness.

My favorite Choose Your Own Adventure ever!

I supposes Moses' toeses *might* be roses...

bsky.app/profile/aman...

“results are in line w/our understanding of the brain as an organ that constantly adapts to how it is being used.
Activities that req attention &problem-solving strengthen neural connections & reinforce networks used for memory & thinking. Low-effort activity does not provide the same stimulation”🛟🧪

“Practically, this means ppl could see real benefits in cognitive health from small switches in their daily activities.

For instance, choose to read a book instead of watching one more TV show. Stop scrolling on your phone & try a sudoku puzzle.”🛟🧪

A current affair: how ocean currents are shifting with climate change They don’t call it the world ocean for nothing. It’s a massive, interconnected system with water moving in complicated patterns.Massive liquid conveyor belts shunt water from the Southern Ocean floor ...

How ocean currents are shifting with Climate Change [via U of NSW] 🧪🥼🌊↪️↩️

“The slowdown of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is one snapshot of a larger story of potential ocean circulation slowdown.”

connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

#global #warming #slowing #shifting #ocean #currents

A spider crab, living >6000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, climbs down a precipice at the edge of the Dymond hydrothermal vent field near the base of Axial Seamount. These crabs are slow moving but major predators and scavengers at Axial! 🧪🌊🚢
VC: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1650, V24, ed. by E. Pinneo

Image of wooden bookshelf packed with space books. Three shelves are visiible with yellow and blue post-it notes on them.

Hi Bluesky friends! I've been MIA for a while, but I'm coming back because I have some fun news...

I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭

a spiral galaxy tilted between edge-on and face-on. bright knots of blue star forming regions trace the spiral arms. The best 249 out of 420, 60 s exposures (it was windy!) were taken with a Meade 8" SCT and ZWO ASI2600MM camera, stacked and processed with Astro Pixel Processor, StarNET++, and Photoshop.

Last night's target, NGC 4236 (Caldwell 3), is a barred spiral in Draco and is a member of the M81 galaxy group. It's on the outer edge of the group at a distance of 14.5 MLY. NGC 4236's low surface brightness makes it a challenging target. Details in ALT. #astrophotography

"It was clearly a human in a bear suit."
Expertise matters.

Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...

BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]

Brooklyn Books & Booze Readings - Tue 4/21 7PM
Marcus's Virtual Novel Group - Mon 4/27 7:30PM
The (Virtual) Afterwork Social - Tue 4/28 7PM
Marcy's VIRTUAL Short Story Meetup - Sun 5/3 3PM

www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Star Trek exhibit at 2006 LAcon

We're looking for unique SF or Fantasy related items to add to our Exhibits at LAcon V!

Visit the Exhibits page on the site to find out more or submit a form for consideration: www.lacon.org/exhibits

Brad Lander gestures with palm facing upwards at a rally in front of City Hall. Person in the background holds a sign reading "AI rots your brain"

@bradlander.bsky.social at today's @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally at City Hall Park. Organizers including @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social are calling for a morartorium on "A.i." in the NYC public schools.

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has signed into law a bill to end tax exemptions for a slate of Confederacy-related organizations in the state.

4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of the Middle East—many over 4,000 years old and written in languages that ar...

4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs. #Archaeology
phys.org/news/2026-04...

Archaeologists Unearthed a 6,200-Year-Old Megastructure. Its Purpose Is Still a Mystery. The structure is only the sixth of its kind to ever be found.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

How to counter health misinformation when it's coming from the top Health misinformation is now being generated and spread by those in charge of the United States’ public health system. Multiple interventions against health misinformation have been identified and are...

Now in front of the paywall- me spiraling about how we have lots of useful interventions against misinformation but most of them don't work when tech isn't willing to implement them and the misinformation is coming from the people currently in charge of public health

thebulletin.org/premium/2026...

Our Inevitable Third Spinoza Controversy Ontologies of Necessity and Environmental Nihilism

'Our Inevitable Third Spinoza Controversy' by Katherine C. Snow dives into the enduring philosophical debates around necessity, nature, and today’s environmental crisis. A bold exploration of how centuries‑old ideas illuminate our modern struggle with environmental nihilism. bit.ly/4t1eSPO #PhilSci

Hannah Wallace Named 2026 DPS-NSBP Speaker

Through a partnership between the AAS's Division for Planetary Sciences and the National Society of Black Physicists, Hannah Wallace has been named the 2026 DPS-NSBP Speaker. 🔭 aas.org/posts/news/2...

Photograph of a crescent Earth, lit from the top of the image, setting beyond the horizon of the Moon, taken as the Artemis II crew was flying toward the far side of the Moon.

#PPOD: The Artemis II crew captured this view of Earth setting on April 6, 2026. As the astronauts flew over the Moon’s far side, the crew photographed and described terrain features, including impact craters, ancient lava flows, and surface cracks and ridges formed as the Moon slowly evolved. 🧪 🔭

A black, single-layer cake. The top is decorated with a pastel-rainbow telescope and galaxy map behind it.

A different view of the cake, showing the galaxy map spilling over the side.

DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :)

I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭
@desisurvey.bsky.social

A 1 km long accelerator nestled between Alcubierre rings, cooled by glowing radiator spines, protected by dielectric mirrors and Whipple shields, propelled by a DT fusion torch.
An excellent HardSSF space warship inspired by Atomic Rockets!
#space #art
blenderartists.org/t/warship/14...

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it