at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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I hate our nazi pedophile gambling slop future

potatoes are used as a symbol for laziness. and yet they are a complex carb packed with vitamins and minerals. who started the potato smear campaign i just wanna talk

I feel worthless

I feel awful I feel like my career is over before it could begin

if I don't get a postdoc im gonna walk into traffic

keep getting rejected from postdocs

Flat illustration of a Great-tailed Grackle with beak to an apple with a bite taken out of it titled "Grackle of my eye".

just played this and it might be my game of the year!

funny seeing rank-and-file gop people criticize trump for this. too late buster you're going in the Device

theory

Nasa's launch control center building at Cape Canaveral. Big sci fi looking building with a ton of windows on one side, facing the launchpads

In my opinion, the architect of the Launch Control Center at Canaveral did a kicksss job

a painting of a woman standing among lotus leaves

My favourite painting I made in 2025: "Lotus". Please, show me yours!

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

"I'd feel ridiculous hugging myself all alone." Well you already look ridiculous cowering by yourself all alone

I am so incredibly demoralized. Please give me a postdoc. All I need is a postdoc. I will do anything for a postdoc.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

if i end this cycle with nothing i will take it as empirical confirmation of my worthlessness as a person

i feel terrible and stupid and lazy i keep getting turned down from postdocs

i think it would be pleasant if instead of being full of disgusting meat and blood and organs and stuff, my body was rather full of a homogenous metallic slime like liquid mercury but a bit gloopier

i no longer believe lol. this is where i stand, without even a single interview or shortlist

i am increasingly convinced im not gonna get hired anywhere

please give me a postdoc all i want is a postdoc if i don't get a postdoc i will surely perish

didn't get the hubble fellowship

oh my god i love this