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Kevin 🚀

@astro-kevin.com
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Spacecraft operator, democracy & bureaucracy enjoyer Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
buzzfeednews.com
Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 13h
Frats are outright evil and that they exist in open society is a moral outrage. Banning them and sending the rats scurrying underground is a good start.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 23h
One of the things that drives me truly insane is the smug confidence of evil people who are incorrect. This photo will be funny only when they face consequences.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 29/09/2026
Isaacman’s fascination with repurposing decades old hardware, both for space and atmospheric projects, is a dumb waste that also may get people hurt
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 28/09/2026
disc horse bot is on a heater rn
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SpaceX changed their minds and went for it, orbital burn successful. Very curious about their flight rules and how the call was reversed
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 27/09/2026
Senators should be better at tuning their message to the platform they're on. Every person on bsky knows the illegal war in Iran is making fossil fuels more expensive. What we are interested in is, what specifically you plan to do to hold the people responsible accountable after the midterms.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 27/09/2026
Someone told me I look like human shrek and I couldn’t tell if it was complimentary or derogatory
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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
4 days until rent and bills are due and I'm still $1700 short of my goal! Please help if you can!
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 27/09/2026
Quit a fantasy football last year bc the it was a bunch of toxic gross dudes It’s week 3 in a different league and someone has already called me a b**ch for losing. Hard to see why women are reluctant to get into FF
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 26/09/2026
Dude I’m just trying to watch a football game and Trump has somehow managed to ruin the audio. Literally destroys everything he gets near.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/09/2026
skill issue, i can bitch about data centers in space just as much as on earth. thats because im the worlds sole single-issue voter for avoiding kessler syndrome
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 25/09/2026
Space data centers fail the first design question of every space mission: “why *must* this be done in orbit?” The whole push is quite literally because musk and spacex know there isn’t currently enough demand to justify all of the money going into starship instead of falcon
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 25/09/2026
Now that the truth has been leaked, I confirm that yes NASA makes spacecraft efficiency decision based primarily on “what would look coolest to aliens”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Last week, Earth Fire Alliance released first light images from the initial handful of FireSats. A constellation designed to monitor fire, globally, in near real time. earthfirealliance.org/news-article... The data are stunning, with 5 bands measuring 4 different wavelengths.
Three satellite images showing Dubbo, Australia in different wavelengths. The leftmost image is mostly green, revealing vegetation in a shortwave infrared, near infrared, and red light.

The second image is midwife infrared, colored dark red to light yellow. At this wavelength the image is a combination of emitted and reflected light, so the image reveals information about landscape composition. Urban areas and bare earth tend to be bright, dense vegetation and water dark.

The third image is thermal infrared, showing temperature from dark orange to light yellow. Vegetation tends to be cool, fields and sparse vegetation warmer.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
it's possible some folks are just confused, so to be clear: there will be a theatrical release of "MUSK," barring some kind of bizarre last-minute development... it's just the streaming release that's under threat rn please go see the movie in the theater, ticket sales send a strong message
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 23/09/2026
Dragonfly (banana for scale)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: As NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope opens its cosmic eye, its home base on Earth is spiraling. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center built Roman, but workers there say deep cuts threaten Goddard’s ability to handle future big space science projects.
scientificamerican.com
NASA Goddard built the Roman Space Telescope. Workers there worry it couldn’t happen again
2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Experts worry Goddard—and NASA’s space sci...
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can affirm that 32% approval is “my extended family in rural Pennsylvania is reconciling with me with the unspoken understanding that they’ve spent the last decade believing a lie” territory.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The underlying study had a simple yet new to me insight that if a massive moon orbits at less than the synchronous distance, tidal forces will slow it down and drag it lower. Fast spinning planets are more likely to have surviving moons
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 21/09/2026
Yep, got my vaccine 10 days ago when it hit the shelves of CVS Now my roommate has it, get your vaccines people
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 21/09/2026
“It’s not real until it happens to me” still undefeated
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is exactly how I want Elon Musk remembered
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 20/09/2026
Life can be tough sometimes
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
gotta think this is pretty lethal in desi circles specifically
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 20/09/2026
Cropping of a Sankey diagram:
17 - product-market fit
5 - strategic pivot
15 - execution failure
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Get our excellent university out of your disgusting, diseased mouths.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 20/09/2026
Only slightly related, but I’m not sure that it’s common knowledge that a 25 year old AI bro now serves as CEO of SpaceX. Little arrogant dipshits running around destroying everything.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 20/09/2026
Hegseth joins the Aggies in prioritizing white, Christian traditions and aesthetics over results.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Cruz Curse —> the Hegseth Hex
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 20/09/2026
Longhorns winning despite Cruz antics, and Aggies losing after a Hegseth PR stunt. Nature is healing, we really are going to win.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When I worked at Texas A&M I asked people, why are these students dressed in pretend uniforms? The Corps of Cadets is pretend. It is not a part of the military. It's dress up. Its perfect for a pretend Secretary of Defense.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 19/09/2026
Gerwig: let’s do a fun adaptation of a children’s book by cs lewis Republicans: this is exactly the same as shooting people and doing human sacrifices
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These people are so deranged.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/09/2026
So it was a Palantir AI tool that contributed to this horrific war crime
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/09/2026
So it was a Palantir AI tool that contributed to this horrific war crime
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/09/2026
If we cared enough about using satellites and AI to understand and mitigate the worst aspects of our warming world, we could do that. Instead, those technologies threaten to make our world worse and the rich richer.
theverge.com
Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
New tools are under development to counter the threat of flash floods.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/09/2026
a world where a founder or investor has a legitimate fear of being unwillingly removed or sued for bad behavior is a better one than we have now
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/09/2026
Personally I don’t think that an AI company led by a white supremacist trillionaire should be getting billion dollar contracts from NASA to put humans in space.
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