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Chris Binz

@binz.bsky.social
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Space technologist/curmudgeon

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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 20/01/2026
I tasked the UMBRA-10 satellite over LC-39B to capture SLS on the pad. The capture lasted 33 seconds (2026-01-20 04:20:43 - 4:21:16 UTC) so here it is turned into a short video.
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Zorky? do you even hear yourself??? thinkbrics.substack.com/p/russia-lau...
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Russia Launches Domestic Starlink Rival: "Zorky" Set for Serial Production in 2026
Russia challenges Starlink: "Zorky" terminals enter serial production in 2026, satellites by 2027. Sovereign broadband eyes remote regions and BRICS allies.
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Inbox zero achieved 🧘‍♂️
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
the IQ bell curve meme but for wearing a suit at conferences
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/10/2024
a big part of parenting is driving different places to walk around
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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 21/11/2025
New York City as captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite in 1974 and Maxar/Vantor ~45 years later. Images sources: www.flickr.com/photos/19484... storage.pardot.com/1084652/1731...
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Idk who needs to hear this, but "every presentation should have a BLUF" means more than "the second slide should be titled 'BLUF'"
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
We don't spend nearly enough time as a society complaining about the adhesive being used to seal prepackaged soups. Why are we being forced to cut the film??? There's a tab indicating it can be pulled off, but it's a skeuomorph now!!!
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Yikes, just caught myself thinking about the roadmap for developing this mac and cheese I'm cooking for my daughter... might be time to take it easy for a bit
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Oh wow
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Early humans were online an hour, maybe two hours, per day
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
extremely true in my experience
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Spotify suggested a song for me and it took me two listens to even SUSPECT it was AI generated (it was). Devastated.
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The identity monitoring service people got because of the OPM hack is expiring, which makes sense, since it's been 10 years and China has probably forgotten about all the data it stole. Glad that threat is over!
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I think we're good on web-based satellite orbit visualization tools everybody. We don't need any more. Thanks.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 20/10/2025
Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Even though I rarely use STK these days I still crack jokes about it being slow. I figured that was becoming an outdated reference, because surely they've improved it since then, but I just hopped in and MY GOD it's worse. Reminiscent of the last days of Internet Explorer - borderline unusable
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
mfw it's the spooky season
A pumpkin that has been molded into the shape of a face
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
😳
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Shacknews @shacknews.com · 18/09/2025
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 15/09/2025
Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...
A Maxar satellite image of Mt Fuji. The satellite was only 3 degrees above the horizon at the time, so the capture angle is almost directly side on instead of top down.
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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
China's CGST has returned the favour, using its Jilin-1 sats to image a Maxar Worldview Legion 2 satellite. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3oGA5_HVKJ...
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Demonstrations are great as existence proofs for new capabilities. Existence proofs, however, are not proof of uniqueness. You need deeper context and knowledge to understand the novelty/utility of the demo. Barring that, you're left to believe the narrative the authors have carefully built. Beware.
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Pretty cool how the expensive machine i bought solely to track the distance i run will sometimes just not do that thing. Good technology we're building here
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Nice frog; big.
science.org
The world's biggest frogs build their own ponds
Goliath frogs excavate meter-long pools and guard their tadpoles through the night
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Cameron @cameron.stream · 22/08/2025
Every time I have ever posted about python package management, I get cheerleaders for every kind of package management solution you can imagine. All of your solutions are terrible and fragile
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
scream sneezers are a scourge on society
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"The push to develop a global satcom constellation does not signal a fundamental pivot in the long-term vision of the company, according to CEO Massimiliano Ladovaz." payloadspace.com/what-spinlau...
media.tenor.com
a close up of a man 's face with a beard making a surprised face .
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with a beard winking very obviously.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
When they shutoff the LLMs some people's emails are gonna be like "me client, me want deliverable, you make good, you incorporate brand strategy"
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ceej @ceej.online · 19/08/2025
post from me: ceej
@ceej.online
(tech guy who caught fifteen minutes of Sphere in his hotel room last night) In the future, Al will allow us to enter a sort of sphere,
May 29, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Just read an press release that was essentially "our simulation worked as expected!" and now I'm thinking about how famous I could've been by now
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Excited to announce that I have finally finished the giant Costco bottle of vitamin C supplements
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Kind of sad that "counterspace weapon" was the most compelling use case that they could come up with, but I guess that's where the industry is at this point
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
i'd hurt a fly. where's he at i'll hurt him right now
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Lizzlepants 🐒 @lizzlepants.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I’m not gonna tell you where we’re going just get into the handbasket OK
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 25/07/2025
amtrak’s social team continues to understand the assignment
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Sweet green gave me a new kind of bread and it almost threw off my whole day
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/07/2025
among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
arstechnica.com
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Literally how is it possible for every single airport to have a unique variation of TSA processes
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Presumably this also means more critical reporting and fewer articles that are essentially rewritten corporate press releases?
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
What on Earth...
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
[wife, going to bed]: is it going to rain tomorrow? [me, having just spent an hour comparing features of three different weather apps on my phone]: no idea
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
[pharmaceutical hq] CEO: we need some new drug names MKTG GUY: cymbalta fabhalta veozah VP: ar-are you ok MKTG GUY: kisqali austedo phexxi VP: sir he’s having a stroke MKTG GUY: xgeva toujeo zeposia VP: we should call 911 MKTG GUY: xeljanz opdivo wegovy CEO: *writing* now let’s not be hasty
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Chris Binz @binz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Space resilience theory: multi-layer proliferated architecture with point and area defenses and multi domain protect and defend ops Space resilience reality: the president got into a fight and we've lost access to space altogether 🤷‍♂️
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
An Oral-B login screen.
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