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Herrea @herrea.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

For educators, enthusiasts, and parents answering the gleeful questions of future astronauts, here is the official NASA SLS Reference Guide for Artemis II: www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u... #nasa #space #moon #launch #artemisII

The front cover of the NASA SLS reference guide for Artemis II showing the SLS rocket stack inside of the vehicle assembly building.

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Kohut @kohut.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Twenty years ago this month, I left my last steady job. matthewkohut.substack.com/p/this-thing...

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This Thing Does Not Scale

Reflections on 20 Years of Working Without a Net

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Jim Adams @nasajim.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Would you go to Mars for free? Well, not actually "to Mars," but you CAN learn about Mars from the experts, for free! Reserve a seat TODAY. The online sessions start on Tue 12 Aug at 11 AM EDT and run each Tuesday and Thursday through 29 Aug. Sign up here: www.bookascientist.com/course/explo...

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Exploring Mars: Science, Innovation, and Imagination in Action

This 6-part live learning series introduces students to the science, technology, and societal impact of exploring the Red Planet. Aligned with NGSS standards and focused on real-world STEM application...

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Sports Update: Slaw Dog beats Chi Dog at the inaugural Wienie 500 in a photo finish with less than a bun of space between them.

Slaw Dog beating Chi Dog in a photo finish during the inaugural Wienie 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 23, 2025.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Ghibli vibes at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, WA. #cherryblossoms #spring #trains #photo

Cherry blossoms in front of an old passenger rail car at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, WA.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Especially now as the vision of the future appears blurred, poetry is worth your time. Thanks @kohut.bsky.social.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“The Nothing is the main antagonist in The Neverending Story. It has the power to destroy Fantastica piece by piece by absorbing it, as the result of humans no longer believing in the world of fantasy…” Pictured is G'mork whose mission is to kill Atreyu the hero #fantasy #reality #story #symbolism

“G'mork is the secondary antagonist in Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story. G'mork's primary mission is kill Atreyu the warrior, who intends to stop the Nothing from destroying Fantastica.”

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eBONinFLIGHT @eboninflight.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“Celestial Oasis” - 📸 May 8, 2022 I captured this photo of the #rainforest #biome in the #Biosphere2 research facility. The habitat was used in the 80s/90s to demonstrate biological #sustainability, human space missions, and technologies. #analogastronaut #photography #explore #dailynaturefix

“Analog Rainforest” - May 8, 2022

This photo is of the rainforest biome in the Biosphere 2 research facility in Oracle, Arizona. You can see the rainforest vegetation and the grid building enclosing the indoor habitat.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As a POC I can empathize with this. NASA web pages I developed that were mandated historically significant by the National Archives disappeared a few years ago. It damages culture to erase stories of success. @drlucyrogers.bsky.social, I’m glad you have this and wish there were more.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I recently spoke at the 2025 AI Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama where I discussed “How to Prevent Catastrophic Failure When Creating an Immersive AI System”. The US Space and Rocket Center then asked if I’d like to stay the weekend… #space #science #huntsville #alabama #camp

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Completely unrelated, a portrait of regular human bartender Jackie Daytona from Tuscon Arizoña

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Broken Billboard Chaos c. 2025 GIF, Simulated E Ink #design #avatar

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Craving Vietnamese summer rolls? They aren’t difficult to make, just be sure you’ve got good crunchy ingredients to complement the protein and softer components. These contain avocado, cucumber, lettuce, jicama, mint, and tofu or salmon. Prep time is 20 mins, build time is 2 minutes per. #cooking

This is an image of ingredients to make Vietnamese summer rolls. A cutting board with a knife and sliced avocado, jicama, tofu, and cucumber. A spoon is pictured on the top right. Cooked salmon and empty bowls are located to the left of the cutting board.

This is an image of ingredients to make Vietnamese summer rolls. A cutting board with a knife and sliced avocado, jicama, tofu, and cucumber.

This is an image of ingredients to make Vietnamese summer rolls. Pictured is a cutting board with a knife and sliced avocado, jicama, tofu, and cucumber. A spoon is pictured on the top left. Above the cutting board are lettuce leaves. Empty ceramic bowls are located toward the bottom of the image below the cutting board.

A wood table with a green ceramic plate containing several Vietnamese summer rolls. There is a ceramic bowl toward the top of the image with two small glasses containing plum wine beside it.

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#BlueOrigin #NewGlenn1- Blue Origin teams going crazy at the word that the vehicle has achieved orbit

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“Fairing Jettison was my high school wrestling name.”

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Meenakshi Wadhwa @minwadhwa.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Utterly heart wrenching and scary what some JPL friends and colleagues are going through right now. Please keep them in your thoughts. Will be staying tuned to hear if there may be opportunities to help.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This past semester we discussed the importance of ethics and interactive systems in my AI/XR convergence course. Does this chatbot appear ethical, authentic, or informative to anyone? #ai #ml #xr #vr #ar #chatbot #genai

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It’s been 25 years since Avatar was released in London on Dec. 10, 2009. I’m still trying to watch it in 3D on a plane. My buddy 3D printed a case for my handheld - I wrapped it in vinyl. Handheld will drive the glasses that show the movie - now in spatial video format. #cinema #3D #movies #gaming

A futuristic man in an airplane wearing Virtue Pro XR glasses while trying to watch a 3D movie converted from MVC Blu-ray Disc to Spatial Video format. He believes the problem is that although the HEVC conversion occurred, it appears that the spatial format meta-tag was not successfully applied to the file.

A photograph of a vinyl wrapped 3D-printed cover for an Anbernic RG Cube handheld device that is sitting on a wood table that hints of festive cheer where a red ribbon can faintly be seen at the top right corner. By the way, that’s a heating gun up there. It was used to heat up the vinyl to wrap it around the corners of the 3D printed cover. The heating gun looks like a Christmas ornament if you just catch it out of the corner of your eye.

Anbernic RG Cube Android handheld with a custom launcher on a glass side table.

RG Cube Android handheld modded with custom PlayStation buttons and a custom emulation front-end.

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flyingjenny @flyingjenny.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My photos widget served up this memory today from June 2010. Recognize it?

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

HiRISE 3D: Layered Deposits inside a Crater in Western Arabia Terra This HiRISE image can help to confirm observations at Context Camera scale and perform detailed high-resolution stratigraphic analysis. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA

3D image shows part of a channel or valley with very large boulders. The sides of the valley walls have layers of bedrock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Real talk. In my career I've occasionally been called a word that signals red flags to me because it precedes passive-aggressive behavior or protections of long-standing inefficiencies that benefit a few people. The word is Unicorn. #job #career #politics Unicorns, enjoy. youtu.be/9cMIarrxLGs?...

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Death Of A Unicorn | Official Trailer HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Wow! I just got clued into this set of on-orbit photos from the Inspiration4 space mission. www.flickr.com/photos/inspi... Thanks for the tip and do you have any faves @astrosembro.bsky.social? #space #hsf #orbit #inspiration4 #astronaut #earth

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On-orbit photos

Explore this photo album by Inspiration4 Photos on Flickr!

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

That’s insanely fast! Thanks for the info @nasajim.bsky.social. For those interested, here’s more data on NASA's probe that is diving into the Sun’s atmosphere: science.nasa.gov/mission/park...

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It’s always interesting so many students initially want to make GTA or RDR in my interactive tech classes but become more satisfied when they narrow their scope and make more personalized experiences. I’m fascinated by what they want to express and how that discovery unfolds. #gamedev #xr #vr #ar

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Amazing opportunities and technical possibilities are unfolding in commercial aerospace. Congrats @eboninflight.bsky.social! #space #hsf #aerospace #jobs

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Opened my mailbox today to this lovely illustration of Sir Gawain from The Green Knight. Thank you @vanessamckee.bsky.social for the amazing art and blazing fast shipping! #art #GreenKnight #kingarthur #legend #SirGawain #MedievalTales

Illustration by Vanessa McKee of Sir Gawain from The Green Knight movie.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A really good thread of tips for communicating science to non-science audiences, and why it matters to be able to do so:

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Kanaya Malakar @kanaya-malakar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had a hard time finding women physicists here. So I made a starter pack for #female and #under-represended #minorities in #physics, in short #FURMIP. Please spread the word and let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/2JeYsDz

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

What better way to vacation than to time travel. On a recent excursion with my sister we visited Hill Valley, California around January 1955. It was an excellent time. #hillvalley #delorean #bttf #savetheclocktower #timetravel #immersion

A photo of Hill Valley as it was circa 1955.

A photo of the Texaco in Hill Valley as it was circa 1955.

A photo of one half of the Lyon Estates sign in Hill Valley.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This isn't a movie or a tv show. This is real life. This is the work it takes to produce the strawberries we eat. #food #reality #farming

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Remember when the Matrix was invented and we didn’t realize it? I just taught a bleeding edge course on the convergence of AI/XR & have been assigned Game Engine Fundamentals at ASU. These students have a wild ride ahead of them. Scope this paper: deepmind.google/discover/blo... #gamedev #ai #xr

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Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model

Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Love old school games? This resource is RADICAL. Thanks for sharing, @johnlf.bsky.social! #retrogaming #apple #IIe

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Throwback work photos from a couple NASA centers. Shoutout to @nasajim.bsky.social @comtnclimr.bsky.social Beth Beck and Cady Coleman for making every day a magnificent adventure. Bonus: Someone let me climb inside the Ares I-X while it was stacked in the VAB at Kennedy Space Center. #nasa #space

Ares I-X rocket being stacked in the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA personnel Stacey Brooks and Beth Beck preparing to host visitors at NASA HQ. They are holding a prop Martian rock in the foreground, an inflatable MSL rover is behind them.

NASA Deputy Chief Technologist Jim Adams speaking to the NASA Social group at Kennedy Space Center.

Astronaut Cady Coleman and Fox Bonilla hanging out during a NASA sustainability event at Kennedy Space Center.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The Apple iBook Firewire SE (Graphite) continued the use of the iconic clamshell design of the 1999 original. This 466MHz Mac shipped with a whopping 64MB of RAM. It’s perfect for MacOS 9 games from the late 1990’s (ie. Sim Cinema Deluxe, A-10 Attack, F/A-18 Hornet by GraphSim). #retrogames #apple

Removing sharpie from the lid of an Apple iBook using a toothbrush and toothpaste.

Decompressing SpectreVR using StuffIt Expander on MacOS 9. The Macintosh Repository website is loaded on Classilla on the laptop screen.

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Megan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Seattle/Washington folks - found this resource on Reddit. A spreadsheet of volunteer opportunities for a variety of orgs incl forestry restoration, housing, food, arts, etc. I’m planning to sign up for some myself! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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r/Seattle Volunteer Opportunities

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Gorgeous photo. Love beautiful libraries. *Added to the list of places to visit.*

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A fun advantage of having a design background is the ability to create my own virtual pinball backglass art. Image #1 is from a custom @therealelvira.bsky.social “attract mode” animation. Elvira rocks! The Deadpool and Iron Man illustrations include comic book covers I love. #pinball #games #design

Custom Elvira pinball machine attractor.

DIY incomplete Deadpool pinball machine with backglass.

Custom Iron Man pinball machine backglass illustration.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Up the street from my house growing up there was a 4-slot NEO GEO cab. Spent all my quarters playing Super Sidekicks, The Last Blade 2, Samurai Showdown II, & Metal Slug. @3mill.bsky.social helped me customize a broken one when he was younger. Emulation frontend = attractmode.org #neogeo #retrogames

Kid standing in front of a broken NEO GEO MVS cabinet.

Assorted video game cabinet controller parts. White and buttons.

NEO GEO MVS-4 arcade cabinet with a short red stool in front of it. Windjammers is on the screen.

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Fox B. @harbingeralpha.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Computers have played an important part in my life. My first was a Macintosh SE my family paid off over two years. With advice from @woodtoast.bsky.social and testing by @eboninflight.bsky.social I recreated the experience using an old case and a raspberry pi. #retrocomputing #apple #retrogaming

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