Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rumors, accidental and deliberate misinformation, propagandized talking points, etc./etc. 000
Reposted by Josh ChesserJustin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...sdross0.github.ioWhat would orbital data centers look like from your sky?500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser. 39266
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Really all of my choices are just selections out of wonderful series of games. 120
Reposted by Josh ChesserBryan R. Early @brephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m happy to share that my new book with @togzhankassenova.bsky.social “Banks and the Bomb: Understanding Proliferation Financing” will be published by Stanford University Press in July 2027. It explores how to prevent international financial transactions that facilitate WMD proliferation. 1/4 284
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Ultima series. The games were wonderful on their own, but they also came with runes and moonstones and cloth maps. The immersion began before the games were ever installed. 110
Reposted by Josh ChesserBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Conquer the Moon all you want, if you can't ensure freedom of navigation of Earth's oceans, straits, and chokepoints then the American dominance of the world economic systems is kaput.independent.co.ukUS troops must be ready for space combat near moon, Trump’s top military adviser saysChina created its own dedicated military space unit in 2024, assigning it to enhance its capability to handle conflicts in space 1156
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Looks like a decent pepper/seasoning salt blend to use on burgers. 100
Reposted by Josh ChesserJoe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Please note that this project is not an initiative of the current administration, or cause for alarm because of that. (I've worked just upstairs and now down the hall from the WI State Cartographer's Office, and they've been updating people about this for years, along with lots of other good work.) 18522165
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We literally don’t work with the Chinese space program because it is ran by their military. Keep NASA separate, as it has always been! 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Well there’s the 3rd. Still the wrong 80-something to go. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Well if they do come in 3s, I know of another 80 yr old that’s “acted” in a movie before… 000
Reposted by Josh ChesserDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026At a quick skim, this looks interesting 065
Reposted by Josh Chesserex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich. 11957021016
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Aha! Looks like someone is interested in making an apple pie! 010
Reposted by Josh ChesserESO @eso.org · 05/08/2026Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4 520164
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026While I’ve never used drugs (aside from a 10mg weed gummy once) I would imagine his brain was still deep in a K-hole whenever it tried to string together this sentence. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Years ago, worked in office of a land fill. A bakery that supplied a major fast food place found their flour sifter had fallen apart during a shift, potentially allowing bits of wire mesh to have gotten into the bread dough. They pulled every loaf made since that shift (since the last inspection)… 110
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My family could only afford the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia set that the local grocery store sold 2-3 volumes at a time. But yes, I used to read it for fun. At one point me parents realized if I was sent to my room as a punishment I’d just read my encyclopedia. So they took those away from me. 020
Reposted by Josh ChesserGene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This development really needs more attention than it's receiving. 1136
Reposted by Josh ChesserAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists asked me to write about 13 films that I thought were essential to understanding the nuclear age… and so I did! And now I am ready for everyone to tell me how wrong I am to have missed their favorite film, which is understandable. thebulletin.org/premium/2026...thebulletin.orgThirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear ageA chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days to the present. 1010646
Reposted by Josh ChesserRebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 08/07/2026so turns out you can *still* use ublock on chrome if you just inspect element it lmfao 412116602
Reposted by Josh ChesserTJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said. 475118132230
Reposted by Josh ChesserPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The two most plausible explanations for this most dangerous move are: 1) Trump plans to sell this extremely valuable information to foreign states and make billions and billions. 2)The US is run by an agent of a foreign country that desperately needs this information. 1051551609
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Not sure if people don’t remember the early 90s or chose to ignore it. She came in determined to push through healthcare reform (to her credit) but the way she did it ruffled Dem members wrong and was a big part of what led to ‘94 Repub Revolution, which wiped out (in a lot of cases for good)… 100
Reposted by Josh ChesserDr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026"The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." It's: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that can't do your job" - Corey Doctorow 9566134
Reposted by Josh ChesserBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I have it on good authority that the paperback edition is out and starting to ship! Order my book 'Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space' direct from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and use ORIGINAL20 for a 20% discount. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/origina...hurstpublishers.comOriginal Sin | Hurst PublishersAn eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare. 2246
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Basically my same thought since the start. Shutting down the Strait with such “minimal” effort is a huge windfall on a cost/reward scale that developing a nuke will probably be a less urgent objective for Iran. Going fully into drones means less Int’l scrutiny and it’s easy to export to proxies. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Honestly it doesn’t look good for Pelley either, that he said or did nothing until he got fired. You want to present yourself as a man with principles than you should act before you have nothing else to lose. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I get the sentiment and I’d love to see him (and others) gone as well, but think this through folks. Setting aside you’re never come close to the votes needed to remove, if he’s gone that just means the Traitor gets to pick the new Chief, extending his stain on the Court far into the future. 000
Reposted by Josh Chesservsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This was a really interesting read Assessing SpaceX Finances, Addressable Market, and the AI Pitch Ahead of IPO www.satellitetoday.com/finance/2026...satellitetoday.comAssessing SpaceX Finances, Addressable Market, and the AI Pitch Ahead of IPOAhead of SpaceX’s plans to go public next week, Via Satellite surveyed leading space analysts about what we’ve learned from the company’s financial 042
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Much like the quote of having to declare yourself the king from Game of Thrones, if you’re having to write articles about how well the war is going then… 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Hard to take you serious Sally, since you’re shutting down 3 of 4 libraries on your own campus. While your point is accurate, how about standing up and leading by example, Sally? 010
Reposted by Josh ChesserChina Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026www.space.com/space-explor...space.comChina shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'"We will comprehensively boost relevant technical maturity and task reliability, so as to lay a solid foundation for China's first crewed lunar landing." 55718
Reposted by Josh ChesserDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/05/2026MIT's social science library is closing, the entire book collection will be no longer available to browse or immediately check out, the space to become additional B-school classrooms? 🤬 818378
Reposted by Josh ChesserJanne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 15/05/2026Some here might also have their uses for a free #map tool that has features Google Maps won’t have, but is much simpler to use than actual #GIS tools like QGIS. It exports to GeoJSON, PNG & html. #OSINT types especially might enjoy this, maybe some reservists too! jmkorhonen.github.io/geosketch/ 45510
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026If we need any artists (or any famous person) to “shake audiences into sobriety” then we’re already lost. If people can’t look around their current lives and see how bad everything is and be changed by it, then nothing done by a celebrity is going to reach them. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Would love to see him make an attempt at reading Thucydides off a teleprompter/written remarks, assuming he hadn’t been briefed on how to say it. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Could be “much larger plan” or like any Bubble, no one wants to be the last one without a chair when the music stops. So they are going to keep cranking out as much music as possible, because they are making money (stock price increases) right now. If the scam is “working”, keep the scam going. 000
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Well folks (him and his family) had prediction market bets on the line so of course he wanted war. 000
Reposted by Josh ChesserClaude Watson @claudeew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026www.space.com/space-explor...space.com'Whatever Russia is testing, it's sophisticated': 2 Russian satellites get within 10 feet of each other in orbit"This wasn't a coincidental pass — COSMOS 2583 performed several fine maneuvers to maintain this tight configuration." 46128
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Would imagine this based upon a fully or highly successful blockade, which give the Admin is not a given, since there’s already several ships that have successfully bypassed it. 000
Reposted by Josh ChesserAnatoly Zak @anatolyzak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It looks like for the first time, a three-side race broke out between secret Russian, Chinese and US "inspector" satellites 36,000 kilometers from Earth, marking an unprecedented surge of military activities in space. DETAILS, CONTEXT: www.russianspaceweb.com/angara5-flig... 0169
Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Top down approaches don’t work with US national politics. Build it up local/state and use the experience and network building to feed into a national campaign. Otherwise you’re just wasting everyone’s time and money. 100
Reposted by Josh ChesserPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com) 6571522709
Reposted by Josh ChesserUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/05/2026Sweden has launched its first military satellite (Years ahead of schedule?! What magic is this?) defence-blog.com/sweden-launc...defence-blog.comSweden launches its first military spy satelliteSweden launched its first military reconnaissance and surveillance satellite into orbit at 9:00 a.m. Swedish time, marking the country's operational entry into the space domain and delivering a nation... 12533116
Reposted by Josh ChesserTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This is always one of the reddest of herrings: "We can't ever win Trump voters." Yes, if you mean "MAGA cultists." But independents, Latinos, even young men - all are defecting from Trump in droves. You only need to peel off a few of them. 3763186