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Josh Chesser

@jchesser.bsky.social
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Interested in astronomy, space exploration and security, international relations, nuclear weapons, military history, GIS, cartography, and a great many things more.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rumors, accidental and deliberate misinformation, propagandized talking points, etc./etc.
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shane 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.io
What 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really all of my choices are just selections out of wonderful series of games.
Games like Ultima, Simcity, Final Fantasy are included in a Top 9 image.
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Bryan R. Early @brephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’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
A green book cover for Banks and the Bomb: Understanding Proliferation Financing.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The 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.
Box cover for Ultima 4 Quest for the Avatar
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Conquer 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.uk
US troops must be ready for space combat near moon, Trump’s top military adviser says
China created its own dedicated military space unit in 2024, assigning it to enhance its capability to handle conflicts in space
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looks like a decent pepper/seasoning salt blend to use on burgers.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please 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.)
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We literally don’t work with the Chinese space program because it is ran by their military. Keep NASA separate, as it has always been!
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well there’s the 3rd. Still the wrong 80-something to go.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well if they do come in 3s, I know of another 80 yr old that’s “acted” in a movie before…
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At a quick skim, this looks interesting
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You 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.
Threads post "And then for no reason, no reason at all, they made us all learn how to play the recorder"
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Aha! Looks like someone is interested in making an apple pie!
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ESO @eso.org · 05/08/2026
Earlier 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
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
While 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Years 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)…
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My 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.
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This development really needs more attention than it's receiving.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The 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.org
Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age
A chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days to the present.
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
so turns out you can *still* use ublock on chrome if you just inspect element it lmfao
This extension was turned off because it's no longer supported - uBlock Origin

The enable slider is grayed out.Devtools, removing the "disabled" attribute from the cr-toggle html element.Turn "uBlock Origin" on?
This extension is no longer supported. Chrome recommends that you remove it instead.
Turn on, Cancel
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There 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.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Good ‘ole Twinkie University.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Not 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)…
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Dr 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
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I 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.com
Original Sin | Hurst Publishers
An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Basically 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Honestly 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I 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.
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vsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This was a really interesting read Assessing SpaceX Finances, Addressable Market, and the AI Pitch Ahead of IPO www.satellitetoday.com/finance/2026...
satellitetoday.com
Assessing SpaceX Finances, Addressable Market, and the AI Pitch Ahead of IPO
Ahead 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
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Amazing! Should be a great read.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Much 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…
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Hard 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?
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
www.space.com/space-explor...
space.com
China 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."
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
MIT'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? 🤬
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 15/05/2026
Some 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/
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Would 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Could 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Well folks (him and his family) had prediction market bets on the line so of course he wanted war.
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Claude Watson @claudeew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.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."
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Would 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.
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Anatoly Zak @anatolyzak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It 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...
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Top 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.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026
NASA 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)
Crescent Earth and some delicious lens flareCrescent Earth seen beyond the MoonCrescent Earth behind the MoonThe Moon eclipsing the Sun, with the corona and zodiacal light forming a diffuse glow behind the satellite
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/05/2026
Sweden has launched its first military satellite (Years ahead of schedule?! What magic is this?) defence-blog.com/sweden-launc...
defence-blog.com
Sweden launches its first military spy satellite
Sweden 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...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This 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.
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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If that is accurate, then it was staged.
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