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@rossengineer.bsky.social
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Former future astronaut | Xitter refugee, same handle | bio pinned | opinions my own | science, politics, stray thoughts, some swearing | no porn, crypto, scams, plz | he/him | pathologically unable to do things that make no fucking sense | YMMV, LLAP 🖖✌️

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 6h
Accurate -
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 6h
The Trump administration is determined not to stop unsolving problems.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 6h
Coming January 2027 to a House of Representatives near you.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 7h
Related - "In the land of AI-outsourced 'thinking' the person who can think for themselves is king." Every critical thinking element of both the liberal arts/humanities and sciences must be preserved. Humanities and sciences are essential to each other - can't have one without the other.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 8h
"outsource thinking & learning to us" brought to you by guys who have utterly unhinged thoughts and have learned all the wrong lessons about their own success.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 8h
Laser-focused on affordability.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 17h
Looking forward to more cancer vaccines in the future!
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 17h
This could have happened back in Colorado where most of the industries are, but It gets passed over for being a blue state.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 18h
This is a good way to do interesting comms work. *Disclaimer - I used to work for George and remain friends with him & his family.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 18h
My face as job hunting hammers home total ego death.
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 21h
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl standing tall in front of his burrow entrance.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 21h
Those who exile defenseless children from the USA are not the good guys. This generational evil will haunt us for decades.
A screenshot of an X.com post on a white background. At the top, Katie Rogers’s profile name and handle appear beside a circular profile photo, with the X.com logo in the upper-right corner. The post quotes a judge asking whether to request voluntary departure or issue a removal order, followed by a description of 13-year-old Angel crying and saying, “I have no one. I have nothing.”

Below, an embedded post by Priscilla Alvarez describes a Texas courtroom scene involving 25 migrant children and includes a hand-drawn courtroom sketch. The sketch shows a judge seated behind a raised bench between two monitors, with a U.S. flag to the left. In the foreground, several people sit in rows of reddish upholstered chairs facing the judge; microphones are positioned near some of the seated figures. The drawing uses muted gray, tan, blue, red, and brown colors. A small handwritten label near the lower-left portion of the sketch reads “DAVID DE LEON.

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Screenshot of an X.com post quoting a judge and describing a 13-year-old child crying during a removal hearing, with an embedded post and courtroom sketch showing a judge, U.S. flag, and seated attendees.

Transcribed Text:

Katie Rogers
@katierogers

X.com

“Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked.

“I don’t know,” Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”

Priscilla Alvarez @priscialva · 5h

NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.

DAVID DE LEON
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truth, Accountability, and a Renewal of our Republic (as a real universal commonwealth) under the US Constitution. The TARRUSC Commission, a 2 year project to stop Trump's rampage & expand/pack the Supreme Court. Renewal of the 14th amendment to eliminate the loophole last legal slavery in the US.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Exploitation will continue until morale improves."
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"So glad we have the fully funded, fully staffed CDC & NIH working hard to...wait, I'm being handed a note." "Oh. Oh no." Republicans just make everything worse for no damn good reason.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
President Pre-Corpse is loosing his marbles.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nuclear bomb-like devastation minus the radiation. Genocide leaves its own mark on the landscape.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Foxes will guard chicken houses,..."
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Soft-On-Pedophiles Ken Paxton? Corrupt thief Ken Paxton?
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truth, Accountability, and Reconstruction Commission. It is time to curb stomp the bastards.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This goes for all of us.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I ruined the life of a pregnant woman over $50" is not the flex you think it is, Roger. But definitely defend your litigious history for the voters! They love it when the rich sue the poor.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's a lot of thermal energy in our oceans.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is lovely. Sing it from the rooftops.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carney sees right through Trump verbally, something Donald registers as hostile. Xi just enjoys being a superior politician around Trump, so it's an easy relationship. Mamdani just *is* a vastly superior politician, again making his relationship with Trump pretty easy.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I'm coming for your rural property, plebes." There is nothing unpopular or corrupt you won't get in bed with, Kenneth.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
President Decay is in a sweaty flip-flopping place today. War, sanctions, bombing, who's to say? Spin the punishment wheel to determine who will pay.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These assholes want to crush MeToo because they treat women as a sexual executive perk. It's gross and needs to stop yesterday.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I usually do not like split-screens, but this was an example where it really enhanced the storytelling. The lighting cues were also well done.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing. "I'm not cotton candy-soft on child predators, I'm marshmallow-soft on them." Thank you for clarifying, Kenneth.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is irrational to have a society's thought leaders be pathological serial liars bent on domination.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Yud guy is a toxic cess pit. Nothing rational about choosing to bring about nightmarishly dystopian ways of living in the coming years. His scribblings are intellectual cancer.
Xitter post by Eliezer Yudkowsky - " Who's right - - AI Optimists or AI Pessimists?  The answer matters; it determines whether your daughter, now studying [to] become an engineer, should give up and plan on becoming a sex worker for Alco stock owners; or alternatively,  try to enjoy her short life's last years. "
11:48AM 2/7/26 30K views
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 2026 Trump Oil Shock has brought us back to the early 1970s* again. Stay tuned for Stagflation and Malaise! *Electric cars are better this time
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Key insight. Some engineers prefer the binary [true/false, 0/1, on/off] world of absolutes to the messy, 'irrational', emotional, human world. It is often a self-reinforcing narcissistic doom spiral from emotionally stunted adolescent thinkers in adult bodies like Lud.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Important read -
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Either 1) These planes and their support staff are going to sit uselessly on a base, costing millions every day or 2) we're about to restart doing the same stupid thing we've been doing without success since March.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If their "Christian" God gets offended by coffee, then there's not much salvation available, is there?
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Hulk Puny
Alt: Incredible Hulk saying " Puny God " from the Avengers movie franchise.
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Eryn Cangi, PhD @planetaryemc2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry if I missed it but this clearly needs to be seen by the #PlanetaryScience community! Write-up by the Planetary Society here tinyurl.com/7e7kurhb with a link to the petition
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SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
NASA's New Horizons is poised to make discoveries about the farthest reaches of our Solar System, but two of its key instruments are in danger of being…
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent thread -
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's almost October, Mike. Still not seeing any feasts except for the billionaires.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is really cool!
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So a sort of successful mission for Starship Mission 14. They didn't check all the boxes because of Raptor engine failures, but they deployed the 26 Starlink Satellites and achieved orbit, though not for as long as planned. It's clear that the Raptor engine is still a thorn in the company's side.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good read, and important insights -
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From NASA: Together, NASA's telescopes wear many hats – capturing different wavelengths of light and cosmic happenings. This group image of the Sombrero Galaxy shows how.
M104 has a wide, flat, round brim, shown here as a hazy violet ring viewed nearly on its edge. At the center of the brim-like ring is a cluster of golden specks surrounding a warm white core.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whelp. "another unqualified success" I suppose.
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The evolution of this weekend's nor'easter.
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can see the sunrise in the second screen capture of this image set. Starship is now subsonic. 2 minutes from the start of the landing burn, all looks good according to the SpaceX coverage. "We'll see if we stay intact this time," says Dan Huot. Starship is approaching the splashdown site.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starship deployed 26 Starlink V3 sats and then performed a deorbit burn at 2h12m; reentry underway
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More stunning images from the re-entry coverage at T+2 hours 51 minutes, with some 18 minutes remaining for the splashdown, the third graphic shows the splashdown zone in red just off Hawaii
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So that 'diverted' shipment of F-35 parts was the free-trial sampler platter?
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