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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If the above can't take them I will! I'm in Richmond, CA. And I need more orange bois in my life 😻😻😻😻

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

spitroasted by two xenomorphs and their little extender mouths kiss inside me

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Starlink makes money, but it topped out and has to discount for new subscribers, ARPU fell from $99 to $66. On the rocket side, customer launches collapsed from 43 to 7 in a quarter (revenue -42%), the rockets mostly carry SpaceX's own satellites now. MechaHitler incinerates all profits anyway. /6

Bar chart of SpaceX's fiscal 2025 operating income by segment. Starlink shows a positive bar at $4.4 billion (green); the AI segment (xAI/X) shows a negative bar at minus $6.4 billion (red). A footnote notes the AI segment's losses exceed everything the rest of the company earns, with Q1 2026 losses annualizing to roughly $10 billion.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm supposed to say SpaceX was profitable in 2024, but it wasn't, that $791M profit included a $659M non-cash tax benefit, fully reversed in 2025. Operating income: +$466M ('24), -$2.6B ('25), -$1.9B (Q1 '26). Net loss: $4.9B last year, $4.3B in Q1 2026 alone, all to poison Black neighborhoods. /3

Bar chart of SpaceX operating income across three periods: positive $0.47 billion in fiscal 2024 (green), negative $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025 (red), and negative $1.9 billion in just the first quarter of 2026 (red). A footnote states that 2024's reported net profit relied on a $659 million non-cash tax benefit that was reversed in 2025.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

SpaceX's $1.8T "valuation" isn't real, it's manufactured by a tiny 4.2% public float. $1.8T is ~95x SpaceX's trailing revenue. Google IPO'd at ~7x revenue, Facebook at ~20x. This is Snowflake's multiple stapled to Rivian's capital burn, a combo with a flawless record of bagholders. /2

Chart of comparable IPOs and the direction they went

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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/06/2026

From 500 views in the first two months to over 100,000 views in the last few days. The ADA opinion piece that was too scary to be distributed at the ADA meeting has gone full Streisand. Y'all are doing the Lord's work.

Download graph, topping at 103,071 total views as of a few minutes ago.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yay, the pink triangle has been refreshed!

Picture taken from the SF Bay bridge heading into SF showing the pink triangle on the hill under the 101 and Folsom St signs

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Omg their video was so SWEET and so absurdly hot! Just the sounds... 🥵

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I was out with my cats on our balcony until I got too cold. I love being able to see stars from my house 🥰

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Omg. 🤣 Amazing you lasted 3 hrs!

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/04/2026

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

A detailed image of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space, showing its solar panels and cylindrical body in space.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

Here's the second image taken by the Artemis II crew. The whole world, in a window.

A view of Earth taken from within the Artemis II Orion crew capsule. Ocean glint is visible on the planet.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

Cover page of The Learning Company Software Catalog from Fall of 1991 with a group of children who are waaaay too excited to be playing "Super Solvers: OutNumbered!"

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Wouldn't it be amazing if briatore had a heart attack and died in the back of the garage because Cadillac out scored them???!!! Ughhhh 🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

*sobbing* please save my wife (ao3)🙏🏿

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

No this is true, the SR-71 was designed to leak on the tarmac. The expansion of the hull due to air friction meant they had to leave room for thermal expansion between the fuselage pieces. The skunk works book talks about this.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Is there a link to your smash word site? I'm only seeing the Amazon link.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Get serious about flossing now. I went through a similar period, and after a deep clean and some more frequent regular cleanings (every 3 months for a year) almost all my problems have been mitigated. Consistent flossing is truly magical.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Fantastic!! I figured there'd either be a friend who'd like one :)

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I bought a bunch of these calendars when I was in Australia in December and then forgot to send them until I was packing for Australia in Feb and I dropped them in the mail on my way to the airport 🤣

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I knew I forgot to add something

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Happy Threshold Day to as all! 🦎🦎🦎

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Fold in half (right sides together), whip stitch two edges, turn inside out. Added two ribbon pieces and back stich final seam. Iron flat. Use ribbon pieces to tie to presents.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I need to whine about the fact that I have been waiting at this Adelaide bus stop an hour with no busses, despite 4 busses being scheduled during this period. Truly, Jod was justified in started the apocalypse.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Halloween exclusive voting stickers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Zohran understands the needs of the people!

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My companies IT puts out a list of the three highest and lowest AI users a month and I am at 0% usage, along with two of the soldering technicians who don't even have company computers 🤣🤣🤣 At this point, being a curmudgeonly hold out is so funny to me it's boosting my productivity.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Oh man!! Yesssss! One of my favorite space disasters! So many engineers knew it was out of bounds but the middle managers pushed it through anyways! I was at NASA Johnson during... Sts-117 I think, after Columbia. Where all of us pitched in to triple review hours of video photography of ice falling

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Oh man!! Yesssss! One of my favorite space disasters! So many engineers knew it was out of bounds but the middle managers pushed it through anyways! I was at NASA Johnson during... Sts-117 I think, after Columbia. Where all of us pitched in to double review hours of video photogae of ice falling

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Sidenote: never piss off the systems engineer who writes all your documentation. They know all the secrets you are trying to keep hidden about your project 😌

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

And I was delighted to get fired for refusing to sign off on an unsafe design for Bobert Bigelow. I turned around and called the lead NASA official we were working with and told him about my concerns on the project and the Bigelow contract was dropped the next round. 😁

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Critical failures of engineering should be a mandatory class for all engineers. In my human factors in space class we each had to research a engineering failure that resulted in lives lost. It was the most formative class in my career. I turned down a job at SpaceX because of that class.

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I love the misspelling of measles at the end 🤣🤣🤣 gives it that little something extra

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Nakki (xie/xir) @tehnakki.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Congrats!!! Lots of fun missions coming up through ESA 😁

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