Space Coast Talon
@brashtech.bsky.social
Born to love 🪐, forced to live on 🌎. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer.
Goal: Spiral back into control.
My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.
Goal: Spiral back into control.
My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
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1951 Rosemary West 3rd woman 2 graduate Engineering Sciences @ Oxford Uni. Worked 4 GEC Ltd until sacked after birth of daughter. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championed women's right 2 return 2 work b #OTD 8 Dec 1928 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
1951 Rosemary West 3rd woman 2 graduate Engineering Sciences @ Oxford Uni. Worked 4 GEC Ltd until sacked after birth of daughter. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championed women's right 2 return 2 work b #OTD 8 Dec 1928 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
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“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
Happy Chisxtmas to All Who Celebrate
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy Chisxtmas to All Who Celebrate
Don't cross the picket line! Have you tried tea? Single-estate tea is a very affordable luxury, and it's easy to make great tea at home with a reusable tea filter. Check out my favorite tea-pusher: Teasource.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Don't cross the picket line! Have you tried tea? Single-estate tea is a very affordable luxury, and it's easy to make great tea at home with a reusable tea filter. Check out my favorite tea-pusher: Teasource.com
New Pusheen x Gudetama just dropped
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New Pusheen x Gudetama just dropped
Every accusation a confession.
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Every accusation a confession.
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GOD: I have invented the sinus
ME: haha… wait, what the fuck?
GOD: it’s a little space inside your head. Anything could get up there
ME: no…
GOD: a spider could weave its web. An evil little man could build his house
ME: haha… wait, what the fuck?
GOD: it’s a little space inside your head. Anything could get up there
ME: no…
GOD: a spider could weave its web. An evil little man could build his house
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
GOD: I have invented the sinus
ME: haha… wait, what the fuck?
GOD: it’s a little space inside your head. Anything could get up there
ME: no…
GOD: a spider could weave its web. An evil little man could build his house
ME: haha… wait, what the fuck?
GOD: it’s a little space inside your head. Anything could get up there
ME: no…
GOD: a spider could weave its web. An evil little man could build his house
My cool friend Susan, plus a desire to remove my funding of Spotify, plus a desire to listen to and know entire albums like one used to back in the day, are leading me to consider getting into vinyl. What do you all think?
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My cool friend Susan, plus a desire to remove my funding of Spotify, plus a desire to listen to and know entire albums like one used to back in the day, are leading me to consider getting into vinyl. What do you all think?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Something that does not turn out to work for me, a person with ADHD:
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Something that does not turn out to work for me, a person with ADHD:
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
This is what happens when we do not trust the expertise of other people. You are shocked that known anti-vax extremist RFK Jr is ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT in YOUR realm of expertise, but, what, do you think he's pretty well-informed about everything else? If only the other experts had warned you.
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is what happens when we do not trust the expertise of other people. You are shocked that known anti-vax extremist RFK Jr is ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT in YOUR realm of expertise, but, what, do you think he's pretty well-informed about everything else? If only the other experts had warned you.
Your moment of zen.
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Your moment of zen.
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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
Starbucks workers are still on strike. DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Starbucks workers are still on strike. DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
You don't get to not have your acronym not match your name. You don't get to just drop some letters and rearrange the rest. You're not French.
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Laboratory of the Rockies' | NREL
www.nrel.gov
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You don't get to not have your acronym not match your name. You don't get to just drop some letters and rearrange the rest. You're not French.
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
Final conclusion from this semester's QM class:
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Final conclusion from this semester's QM class:
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Celebrate 100 years of anthropology at Beloit College!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Celebrate 100 years of anthropology at Beloit College!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
What if the real emissions reduction was the efficiency we made along the way?
Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.
Clean electrification is inevitable
Kingsmill Bond explains why the global march of "electrotech" has moved beyond the reach of US political interference.
www.volts.wtf
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
What if the real emissions reduction was the efficiency we made along the way?
No contract, no coffee! Don’t cross the picket line!!!
🗣️ ain't no power like the power of a union, cuz the power of a union won't stop!
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM
No contract, no coffee! Don’t cross the picket line!!!
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We have a garage now, and omg. But my younger self scraped. Oh how I scraped.
I have nothing against you or your regional culture but there is an unbreakable spiritual bond between anyone who has ever had to scrape ice off a windshield while hungover
the annual snowfall required for me to take your city seriously is like 11” minimum. nobody is using 300 days of sun to serve the lord
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We have a garage now, and omg. But my younger self scraped. Oh how I scraped.
Here’s Mark Kelly getting into a Northrup T-38 Falcon thats an actual jet not AI. Sharing this for no particular reason.
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Commander Mark Kelly the husband of Representative Gabrielle...
Commander Mark Kelly the husband of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, steps out of a T 38 jet aircraft during the crew arrival for the Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the international.....
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November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Here’s Mark Kelly getting into a Northrup T-38 Falcon thats an actual jet not AI. Sharing this for no particular reason.
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...