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Mars Rover
@marsrover.bsky.social
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Not at ALL affiliated with NASA except for the schwag I took working there. Space, science, tech, video games, angry outbursts. Stuck in isolation until you believe in disease again.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · Nov 1
I made a pneumatic rocket launch platform for my nephews because my sister says they're too young for chemical rockets and fire. The 5 y.o. figured out it can launch anything, including his pants, & it makes a fart noise doing it. They love it.
A stand with paper rockets to launch. The mechanism is PVC wrapped in silver duct tape. Some paint and decoration is on a plywood base.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 4h
Shorter Bari Weiss: Send newz.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h
Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises
Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h
Haha holy shit I'm gonna mute this because I scrolled through the comments & oh man, BlueSky is BlueSkying hard. I'll just say as someone with deep, decades-long roots with these women I found the article discussion interesting & if you come at them like the comments prepare to keep losing.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h
The only people I see getting anywhere close to right on this site are black women. Evangelical women, especially leaders & influencers, are not slaves & they're not snakes, either. Theirs is as complex & nuanced a world as any, & a true understanding of power & possibility is required to crack it.
Yet many on the left, she says, dismiss Christian women “as being kind of brainwashed, just servants to the patriarchy and not free-thinking,” thus minimizing both their agency and their effectiveness. Among progressives, “there’s an inability to see how intelligence and political acumen could lead you to a place of supporting Trump,” she adds. “And yet it has for millions of women, and they’re not going away.”
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h
Oh she's THAT kind of boss. Well then fuck her even harder.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h
All recorded footage of ICE brutality is some chubby schlub dressed like a Kandahar operator whaling on a foam frog & even Weiss' CBS can't make that look NOT ridiculous to Ma 'n Pa Kettle.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 14h
If you narc for Jesus you get extra virgins.
Mannequin pointing out heresy Martin Luther.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 16h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 17h
Mookie returning to his home planet.
a cartoon dog wearing sunglasses and a hat
ALT: a cartoon dog wearing sunglasses and a hat
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 17h
It'll never NOT be Obama, but a fun one would be Ghislaine Maxwell to watch him rush in and start claiming credit for things.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 17h
I mean it's not funny, but it's also very funny.

"Give me PETA partner of the year or I will shoot this puppy in the face!"
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 21h
The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 22h
As long as the endowment is kept separate from the one for the Kek Prize in exceptional shitposting.

One day Ma, you'll see!
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 22h
A horse is the ultimate battle of wealth v. mortality.

You think that tech millionaire is blowing a lot to cheat death? He is a dilettante toying with pocket change.

You will bankrupt your grandchildren trying to prevent a horse from learning the mere CONCEPT of mold, or chill, or hard ground.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 22h
Website: бьЫЩвшКюЛьёъНёЦоОёюАэЕкЭЯФГЧЬжЦБЕЗЪМ

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 22h
Aww it's OK buddy. You'll be back to it in no time.

Mine licks himself with such gusto it sounds like someone slapping a wall with a wet salmon from across the house. Can I have that cone when you're done with it?
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 22h
From this fuckface to Marc Andreeson saying yesterday potential job losses to AI won't be so bad because TOO many Americans belong to unions that are TOO good & TOO powerful, I hope we all see they are laughing in our fucking faces. We are worms they hold in contempt, when they see us at all.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 22h
Well as long as that cancer or heart issue resolves itself in ~72 hrs (what I assume will become a minimum wait/stay time at these overburdened ERs given my local very well-funded & staffed full hospitals usually board me ~24), everything'll be fine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d
So close to oblivion!
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 1d
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

via @npr.org
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 5d
I have restarted work on the GE NEP crewed Mars mission post. After all the turmoil this past month, it's like meeting with an old friend.

My goal is to finish the post by Halloween.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d
I don't like marshmallow flavor but I would deep-fry that and eat it out of feelings I have for myself I should probably get professionally addressed.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d
Given how up in my shit some old lady was over my just HOLDING a copy of a D&D rulebook back in the day I thought if we ever got to a situation like this there'd be a fuckton more fires set.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d
I can't even do something like share a picture of my nephews in the little lab coats & safety goggles I brought for us to do science out of respect for my sister's wishes they never get posted publicly where the infinite art theft machine could scoop up their likenesses for child abuse material.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d
I can't even do something like share a picture of my nephews in the little lab coats & safety goggles I brought for us to do science out of respect for my sister's wishes they never get posted publicly where the infinite art theft machine could scoop up their likenesses for child abuse material.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d
One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d
They (the entire capital-serving bootlicker enforcement technocracy) care not a whit about pointing out their hypocrisy.

What DOES grab their attention ain't no way I'm writing out on a public forum.
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