Riding With Robots
@ridingrobots.bsky.social
Robotic solar system exploration, night sky photography, exasperating earnestness. My day job is impersonating some of your favorite planets and spacecraft on social media for one of your favorite government agencies. Opinions here are my own.
My high school.
It’s East High, where they filmed High School Musical. We were the Leopards, not the Wildcats, and we only broke into song occasionally.
Oh and Apollo astronaut Jim Irwin.
It’s East High, where they filmed High School Musical. We were the Leopards, not the Wildcats, and we only broke into song occasionally.
Oh and Apollo astronaut Jim Irwin.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 5:24 AM
My high school.
It’s East High, where they filmed High School Musical. We were the Leopards, not the Wildcats, and we only broke into song occasionally.
Oh and Apollo astronaut Jim Irwin.
It’s East High, where they filmed High School Musical. We were the Leopards, not the Wildcats, and we only broke into song occasionally.
Oh and Apollo astronaut Jim Irwin.
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I will support any non GOP candidate who promises to shoot most of these out of the sky.
A whole lot of satellites are going to go up in the next year or so; everyone and their aunt wants to put up a constellation or two
Shared: The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites (Michael Kan/PCMag) ift.tt/M5i0FUG
#WinObsWiKi
#WinObsWiKi
February 12, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I will support any non GOP candidate who promises to shoot most of these out of the sky.
Auroras seen on Nov. 4, 2021 from the ground on the Salt Flats in Utah, and a few minutes later from the International Space Station about 250 miles over Idaho.
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Auroras seen on Nov. 4, 2021 from the ground on the Salt Flats in Utah, and a few minutes later from the International Space Station about 250 miles over Idaho.
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A quad-jet to commemorate Ilya Malinin’s Olympic quad-jumps!
Image of comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) showcasing what appear to be not one, two or three but four tails. Image obtained by Gerald Rehman and Michael Jaeger.
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
A quad-jet to commemorate Ilya Malinin’s Olympic quad-jumps!
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Rockwell would have painted this.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Rockwell would have painted this.
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🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?)
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
How to Submit Comments on Satellite Applications to the FCC
Step-by-step guide for submitting comments on satellite applications to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
aas.org
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?)
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
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February 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover
Feb. 10, 2026 Sol 1769
Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
Feb. 10, 2026 Sol 1769
Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
February 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover
Feb. 10, 2026 Sol 1769
Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
Feb. 10, 2026 Sol 1769
Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
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Barn owl on my new 600mm f4 prime
February 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Barn owl on my new 600mm f4 prime
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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Remember, the staffer who finds all the white nationalist, racist, etc content for Trump to post/repost & who is the conduit back to them from Trump is Dan Scavino, who is the head of the presidential personnel office & oversees all political appointments/assignments. This isn't an accident.
Career communications staff at the Dept of Labor were ignored and many resigned when a 21 year old starting posting white nationalist meme. Now he is going to DHS. This is who prospers under the clicktatorship.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Remember, the staffer who finds all the white nationalist, racist, etc content for Trump to post/repost & who is the conduit back to them from Trump is Dan Scavino, who is the head of the presidential personnel office & oversees all political appointments/assignments. This isn't an accident.
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Full speed ahead to Apophis! 🚀🪨
ESA has awarded two contracts for the development of its Ramses mission, which will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its once-in-a-millennium flyby of Earth in 2029.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
ESA has awarded two contracts for the development of its Ramses mission, which will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its once-in-a-millennium flyby of Earth in 2029.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
ESA awards contracts for Ramses mission to Apophis
On 10 February 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract with OHB Italia for the development of the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses). Launching in 2028, Ramses will rendez...
www.esa.int
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Full speed ahead to Apophis! 🚀🪨
ESA has awarded two contracts for the development of its Ramses mission, which will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its once-in-a-millennium flyby of Earth in 2029.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
ESA has awarded two contracts for the development of its Ramses mission, which will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its once-in-a-millennium flyby of Earth in 2029.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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The only thing that surpasses her contempt for the People's Branch is the contempt the People's Branch has for itself at this point. The Founders simply did not anticipate elected officials with such little regard for their own power & their oaths.
Folks look at you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then Cabinet secretaries don't get immediately impeached & removed for behaving like this in front of the legislature that oversees them.
holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes
February 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The only thing that surpasses her contempt for the People's Branch is the contempt the People's Branch has for itself at this point. The Founders simply did not anticipate elected officials with such little regard for their own power & their oaths.
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Post a tree you photographed
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Post a tree you photographed
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god this. and consider it in context of lyon's comment that he wants ICE to deport ppl like amazon prime.
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
god this. and consider it in context of lyon's comment that he wants ICE to deport ppl like amazon prime.
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This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth.
It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth.
The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪
It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth.
The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth.
It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth.
The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪
It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth.
The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪
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Optional timeline cleanse: the vastness of it all.
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Optional timeline cleanse: the vastness of it all.
Saturn and Jupiter there on the left, though.
No Comet in This One - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jkzB8i
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Saturn and Jupiter there on the left, though.
Needles District, Canyonlands, Utah
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Needles District, Canyonlands, Utah
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Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon on February 3, 1966, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. Despite the mission's success, its exact landing spot remained a mystery. Now, a new analysis may have solved it. 🧪 🔭
Learn more:
Learn more:
AI Helps Pinpoint the Moons First Soft Landing
www.seti.org
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon on February 3, 1966, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. Despite the mission's success, its exact landing spot remained a mystery. Now, a new analysis may have solved it. 🧪 🔭
Learn more:
Learn more:
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You know all those cuts to government programs and agencies to reduce the deficit?
Just another lie by greedy, money-grubbing Republicans to line the pockets of their rich asshole donor buddies
Just another lie by greedy, money-grubbing Republicans to line the pockets of their rich asshole donor buddies
STEALING OUR MONEY!
tRumpstein ADDED $696 BILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS ...
Borrowing $94 billion in January alone!!!
100% of Gross Domestic Product! The HIGHEST PERCENTAGE THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS EVER MADE UP OF GDP WAS 106%, and that was immediately following World War II
tRumpstein ADDED $696 BILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS ...
Borrowing $94 billion in January alone!!!
100% of Gross Domestic Product! The HIGHEST PERCENTAGE THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS EVER MADE UP OF GDP WAS 106%, and that was immediately following World War II
Report: U.S. added nearly $700 billion to national debt in four months - NewsBreak
(The Center Square) – The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January
share.newsbreak.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
You know all those cuts to government programs and agencies to reduce the deficit?
Just another lie by greedy, money-grubbing Republicans to line the pockets of their rich asshole donor buddies
Just another lie by greedy, money-grubbing Republicans to line the pockets of their rich asshole donor buddies
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Galaxy mug. Stoneware. Hand-built. One of a kind. Just listed. Surly.etsy.com #sciart
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Galaxy mug. Stoneware. Hand-built. One of a kind. Just listed. Surly.etsy.com #sciart
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NASA Mars Perseverance Rover outside Jezero crater
Sol 1,766 (7th February, 2026)
MastCam-Z (left / right) pair ZCAM04310
Site 84 / 1192
📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer
Sol 1,766 (7th February, 2026)
MastCam-Z (left / right) pair ZCAM04310
Site 84 / 1192
📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer
![[Left 'Eye'] Part of the Martian surface near the rover. Dust grit and small smoothed fragments of rock lie in narrow channels between large angular sections of unbroken rock surface resembling wrinkled, worn and battered old leather covered in rust dust.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kmt6b7nv5u67pjhtisabguse/bafkreic7bip2zts7t3cn22mg646dvzwzifumytefugo64pueq5fhcdzize@jpeg)
![[Right 'Eye'] Part of the Martian surface near the rover. Dust grit and small smoothed fragments of rock lie in narrow channels between large angular sections of unbroken rock surface resembling wrinkled, worn and battered old leather covered in rust dust.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kmt6b7nv5u67pjhtisabguse/bafkreihvvavbvaa46miuenl3fqnxakmpdpkrj7yvsjznjm2nfvtx7z6osu@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 8:51 PM
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover outside Jezero crater
Sol 1,766 (7th February, 2026)
MastCam-Z (left / right) pair ZCAM04310
Site 84 / 1192
📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer
Sol 1,766 (7th February, 2026)
MastCam-Z (left / right) pair ZCAM04310
Site 84 / 1192
📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer
Jupiter and Betelgeuse
January 2026 in the Uintah Mountains of Utah
January 2026 in the Uintah Mountains of Utah
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Jupiter and Betelgeuse
January 2026 in the Uintah Mountains of Utah
January 2026 in the Uintah Mountains of Utah