Ross
@rossengineer.bsky.social
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
· Jul 17
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Last week, a winter storm left behind a field of snow across parts of the Colorado and Kansas plains.
The snow has receded significantly since this weekend due to melting from warming temperatures in the region.
The snow has receded significantly since this weekend due to melting from warming temperatures in the region.
January 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Last week, a winter storm left behind a field of snow across parts of the Colorado and Kansas plains.
The snow has receded significantly since this weekend due to melting from warming temperatures in the region.
The snow has receded significantly since this weekend due to melting from warming temperatures in the region.
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Here is a link to a Politico article from 2016 discussing the video clip below. Not fake news. Not made up. Not AI. But something he really said about 🍊💩
www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
January 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Here is a link to a Politico article from 2016 discussing the video clip below. Not fake news. Not made up. Not AI. But something he really said about 🍊💩
www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
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Even if we fuck it all up, the world will continue to be a beautiful and miraculous place.
Worst case scenario, maybe the corvids or orangutans or dolphins will do a better job with Gaia 2.0 if we have to hard reboot.
Worst case scenario, maybe the corvids or orangutans or dolphins will do a better job with Gaia 2.0 if we have to hard reboot.
Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed with the shittiness of the world. Then, as I’m getting ready for work in the early morning, my young son comes running to me and says “Dad! Look outside at the sunrise!” with a big smile on his face.
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Even if we fuck it all up, the world will continue to be a beautiful and miraculous place.
Worst case scenario, maybe the corvids or orangutans or dolphins will do a better job with Gaia 2.0 if we have to hard reboot.
Worst case scenario, maybe the corvids or orangutans or dolphins will do a better job with Gaia 2.0 if we have to hard reboot.
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From last night, here's Jupiter along with its satellites Io (leftmost) and Ganymede. 🔭
January 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
From last night, here's Jupiter along with its satellites Io (leftmost) and Ganymede. 🔭
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ICE all over Phoenix metro and outlying cities today. Major surge. Warn your neighbors, get your whistles, sign up and get involved.
#AZ
#AZ
January 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
ICE all over Phoenix metro and outlying cities today. Major surge. Warn your neighbors, get your whistles, sign up and get involved.
#AZ
#AZ
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Incredible Sky
January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Incredible Sky
We all need this rn.
I need a hotline I can call to listen to Mr. Rogers say nice things about me
January 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
We all need this rn.
Went to the one in Colorado back then.
The specter of global death represented by the little warheads was overwhelming.
The specter of global death represented by the little warheads was overwhelming.
40 years ago today, Barbara Donachy’s art installation “Amber Waves of Grain”—which used some 35,000 ceramic miniatures to depict every bomber, missile, submarine, warhead, and bomb in the US nuclear arsenal—opened in Boston after prior showings in New York, Washington, DC, Colorado, and Berlin.
January 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Went to the one in Colorado back then.
The specter of global death represented by the little warheads was overwhelming.
The specter of global death represented by the little warheads was overwhelming.
Clever mechanism here -
A new self-healing composite demonstrates the ability to repair itself over 1,000 times, potentially extending the lifespan of fiber-reinforced materials used in aerospace and automotive applications by centuries. doi.org/hbjzmw
Self-healing composite can make airplane, automobile and spacecraft components last for centuries
Researchers have created a self-healing composite that is tougher than materials currently used in aircraft wings, turbine blades and other applications—and can repair itself more than 1,000 times.
techxplore.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Clever mechanism here -
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How is this not inciting violence?
Why must they remind ICE that they have immunity?
One of their agents just shot a killed a woman in broad daylight and they’re effectively telling them to go ahead and do whatever they want because they’re above the law.
Be safe Minneapolis.
Why must they remind ICE that they have immunity?
One of their agents just shot a killed a woman in broad daylight and they’re effectively telling them to go ahead and do whatever they want because they’re above the law.
Be safe Minneapolis.
January 14, 2026 at 4:22 AM
How is this not inciting violence?
Why must they remind ICE that they have immunity?
One of their agents just shot a killed a woman in broad daylight and they’re effectively telling them to go ahead and do whatever they want because they’re above the law.
Be safe Minneapolis.
Why must they remind ICE that they have immunity?
One of their agents just shot a killed a woman in broad daylight and they’re effectively telling them to go ahead and do whatever they want because they’re above the law.
Be safe Minneapolis.
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“Serving for both Republican and Democratic administrations, four former Forest Service Chiefs, with over 150 years of experience in public lands management, have voiced their support to keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in place.”
Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the Roadless Rule that protects millions of acres of our National Forests! It's a success story so not surprising that that the Trump Admin is repealing it. Check out what former Forest Service Chiefs have to say: www.wilderness.org/articles/pre...
Former Forest Service Chiefs Back Roadless Rule at 25-Year Milestone
www.wilderness.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 AM
“Serving for both Republican and Democratic administrations, four former Forest Service Chiefs, with over 150 years of experience in public lands management, have voiced their support to keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in place.”
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"Colvin, who died on Jan. 13 at the age of 86, was for decades an unsung hero...she became one of the plaintiffs in Browder v Gayle, the landmark 1956 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared segregation on public transportation unconstitutional" @capitalb.bsky.social
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Claudette Colvin, Whose Defiance Helped End Bus Segregation, Dies at 86
For decades, Colvin was an unsung hero despite refusing to surrender her seat nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance
capitalbnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 AM
"Colvin, who died on Jan. 13 at the age of 86, was for decades an unsung hero...she became one of the plaintiffs in Browder v Gayle, the landmark 1956 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared segregation on public transportation unconstitutional" @capitalb.bsky.social
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Rest in power.
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, AL bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 86, her foundation announced earlier today.
January 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Rest in power.
Republicans are the blasphemy party.
Secular & non-secular alike.
Secular & non-secular alike.
January 14, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Republicans are the blasphemy party.
Secular & non-secular alike.
Secular & non-secular alike.
This is a sensible step for towns under paramilitary occupation.
Keeping kids safe from abduction by ICE-CBP has to be front & center.
Keeping kids safe from abduction by ICE-CBP has to be front & center.
"The Roseville school district on Monday said that it would pause field trips for the entire month of January amid concerns about ICE and other agents concentrated in the region."
Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
This is a sensible step for towns under paramilitary occupation.
Keeping kids safe from abduction by ICE-CBP has to be front & center.
Keeping kids safe from abduction by ICE-CBP has to be front & center.
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Thugs are expensive
ICE AGENT: “I love my job. I can’t believe they pay me to do this. I’d do it for free. I only went to high school and I make $200,000.”
January 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Thugs are expensive
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Show me you truly don’t understand or appreciate “Star Trek” ...
January 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Show me you truly don’t understand or appreciate “Star Trek” ...
Anti-constitutional president.
DOKOUPIL: Is there anything here in the US that limits your power other than your own morality?
TRUMP: It's limited by my morality and I have a very high grade of morality, so therefore it's limited
DOKOUPIL: Not the Constitution or courts?
TRUMP: Well, that goes without saying
TRUMP: It's limited by my morality and I have a very high grade of morality, so therefore it's limited
DOKOUPIL: Not the Constitution or courts?
TRUMP: Well, that goes without saying
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Anti-constitutional president.
Nope, not doing this shit again.
I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ — Guardian US
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
apple.news
January 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Nope, not doing this shit again.
This is how you get vigilante parents.
If this shit does not get shut down now, things are going to spiral out of control.
If this shit does not get shut down now, things are going to spiral out of control.
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 11:22 PM
This is how you get vigilante parents.
If this shit does not get shut down now, things are going to spiral out of control.
If this shit does not get shut down now, things are going to spiral out of control.
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Ladies, if this is your man I'm afraid that's not your man, that's a Class G series star.
January 13, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Ladies, if this is your man I'm afraid that's not your man, that's a Class G series star.
ICE-CBP agents are beating up kids & stealing their stuff.
This is not about immigration, it is about skin color.
This is not about immigration, it is about skin color.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 PM
ICE-CBP agents are beating up kids & stealing their stuff.
This is not about immigration, it is about skin color.
This is not about immigration, it is about skin color.
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even though the news has been incredibly shitty lately, we still have beautiful new hubble images like this one to look forward to.
the beauty of the universe will always be there 🌌
the beauty of the universe will always be there 🌌
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
even though the news has been incredibly shitty lately, we still have beautiful new hubble images like this one to look forward to.
the beauty of the universe will always be there 🌌
the beauty of the universe will always be there 🌌
The end of NATO now has a schedule -
U.S. action on Greenland could take place within "weeks or months", senior administration official says. - USA Today
January 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The end of NATO now has a schedule -
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Stargazer, the world’s only flying Lockheed L-1011, is airborne out of Mojave this morning. Follow the rare flight at www.flightradar24.com/N140SC/3de3f...
January 13, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Stargazer, the world’s only flying Lockheed L-1011, is airborne out of Mojave this morning. Follow the rare flight at www.flightradar24.com/N140SC/3de3f...