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Andromeda Yelton
@thatandromeda.bsky.social
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Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋

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thatandromeda.bsky.social
The irreplaceable vasaviation has a compilation of El Paso ATC chatter from shortly before the TFR and the tones of people's voices are just incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-k...
El Paso Airport CLOSED FOR 10 DAYS Due to Security Reasons!
YouTube video by VASAviation -
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.

Sounds like Hegseth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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amybrown.xyz
been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
doubles luge. one guy lays on his back on the luge sled and the second guy lays on his back on top of the first guy
February 11, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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zaratustra.bsky.social
finally found this tumblr post expounding on how stupid owls are piraticoctopus.tumblr.com/post/6741867...
elodieunderglass I can confirm that most birds have a detectable amount of wiring behind the eyes - blinking lights and buttons and sliders and frizzy things that spark and chirp and beep. They also have a lot of soul that can communicate with ours because the programming is fairly compatible. Vultures are clever and curious, swans are clear and lawful, chickens have a lot of personality, caged parrots are dissociated and disinherited and frankly worrying, falconry-trained birds of prey are tremendously businesslike. And owls are absolutely lovely beasts with their own irreplaceable validity. but they are basically stuffed with polyester fiberfill. They have one button, like a child’s toy dinosaur that opens and closes its mouth when you press the back of its head. And it isn’t even a sophisticated electronic button it’s just a lever that rocks back and forth to make the claws open and close. I think they may have actually evolved independently from sponges. Their skulls simply exist to create holes that funnel sound and light, and as a place to hang a giant hinged beak. An owl is just an empty tube like a windchime that the wind whistles through, and you can drop meat down it. They use the meat to generate feathers, and then emit the bones in pressed little packages like those machines that flatten a penny and stamp it with the logo of a theme park. I think that’s the gist of it - most birds are electronics of varying levels of sophistication, but owls are just a system of levers and pulleys. No elevator music in those skulls, just the wind echoing through empty caverns of slightly irritating design. Absolutely fantastic.
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
thatandromeda.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Since a couple people have asked, I have no idea why El Paso airspace was closed. Working my contacts, a couple theories but nothing to say out loud yet.

If you have insight please contact me on signal at gbrockell.44.

apnews.com/article/faa-...
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The agency says it will ground all flights to and from the airport for "special security reasons."
apnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
If you have any information about this whatsoever, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h
The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."

The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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markey.senate.gov
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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chasingray.bsky.social
What the heck? This is a big airspace closure in New Mexico for no known reason.

It doesn’t help that the guy answering the provided FAA phone number for questions is telling the press (from the article) that he has no idea what’s going on.

elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites natio...
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a national defense designation, offering no explanation for the rare move.An une...
elpasomatters.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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skamille.themanagerswrath.com
The part of "everyone becomes a manager" in AI that I didn't really think about until now was the mental fatigue of context switching and keeping many tasks going at once, which of course is one of the hardest parts of being a manager and now you all get to enjoy it too
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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athul.acharya.cc
Hey Google where is El Paso on the map

Hey Google what are some typical reasons countries close their airspace
February 11, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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weratedogs.com
This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
four panel comic, a primitive deer looking animal says indohyus my brother, I've decided to search for more food in the waters. a yellow version of a similar small primitive deer type animal says you will regret this pakicetus the environment will force you to adapt the original animal replies in frame two. I just need some shrimps lol I will be perfectly fine. panel 3 says 35 million years later. hear a modern enormous whale is right next to a modern deer making really big long drawn out whale moaning noises in panel 4. the deers ears are perked up and the camera is closer with a text above the deer's head wtf.
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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angus.bsky.social
When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
wentrogue.bsky.social Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
thatandromeda.bsky.social
Getting Mx19 a fetal pig dissection kit was an awesome plan!

...I didn't think through the part where I now need to dispose of a biohazard

I have a dr appointment tomorrow and I bet they have a biohazard bin!

...if I show up with a dismembered pig I don't get to be a patient there any more, do I
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Highlights from judging the elementary school science fair.

An investigation of which household objects conduct electricity.

Can cheese conduct electricity? Apparently so.

Me: You and cheese both conduct electricity. What do you two have in common?
Student: We are both thick
Me: Ah yes of course
a erratic looking poster board with squiggles and a circuit board glued to it that says "What conducts electricity" with random shit glued on the side like construction paper that says cheese and metal
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
"[I]mmediate release is appropriate for two reasons. First, this Court has no faith that the Government would comply with an order to hold a bond hearing. ... Second, a bond hearing would be futile."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A hypothetical posed at the Show Cause Hearing demonstrates the dystopian absurdity that could stem from the Government’s incorrect, unfounded interpretation of the law. By the Government’s own admission, its position is that if an ICE officer made a mistake and, pursuant to § 1225, detained somebody who was legally in the United States, that detainee would not be entitled to a bond hearing. Instead, that detainee—who is confined to a jail cell and may not have a mastery of the English language—could only have their case heard by a neutral judicial officer if they were somehow able to file a habeas petition with a Court of Appeals or the District Court of D.C. This concession should concern everyone. A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
thatandromeda.bsky.social
new Braveheart just dropped
lataco.bsky.social L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM
thatandromeda.bsky.social
if only we lived in a world where all our news stories could be this weird, instead of the world we actually live in
someone holds a giant freaky trilobite-looking crab thing, underside to the camera. Underneath the image, a newspaper headline: "Massachusetts wants to bleed more horseshoe crabs. What if there was a better way?" Picture me also struggling to forgive them for not having used the subjunctive
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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angelayang.bsky.social
so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance
The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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amybrown.xyz
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM