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Amy Imhoff

@amyimhoff1701.bsky.social

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Digital Comms & Media Writing, Event Management, & Partnerships for Aerospace & STEAM Missions 🚀 Feminist Troublemaker 🚺 Creating Our Roddenberry Future🖖🏻 Panel Host 🎙️ Swiftie 🫶🏻 Intersectional. She/her. Women's rights are human rights. 💪🏻

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 15d

The first time I visited Kennedy Space Center, my brother & I drove across FL during his spring break specifically so I could frolic in the rocket garden & geek out over every exhibit and piece of space memoribilia. I never dreamed I'd be here almost 20 years later, working a mission launch. 🥹🚀☀️

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 1m

Huntrix performed "Golden" live last night on The Tonight Show and it was EPIC! Just watched the video.

🔥🔥🔥

Please protect us from the demons! We need these ladies and their magic voices. 💛

www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Trio Go “Golden” on ‘The Tonight Show’

EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami — the singers behind Huntrix — performed their first full-length performance of their hit song live on Jimmy Fallon's late night show.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone wasting their time posting TS hate is a perfect distillation of the misogyny-fueled, exhausting time in pop culture that we are living through.

I hate it with a fiery passion.

But I won't let it rob me of my joy in celebrating every facet of girlhood - including my inner showgirl.

❤️‍🔥

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

The New York Times issued a retraction and apology decades later, after Apollo 11 launched, and men walked on the Moon. He wasn't alive to see it.

The point is, haters have always existed. The comments section of Goddard's blog would have been merciless. Cancelled for outlandish ideas!

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

All of modern rocketry is based on his work. NASA named its Maryland outpost after him. His name is in Star Trek & other scifi based on Earth history.

His wife Esther was a massive champion & record-keeper of his work, and fiercely guarded his legacy. She saved & transcribed it all.

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

I said to my therapist today that Robert Goddard, who launched the first liquid-propelled rocket, was publicly shamed & ridiculed by the New York Times for his experiments. They said you could never have thrust in a vacuum. He went into a deep depression that lasted a long time. Almost gave up.

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

When someone hates something you love and feels the need to essentially have a temper tantrum in public about it, on your feed? That is SO sad + pathetic.

I have never once in my LIFE done that about someone's fandom. The idea is foreign to me. But it is a daily thing online & increasingly, IRL.

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

People are whining like, oh you're defending a billionaire, she's releasing too many things to buy, wah wah. When I tell you how much I do not care!

Its like people who constantly come up to me & say why they don't like Captain Janeway. Or tweet at Kate telling her she's their least fave captain.🙄

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

It feels like so many people are tearing her down and crapping on the new album because its different and you know what? I simply do not care. The hate is outsized beyond reason. No other artists gets dumped on like she does.

Shame on all those people for trying to take away the joy from her fans.

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 10h

I just watched Taylor on Jimmy Fallon & you know what the best part was? The audience. Mostly ladies, they knew all the words already, they were dancing, smiling, cheering. Wearing their sparkles, cardiagans, & friendship bracelets, making 🫶🏻 hands.

That is the feeling, that is joy and girlhood.

Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 5d

In our showgirl era, don't wait up!

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 21h

Welcome to #TransTuesday!

National Coming Out Day is Oct 11, so let’s get into what can be a difficult and complicated issue for so many of us: COMING OUT AS TRANS.

And for the first time since Trans Tuesdays started, I reprint my own coming out thread!

www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/10/07/c...

COMING OUT AS TRANS - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! National Coming Out Day is approaching, so let’s get into what can be a difficult and complicated issue for so many of us: COMING OUT AS TRANS. When people hear the words “co...

www.tillystranstuesdays.com

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 14h

The new ranking (I think), for me personally:

1989 (forever #1)
Lover
Reputation
Midnights
Red
Folklore
Fearless
The Tortured Poets Department
The Life of a Showgirl
Speak Now
Debut
Evermore

I find ranking them beyond top 3 very difficult!

Subject to change without notice. 🫶🏻

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 15h

Like show business, space isn't easy. But we do it because we love it and we wouldn't have it any other way! ✨🌟💫

Happy World Space Week!

Amy in front of the NASA globe at Kennedy Space Center throwing up the Vulcan salute with the words THE LIFE OF A SPACEGIRL on top of the photo in orange and green, mimicking the album art for The Life of a Showgirl

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 15h

I love this! And I love this for Priscilla, who I do not know but I salute her! The best reply ever? Might be.

🫡

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

guy got mad at me for sharing this comic on twitter back in 2017, but it's still one of my favorite exchanges. (he was not kidding, btw.)

my own tweet explaining "so in this Spanish horror comic, Frankenstein's monster knocks out a woman, and I was REALLY worried, but he just wanted to try on her clothes" with screenshot of a guy named Ziv quote-tweeting me to say "This is horrendously disturbing. I am disturbed. Honestly, Priscilla, you need to back up and look at your life and think to yourself, 'Self, is this really the person I want to be?' Posting frankensteinian erotica and shit?'" with my reply "this is exactly the person I want to be" and the followup "actually it's Frankenstein's MONSTER'S Erotica"

Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for proving my point. No one asked you!!

Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 17h

I am really over folks who are going out of their way to lecture women for enjoying what they love (in this case, Taylor Swift. But it can be anything). If I'm not performing wokeness loud enough for you, that's your problem.

I love how full of rage Taylor makes people, esp men. It is SO telling.

a woman is floating in a swimming pool in front of a trailer on fire

ALT: a woman is floating in a swimming pool in front of a trailer on fire

media.tenor.com

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 18h

Ok so did this happen or was it just noise? Because I didn't see it anywhere. Stop screwing around and out these assholes in public!

TizzyEnt @tizzyent.bsky.social · 8d

Uh-oh Mike.

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Donna Gutman @donnagutman.bsky.social · 18h

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 1d

AAS members are on the Hill today to #SaveNASAScience and advocate for sustained funding for NASA, NSF, and our nation's other science agencies! Help us amplify their voices by calling and writing to your Congressional offices today: aas.org/action-alert...

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 1d

It is World Space Week and we are standing up for NASA and space science!

Call your reps - House and Senate - and tell them not to defund our explorarion of the universe.

Thank you to Bob Picardo, Bill Nye, & everyone on the ground in DC today. You are doing great work. 🖖🏻

Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 2d

In DC for the Day of Action with @planetarysociety.bsky.social and over 200 advocates including @billnye and representatives from nearly 20 national organizations advocating to #SaveNASAScience

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 4d

I dunno the creepy eyeball is still there 😂

Like the Eye of Sauron, but make it android.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 4d

Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-fi fans can also look forward to fiction from astronaut Chris Hadfield and award-winning authors Ken Liu and Mary Robinette Kowal

The best new science fiction books of October 2025

www.newscientist.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 4d

Lol amazing

Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 4d

Lol see? We love when a douchbag tells on himself 😂

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