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Skean Harshly

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Husband, father, tar tester, motorcyclist, true crime nerd, tech geek and craft beer enthusiast.

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Skean Harshly

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Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon - Firefly Aerospace

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments Cedar Park, Texas, March 2, 2025 – Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space servi...

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March 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Skean Harshly

@dandrumheller.bsky.social

While I do occasionally browse my feed here, most of my activity is on #Mastodon.

If you'd like to see that activity here, you can follow me at @dandrumheller.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

Or you could come to the #Fediverse and follow at @[email protected].

January 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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Caræsten 🇵🇸

@cara.city

the fact that Oklahoma won't let me change my birth certificate is now an actual liability, this sucks!

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Passport Adjudicator here. The gender changes have thrown our offices in chaos.

I work in a passport office and the gender changes stemming from Trump's executive orders have been chaos. The State Department is struggling to put together a coherent policy and things are changing literally by the hour in some cases.

Basically the situation right now is this:

Renewals asking for a gender change are now suspended. We're forced into just letting the applications pile up because we're not sure whether to deny them outright or approve the applications but issue the passports without the requested gender change

Applications with an "X" gender marker are no longer accepted

If you are a trans first time applicant and have been able to get an amended birth certificate in your state, we'll have no way of knowing the amended BC doesn't match your assigned sex as birth. So if you have your documents in your current name and gender identity, I would apply ASAP

For those that previously requested a gender change and hold a valid book and are looking to renew.... it's unclear how that's going to work. The White House is saying we need to determine and verify which gender you were assigned at birth. In theory this is possible but it will slow down processing. We hope to get more clarification on this in the coming weeks.

There has been an *enormous* chilling effect and dip in morale this week. There are other contributing factors to that (telework is ending across the entire government, for example) but I can safely say the majority of us are upset with these changes.

I might be able to answer some questions if you have them....but be aware everything I tell you comes with a giant asterisk. We don't even know what things will look like next week.

January 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Dungeonbuster

@dungeonbuster.bsky.social

Mines of Titan (1989) by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom was the updated version of their Mars Saga for the C64 published by EA in 1988. A missing city on Saturn's moon sets the stage for your quest to find the truth, and a nice reward, behind its disappearance! (a colony thread)