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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 4h

So close to oblivion!

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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 5h

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

via @npr.org

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 4d

I have restarted work on the GE NEP crewed Mars mission post. After all the turmoil this past month, it's like meeting with an old friend.

My goal is to finish the post by Halloween.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h

I don't like marshmallow flavor but I would deep-fry that and eat it out of feelings I have for myself I should probably get professionally addressed.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h

Given how up in my shit some old lady was over my just HOLDING a copy of a D&D rulebook back in the day I thought if we ever got to a situation like this there'd be a fuckton more fires set.

Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h

I can't even do something like share a picture of my nephews in the little lab coats & safety goggles I brought for us to do science out of respect for my sister's wishes they never get posted publicly where the infinite art theft machine could scoop up their likenesses for child abuse material.

Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 5h

I can't even do something like share a picture of my nephews in the little lab coats & safety goggles I brought for us to do science out of respect for my sister's wishes they never get posted publicly where the infinite art theft machine could scoop up their likenesses for child abuse material.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 6h

They (the entire capital-serving bootlicker enforcement technocracy) care not a whit about pointing out their hypocrisy.

What DOES grab their attention ain't no way I'm writing out on a public forum.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 11h

Hell even as an adult I'm infuriated I can't just pay a reasonable sum & get a well-designed & made game to run on my pocket computer. I'm not picky, just none of this crap! I've probably got dozens of hours in "Drug Wars" on the TI-82 & that was free from the kid really in to weed!

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 13h

50 hrs into Titan Quest where the other, non-HP resource is called "Energy" and I keep singing this damned
meme song *every*time* I pick up an Energy pot or go OOM.

- "More passion!"
- "More energy!"

More passion, more energy, more footwork #cute #dog #funny #dogs #doglover #dogshorts #funnyvideo

YouTube video by Infodoggy

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 15h

This is definitely the low point friend but just think how significant every hour you make it through is! Your little stem cells are busting their asses, and working incredibly fast on a universal scale.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

Hellas Planitia
Jezero crater
Agassiz crater
Cydonia Colles

It's a good thing we don't get many tourists because you out-of-towners were "70s Bowie" high naming things out here.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

C'moooon. Post through it. It'll be fun! (for us)

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

Me when I accidentally charge into a pack of O'Driscoll's: "Oh shit better run!"

When I stumble across a klan meeting:

three men are standing in front of a wooden fence and one of them is wearing a black jacket

ALT: three men are standing in front of a wooden fence and one of them is wearing a black jacket

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

As a Southerner, when a lady who talks like this says it's "nothing major, nothin to worry bout," she is at Stage 17 terminal being called home to the lord.

It's when they don't stop complaining about every little thing that they're perfectly fine.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

"Don't judge unless you've been in his shoes" Bunny.

"Times were different then" Bunny.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to MTG.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

I think the last new song I listened to was that Gotye banger and even I know Bad Bunny is 1989 Madonna fucking big.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

And I'm saying this as someone who wouldn't stfu about it. The confused betrayal was real. No more skills, no new upgrades, in virtually all of act 3? Oh so I just clear one similar checkpoint after another now because, help de widdle NPCs? Gtfo here.

Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

I loved the first two acts of Ghost of Tsushima and was astonished at how pointless act 3 was. As a compulsive explorer & upgrader there was nothing left for me to earn, & nothing to earn laid bare the repetitiveness of the encounters, & it quickly fell apart. Hope Yotei has 3 acts of "stuff".

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

phys.org/news/2025-10...

The star, referred to as SDSS J0715-7334, is a red giant purported to have the lowest metallicity—or heavy element content—ever found. The team's detailed spectral and chemical analysis shows that SDSS J0715-7334 has a total metallicity "Z" of less than 7.8 x 10-7. This is compared to the next lowest metallicity star currently known, a star located in the Milky Way with a total metallicity of around 1.4 × 10-6

Unicorn from YouTube saying perfectly pure.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

The other guy was probably also some rando farm/factory boy is the point in the midst of our current neo-feudal elite warrior operator culture. And there's no mention of the other guy leaving his position multiple times either, not that his contribution wasn't brave.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

Lesson for the guys who think the only good soldier is a super-ripped clone of Chris Hemsworth with 100 black ops kills to his name: This was one of the most "become legend" MFers of when America was "great". A skinny 19-y.o. orphan private named Francis.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 1d

"Give us $10B to 'create $5M in JOOOOOBS' or we shoot this puppy in the face."