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F&M 2021 | Astrophysics + Spaceflight + Tech + Gaming

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship soared on the second flight of the next generation, deploying advanced Starlink satellites for the first time and providing priceless data as it travelled through air, space, and sea → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

57 years ago today, the Saturn V lifted off for Apollo 11 bringing the first humans to land the Moon

Now in just a few hours, the next generation moon rocket, Starship will launch its last suborbital flight ahead of many orbital launches this year!

[Astronauts For America @Astros4America]

Two fatal ICE shootings in less than a week demand accountability. The 14th Amendment protects due process and Congress has a constitutional duty to ensure it.

We need action from our representatives for independent investigations, transparency, and a safety-first culture, now.

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Valve - “starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want.” https://t.co/haHYh8QT9C

[DXT7 @DXT47]

"And you will be their inspiration, your composing will be their shield and your will... their sword. You remain... unbroken... for your music.. is.. eternal."

[Astronauts For America @Astros4America]

If you support the message of Astronauts For America and what we stand for—join the Astronauts For America crew!

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

The only data centers that communities actually need are PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

[Daft Club @DaftClubHQ]

Daft Punk concluded RAM the voice of Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan, “the last captain of the last mission.”

Now, half a century since Gene’s voice log, we’ve returned to our celestial neighbor. Artemis II’s Christina Koch had this to say after emerging from LoS behind the moon. 🌕💫

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

Sorry but directing your energy towards Hasan Piker while America and Israel drag the world into hell is such outrageous behavior. We bombed a school and Israel is hunting Muslims in Lebanon.

“Anti-Israel rhetoric will be destroyed” is a death sentence for the Democratic Party.

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

TLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — Rep. Lieu said Full Epstein Files Show Trump Raping Children.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

ice uses israeli spyware and is actively trying to deport green card holders and students for speaking out against israel but ofc this fucking shill is running cover for the ultra zionist pedophile admin once more because he hopes that they’ll make him the next mark levin.

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

ANDOR writer Dan Gilroy has released a statement critiquing the Trump administration and commenting on the parallels between the show and Disney’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

“As one of the writers on the Disney+ drama Andor, we spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week.

Donald Trump’s tools of governance, coercion and intimidation, have found focus on Hollywood. Faced with a social media firestorm, fear, and an FCC head threatening “they can do this the easy way or hard way,” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel for speaking his mind. I deeply disagree but acknowledge it was a difficult decision. If you believe otherwise, wait until fate knocks on your door and demands you choose between conscience and hardship — because if you work in this industry that day is coming.

The suspension bought time, but not much. Disney now stands at a crossroads: terminate Kimmel’s contract and become pavement for the road to a brave new Trumpian world; or stand for the First Amendment and take the onslaught. There’s not much at stake, just free speech, the oxygen that sustains life in this town.

Trump’s aim is to control what we make and say. The concept seems far off and abstract. Neither is true. Is it hard to conjure a new oversight office or cabinet seat? Is it difficult to picture Trump toadies deplaning at LAX with binders of banned topics and mandated alternatives? You’ll meet them when you have to pitch for approval or get grilled about subversive co-workers.
Regardless of how the jack-booted attack on Jimmy Kimmel is resolved, this isn’t a skirmish. It’s a siege. The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him. Artists are censored first because they fear us most. The fact this isn’t new doesn’t diminish the shock of the last few days. The majority in Hollywood believed their job was entertainment — the bolder souls attempted to inject theme and commentary — but for everyone this has suddenly become Westworld real.

Whether you’re reading this on line at Blue Bottle or killing time before your 3 o’clock Zoom or staring at a glowing screen unable to sleep, we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence. Our industry faces the most sophisticated, venomous, creeping evil in America’s history. There’s no standing above this conflict. No impartial observers. If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it.

Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand.”

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship flip maneuver and landing burn on its fifth flight test. Vehicle improvements ensured flaps were protected from high heating, resulting in a controlled entry and high accuracy splashdown at the targeted area in the Indian Ocean

[Michael Baylor @MichaelBaylor_]

The era of rapid reusability is upon us!

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

Just announced in Hall H:

The Russo Brothers return to direct Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. Only in theaters May 2026. #SDCC

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico