Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach

Developer of things. Code weaver. Astronomer. Enthusiast. He/him.

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[Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach @shekibobo]

The Guardians of Navi (IC 63, IC 59)

I was not expecting the colors I would get from this target.

Total integration time is 18h 10min over the course of 4 nights in late October to early November 2022.

https://t.co/pKOyXnRImT

#Astrodon #Astrophotography

[Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su]

Heads up, this is the guy who convinced Kamala to stop running on "Republicans are weird" and "We're not going back" and instead to lean into the whole "Republicans in the Cabinet" bullshit.

This man is more at fault for what just happened than most people in America.

[Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter]

🚨 ATTN: Cobb County, Georgia, voters:

The Georgia Supreme Court has denied relief for Cobb County voters who requested absentee ballots on time but did not receive them on time because the county failed to mail them promptly.

Cobb County voters affected by the County’s late mailing of absentee ballots must now vote in person or get their ballots to the Cobb County Elections office by 7 p.m. on Nov. 5. The office is at 995 Roswell St. NE, Marietta, GA 30060.
https://t.co/PcjhQmFD1c

[Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach @shekibobo]

@atrupar I get the impression that sound engineers have all dipped out of these rallies lately, with such awful audio quality.

[Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach @shekibobo]

@atrupar Love the guy waking up to hole the "T will fix it" sign after he rambled about not even bothering to fix his stage presentation.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump is mumbling while the people behind him look bored beyond belief. He's been speaking for more than an hour and a half and still has another rally to go in a different state tonight.

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

i fear that when we stop hearing news of these atrocities, it will not be because they have stopped, but because all the journalists have been murdered

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

My posts are being. throttled. Followers ground to a halt. Unable to tweet links to 280+ characters. Patreon account suspended without warning. All within 10 days of the election. They didn’t stop us in 2020 and they’re not stopping us now. Let’s win this thing. #HarrisWalz2024

[Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach @shekibobo]

@Angry_Staffer I mean, we let the confederates get away with shit and get back into government, and that didn't exactly work out well.

[Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach @shekibobo]

@Angry_Staffer The Nazis actually *do* have to stop being Nazis, though, right?

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

last week, all charges were dropped - RIGHT before trial was set to start - against 8 people who protested against Cop City at a construction site 2 years ago. they were jailed for nearly a week after arrest, and have obviously been impacted by the charges over the last 2 years.

[Joshua (@[email protected]) Kovach @shekibobo]

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[Hillary Scholten @HillaryScholten]

🚨‼️UPDATE‼️🚨 @JocelynBenson announced the final count for opening day in person voter turnout was over 145K Michiganders!

We’re making history, folks. Let’s keep the momentum going! You can vote early and in person through Nov. 3.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Corrupt candidate promises Saturday night massacre on first day of Presidency if elected.

Seriously, he’s telling you exactly what he’ll do. Don’t vote for this.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

It’s one thing for some leftist group to call you a fascist. Quite another when it’s a fellow Republican. And absolutely astonishing when it’s your own chief of staff.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Let’s talk about why having adults in the room matters, shall we?

In the fall of 2022, you might remember Russia accusing Ukraine of preparing to use a dirty bomb against Russian troops.

This was designed as a false flag pretext to Russia using tactical nuclear weapons.

Intelligence estimates had odds at a coin flip - 50/50 - that Russia would use low-yield nuclear weapons to keep Ukraine from retaking Kherson or threatening Crimea.

So, what did the Biden administration do?

They prevented World War 3.

SecDef Austin told Russian Defense Minister Shoigu that we knew exactly what Russia was planning, and that the consequences to crossing THAT Rubicon would be unlike anything Russia had seen.

Jake Sullivan convinced Ukraine to call the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in to inspect Ukraine nuclear facilities and publicly shoot down rumors that they were building a dirty bomb.

Then, members of the administration reached out to literally everyone: China, Israel, Turkey, India, etc. and urged them to reach out to their Russian counterparts to reiterate the point: Russia would be a complete pariah on the world stage if they followed through with this plan.

Biden got President Xi of China on the phone personally, convincing Xi to publicly address the nuclear issue and to tell Putin not to go there.

Was Putin actually going to nuke Ukraine? Obviously, it didn’t happen—and it’s hard to prove a negative—but Western intelligence agencies certainly thought it was possible.

I say all of this to remind you that experience matters. Competence matters.

Trump wants to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists if he wins. This kind of whole of government approach to any crisis would be impossible to execute in that situation.

Vote accordingly.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find.

It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

“One small catch for humanity”

Here’s my composite image from IFT5, the moment rapidly reusable rocket booster technology was successfully tested for the first time.

In future classrooms on Mars, this will be in their history books.

Available in print for a short time.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I agreed to a second debate. Trump refused.
I released my medical records. Trump has not.
I sat for a 60 Minutes interview. Trump backed out.

One has to ask: What is Donald Trump trying to hide?

[Jim Adler @jimadler]

The further down you a roll the weirder this shit gets. How can this man be a serious contender??