Austin Keating

Editor @ACHRnews | Covering MEP | Formerly @Prairie_Farmer + @NCSAatIllinois | Alamo Steakhouse in Mattoon owner | Avid kayaker + pulp sci-fi reader

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

My flagship: Three frigates detach and re-attach to a ship with three spinning rings (for #gravity)

Built it with @Sketchfab, Fusion 360 and Blender. Inspired by #Babylon5 and #Andromeda

https://t.co/evP5MiRGdR

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Ulysses S. Grant may not be regarded as a strong president, but he is one of the best equestrians in American history

https://t.co/oRxvEixB2u

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Read the novella Stand By Me is based on, The Body by Stephen King
https://t.co/96xdrnI4Tw

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

A river that goes under a canal:

https://t.co/uxKZY4IXuf

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

The US Justice Department is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, ratcheting up efforts to identify social media critics of government deportation efforts. https://t.co/7KCnFss8WM

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Humans replaced giant sloths as the primary way for the paw paw tree to disperse across North America

https://t.co/TslQmYV6A5

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

The UK had a federation in the Caribbean, but it never took off, and eventually disbanded

Why?

https://t.co/P2CbN3JyAc

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

A river that goes under a canal:

https://t.co/uxKZY4IXuf

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

A very interesting and opinionated retrospective on the renewable fuel standard.

They don't really cover it here, but the RFS was supposed to transition the US from ethanol to cellulosic based biofuels..

Waivers won out in the end

https://t.co/z2rk588q2h

[BullsMuse @BullsMuse_]

There is currently a Bull on the loose on the University of Illinois campus.

(video via my friends)

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

The UK is allowing Russia to violate its territorial waters unimpeded because of "international law"

The term has been bandied about to justify every inaction by Starmer's Labor government on defense/immigration

https://t.co/8RIc0wjwAW

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

France pulls the last of its gold out of the USA. I'm getting some serious Charles de Gaulle vibes (i.e. not aligning with the U.S.)

https://t.co/utJIdWkSf9

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

This crosses a line from regulating professional conduct into compelled speech

[Ian Speir @IanSpeir]

Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.

Please understand:
- I do not practice immigration law.
- I do not practice criminal law.
- Nothing about my civil practice has anything to do with this.

And yet because I cannot log into the State's official e-filing system without saluting The Resistance, I now cannot represent my clients, file lawsuits, access cases, file documents in existing cases, etc.

If I click "Decline," it kicks me out of the system. I must click "Accept" to access the system and continue representing my civil clients -- again, in cases that have absolutely nothing to do with immigration law or policy.

I've read SB 25-276 (the law referred to below). It does not regulate me as a private attorney or any of the clients I represent in civil matters. This is outrageous draconian overreach.

I have ethical obligations to my clients to represent them competently. My existing cases have running deadlines that I must attend to. Judges issue orders in my cases that I must follow. If I don't click "Accept" in order to access the State's e-filing system, I will harm my clients, torpedo my practice, and probably commit malpractice. So, I have no choice.

I'm clicking "Accept" under protest.

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

After they voted alongside Iran, Russia and China in the U.N., French oil tankers are now moving freely through the strait of Hormuz

https://t.co/cyC1cMtQC6

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

One of my favorite episodes of TOS (the one about Medusans) popped up in my doom scrolling, so I had to share!

Is There in Truth No Beauty?

I also love the spaceship from this episode

https://t.co/o1jdzIm4l1

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Engineers thought a simple strip of rubber would keep the ocean out of undersea tunnels for a hundred years. They were wrong.

https://t.co/QSuVM3zkMB

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Leader of the opposition in Canada joins the Joe Rogan Podcast.

https://t.co/NfZN5ZOaBc

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Ion Hanford Perdicaris is a go-to example of someone who suffered Stockholm syndrome after his abduction in Morrocco

Despite having renounced his American citizenship, Teddy still dispatched a task force to recover the ex patriot

https://t.co/RbTJ08gyWt

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Abe Simpson is the main character. A verbally abusive vet, he stayed with Homer, contributing a myriad moments like this that make you forget how terse he is

Abe pays it forward for his lineage, imperfectly, but it's better than the abandonment of Mona

https://t.co/PW4DWtivAE

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

The #HooverDam would have taken 125 years to cool down after pouring the concrete per the 2nd Law of #Thermodynamics, so they used #Refrigerated tubes to cool sections at a time

https://t.co/0iCAjFyAzH

[Austin Keating @TriNebula]

Underground tunnel in NY would require hurricane speed #ventilation to prevent car exhaust from poisoning passengers, but three towers placed strategically along the corridor make much lower volumes of air work with *pressurization*

https://t.co/LmLhNworRc via @YouTube