Kevin Baird

Kevin Baird

@kevlar.bsky.social

Fringineer™️ & photon herder • #photog • #SpaceIsAwesome • #NASASocial • #astro • #avgeek • #wx • #SanDiego

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iOS 27 touted a feature that lets you control alarm and alert and ring sound levels independently. Finally. But it doesn’t seem to work when Bluetooth connected to the car. Txt alert sounds still come blasting through

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Taken: 9 September 2026 (8:18pm – 10:13pm) "I estimate there are approximately 14,000 satellite trail appearances across the 578 photographs. These aren't necessarily 14,000 different satellites, as the same satellite can appear in multiple exposures." "This is NOT AI-generated." #Kikorangi #nzpol

blarsenphoto.com14,000 Satellite Trails over Mt Taranaki — BRENDAN LARSEN PHOTOGRAPHY14,000 satellite trails over Mt Taranaki, New Zealand. An extraordinary astrophotography composite created from 578 photos and 45 hours of editing. Fine art prints.
Ali@ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

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When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

Costco is trying to tell me that they don’t have any sunscreen because they think it’s a seasonal product. This is San Diego. There are no seasons anymore. Locals’ Summer just started and it’s 100° 

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Donald Trump: prescription drug addict. Kash Patel: alcoholic. Pete Hegseth: alcoholic. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: heroin addict. Trump's White House is the Betty Ford Clinic for dumb Nazis.

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NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

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How do you think potash is transported? The shipping route for Belarusian potash to the United States would have to rely on Russian railways and Russian Baltic ports because European Union transit bans still block direct access to Baltic ports in Lithuania and Poland.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

Just joining the Russian economic sphere I guess.

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This, my friends, is gaslighting. Congress is the top three or four of all time only on abdicating its responsibilities. 

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson claims that the current Congress is "probably in the top three or four of all time" and is "almost unmatched in history" 🙃

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Replying to @billmccarthy.bsky.social

"This is what I believe to be the first salvo in Russia's targeting" of the November US midterm elections, said Clemson University's Darren Linvill, an expert on Russian influence campaigns.

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“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."

Here’s to the crazy new Apple CEOs still not being able to Think Differrent

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...

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David Roberts@volts.wtf

I think what we're seeing around the internet right now, vis a vis AOC & her ex-boyfriend & her eggs, is just a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the absolute madness that will break out if she runs for president. No matter how f'ing weird you think people will be about it, they will be much, much weirder.

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It would be wild for him to pull this kind of shit during a shaky confirmation process if executing moves like this weren't the exact reason he was nominated in the first place.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

NEW: Todd Blanche blew the deadline to respond to my lawsuit. Now, he wants the court to forgive his "excusable neglect." Stay tuned for the latest episode on my YouTube channel breaking down the latest filings, including my own motion to compel Blanche to answer my complaint.

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If you gargled iodine, drank bleach, swallowed hydroxychloroquine, injected Formula 409, gobbled horse dewormer, or shined a flashlight up your own ass to prevent COVID-19, you don't get an opinion on Dr. Fauci.

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: In a stunning admission, the FBI just confirmed to me the existence of training videos instructing FBI analysts on what to redact in the Epstein Files. I’ll show you the letter and discuss the massive implications in one hour. Link below: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

muellershewrote.comBREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: FBI Admits it has Epstein Files Training VideosIn a letter sent to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act Request, the FBI admits to having training videos that it failed to release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act

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Mitch McConnell is/was a cheater and morally bankrupt. He would have wanted it this way, to go out as corrupt as when you were in office.

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We the people want to get money OUT of politics, but the oligarchs on the court say we need MORE. Well then I say we need MORE justices on the court. 13 at least.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

Supreme Court rules 6-3 to strike down limits on how much party committees can spend in coordination with candidates. The latest ruling over the last two decades to unravel campaign finance restrictions. On ideological lines, written by Kavanaugh. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.