Emma needs ☕ @emma@magicalgirl.party

#introduction

Did I mention I build and fly rockets? This is Super Bonbon, my L1 high power rocketry cert flight, launching in the Mojave Desert in the summer of 2021.

#introductions, you say?

Hi. I'm Emma, a nonbinary trans woman who builds rockets, cooks, looks after cats, and builds developer tools and infrastructure.

I have a blog at https://emmas.site/.

I live in Oakland and pay Shuumi to the Ohlone people whose land this is -- https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/.

Gotta love a sparky.

More NEOWISE

Good advice. Do blog posts count?

> "To give you a hint as to how central this song is to The Runaways' legacy, the poster of the 2010 Runaways movie features a juicy dripping cherry whose stem is lit and sparking like a bomb. Bevis and Butthead took one look at it and spontaneously combusted."

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-runaways/cherry-bomb

New LCD Soundsystem singled dropped this week.

https://youtu.be/4pWaLlrhdgM

#SongOfTheDay

The one where "AI" breaks out into its "Brett Farve texting dick pics" era.

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-age-of-synthetic-media-has-begun

#tw

Republicans love any white dude whose finding out to fucking around ratio is astronomical.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/brett-favre-was-always-pretty-awful.html

#tw

There's a fix for this: round up the fascists.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vyvb/libraries-across-the-us-are-receiving-violent-threats

Yes, jesus-loving gun bro, it's cool your electric murdertruck and solar panels can keep the lights on for you and the tradwife and the kids can keep up with their fascist homeschool indoctrination when the grid goes down, but the neighborhood, not your ego, should be the unit of organization.

https://theconversation.com/hurricane-ian-when-the-power-grid-goes-out-could-solar-and-batteries-power-your-home-191157

#tw

The SOPIA airborne IR telescope's final flight is tonight, going out of Palmdale, in the Mojave.

If you're along the flight path, look up.

Here's the flight tracker for it.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA747

#tw #space #aviation

I want this image of the Pleiades, artifacts and all, as my next tattoo.

Credit: Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)

The Pleiades rising as seen from the yard.

#tw #photoblog #space

This article is a good place to go on the state of play as of Tuesday the 27th on observations of DART's intentional crash into an asteroid.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/photos-show-drama-of-dart-asteroid-impact/

#tw #space #dart

New post: Spooky Season https://emmas.site/blog/2022/09/26/spooky-season

Spooky Season!

I should say "looks like" I mean it could be a bunch of aliens camped there to watch the impact, but I'm leading with the most plausible explanation instead.

This image from DART, moments before it slammed into a space rock is wild.

That circled red area is some piece of the target asteroid that has a bit of it over-hanging into the sunlit portion.

#tw