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Before and after pictures of the rocket test 100 years ago today, from the fantastic #Goddard collection at https://commons.clarku.edu/goddardlaunch/ - articles about the historical event and its context also at https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031626a-robert-goddard-liquid-fuel-rocket-centennial-where-nell.html (small parts of the hardware may have survived after all), https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-origins/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-space-craze/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-legacy/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/2-seconds-that-changed-the-world-the-1st-liquid-fueled-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-today

Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.

Over the holidays last last year I was building an Airfix model (good way to ignore the outside world) and discovered two pieces had fallen off the sprues and were not in the box. I considered constructing them myself but I didn't have a good reference image to go by. 99% certain it wasn't my fault, I looked up how to contact Airfix, followed the instructions, and never heard back.
Until Friday, when two tiny pieces of plastic arrived in an adorable little pouch and the modelmaking can continue.
I love good customer service. I just love it.

URBAN-SPIN: A street-level bikeability index to inform design implementations in historical city centres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10124

URBAN-SPIN: A street-level bikeability index to inform design implementations in historical city centres
Cycling is reported by an average of 35\% of adults at least once per week across 28 countries, and as vulnerable road users directly exposed to their surroundings, cyclists experience the street at an intensity unmatched by other modes. Yet the street-level features that shape this experience remain under-analysed, particularly in historical urban contexts where spatial constraints rule out large-scale infrastructural change and where typological context is often overlooked. This study develop…

@… I just installed Tapestry last night and I’m fascinated by the idea.
If this is not the right place to ask please direct me to the best way to contact.
Does it require subscription for handling Mastodon operations like reply/bookmark/etc? (I get an error for each of these)
Does it refresh RSS feeds normally like any other readers?
Does accessing Bluesky require any special setup or sub to work? (Getting an authentication error related to a token)
🙏

Looked into VCFEast.
I cannot find any sort of policies on code of conduct, COVID, etc. Like none at all, not even "we don't have that". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What’s a good name for the UX pattern where a search field in a header shows results inline, but the search itself does not occupy its own page or independent history entries?
Practically, it means you can’t go back to it. You can to navigate to ONE SEARCH RESULT and only one (especially if you open in a new tab, though support for that is pretty iffy in this pattern!). All context about the search is lost when you select something.

As Bitcoin prices continue to plummet and electricity costs climb,
it’s become tough out there for a crypto miner.
The hash price index, which is used to determine how much revenue miners can make by mining crypto,
reached its lowest point on record this week, according to mining services company Luxor Technology.
According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000
— far higher than its current going rate,
making it an e…

Miners are being squeezed as bitcoin’s $70,000 price fails to cover $87,000 production costs
Bitcoin is now approximately 20% below its estimated average production cost, historically a feature of a bear market.

Rancho Cañada Larga, a ±6,500-acre historic ranch in Ventura County, California, has been sold in a landmark $27.65 million land conservation transaction.
The property was acquired by the Trust for Public Land.
The acquisition ensures the permanent preservation of Rancho Cañada Larga as a public park,
protecting one of the last major undeveloped land parcels in California from future development in perpetuity.
Rancho Cañada Larga spans approximately 6,500 contiguous…