Arthur Barrett

And don’t even get me started on the folk whose $100k+ incomes are dependent on internet and phone who don’t invest in an alternative like Starlink, NBN or even just a competitors SIM. abc.net.au/news/2026-07-0…

Here in Australia we’ve got the semi-annual hand wringing over cellular carriers and emergency calls - is it time to ditch SS7 for VoIP/SIP and switch from single operator SIM from Telstra/Optus to multi-operator SIM like SimBase or ThingsMobile?

@DJSnM How fantastic, and what a gift! I find it much more fun launching with a club. Hope your friend finds a way to continue the hobby. 🚀

Introduced my friend, and organizer of our pub quiz team “It’s not rocket science”, to model rockets today. I send her home with a kit to build a cooler one.

@AnDuong_91 @Morethan3D_Ltd Yes, this makes sense, but I guess I assumed that at 1:200 scale that the ‘standard’ v3’s will all look extremely similar. HLS and tankers are another matter.

Hi Arthur, I would definitely make a 1:200 V3 Ship & Booster, but not sure if it would be based on the S39/B19. Because there will be only one 1:200 V3 Ship & Booster (since these small models won't get updated as regularly as the 1:96), I kinda want to see which V3 Ship/Booster will have the most successful flight and design the 1:200 models based on those

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@Erdayastronaut @NominalJoe @thejackbeyer Macellaio means "butcher" in Italian, and the t-bone on the menu is Marango Beef from Italy: “a refined crossbreed of Black Angus and Maremmana cattle. Marango beef is distinguished by its darker colour, rich fat content, and a complex, savoury flavour profile w subtle sweetness”

@NominalJoe @thejackbeyer It was called Macellaio RC Clerkenwell. We had the T-Bone 👨‍🍳

Found a random @thejackbeyer in London! Shared the best steak of our lives!

@CSI_Starbase I had assumed they needed more data, or were tuning something (which requires more data). Do u think this will affect the current launch date?

The fact that SpaceX is testing their new deluge system twice a day, everyday for the past 4 days is a very odd sign to me. I get the feeling they are still trying to verify a specific issue has been resolved and are not yet happy with what they are seeing.

@WilmsRolf @spdbt Good choice 😁 - yes, meaningful interaction is better. In English we say “two wrongs don’t make a right”. I hope that ‘real people’ stay, because they see that whilst we may disagree, we don’t even like their arguments, but we value hearing their voice.

In principle I agree with you, and I deleted my grumpy post. However, check how one of the larger accounts, @spdbt, is justifying their exit and compare it to what they have been doing with the reply function of almost any of their posts. The MSM, many of which are owned by the SPD, will ensure their viewpoints remain omnipresent.

@WilmsRolf Ok, wow, interesting. Thanks. I disagree with you though that the platform is better off without them. I don’t care if it’s Facebook, X or bluesky, I believe that people are better off encountering people who have dissimilar viewpoints. Being isolated from each other is bad.

@Ayyyyybeeeee Many posts, both exit announcements and comments, are tagged with #WirVerlassenX. tagesschau.de/inland/spd-gru…

@CSI_Starbase 1. There are some “proposed” community notes, as yet none are shown. 2. I think the right thing to do is simply edit the original post for clarity - but maybe you don’t have the “edit” feature enabled/available 3) replies vs. community notes has been a thing forever.

As much as I hate to stir this up again... this is my first time ever being community noted so I feel obligated to acknowledge it. To be clear, I think community notes are a super helpful feature and in this case seems to have been necessary for a good number of people. No arguments there. What I find extremely disingenuous about this note is that it portrays the post as intentional miss information, instead of clarifying the intended meaning behind it. This would make sense had I simply posted it and walked away, but instead I spent half of my Sunday responding to nearly everyone who replied for the explicit purpose of eliminating confusion. A proper community note would have mentioned the facts about F9, and followed that up with a clarification about what I was actually trying to say...but instead purposefully phrased it in a manner that is an attack on my character and credibility. The idea that a SpaceX/Starship content creator would be stupid enough to intentionally ignore the existence of F9 is absolutely ridiculous. In some ways, you could consider this to be countering perceived misinformation with willful misinterpretation. I think many would argue this community note is a form of disinformation in itself. So to those of you who have submitted ratings or suggestions to improve the note, I appreciate you for being a real one. BUT, As someone who has NEVER posted for the purpose of engagement farming (which is why you will rarely, if ever see me tag certain high profile accounts in hopes of receiving a boost), what ever effect this has on monetization does not bother me in the slightest. I'm simply not here for those reasons as many have suggested. A majority of my posts can be grouped into four categories 1. Informing my followers of Starbase related events that I find interesting, with occasional mentions of other space related content 2. Providing updates on investigations we are working on, and directly interacting with MY audience outside of YT 3. Posting episode announcements for the purpose of driving traffic to those videos. 4. Occasional venting about world events that I feel should not be ignored. With that said, going forward I will take more care to make sure I phrase things in a way that leaves no room for ambiguous interpretation. ✌🏾

@skdh 👍

i am become that person who replies to everything with 👍

@CSI_Starbase The quakers are the only people I’ve heard provide a reasonably complete alternative. quaker.org/legacy/sttp.ht…

Here’s some important food for thought for every human being on this planet. Is it moral to collectively punish an entire civilian population for decisions made by a ruling class that represents less than 0.5 % of their country? The answer matters. Because the precedent we set today becomes the rules of engagement tomorrow. We are actively rewriting the script that could one day be used against our own families, our own cities, our own children. In other words: would dropping 2,000 lb bombs in the middle of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus, Cairo, or any other city on Earth be an acceptable way to force a government to capitulate? The question isn’t about any one conflict. It’s about the standard we are willing to live and die by when the tables inevitably turn.

@CSI_Starbase No, but they’re developing a protocol to let the astronauts know if the plants are walking around or if there has indeed been a zombie apocalypse.

Been a bit out of the loop…has NASA commented on whether the incoming geomagnetic solar storm (X-class flare/CME) is factoring into the Artemis II launch decision for tomorrow?

@WilmsRolf And Linus is a very very rare example, whereas on the commercial side, like guys in Atlassian, just employees…

@Ayyyyybeeeee Definitely. I heard Linus is making only one million a year. Compare that to those who made closed-source GitHub on top. Let alone Linux.

If agentic coding stands on the shoulders of open-source code, wiping out the day jobs of the people who wrote it is a strange way of saying “thanks.”

@WilmsRolf Good example. Thanks!

Only anecdotal, but an important prompt I optimized 2.5 years ago giving barely usable results is now being used unmodified with almost perfect results. Generally, I think we need to distinguish prompts providing requirements or specifications and prompts providing feedback. Those providing requirements are keepers, the feedback prompts may be of little value in 5 years or earlier.

Agentic coding compiles English into programs. Treating prompts as disposable is like shipping binaries while throwing away the source.

@jimmy_wales The cost of IT illiteracy is skyrocketing. As IT professionals I think we need to accept much of the blame here. IT as a mechanism to support freedom and access to education is at risk of becoming a failed ideology. AI companies beware they face the same future.

I asked this week on a parent's Whatsapp group here in London: how many of you have your chidren's phones set up as "child phones"? The first answer I got was "I didn't know that was possible." If you care about child safety, this is what you should be doing in government: promoting the use of sensible and easy to use tools for parents, as opposed to crazy nonsense about wrongly teaching kids that VPNs are bad and asking children to upload face scans to Roblox.

Are you a UK Member of Parliament who follows me? Are you a UK journalist covering Internet child safety issues? Please read this carefully and do get in touch with me. There's a better way and you are sleep walking into a disaster.

@DeffGeff I’m guessing it was a lot less expensive than credit card debt though? It’s all relative. If you can wait until you have the positive bank balance to buy things, great - but sometimes the interest costs are significantly less than the opportunity cost.

I started this loan in 1997, it was for £500 which I then kept extending. So I've had a loan repayment every month for 29 years . DON'T DO IT!!!!!