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15 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Ready for today's game of #marygoround? I'm headed to Cape Canaveral to watch #LucyMission launch tomorrow morning.

To play:
1. When my travel goes well, you drink.
2. When it goes poorly, I drink.
(Sip, don't chug. Can play with water because hydration is important) Image
They are closing the boarding door for an on time departure. Have a drink!

#marygoround
Welcome to Chicago! I'm just passing through on my way to Cape Canaveral to watch a launch.

Have a drink!

#marygoround Chicago from the air at dawn
Aboard my flight to Orlando! They are closing the boarding doors for a flight only sightly delayed due to soup.

Not a typo.

Have a drink!

#marygoround
Safely arrived in Orlando. Have a drink!

#marygoround

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Mary Robinette Kowal@🏡 Profile picture
16 Oct
Who wants to watch a rocket launch this morning?

#LucyMission is launching. It's 12-year mission, to explore strange new asteroids, to--

Wait, actually these are really old asteroids and may give us new information about how the solar system formed.
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1 Oct
A recent conversation with Elsie using @FluentPet buttons.

Elsie: Open
Me: The door is open, Elsie.
Elsie: Open.
Me: The door is open.
Elsie: Open. Help.
Me: I don't understand.

As I walk to her, she walks past me to the bedroom door which IS closed.

1/
When I open it she goes straight to her water bowl & drinks. It's not normally in the bedroom, but we've had construction.

It's cool that she's generalized from one door to the other.

When she finishes drinking, she walks back to the button board.

Elsie: Open. Love You.
It's really hard to read that is anything except my cat thanking me.

Meanwhile, as I write this, she has told me "Want. Training. Help. Play."

Also, just walked in to look at me, then went back to the button board & pressed "all done" aka "get off the computer."
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26 Aug
Time for a new game of #marygoround with @cwvinewhisperer coming with me en route to @SiliConSJ

To play:
1. When my travel goes well, you drink.
2. When it goes poorly, I drink.

(Sip, don't chug. Can play with water, because hydration is important.) Image
Houston is at a ground stop due to thunderstorms. So, we will not have an on time departure...

We only had 55 minutes to change planes, so I'm going to hope that is also delayed.

#marygoround
An hour delayed, but Houston had lifted the ground stop. Have a drink!

Hopefully we'll depart soon.
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Who wants to watch Wally Funk go to space today with some other people?

A New Shepard engineer just used the phrase "professional astronauts" which is a fascinating new construction.

One of the things that bothers me is calling these passengers "astronauts." Spacefarers, yes. I've felt like astronaut ought to be an earned term.
To me, an astronaut is someone who is engaged in space exploration, and science, as part of public service. Are they paid? Yes. Do they have to be flown?

According to NASA, after completing three years of astronaut training, you're an astronaut.

But not a "flown astronaut."
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@robert_zubrin I'm going to attempt to answer you in good faith, instead of with the rage your line of questioning inspires. It is a line usually used in support of white supremacy. I hope that is not your intent.

Publishing, along with most of the US, has long been discriminatory and...

1/?
@robert_zubrin ...optimized for white writers. Black writers are disproportionately underrepresented in publishing and many have been driven out.

In addition, pretending that the evils of racism or the damage of colonialization are limited to slavery is disingenuous. 2/?
@robert_zubrin ... Jim Crow acts, gerrymandering, wage gaps, redlining, voting rights, and police brutality are all ways that modern America still enforces white supremacy.

This is race and privilege in modern America. 3/?
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5 Jan
My parents are eligible for the COVID vaccine in Chattanooga and have gone three times to try to get it. This morning, they set their alarm at 6am because the place opened at 9am.

They were sent home around 8am, because there were more people in line than there were doses.
Look... we have taxpayer info. If we lived in a world with unified healthcare, then you could give people appointments and they could go in.

Would things get off schedule? Sure.

But my 82-year-old parents wouldn't be talking about camping out to get a vaccine.
And now I've learned that they were turned away because a road sign was "inaccurate" and they could have gotten the vaccine this morning.

More vaccines are available tomorrow, for the 2nd half of the alphabet. They did the 1st half of the alphabet today.

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