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@SpaceX Lead Software Engineer. Distributed systems, CI/CD, devops. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Ahe Ʋpet Okla. Wife to @realtaraharris 🏳️🌈
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Hello, all! I'm building a list of Native American & First Nations people in tech. Suggestions and RTs, please!
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Why are there two axes
Which coffee is best?
F6, just like that “actionable intel” you got.
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Y'all, I just got promoted to Senior Software Engineer. 😭
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SpaceX is hiring full stack engineers! Senior and not. If you like working with backends, APIs, databases, dev ops, and front end as well and want to join my team, DM me! If you enjoy solving problem for other engineers, DM me!
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Can’t tell if some of y’all truly don’t know the plural of “axis” or y’all just all making the same terrible joke
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My ex-husband told me I was the only reason I had a job in tech, then he applied at SpaceX and flunked the hell out of the interview, then I divorced him and went to work at SpaceX.
Tech Twitter: Tell me about a time someone underestimated or dismissed you and what amazing things you’ve gone on to do since then?
RT for reach if y’all want a bunch of victory stories 😌💖
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I would encourage all of y’all out there who think you can transport rocket boosters upright on the open sea during a storm better than
@SpaceX
to come work with us and teach us everything you know. No tearing down, just improving, always. 🚀
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My first job was at McDonald's as a drive-thru cashier. Now I'm a SpaceX engineer. No step is too small if it gets you where you need to go.
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Hi! I'm Erin. I'm Choctaw and Chickasaw, and I build software that is going to help people build cities on Mars.
#WomenInSTEM
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
#NativesInTech
#NativesInSTEM
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Hey,
@cityofmborotn
, we are in you doing a homosexuality in public. Come get us, bigots. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👩❤️💋👩
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Tonight a bunch of
@SpaceX
folks were geeking out on our internal company chat platform about
#Inspiration4
and specifically how it demonstrates the upcoming accessibility of space, and surprisingly it turned into a long company-wide chat about imposter syndrome.
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@mjs_DC
So that means I can take out life insurance on my embryos and collect when they fail to implant?
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But we are getting dragged on 60 Minutes for publicizing our test operations lol
Two Falcon 9s simultaneously readying payload deploys while a Dragon and its crew chase down the
@Space_Station
with the Crew-7 Dragon docked to it
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Yes, I went to college for Music Composition and dropped out and taught myself software and now I’ve been at SpaceX for nearly 6 years and I’m a Lead Software Engineer. Again, high school degree only.
Has “fake it until you make it” ever really worked for you?
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One day I’m going to do a thread about SpaceX’s negative reputation and actually how nurturing and proactively positive it is. I’ve never experienced this anywhere else.
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Last year my team at
@SpaceX
made time in our schedule to rename all of our uses of "slave" to "worker", and you know what didn't happen?
* sneaky bugs
* hunting down misses
* PC run amok
* folks not being able to understand the new terminology
* SJWs demanding more changes
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Facebook recruiter being intentionally ignorant on the power and proliferation of remote working. I see you.
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Add this to the list of things people told us were impossible. Suck it.
Falcon 9 lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship – completing the first 20th launch and landing of a booster!
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Believe it or not, this is actually the second time we've launched a Falcon Heavy and an F9 in the same calendar day.
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Stoked to be able to announce that I have been promoted to Lead Software Engineer. I love my team and I’m happy to be in a better position to enable them to be happier and more effective. ♥️🚀🥂
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telling rocks what to think
What five words best describe programming?
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Today Dragon surpassed the Space Shuttle’s total time on station.
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Today is my 2 year anniversary at SpaceX! I gotta be honest, when I took this job I was afraid I wasn’t good enough for it. I was afraid I’d never last this long. Imposter syndrome is a little bitch who can kiss my ass. 🥂
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Y’all might be putting too much faith in the ship-sensors-to-live-display pipeline. We also saw (on this same display) the ship engine indicators fail to show engines perform the landing burn, but we know that happened. We saw it on video.
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Hi. My name is Erin. I've been writing JavaScript for 16 years and I still have to look up the function signature for Array.splice.
Hello my name is David. I've been using git for 10 years and I still have to look up how to merge a branch into master.
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And this is exactly what
#Inspiration4
is about. We're all worthy. We launch each other. To Mars.
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@DaleCoo69075388
@thekatecole
@CaraLisette
@Kat_Says_Stuff
Hi! SpaceX engineer here. The situation isn’t great, but it’s not that bad either. Both people are experienced astronauts with long duration stays under their belts, so they’re trained for this.
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A bunch of SpaceX folks watching this live right now. As much as we love to joke about rivalries and differences, competition makes us all stronger. We NEED multiple varying paths to space!
#GoAriane
!
5,4,3,2,1 allumage Vulcain! 🚀
Relive the moment the first Ariane 6 launched from
@EuropeSpacePort
, French Guiana 👇
🔊Turn the sound all the way UP ⬆️
#GoAriane
!
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My 12yo just invited me to edit a Google Doc entitled "Fight me."
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Just got my 5-year SpaceX anniversary patch! I can’t believe it’s been that long! 🚀
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Lol fuck, I messed up the most important part. He told me *he* was the only reason I had a job.
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Starship flight 3 flying on Pi Day is just a scam by Big Math to sell more math. 😤
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Another record. They said we couldn’t do one landing, then they said we couldn’t ever reuse a landed rocket, then they said we couldn’t do it twice, then 5, 10, they laughed at us when we said 20. We’re gonna keep going.
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One of the biggest frauds pulled off by evangelical conservatives is that they convinced themselves and other Christians that "take the Lord's name in vain" refers to uttering the phrase "oh my god", not using God's authority to perpetrate harm against others beloved by God.
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👋🏼 I'm Erin. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. I got married in college, then pregnant, and dropped out and never went back. I taught myself and worked my way up from running a 30-customer web hosting company to Sr. Software Engineer at SpaceX.
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It saddens and sometimes hurts me to see folks hating on SpaceX just bc Elon is attached to it. We're testing new vehicles to the limits on purpose. Failure is one of the best ways to learn. Humanity needs spaceships. Let us work.
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@ErinInTheMorn
My wife and I literally traveled here to take this selfie after hearing about this.
Hey,
@cityofmborotn
, we are in you doing a homosexuality in public. Come get us, bigots. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👩❤️💋👩
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SpaceX landed our 210th and 211th booster tonight.
Reusability isn’t feasible though.
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It wasn't planned. He sought them out to interview. I reluctantly replied to a recruiter's email. One of us had so much confidence he sought a position he could never fulfill, and the other was afraid to try at all and then successfully shot the moon.
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Holy fuck these videos are just getting better and better.
Falcon 9 lit up the sky ahead of the first stage returning to Earth after launching Crew-8 to the
@Space_Station
Sunday evening
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The entire world has imposter syndrome. But especially about space. Practically no one on Earth believes they will ever go into space. But also about literally everything.
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Some boys in my mentions saying "FB needs to recruit me, I'll work on site." There's a reason they call me every yr & haven't called you. 💅🏽
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It is absolutely bonkers how many people don’t understand the fairly new strategy of test-and-iterate being done openly, vs in secret, and see *test* failures as *program* failures.
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Again, no, not a mission. It was a flight test. It’s right there in the name.
I don't normally comment on space stuff, but Elon pulled his classic call-a-failure-a-success, and far too many are letting him get away with this, yet again. People seriously think this was a successful mission, because Elon and gang said so. Here's why it wasn't.
The facts:
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#Inspiration4
is actually an amazing demonstration of the current and future state of the accessibility of space to the average person. The first part of the conversation was about addressing some takes by folks in the media, who said it's no different than Bezos & Branson.
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Hey, JPL folks,
@SpaceX
is hiring.
JPL announced today it plans to lay off 530 people—about 8% of its workforce—plus about 40 contractors, citing "a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of an FY24 appropriation from Congress."
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Billionaires in space. But
#Inspiration4
is about proving exactly the opposite, and they're actually doing a great job.
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@SpaceX
With this launch we broke the record for the company with the most functioning satellites in orbit! 🛰🛰🛰🚀
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you know, I’m pro-nuclear, but imma need you to zoom in on that middle bit and explain how we build a bunch of nuclear without electrical components, mining, batteries, concrete, steel, copper, and existing energy sources.
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Meanwhile, SpaceX celebrates Pride every year, has culture-based employee interest groups and an active and impactful DEI program. 💜💙💚💛🧡♥️
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@DaleCoo69075388
@thekatecole
@CaraLisette
@Kat_Says_Stuff
The spacesuits aren’t a problem, this is just how spacesuits work. There are many other vehicles they can come back on. It was just a matter of building a plan and sending up spacesuits for them for a different vehicle if a different return vehicle was chosen.
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You do NOT have to learn everything about a technology before participating. Learning by doing & building is important.
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I have learned so much, and I am so proud to have come into this position that I earned. I deserve it.
I am a Native woman and a college drop-out who grew up in poverty. I am here.
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Oh my god.
open sauce graciously let us set up in the YouTube museum, we are plotting YouTubers so we fit right in, come say hi!
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I'm a mommy, a Chahta ohoyo, and, right now, I white microservices for a living.
#ILookLikeAnEngineer
.
http://t.co/5ZZZ0edyg8
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Today is my 1 year anniversary at
@SpaceX
! 🚀 When I accepted this job and moved from AL to LA, I was worried I wouldn't be able to cut it at SpaceX. What I found was that people doing the most exciting things in the world are just like me. 😮Go after what you want.
TO MARS!
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It was a snowball of people telling each other how they appreciated each other and how they deserved to be there and confirming folks latent self-affirmations.
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Of course, the first civilian mission has to be paid for, and some folks and some media outlets are dismissing this entire mission just because it has financial support from somewhere.
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Y'all I just got a skirt that is a size 4! I was a size 12 this time last year! I've lost 45 pounds by cutting sugar. Not carbs, fructose and sucrose.
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@DaleCoo69075388
@thekatecole
@CaraLisette
@Kat_Says_Stuff
It is a regular NASA requirement that the spacesuits are designed to integrate with the vehicle, so “they don’t have the spacesuits for Dragon” is normal.
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We started talking about how similar we are to the participants. Some of us don't have college degrees. Some of us have health issues that would keep us out of the astronaut program.
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I came out to my kids today. I told them that I was bi 🏳️🌈and that while
@maxharris9
is my partner, I also have a girlfriend and a boyfriend. My 14yo said, "I know, mom 🙄" and my 11yo said, "Do we get to meet them, too? 😍🙏🏼"
🥰🥰🥰
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@heroicslug
@AriDrennen
They are 25 years old, this is no child, this is an adult taking control of their life. 🙄
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I see everyone went to bridge-engineer school overnight
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What part of "orbital flight test" do people not understand? Yes! We are cheering and celebrating for the rest of the week! 🚀💥 🥂
So the SpaceX rocket that everyone is more excited about than feeding hungry people didn't work properly, blew up in a "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" (they blew it up), and people are still cheering it as a success?
The human species is doomed.
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Yep, and we won an Emmy for it in 2019.
The SpaceX production team, designers, illustrators, and photographers are all the best in the game. Every Starship launch comes with a new level of visual storytelling. We take for granted how much they've pushed the medium of filmmaking.
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@justsheavassar
Every time I go through TSA with my tribal ID I bring up their website on my phone which lists it as valid accepted ID so I can prove to them they don't need my DL.
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Can’t wait to see the MSM cover this epic epic Starship test as a total failure. 🚀
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lol wow, they are really trying to claim there’s a malfunctioning Starlink dish on a *checks notes* submarine 13,000 feet underwater
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This is my hometown and his family were my friends and classmates. This sweet 8yo boy was murdered by a white 10yo peer and several white parents + the Jesup Police Department covered it up.
#JusticeForNoah
Noah Bush, 8 years old, was found drowned in Jesup, Georgia in May 2024. He went out to play with neighborhood kids & never came home. After finding his body in a small body of water the sheriff’s office immediately announced it was accidental & for two months they did nothing.
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No. "Move fast, break things" has a different context not applicable here. It has its uses.
for the umpteenth time, can all the “move fast and break things” people shut up already? we don’t have to blow up rockets and implode submarines to learn things. unchecked innovation for its own sake is a literal death wish.
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Glad this is finally public so I can say WELL WELL WELL
This is not a drill: Amazon bought SpaceX launches.
Amazon's satellite internet network Project Kuiper aims to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink – and will fly on the latter's rockets to do so.
Read more:
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He literally told me I would be nothing without him and that nobody would love me, ever.
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lol, maybe i’m ‘splaining but iyk you’ll look at this and ask why tf you cropped out the mach diamond
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Back on topic, we started talking about this article which criticized the mission as just more "billionaires in space," and we moved on to the participants.
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Here we go! I know the work that went into making this happen. We are so back.
Targeting Friday, November 17 for Starship’s second flight test. A two-hour launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT →
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@mad_brax
@atescherim
@extrafabulous
@floodums
I had an old house once where the water heater needed to be replaced, but they’d built the attic around it. Had to install a second one in the garage and just leave the ghost water heater in place.
So yeah, surprise ghost water heater.
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