No direct connection here, just a friend of a friend sort of thing. But bats and scout projects are both good, and if a few of you feel like making a small donation I bet it’d make this kid’s day.

Meanwhile, out over Lake Michigan.

Dr. Samuel P. Massie was born #OTD in 1919. A chemist who worked on liquid uranium processes for the Manhattan Project, he also helped develop compounds to fight numerous diseases and was the first Black professor at the US Naval Academy. 🧪 ⚛️ Image: Nimitz Library, US Naval Academy

The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Credit: Notman Archives/Musée McCord

For folks of a certain age: scroll through a mosaic of 100,000 Winamp skins. skins.webamp.org

Also when CERN was on did y'all notice that the walls in the 53rd precinct were BLEEDING? How do you explain that?

The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Credit: Notman Archives/Musée McCord

Mods are asleep, post skulls

I especially love "sum over all small things" because it sounds like a mid-level spell from 1st edition AD&D. #DnD (6/n)

in tagalog, instead of saying “whatever happens happens” we say “bahala na si batman” which loosely translates to “let batman handle it” and i think that’s beautiful

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born #OTD in 1646. He was one of the great polymaths of the age, and is best known for discovering differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton. 🧪 🧮 Image: Wellcome Collection

Quick reaction to the Bulls extending Zach Collins Underwhelming doesn’t necessarily mean bad @chgo-bulls.bsky.social allchgo.com/bulls-sign-z...

The "greatest cosmic movie ever made" has begun filming -- the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, being carried out at the Vera Rubin Observatory. It will take ten years to complete. www.nsf.gov/news/action-...

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe launched from Kennedy Spaceflight Center #OTD in 2001. Three months later WMAP would reach the L2 Lagrange point and begin to assemble an exquisitely detailed map of the cosmic microwave background. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Credits: NASA / Kennedy SFC, WMAP

It's also a good idea to call your reps! Because of the Congressional Review Act, if a majority in Congress gets together and says "we disapprove"...this goes away. www.gao.gov/legal/congre...

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

Back from a long trip and in a weird state as far as dates go. But yesterday, June 28, I would have posted that physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: APS

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. “Intellectually, it’s not acceptable,” two science historians argue. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Garden getting ready for act two. #bloomscrolling

Garden getting ready for act two. #bloomscrolling

A hell of a sendoff for Om Mali, who was a hell of a guy. daringfireball.net/2026/06/om I knew him only in passing; he was never less than effusive and generous with me. John knew him well. This is the way a good life is remembered.

do you wanna tell math-based ghost-stories, or is the poor little baby 2²

Just sent in this OIA. Will let you know how I get on.

Complete capture by the Consultant-Industrial complex.

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The house of Nicolas Flamel, oldest building in Paris, built in 1407. Was already old when (non-Viking) Europeans first crossed the Atlantic.

lol, in every single pic I took of the Venus de Milo these two ding dongs are taking selfies of themselves and the crowd, not the statue.

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Bonjour depuis Paris, par une belle matinée de samedi.

Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu has a countdown clock for launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope @nancyromansci.bsky.social. Soon!

Quelle horloge!

“Musee de L’ILLUSION, Michael. A Musee de Trick is something a whore does for money.”

www.science.org/content/arti... @mcnees.bsky.social check this shit out

Orpheus est le petit monsieur le plus élégant de Paris.

Les chiens de Paris are not dressed for this heat.

Right after I took this it melted

The sun sets on the hottest day in France since records began in 1947. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You’ve lynyrd yr last skynyrd

The sun sets on the hottest day in France since records began in 1947. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They’ve got, uh, a lot of skulls down here in the Catacombs.

There are over a million people out on the streets of Paris right now, maybe even two million, for fete de la musique. The vibe is extremely “let’s have fun listening to music” with a very noticeable lack of “I hope no one opens fire.”

Y’all, we are getting on a plane to Paris tomorrow in the middle of a historic heatwave. If you have any pull with the weather gods I would appreciate you putting in a good word.

Idk if "regret" is really the right word to use for an app, but I regret how much work I did in Goodnotes on my iPad. It's bloated, drains battery a zillion times faster than anything else, and glitches all the time. I'd pay $100 for an app that could import editable versions of my Goodnotes files.

John Prine died six years ago, from COVID-19.

he wondered aloud

In case anyone is interested, I was the very incompetent camera man on these recordings.

TWO OF US: A 2+2=5 MYSTERY

I have been posting a bunch on Rec League. At first I thought it was going to be wall-to-wall consumption, but it’s more interesting than that. Folks share life advice, things that make them happy, or humbling moments. There’s good stuff in there. recleague.com/get-app?lyr_...