Purty! You can read more about this phenomenon in an article I wrote on SYFY a while back: www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ma...

He beat the wrap.

Brave, brave, brave, brave sir RFK Jr.!

Oh, I thought he was talking about Trump and the GOP purposefully starving 42 million Americans.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

This is a VERY mixed bag. I like some of what he's proposing, but offloading science research to private companies is a DISASTER... and that pales in comparison to the strong possibility of stopping NASA's critical climate change research.

Holy moly did we get a close shave from an asteroid last week: it missed Earth by *230 km*! Barely above the atmosphere. OTOH it was only about the size of a beachball, so no worries either way. Meet 2025 UC11. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-wee-aste... 🔭🧪

Oh FFS

Whoaaaaaa

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

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I wrote this article! 🙂 This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

I want to read a book but I keep thinking there might be something else I need to do

About 30 vultures just flew overhead, circling as they headed south. I assume they're looking for the GOP politicians who lost yesterday.

The NYT editorial pages has eroded to a mere series of cringe now. Just the most predictable garbage from smooth-brained pundits.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Dems have a slim majority in the Senate but now have all the other big seats. I think things are about to change for the much better in my home state.

The hits keep comin'

Daaaaang. I wonder what the GOP response will be. I imagine they'll need to hose down the ketchup on the walls of the White House.

Daisy rests after a long wonderful election day.

This is great news! Looks like it'll be a Dem sweep. But: looks like fewer than a million people voted, in a state of nearly 9 million. That's pretty pathetic at any time but especially given what's at stake here.

Paid subbies to my newsletter can read about how a Little Red Dot may actually be a (mostly naked) Big Black Hole. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-little-r... 🔭🧪

Lettuce pray for him

Love celebrating this way. #vote

Remember to live your life such that people don't talk about the abject evils you did when you die.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

One of my all-time fave images. See the bright star just to the upper right of the cluster? That's Sher 25 and it will explode in <40,000 years. You can see a ring and wisps of gas on either side of it; it's the same kind of star with the same structure that blew up to become Supernova 1987A.

Do you want oyster Cenobites? Because this is how you get oyster Cenobites. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I love it when the clocks change. What time is it? A fun mystery! Is it e o'clock yet? No, it's only pi after iⁿ/2.

Yup. Every damn day.

Fall has fell

Six hundred fifty TONS That's a big 'scope

Come for the Firefly quote, stay for the most ironic debunking of all debunkenings. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/kim-kardas... 🔭🧪

My original rant is much longer, but I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I think I still have it somewhere; I'll dig it up later. But this is still fresh and relevant. theoatmeal.com/comics/firew...

JOIN US TONIGHT to learn how to stand up a rapid response to the SNAP crisis! Monday 11/3, 8pm et/ 5pm pt REGISTER HERE: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is still the best (and IMO only truly funny) April Fool's prank ever pulled. It's genius.

This is unsurprising to anyone who has ever had goats

It's also because a) they don't have one, except for 2) trying to destroy what little healthcare benefits we have.

This has made a lilliputian splash but it should be Brobdingnagian

OK DORKS, LET’S GET SOME FOOD! We have a toolkit, a community discord, an easy to use map to register your food drives and collection points, & a zoom info session tomorrow. With SNAP on hold and millions of federal employees not getting their paychecks—our neighbors need help. Let’s be the change.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪

Live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to see a comet older then the Solar System? Nice overview of upcoming pre-dawn visibility for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with small amateur telescopes 🔭🧪

We had a little picnic with friends at the races today. There was a lot less food than it looks like, but it was yummy.

Horsies!

Man, Optimus Prime has fallen on hard times.

I'm at the Montpelier Hunt Races in Virginia and they're doing Jack Russel races.