I captured the Horsehead Nebula tonight and reframed a bit so I would also get a good shot of the Flame Nebula there on the left. These are just a couple of the interesting objects in the Orion constellation. For reference, the big green star on the center left is the leftmost star in Orion’s Belt.

Oh.

Well, that’s exciting! I bought that for a dollar years and years ago!

I expect the next few hours to be entertaining and informative.

It me.

I haven’t lost Whamageddon yet but I did just get hit with a drive by All I Want for Christmas is You in the car rider line while picking up the kid. It’s already that time of year, I see.

Family member is complaining about the shutdown “screwing up their food stamps”. Is the proper response what they told you when you said you weren’t happy about Trump winning 2024, “Guess you can’t have everything!”, or should I offer them some money that I don’t really have this month?

The biggest thing I've learned today is that Jeffrey Epstein couldn't type for shit.

I think it's kind of neat that, if you're lucky enough to find one in their catalog, you can officially name a toad after someone just by making a totally reasonable donation to a non-profit organization. Seems like that's something you could crowdfund pretty easily *stares at camera*

I love Spadefoots because they always look like they've seen something shocking. Every time I see one, I think of this photo.

Hero.

Beaver Moon? I got your Beaver Moon right here!

Okay, I went back out tonight with a clearer sky and the knowledge that I gained last night and took what I think is a much better picture of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). I'm quite happy with this one.

I finally had the opportunity to take a few minutes at dusk and run down the road to a nearby field with an unobstructed western view to see if I could get a photo of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). This is an okay shot, but I might try again soon if I get the chance.

Had a bit of time before cloud cover rolled in tonight, so I grabbed a few shots of the moon and the Triangulum Galaxy. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest galaxy in our Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way.

My lovely @chieflotsahair.bsky.social runs all three Wine and Dine races at Disney World every year and we tend to go a little overboard with the costume for the 5K. This year's 5K theme was Mushu's Breakfast, so her costume was Mushu (Mulan, 1998) wearing the Great Stone Dragon's head as a hat.

Seconded.

The kid attended his first protest today. #nokings

Today’s Apple Discourse from @chuckwendig.bsky.social’s reviews reminds me that my mom went on vacation recently and brought me some apples from an orchard in GA because she knew I wanted to try apples I couldn’t get locally. Alas, she forgot what variety they are so I have no idea.

I also took a picture of the Harvest moon tonight. I gotta be honest though, I think i prefer the one I got last Thursday.

What's this? A free @scalzi.com short story on Amazon First Reads!? Don't mind if I do! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHHY4S4K

I feel like every time Hegseth makes some kind of new policy announcement, I should just ask myself "is this based in racism somehow?" and then smack myself in the head because of course it's based in racism somehow.

I'm excited about Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl half time show, but mainly because I enjoyed how his latest album helped increase attention for the critically endangered Puerto Rican Crested Toad, aka Sapo Concho. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXD...

I know I’ve been playing maybe a little too much Borderlands 4 because I saw this and mentally reached for the “take as junk” button.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

We're in that period a few days before a new iPhone release when older iPhones suddenly start having mysterious issues such as being completely unable to connect to WiFi, apparently.

I think the really interesting thing about the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce engagement is that the president of the United States was best friends with an infamous pedophile who died in prison under mysterious circumstances and had papers which seem to implicate said president.

Tonight I’m playing “how many times can Sean forget the heat shrink when soldering these wires together?” It’s not going well.

I didn't know there was a launch tonight, so I'm sitting here at my desk and the sonic boom from the SpaceX launch scared the bejeezus out of me.

It’s shitty to have to sit through active shooter training as a teacher. It’s shittier having to train an elementary aged class how to sit through and active shooter drill. The shittiest of all is having your 6 year old too scared to sleep because he had to sit through that training today.

In my idlest hours I sit and look for things to do online, such as finding a dictionary word that has not yet been posted to Bluesky and making sure it happens. www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Current status: I have made a mistake.

I’m watching War of the Worlds (2025) and fear I’m going to give myself an aneurysm from rolling my eyes too hard.

They’re probably getting a lot less sleep these days, like the rest of us.

AND it just hit 1300 followers. Neat!

It’s always an exciting day when I get to post one of my own photos as @toadfacts.bsky.social

I’ve been frustrated for days because the Windows key has not been working on my keyboard, so many shortcuts I use dozens of times a day were not working. I just realized I must have bumped this button while cleaning my desk last week. It locks out the Windows key for gaming.

I was just reminded about one of my favorite Halloween costumes ever. Several years ago, ‪@thebehemoth.com‬ had a costume contest and we won an honorable mention or something. Good times. Maybe I need to introduce the kid to Castle Crashers. Maybe not.

Another fun part will be whether or not insurance decides to no longer cover the vaccinations because they aren't recommended by the government. Also, whether they'll even be available because they're not being recommended by the government.

I’m looking forward to all the evangelicals embracing the use of the word “fuck” over the next few days.

Opa!

The nerve.

Not looking forward to it, y’all.

Live your life so millions of your fellow citizens don't take to the streets to tell you to go fuck yourself on your birthday.

Took another photo of a big rock tonight. I continue to be impressed with the results I’m getting out of this little telescope.

ヌードル 2032!

All this and my Switch 2 actually showed up today. What a day.

Telling it like it is. I'm worried we're in for some shit this year.

I am very much looking forward to my Bag of Shit.