every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

I do think that some people who didn’t experience being Bad at Math in the 2000s and 2010s are probably really underrating how demeaning that experience was at the time

Enjoy cats being snuggly

I'm trialling top-flight #astrophotography tools and it shows! This is about the best thing I've ever done. Also a factor: 2.5 hours in a darker sky area. This is the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as Messier 33. (If you want to see the full resolution image, go here: app.astrobin.com/i/oek0ej)

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

I'm trialling top-flight #astrophotography tools and it shows! This is about the best thing I've ever done. Also a factor: 2.5 hours in a darker sky area. This is the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as Messier 33. (If you want to see the full resolution image, go here: app.astrobin.com/i/oek0ej)

I only have 20 min on this, but it is already nice. Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) on the left & Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) on the right. Big star @ top is Alnitak, the left star in Orion's belt. For the interested: ASI585MC-AIR, #SVBony 80mm ED doublet refractor, HEQ5 mount, SV220 7nm #astrophotography

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

I only have 20 min on this, but it is already nice. Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) on the left & Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) on the right. Big star @ top is Alnitak, the left star in Orion's belt. For the interested: ASI585MC-AIR, #SVBony 80mm ED doublet refractor, HEQ5 mount, SV220 7nm #astrophotography

So. It seems that ChatGPT (or one of the AIs) thinks I am the author of Hatchet. You know, the mid-1980s adventure book written by Gary Paulsen? I once left a review for La Hacha, the Spanish version, so now I get a constant stream of obvious AI "pitches" that reference my authorship of La Hacha. 🙃

My smartphone #astrophotography presentation recording is up. The entire meeting is recorded, but mine starts at this link: youtu.be/7RJhz5C67hU?... The presentations before mine are from 4th yr students, and after is a young member of my #RASC chapter who had an adventurous summer of science!

Thanks for all the lovely comments and questions. I'm happy to help anyone get started with their phones or anything else! #astrophotography #SmartphoneAstrophotohraohy

My smartphone #astrophotography presentation recording is up. The entire meeting is recorded, but mine starts at this link: youtu.be/7RJhz5C67hU?... The presentations before mine are from 4th yr students, and after is a young member of my #RASC chapter who had an adventurous summer of science!

ProPublica (former client) was started by a billionaire savings and loan couple. So, yeah, great time for someone out there to emulate that action.

Anyone who has ever said cats are independent creatures has never tried to shut the door while going to the bathroom without one.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Today I turn 50. I'm holding up ok I guess. This is the first birthday I've had any weird feelings, mortality-wise, but it's still pretty cool. You can't get rid of me that easily 😂

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a GIF

I haven't done smartphone astro in a bit because I got an astrocam recently. However, I'm doing a smartphone #astrophotography talk on Friday. Toronto area folks, join us! It's free/open to the public (w/ paid parking). Here's the info: mississauga.rasc.ca/event/potpou... Attached are my own images.

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You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

I haven't done smartphone astro in a bit because I got an astrocam recently. However, I'm doing a smartphone #astrophotography talk on Friday. Toronto area folks, join us! It's free/open to the public (w/ paid parking). Here's the info: mississauga.rasc.ca/event/potpou... Attached are my own images.

Tonight! Tonight! The greatest night of the week! Join us at 9PM EST tonight for #HorrorWatch! Oh, my mad bats, we have a delectable tale of science fiction terror for you tonight! Oh yes, indeedy. Tonight we're watching Benson & Moorhead's Synchronic!

Here's another. The double star cluster in Perseus, known as Caldwell 14 or NGCs 869 and 884. #astrophotography #astronomy #starCluster

Oh my darling dancing demons of #HorrorWatch! What shall we chose for our first in this November of SCIFI Horror? 1️⃣ Altared States 2️⃣ Moon 3️⃣ Galaxy of Terror 4️⃣ Synchronic 📊 Show results

Here's another. The double star cluster in Perseus, known as Caldwell 14 or NGCs 869 and 884. #astrophotography #astronomy #starCluster

I will never understand Reddit. Who downvotes a request for bookkeeping recommendations? And yes, I looked at older posts to see if it had already been asked and answered. Fuckin' Reddit, man 🤣

I'm not saying Trump is an authoritarian who would lock up reporters for investigating his party, I'me just saying his party members think that.

Behold: Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. This is one of my favourite things I've worked on so far. #astrophotography #cometLemmon #comet

Behold: Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. This is one of my favourite things I've worked on so far. #astrophotography #cometLemmon #comet

I'm in Mexico for work. Here's a picture of a lil rainbow in the clouds over the Gulf of Mexico.

Just realized I forgot to share this, NGC 2793, the Helix Nebula (a.k.a. Eye of God, for obvious reasons!) this is about 90 minutes of exposure time, and it looks great, though I want to do more to bring out the faint part at the lower right. Enjoy this beauty!

My first comet photo! This is C/2025 R2 SWAN which is fading, but it's up a bit later after sunset so it's been an easier target. There's a much brighter comet in the mornings but I'm trying it later this month. (It's called C/2025 A6 Lemmon if interested.) #astrophotography #comet #cometSwan

@cnn.com what do you think boycotts do? They add pressure by causing discomfort. It's doing its job. I'm a lot more worried about people who need to fear for their lives because of Trump administration policy than I am about business owners who probably voted for this anyway. Grow a backbone.

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I spent some time on the moon tonight. I increased the saturation to enhance our ability to see the different minerals on the moon that we can't really see. 115 frames taken with the Vizta, PIPP, Autostakkert, then further processed in Siril and GIMP.) #astrophotography #harvestMoon #fullMoon

I spent some time on the moon tonight. I increased the saturation to enhance our ability to see the different minerals on the moon that we can't really see. 115 frames taken with the Vizta, PIPP, Autostakkert, then further processed in Siril and GIMP.) #astrophotography #harvestMoon #fullMoon

Go home, Amazon, you're drunk.

ICE is a secret, unaccountable police force for an authoritarian regime. Pass it on.

I am Antifa. Anyone else?

Someone sent me a tutorial on a better processing technique while using the filter I mentioned in the previous post, and it came out so nice! I love both this and the previous version but I thought this was different enough to share. #astrophotography #ngc7000 #CygnusWall

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Someone sent me a tutorial on a better processing technique while using the filter I mentioned in the previous post, and it came out so nice! I love both this and the previous version but I thought this was different enough to share. #astrophotography #ngc7000 #CygnusWall

Happy to share my best picture yet! This is part of the North America Nebula #NGC7000, called #CygnusWall. I was able to do this even from my light-polluted home because I have a filter that allows only certain wavelengths of light. I will continue to add more time to this. #astrophotography

#BogSky @beverlybambury.com @theharvestmaid.bsky.social

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.