Hey babe wake up. New periodic table of the elements just dropped

Radicalizing the cat by explaining that dinner will be an hour late due to our government refusing to update outdated timezone protocol

Beebs Please Go a Month Without a Health Problem Challenge

this was filmed april 4th 2025

I mean, yeah

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔 On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.” truthout.org/articles/a-m...

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Also, the moon is a real pain in the ass

It’s been my greatest disappointment as an adult to realize it isn’t a random coincidence I share a birthday with a number of things like NASA and Disney World, but 100% just fiscal year nonsense

At long last, my website is up! Not much is on there at the moment, but I have a number of things in the works. www.tecyclops.com

Don't think about the science too much. A watermelon fruit bat can totally exist AND fly.

Just had to explain bean dad to a bunch of 22-23 year olds. I might be too online

You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS IT’S FAT BEAR WEEK

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

liberals insisting trans people mourn a man who spent his life agitating for our eradication displays a deep sickness of the heart

Don’t bother having empathy for Charlie Kirk. He literally didn’t believe in the concept of empathy. In his own words: “I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage."

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Two weeks until orientation and four weeks until 3-0 😭

Thinking about that boat scene in 1984

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Astronomy on tap was a nice break from my last week of work and a warm up for grad school… in retrospect I should have recused myself from trivia.

judgment at nuremberg from 1961 is a really interesting movie. spencer tracy and max schell are standouts in a cast with greats like richard widmark, burt lancaster, marlene dietrich, montgomery clift, and a precocious william shatner. quoted post is accidental and i cant figure out how to remove it

Contact will always be my favorite novel and Cosmos was a warm read, but Billions and Billions is rewiring my brain and I don’t know how to cope

have I mentioned yet this week that Starlink harms astronomical research, is degrading the ozone layer, and is too expensive and congested to help rural americans most in need of affordable broadband access at scale? oh and the company is also run by an overt white supremacist

Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon. This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.

Code/Astro Day 3!

Every time.

Everything is a lot but not only did I get the book club to read Sagan last month (wild it took this long really) but I convinced them to read a space ethics book for next month. Progress!

This political moment underscores how much we need a new model of higher ed in terms of how schools are financed and how they impact the neighborhood, the city, the world, and the environment.

Shopping at the Electronics Surplus Store as a Person Perceived as a Woman: A Tragedy in Three Parts

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

Like #Hubble spectra, but it's hard to access? My working group @stsci.edu launched the Hubble Advanced Spectral Products, joining COS and STIS spectra across different modes and instruments for every HST program for the first time 🧪🔭https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/hst/hasp (1/4)

"We have to pull back on palestine support" "we have to pull back on trans rights" "Dems should be more centrist" EAT HOT ASPHALT YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!!

Brb gonna go cry wishing Leavitt could see that RR Lyrae portion of the presentation

There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

Elon Musk is calling for Donald Trump to be impeached. Donald Trump is calling for Elon Musk to be deported. Both sides have a point.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

From the richest people in Seattle trying to open a children's playground on a gay nude beach with the mayor's approval to an out of town Christian hate fest in the gay park, the save our children angle of homophobia is really re-emerging in Seattle, with or without Anita Bryant.

gumshoe real as fuck for this

Volume up

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

It took a non-zero amount of time to figure out why I couldn’t get a good spectrum out of my prism with an LED lightbulb

JD Vance destroyed the college football national championship trophy and killed the pope in the same week.

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