Panem et circenses! He has the second part down. People are still hungry though.

Genuinely awesome

And that's how you lose institutional knowledge.

X is effectively subsidized by Elon's other businesses to serve as a propaganda organ for his far right views. It's being carried by the starlink service which boasts a $4.4 billion in earned income. Every starlink terminal is effectively a subsidy for far right propaganda.

That's almost 1/5-th the 20 year cost of the entire JWST project, that employed roughly 20,000 people and built the most amazing science laboratory ever conceived.

The treasury is being raided. Our taxes are being stolen. Plain and simple.

Still thinking about this (from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 's Becoming Earth): "a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants". I knew it was big, but never worked it out. A tank of petrol is a LOT of ancient life. +1 reason to electrify!

In his first speech as Hungary's prime minister, Péter Magyar called on Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok to resign or be removed: "It's time to leave, Mr. President — while you still can." Sulyok, a Fidesz-backed Orbán ally, sat awkwardly watching in the Hungarian parliament.

I feel sorry for all the people working on the project who are already stressed about preparing for the launch.

After being with T-Mobile for 20 years, we switched over to Google Fi. Phone rep few weeks ago told me that "you should be grateful that you have been grandfathered in", when I asked them to place my daughter into our plan. So long. Fi is cheaper with more benefits anyway. Also, my wife ditched ...

Remember the days when you would get those emails about "tired light" theory and other groundbreaking new ideas? Well, today I received such a contact in SNAIL MAIL. That's a first. To my HOME address. My dude ran out of space and hand wrote on the back of the envelope. I am not in radio or SETI. 🤷

At the Tucson Automotive Museum. Giddy as a kid to see one of these in person. They had quite a few way more (20-30x) expensive cars, but this slow stainless steel car got my attention the most. What a treat.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

In case you are not into Eastern European geography: Tisza is the name of the other major river that crosses Hungary (next to the Danube), on the eastern part of the country. Long ago (150 years ago), it used to overflow every spring. Now it is contained by route management and levees.

Daughter and I both finished reading Project Hail Marry this week. Going to go see it tonight in theaters.

Immensely huge news!! I may break my many months of not having any alcohol to celebrate.

Not ashamed to say I've had them together. No need to choose.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, it’s bullshit,” he said. It's comical that he needs a toddler translation.

The genocide in Gaza was normalized. What did we expect to happen?

Did anyone check how viewership dropped while he was talking and the comments?

So why is the crew using a 10 year old Nikon? For those that are interested: petapixel.com/2026/04/06/t...

Really the ultimate solar eclipse. Must be a life altering experience.

Happy first Sunday, following the first full Moon, after the vernal equinox!

Found an injured/immobile hummingbird on our doorstep. Hive mind: what to do?

It's going to get very interesting after the midterms. Large scale GOP losses, unpopularity, and a lame duck president will bring out the opposition members of the party, who will get mercilessly attacked by the weak leadership. Some serious fracturing will happen.

Got a shirt for the final four game tomorrow. Notice the JWST mirror behind the Bball and the JWST PSFs in the Arizona logo

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing." Perfect summary sentence.

I would really like to know what an A-10 was doing flying near the straight? They are very specialized ground troop support aircraft. The only reason for one of those being there is that they are really considering boots on the ground.

Two planets for the price of one 🙂👍 Playing around in Celestia, I was able to identify the approximate time & orientation of that #Artemis II shot of Earth's nightside. Revealing that the bright object at lower-right is Venus. Thanks to @[email protected] for suggesting that I check 🙇‍♂️

Imagine the publicity this would be receiving with an administration that appreciates science.

The rising full Moon is gorgeous! Imagine the view that crew will have up there!

The cost of the Iran War so far would have paid the entirety of the development of SLS *and* the now-cancelled Mars Sample Return mission.

In an alternate universe, she is there at Cape watching the launch as President, and this is the major news on all outlets.

It's quite crazy that in a few hours we may be sending astronauts on a voyage around the Moon and there is basically ZERO media coverage. Science PR is failing badly and this is a reason why science funding is so low. If only we had a working economy and peace and the public could pay attention.

That's affordable housing for 500-1000 families.

People are not paying attention - and why would they to a country of 10 M people - but Hungary is having an election on April 12 and Orbán may finally actually be ousted. This is an enormous test to how a possible loss would be handled here in 2028. Keep an eye out for it in 2 weeks.

While I am yet to get paid for a talk, this is the same deal with honorariums for review panels.

We are all gonna miss TSA agents! Who would have thought the day would come.

The appropriate response would be to make the entire Muller report public.

I dare any Republican to just even try to defend this post.

There was a shooting in Tucson at Park Place mall between two young boys. There is a terrible video of the event on Instagram (not gonna share), but you can find it if you search. We go there occasionally. Little kids on video playing at the playground next to it. Just awful.

Tucson decided to skip spring altogether this year. It would have been nice.

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

This is why the Easter bunny brings eggs. We have way too much.

My partner in crime! Best Co-PI!

1/5! Considering the 10x oversubscription and that I've seen more than one first quintile rejections, I am satisfied. So, what will we be doing? We are going to bring JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy into the optical! We tested a flight spare mask and surprise surprise ... it is transparent.

The expected JWST massacre is unfolding. The horror!

I am old enough to remember McCain singing Bomb Iran to the tune of Barbara Ann.