Hey! Check out my latest Substack post, commemorating our fabulous Cassini discoveries at Enceladus on this day, November 27, 20 years ago. Check it out! It was the day we realized the geophysical significance of what Cassini's instruments had been seeing & detecting since Jan 2005. 📰🔭🚀#planetsci

How very sad. 😢 The wife of Richard Branson (@richardbranson.bsky.social) has died. Branson has always been so unabashedly vocal 7 demonstrative about his love & respect for his wife. It was the thing I liked most about him. I wish him peace and solace. 🙏 📰🚀 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey y'all! Am I the only one who has come to detest her Google phone? The sheer # of ads is crushing, I run from their AI & get nowhere, & it's getting worse. It's become a chore just to avoid the wormholes. Is iPhone any better? Will it even work (& easily) in my fully PC environment? Help! 🙏 🧪

Now, at long last, somebody's talking the talk! 📰

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THIS 👇 is why we need an edit button! Is anyone at BluSky listening?!?

Are you also getting the strong impression that the lives of young women and girls don't matter at all to the powerful monied class?

It's called 'exploit the defenseless'.

Bullshit

Hello? BOTH are necessary to make headway.

If anyone has this idea of how scientists actually act, on the ground, in battle ... please read my book (once I write it)!

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has died. tinyurl.com/j7cau27e I met him when we were part of a panel discussion on how to improve the portrayal of scientists in TV & in film. I remember most his very dead-fish handshake. He really didn't like women in science. 📰🧪

We should not even be discussing terraforming anywhere! It's a ridiculous notion. Far better to re-terraform the Earth! 🌎

Woohoo!!!! California Prop 50 passes, and the evening is a national landslide for the Democrats. Proud of all you folks who made this happen. Hope has risen again!!

Today is the day that California can kick the MAGAtes in the teeth, fighting their fire with the richest, most populous, and most electorally strong firehose in the USA. So, get out and vote, California! It's your constitutional right and privilege to do so. 📰

Those of you living in the state of California, check that your ballot for the November 4 California Prop 50 Special Election has been received here: california.ballottrax.net/voter [Do not fall for the present scam stating you can find out by text] The stakes are very high as you know. ;-) 📰

Oh no! 📰

Jesus he's clueless 🙈

Huh?

So what am I to make of this?! www.tiktok.com/@dailyprofit...

Wow! SO proud of all these people. Hope ... Welcome Home! 📰

The link that goes with my last post is here: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/18/w... 📰

In case you haven't yet seen this announcement from the office of the Governor of California 👇 ... 📰❗ [

I used this view decades ago (now taken from Google Earth) to argue that full-globe Cassini imaging coverage of Saturn's moons was imperative. We won! Hemispheric dichotomies are common across the solar system. If you flew closely over this hemisphere 👇, you'd never know Earth had continents. 🧪🔭📰

In far more uplifting news than my previous post, next year California is making insulin available on the cheap. Take that Big Pharma and shove it! 📰 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

‪ What next? Hillary Clinton? Joe Biden? Will his adversaries start 'falling out of open windows'? 📰 www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Listen to Elton John describe the moment he danced with the Queen at Windsor Castle to 'Rock Around the Clock'. Absolutely hilarious! www.youtube.com/shorts/kgomn...

The cardinal feature of MAGA and the likes of RFK Jr is the extensive, unfiltered use of psychological projection. Oh, and hypocrisy too. I write this in case there is anyone out there who still hasn't seen through this modern-day 'theater of the absurd'. 📰

I haven't even read this article yet and I like it! And I'm not surprised that Ethan is the one to write it.

Well, I did it ... and proudly! Here in California, I voted YES on Prop 50!! You can't fight a war with a prayer. 📰🗳️

I second that emotion! 👇 📰🎵

Hard though it may be to believe, @seanonolennon.bsky.social, that Beautiful Boy, child of John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and my friend, was born 50 yrs ago today. Happy Birthday, Sean! I hope you are savoring this landmark event 🎵🎉🎸 And Happy 85th to John, my favorite walrus til the end of days. 📰

We are the ones we have been waiting for. Don’t give up. Dive in! Canvassing event to help voters say YES to Prop 50 in California. Keep trying.

To all my followers ... Is what this gentleman says true?

Good grief! I am just learning of this. Israel has detained Greta Thunberg, in harsh conditions -- insufficient food/water and more -- for being part of a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Oh NO! First, Robert Redford. Now Jane Goodall. 😭😭😭 Goodbye to another icon among us .., as pure as the driven snow, seeking only to spread love, protect the vulnerable, and encourage understanding of the natural world. Will we ever see the likes of her again? RIP dear, dear Jane Goodall. 📰🌎🧪

The things you learn on the internet ... Did you know that this month marks the 1100th anniversary of the official crowning of the first King of England, Æthelstan, in September 925AD? I must say, though, the 'marrying off' of his sisters was reprehensible. Glad that practice is over! 🤔 📜📰📚

Last nite, after 50 yrs, I re-watched All the President's Men. Not only was I reminded of Redford's role in that story, his brilliant rebelliousness & why I so admired him - his pic was pinned to my Caltech grad office bulletin board for yrs - but how much farther we have fallen since.

The Russians are like gnats. You swat at them and they turn up elsewhere.

What's this Tuesday shit? The rapture happened last week. They only took Robert Redford.

For those who may not know ... the magnetic field of Uranus is tilted ~60 deg relative to its spin axis. So it looks like the aurorae are occurring near the equator, because, in fact, they are! Within ~ 30deg of the equator.

I guess they no longer trust Hegseth with Signal? Jokes aside this is v freaking weird. Calling them in from around the world?

This is most cool!

I'm feeling more and more like this every day. Is this advancing age?

Remind me never to read anything written by this author again. In what seems a very lazy attempt to be ... what? ... edgy?incisive? cynical? ... he ends up incoherent, w/ no resolution whatsoever. I can't even find what one might call a 'point' in this piece. www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...

Redford looks like Brad Pitt here.

I spent the past 10 days on a boat in the fjords of eastern Greenland with no Internet or news access and apparently missed a lot. After 24 hours back in so-called civilization, I’m not quite sure why I left the boat, TBH.

Hey, let's not forget, please!, that Kirk targeted women, too! He advised TaylorSwift to 'submit to her man'. The guy was a massive, hate-spewing, 'my kind is the best kind' of jerk.

This is astonishing to me ... that it is legal for one person to accumulate an entire air force, including fighter jets,"one larger & more capable than what many entire nations possess". Am I the only one terrified by this?! 📰