The cost is that I have huge crushes on boys who are geographically cost prohibitive for me to take on coffee dates

As the weather keeps acting up and isn’t giving me any window to even try photographing Comet Lemmon, I’m killing time by reprocessing old data—here the Orion Nebula I last captured two years ago with my DSLR and a standard zoom lens (time now to go back with a proper setup). 🔭 #Astrophotography

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Article reviewer #1: There aren't enough citations in the article, but the conclusion is great. Reviewer #2: There are the exact right number of citations in the article, but the conclusion is iffy. Reviewer #3: I loathe spelling errors and there were three of them in 25 pages. Unacceptable. Me:

A Polish adventure skier has become the first person to climb Mount Everest and then ski down it without using supplemental oxygen, he and his sponsors announced.

Let me ask my fellow academics: is it normal to get to a point in your project where you are almost done, and you're almost ready to circulate a paper, and your main points are there, but enough of the little points are baffling that you want to throw the whole manuscript into the sea?

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

So, @xevra.world leads a great paper out today on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2508.13412 on how the recent event GW231123 detected by @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social could've happened in an AGN. With @saavikford.bsky.social @spacekaila.bsky.social @astrowithemily.bsky.social @jakepost.tech & McFACTS crew!

In this paper, @xevra.world shows that strong mass segregation around SMBHs (lots of heavy stuff, less light stuff) is pretty likely. That's great & expected, but only recently have models shown just how segregated masses might get e.g. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13209

Hey folks! I promised some comments on GW231123 (the most massive BBH merger detected in GW so far!) a few weeks ago. Well, here are my comments, in whole paper form, led by the fabulously amazing multitasking @xevra.world (who put this out WHILE MOVING INTERNATIONALLY!), with usual collabs… 🔭⚛️🧪

Waiter waiter, this soup tastes like rubber! May I remind you that this is a Michelin starred restaurant sir?

Waking up to an excellent cover this morning! youtu.be/XbQ08Ixczvo

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Trans kids are not •disposable •the reason Dems lose •a threat Trans kids are •deserving of basic human rights Trans kids should be •protected, always

Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.

I could use some complements. My brain is a fuck lately

Who wants to come over and watch squirrels

All hail the beans

Mood

Our emu’s chicks Graham & Stanley growing fast enjoying broccoli and a chance to practice zoomies

Every great sky / sunset / sunrise pic I have ever gotten, has been taken from a parking lot. #photography #nature #sky #clouds #witchsky #pagansky

this is the news i needed today 😂

New unit of time measurement just dropped: One Epstein is 2 minutes, 53 seconds.

A rich morning of @lisacommunity.bsky.social science at #GR24Amaldi16 with Oliver's talk followed by Adam Pound on modelling extreme mass ratio systems

June 13, 1964 The Animals went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The House Of The Rising Sun.' Recorded in one take, this was the first UK No.1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes. 🎶🎤🤘 #ClassicRock #RockNRoll #ClassicVinyl #MusicSky youtu.be/N4bFqW_eu2I?...

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

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some of my followers will find this funny

🤣🤣🤣 Remember: birdwatching goes both ways Photos of a tufted titmouse looking into someone's camera lense. #birds #memes #humor #birdMeme ##TuftedTitmouse #funny #BirdWatching

In case no one told you lately, you don’t have to wait until everything is fixed to enjoy your life. Take what joy you can from today. You deserve that.

Reminder: You will always be a work in progress and you can accept that. You can continue to learn and grow. You don’t have to be perfect today. You don’t have to be perfect tomorrow, either. I'm proud of you

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

honestly mostly what these fox graphics that clearly take completely for granted that the good things will be understood by the audience to be bad make me feel is that the gulf between me and the people who watch this is fundamentally insurmountable

Here’s Spencer Ackerman with by far the best take I’ve read on the racist moral panic targeting Zohran Mamdami. zeteo.com/p/my-fellow-...

“Other Presidents said I was daft to build a prison on the swamp. But I built it all the same to show ‘em! It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank in the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up!—“

Heads up, the fight is not over with respect to the trans care medicaid amendment. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reintroduced it on the House side. Call your house reps now and tell them not to approve it. Even republicans, especially moderate Republicans.

It is important to understand: the president’s budget request IS ALREADY being enacted at the agency level—call your reps and senators if you like seeing cool pictures from space telescopes and planetary probes (I’m dead serious).

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.

1. Last night, Zohran Mamdani prevailed in the Democratic Primary for New York Mayor. He didn't run from trans people... He fought for them, pledging $65M to shore up care. He even spoke at rallies against hospitals like NY Langone capitulating to Trump. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Dipper dance! A fledgling American Dipper practices its new moves. #birds #bird #nature #wildlife

Mamdani’s platform on transgender rights is stellar. I’m pleased to see him ahead in the polls today. A victory would be profoundly meaningful for where progressives move from here, in a time where monied interests are trying to urge a rightward movement in the Democratic Party.

and wearing a mask is indeed punk as fuck here’s a free zine about it: shorturl.at/C1OEE

I wrote about how the New York Times is engaging in a victim blaming campaign against the trans community. If you've read their coverage on trans issues, you should read this piece. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

US tech companies rip us all off in the same way, no matter where we live - so it's only natural for Australia to import the EU's Digital Markets Act to take on Big Tech downunder.