The All Lives Matter folks seem to have not internalized the inherent message that it means that all lives matter *even if you don't like them*. And so passing judgement on the morality of a person does not imply you don't think their life matters.

Ho hum another walk off come from behind #BlueJays win. 🤩

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#BlueJays tie it up late in the game against Houston. What else is new?

Me to the center for instructional technology: "The functionality exists, just in a place that’s completely unintuitive." Them: "You are correct."

Slightly diminish a book Decent Expectations

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Finished packing!

Okay which of you was responsible for today’s NYT Connections??

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Gary But Were Afraid To Ask

I will 100% jump on this bandwagon. 1 like = 1 song

11 days into semester and I'm up to 7 queries to our instructional technology folks asking "How the hell do I do this obvious thing in Ultra??" (so far: 4 possible but I couldn't find it, 2 no longer possible, 1 not yet answered)

Epiphany: risotto is braised rice I’m sure this has occurred to people before, but I’d never thought about it like that before.

Roll Tide!

Cats are perfectly evolved creatures, you say? #Caturday

Feels like covfefe night vibes.

There is only one correct answer to this question.

Slightly diminish a band: Concern! at the Disco

I will never get tired of the annual tradition of @ngc3314.bsky.social doing goth shopping for me at DragonCon. 🖤😂

One easy way to tell seals apart from sealions is that the latter have a different number of electrons

When do #NashvillePredators single game tickets go on sale?

Wondering whether my generic "Here is a useful guide to email etiquette as you start your university career" announcement will be taken the right way by the student who addressed me as "Hey Mrs. Bailin".

Proud supervisor moment: #LeidenObservatory graduate student Richelle van Capelleveen led one of two papers on our discovery of WISPIT 2b#LeidenObservatory a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet clearing a path in a circumstellar disk. Laird Close and his team saw it in H-alpha, indicating gas accretion #astrodon 🔭 🧪

There are lots of worse AI mistakes, but this one is pretty damn funny.

I could not tell you the proportions, but I must say this take on an old fashioned I just threw together is pretty awesome. Rye, maple syrup, bitters, dry vermouth, lemon juice, and a hint of jalapeno.

First fall class in the books, and so far it looks like a good group! Too early to be definitive, but vibes are so far positive.

Eric Adams involved in corruption?

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? I don't know that they'll save me, but at least they'll figure out who killed me. [Wondering if *anyone* will recognize this]

There's probably more to astronomy than dunking on Avi Loeb but it's sometimes hard to tell from social media.

For me this is undoubtedly The Cure.

Assault with a deli weapon

Slightly diminish a band: The okay okay bosstones

Slightly diminish a band: Teenage Boys with a Single Hat

Slightly diminish a band: Concern! at the Disco

Slightly diminish a band: The Plausible Retirees of Mu Mu

Slightly diminish a band: A band

"If they're making us switch to Blackboard Ultra, that must mean that the UI is better, right? It couldn't possibly be a massive downgrade, could it?" WTF were they thinking?????

This is bad.

We’ve got a new zooniverse program called Dwarf Quest! Help us find members of our Milky Way’s galactic entourage in data from the Dark Energy Camera www.zooniverse.org/projects/ywy...

50 trips around the sun.

Connection is now down to negative time. Going to keep the current flights in the hopes that they hold the second flight for me. Wish me good luck and fast legs.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Hello, I’m an astrophysicist in a film. I wear a lab coat even though the only thing I ever do is write equations on a chalkboard. I can any type of mental math in half a second. I speak in some not-quite-identifiable European accent.

Aw man. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

ONE OF US

“Not good with dogs” = Met one dog and was not happy about it. We’re not sure, but we think he’s trying to assassinate them. Feels vendetta-based. And doodle-specific.

ln(😅) = 💧ln(😄)

Apropos of nothing, please no presents for my upcoming 50th. NOT EVEN A CARD.

Toronto mutuals, I’ll be in town for a day, dm me if you want to grab a drink tomorrow evening!