Accidentally seeing The Offspring and really hoping that they play some Crazy Taxi

One QOL fix for life would be if every web site included, on the login screen, what their password requirements are. Because I wOn't remember that your site requires 13 character passwords with two capital letters that appear in state capitals, one prime number and a symbol not used as punctuation.

Sometimes 2025 just feels like a lot, and you need an excuse to celebrate your fabulous team (and the whole exoplanet community!) reaching a new milestone… Happy 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets Day, everybody!!!! (You may recognize the narrator of the video at the link! 🫣) www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

At the movie theater last night, there was a Google commercial saying: "Here's a question. If your friend sends a message to your phone asking for an address that's in your phone, shouldn't the first one to find it be your phone?" And then multiple people in the audience yelled "No"

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Don from the Cable Club League podcast joins us for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, 1994), a compilation of the first three NES Mega Man games plus a bonus Wily Wars exclusive game. Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

Hey all! If anyone is looking for a podcast editor please let me know! Could use some extra cash for some bills this month and any work would be appreciated!

If you enjoy the show, we would love it if you told a friend about it! Let ‘em know we have a back catalogue of 250 episodes (and counting) on some of the weirdest and coolest movies ever made, and you can listen for FREE patreon.com/haveyouseenthis

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Congrats to Perry and Japan on Film hitting the 100th episode mark, a great podcast and every time I listen to an episode about a movie I've watched, I come away with a better understanding of that movie's context. Very enriching.

Does anyone else think it's weird that the Simpsons has Ned Flanders, when Ned is the abbreviation for the Netherlands in the Olympics and Flanders is the Dutch-speaking portion of Belgium?

Astronomy sure can be cool; and this adds another solar system object to the ones I've seen using the 5 meter at Palomar (the others being Pluto & Charon, the moon, and I think Uranus - I may be forgetting one or two others). It's a change from looking at stars the rest of the night, certainly.

This feels like a healthy news cycle we have going here

With so many things that are justifiably upsetting going on, I'm glad to have a break from all that. But with something that is more irrationally upsetting to me: I just learned how comptroller is supposed to be pronounced and I do not like it dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionar...

🔊 Everybody, everywhere, please spread the word that PBS has a streaming app! Yes, stations need your donations now more than ever but many, many programs on the PBS App are💯free to watch. Download the app ⬇️ / spread the word. 💙📺

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Nate Brown (NateBlackest on Twitch) joins us for Blast Corps, the 1997 action-destruction game for the Nintendo 64. Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

Watching Mazes and Monsters followed the next night by Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus really turned into a one-two punch of disappointment. I didn't expect good, but I was expecting at least interesting. Boring is the most disappointing thing a film can be.

Game I played arguably too much of early in the year is now on sale; some good storylines with characters and, much to my appeal, you basically can just say what sort of personality you want to have and then it does all the dialogue options for you (which I appreciate)

youtu.be/kBLkQIi3S18 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.

This one reminds me, I really need to get the XKCD drawing about exoplanets I got at San Diego Comic-Con many years ago framed and in my office one of these days

I'll be honest, I'm still riding high that we were able to have this happen.

Went into the movie True Stories pretty blind last night, and definitely appreciate that in the modern age, I can get help unpacking what I just watched rather than just sit alone with no exposure to people that have been down this road before me. In this case, it's @haveyouseen.us to my rescue.

Some fun news to interleave in your TLs - the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program is an open sandbox for the astronomy community to collaborate on confirming and characterizing planets. It's totally voluntary, but apparently, if you build it, they will come! www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/exoplan...

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, we're going back to Hyrule with KylTheSheikah (@kylthesheikah.bsky.social ) and our returning Zelda consultant RiRiYells as we check out The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, released for the N64 in 1998. Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

Why is Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain one of the most underappreciated roller coasters in the world (with one of the most unappreciated names)? Too many reasons to fit in the character limit here, but I had plenty of room to detail it over on the Wild Mouse podcast Check it out!

🔭 Astronomers! I am in the pre-planning stage of organizing an pod-cast event that will highlight the astronomers themselves, our enthusiasm for the job and its impact on society. I am considering making it a marathon. Email me if you are interested in being a co-host.

I do not get the sort of madness involved to sell a square pizza then say that the recommended portion requires cutting the pizza into fifths (which, to be clear, is already wrong for a round pizza)

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, we fly a little too close to the sun with Josh from the Still Loading podcast ( @stillloadingpodcast.com ) and his frequent co-host Dexter as we check out Kid Icarus, released for the NES in 1987 Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Kristal of The Lazy Circles returns with her friend Nick to talk about Metroid for the NES and Metroid II: Return of Samus for the Game Boy Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

Quite excited to get the @letterboxd.social email notification that Hot to Trot is now on Tubi because I've had the accompanying episode of @haveyouseen.us downloaded on my phone for quite some time, just waiting for me to get to watch such a vaunted Bobcat Goldthwait vehicle first

Truly, it's remarkable how much I can accomplish these days by using my phone's ability to translate whatever I point the camera at. Proper translation would be best, but I hope we're not too far off a lot of older astronomical 🔭 writings being more easily searchable arxiv.org/abs/2503.23614

Always a pleasure to announce another great issue of Acta Prima Aprilia is out, with 4 submissions on arXiv.🔭 There's some great-looking papers up on arXiv from competing publications as well. www.actaprimaaprilia.com/2025-issue

Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

Season 3 of The Old SwitchAroo begins with The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX for the Game Boy Color, joined by Derick of the Underrated movie podcast @underratedmoviepod.bsky.social and RiRiYells. Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

"But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." - Dorothy Thompson, August 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

After seeing more than a few dismal responses from universities in the current dismantling of science in the U.S., I want to applaud this email from the chair of my alma mater, the University of Washington Astronomy Dept. 🔭 (Email is too long for alt text, so I will copy-paste in replies)

I can't tell if it's a service thing, a user thing, or a critical mass thing, but blue sky still feels really unsuited to supporting conferences (translation: i don't know how to find other "know thy star 2" posts or if there just isn't anyone posting about it - #knowthystar2?)

Pretty final version of map of fire agencies that helped Los Angeles fight the Jan 2025 fires. Over 550 agencies outside LA/OC, representing 3 countries and 14 states, sent people and/or equipment. It's been something positive to focus on in a very rough month here www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

Finding it somewhat therapeutic to look at how much help the LA area has received for the Palisades and Eaton fires because it's more about the support being given. This map now lists over 300 agencies that sent equipment/personnel (and still adding as I find them) www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Not much I can do about the LA fires themselves, but the amount of firefighting support coming in is incredible. In lieu of finding it anywhere else, I've started making a Google map of all agencies that have sent help (currently have over 200 agencies) www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Welcome addition to academic conferences here is the addition of a discussion about mental health in academia, as this feels more impactful than these discussions happening in separated venues (talk by psychiatrist Jonathan Chou at MIT) #TESScon3 🔭

By far, one of the greatest contributions to today has been the new Astrobites tradition of adding peer review to the celebrations. And this is impressive turnaround, too. I wish I could get peer review back in under 24 hours (though I also wish I could *complete* a peer review in under 24 hours)

I'm pleased to release the 2024 issue of Acta Prima Aprilia 🔭, as it marks another solid body of research up on the arXiv: www.actaprimaaprilia.com/2024-issue

I got an email today announcing that Penn State's astrostatistics 🔭 workshop will be back again this year, June 3-7 sites.psu.edu/astrostatist... This'll be via Zoom, and while I went back when it was in-person, I think this is incredibly helpful material for early career (I went a grad student)

We kick off Season 10 with one of the most internationally renowned animated films of all time. Derick McDuff of the Underrated network returns to discuss Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke. We discuss the many themes in the movie and its enduring legacy. japanonfilm.com/princessmono...

The second half of our episode of Caveman Games 🎮 is out, joined by special guest @warboss5.bsky.social. This time we play Joe & Mac 2 and Prehistorik Man (both SNES) #JoeAndMac #JoeAndMac2 #PrehistorikMan #SNES #NintendoSwitchOnline #Nintendo #cavemanninja #retrogaming #retrogamer #console #gamer

Hoping someone on the academic side of astronomy 🔭 could point me towards anything (esp that's from astro specifically) that can serve as a refresher guide to being a good peer reviewer for a paper for those that only been on the contributor side for a while. Either something to read or watch helps

Somewhere in the 20 minutes between this being posted and me seeing it, I had this exact issue with trying to spell plagiarism

Our newest episode is out, "Yeah, Bud! Abba Dudes! Part 1", where we go back to the stone age with @warboss5.bsky.social to play some caveman games🎮on Nintendo Switch Online: Joe & Mac and Congo's Caper on SNES. Look for The Old Switch-a-roo wherever you get podcasts. www.theoldswitcharoo.com/s1e12

You know what boat i wouldn't be getting on? Anything with a name this close to Poseidon Adventure. I saw how that goes (yes, i know the boat's just the Poseidon)

Andrew Vanderburg's summary on a really interesting talk about using TESS and JWST and a tantalizing image showing planet candidates around a white dwarf that will need some confirmation to identify as planets with any confidence #AAS243 🔭