Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet. The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

I simply do not see how you can understand the clear and obvious truth that all Palestinians are NOT Hamas while at the same time believing that all Jews are Israel. I need y’all to look at that contradiction and at yourselves.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

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Carcassone: like a Ren faire with more production value

A little after 5pm here and nope, everyone’s still here. See you all next Rapture!

Took the TGV to Bordeaux, we rented a Dacia Sandero, and so many European trucks. My ASD having ass is having a fantastic day!

So? Don’t like it, don’t watch.

Io Revisited, a Glow in the Dark - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/7epZCx

This is huge if true, and would prevent the very worst outcomes to NASA science arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

I process only the best images of Enceladus. From my visit to the gardens at Versailles today. @carolynporco.bsky.social

Louis XVIII is right behind me, isn’t he?

He's just pissed that all we can afford are shitty futons and not sexy, sexy sectionals.

Well, that explains it. We're all dead. This is hell. We are all in hell.

Milan won 1-0 (despite the most inept ref I’ve ever seen), and Jacksonville lost in a close game to the Bengals. So far my teams are 1-1 today, but the Cubs are now up over the Rays. Could be a good day.

I would really like him to define "Traditional political violence"

I don't wish death upon my political enemies, I wish them becoming *utterly, laughably* irrelevant.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

If Duffy put any more spray tan on I would argue that he is made of iron oxide and vivianite.

So we're going to fund a mission to get those samples back to Earth, right? Right? RIGHT?

Welp, the acting administrator of NASA just said "This could very well be the clearest sign of life that we have ever found on Mars." And we're off....

The Presidential Palace, Prime Minister’s offices and all documents have been destroyed in Nepal. The Nepalese army has warned they will deploy troops if unrests continue.

After nearly a decade of saying which JWST result I was most excited about, it's here: JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS! TRAPPIST-1 E!!! IT'S ... A FLAT LINE! BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!? IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!? WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

I'm introducing the Perry scale. This measures the "coolness" of a planetary body. It can be mapped to a two-axis chart with one axis being the surface age and the other a measure of how colorful the surface is. Io is a 10. Earth is a 9. Europa is a 7. Rhea is a 1.

Wearing my Jaguars shirt for D&D night. Because at least one of my sports ball teams did well today. Looking at you, Cubs... (can't even beat the Nationals...)

Does this make me a poor itinerant priest of Blueskyism?

Why not Turkey?

Hey, everyone! The world maybe on fire, but Io is... also on Fire! But in a good way! And we have a new paper out in JGR - Planets (OPEN ACCESS) with all the goods about Juno's JunoCam observations of Io (more) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

weyWHAT An unexpected occultation discovery of a potential 2nd moon or 3rd ring arc around dwarf planet Quaoar! The new moon/ring is 30±2 km wide and seems to be 5757 km from Quaoar—suspiciously close to 7:2 orbital resonance with Quaoar's big moon Weywot! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... ☄️

When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.

In Eugene. Again.

The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.

huh, suddenly its raining Subway sandwiches. Weird.

NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear. Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky. Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Finally, after 125 hours, I finished the main quest line in Oblivion Remastered. So yes, I did kill Terrance Stamp's character in Oblivion on the day he died in real life. But he did a great job as the pontificating villain in that second-to-last quest, Paradise.

Got 71, or Flailing. Life-long Jaguars fan Cubs and LAFC fan as an adult. Wish this had European soccer leagues as I’m more of an AC Milan fan than an LAFC one.

Can’t wait for another 15 year old to shove him in a locker and take it away

Let me get this straight. We have how many mass shootings in this country and there is no response from the GOP but "Thoughts and Prayers" but Big Balls gets punched by a 15-year-old girl and Trump wants to send in the National Guard to deal with "crime".

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN

Lousy Amuary weather!

The new EO on grants has me thinking of this scene from the Hunt for Red October for NOOOOO reason in particular.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUvp...

So the NASA grant process will be both the Squid Game AND that one Next Gen episode where Picard got gaslit about the number of lights in the room?

Hey, don't do that to THAT rug! It really ties the room together.

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.