It’s a chip off the ol’ block!

This is the image I've been waiting for! This is Earth's current quasi moon! There is a chance, this is a chunk of Moon that was cast off during an asteroid impact. YAY <insert muppet flail gif>

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

Here is the image directly: use it, share it, print it.

Years ago, NASA put out a Progress Pride flag of space images created by Rachel Lense. She is no longer at NASA, NASA is no longer celebrating diversity, and that old image just made me sad. So I made a new one. patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/pride-...

LGF!!! @starstryder.space

It feels very wrong that The Daredevil is on Disney+

It is so hot I don’t want to turn on my MacPro.

All I want for asteroid day is pictures of the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa. The Tianwen-2 mission should be there now or soon. Tianwen-2, can we haz pictures, pls & thank you?

Sometimes there are warning; and sometimes I ignore them to my fail. There is a supported bike ride today. It is money & time I shouldn't spend. But... Me: F-it, Imma do it anyway Website on iPad; Though shall not register Me: F-it, I haz laptop Website on MBP: Apple Pay fail Me: F-it, haz cc

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? A sale or two would be a massive help. Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Our Universe has light and structure in every variety. So does humanity.

Reviving the dad jokes thread for Father's Day!

I’m giving a talk at the Arch tonight and it just might be clear for the star pastry after!

Writer @planetx.bsky.social discusses the important message within Justice League: Dream Girls bamsmackpow.com/writer-jadzi...

This is the most honest AI explainer I’ve ever read. Via @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Happy Juneteenth! This Pride we're redoing the Pride flag with space and looking at the meaning of each color for pride and for science. The brown & black stripes on the Pride flag represent the people of color who are so often the pillars & defenders of the queer community. We wrap the cosmos...

I'm finally watching the end of Severance and the marching band episode, and the choreography + lighting + cinematography is magic

Also want to know

Dear America, Look. I believe I’m a trustworthy public servant, bc I know me You don’t know me. Why would you just assume you don’t need local journalism to keep me in line? Subscribe to your local rag, no matter what they’re printing, then show up at Council mttgs and speak on what matters.

When the weather would like you dead and decides to bring multiple weapons.

It is day 3 of AAS248. I am not there. I do have access to the press conferences remotely (yay). Presser 5 is about to start. It is the last one (boo). I am sad I missed 2 of the pressers due to other meetings / recording. Luckily, the AAS YouTube has it all. Up Soon: Stars Reshaping Galaxies

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

I definitely saw number 3 when I was reviewing something and it was so disheartening.

Inflation goes up. Food prices go up. Gas prices go up. Understandably, donations go down. If you are doing ok, can you please donate for those who can't anymore?

It is Day 2 of #AAS248. I am not there, but I am covering press conferences remotely. Are you ready? Up next: Our Changing Galaxy and the Skies We See There are 4 speakers who will each give content at a record speed. I will type as fast as I can. I should have had a 3rd coffee.

We're having tornado siren testing and my dogs, after many years, now know what the sirens mean and both are in "oh no - Thunder " scared dog poses under furniture.

Two snapping turtles, two painted turtles 💚

This image caption is doing a lot of work: "A diagram illustrating how the East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province resembles a spread fan, or hand with too many fingers for some reason. (University of Genoa)" Why couldn't they use the thumb???? Source: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Explain your @ In grad school I needed to name a server & I'd been listening to the LoTR BBC audio drama, so it was stryder (y due to being 23). At some point (livejournal?) I needed a username and stryder was taken, and I was doing variable star work & I like Star Wars, so... starstryder it was.

This week is AAS. I'm not there, BUT I have online access to the press conferences, so I get to bring you a bit of fresh hot science. Starting now, Presser 2: Variable, Windy, and Disruptive: The Behavior of Supermassive Black Holes I'll do my best to cover what's happening in real time.

Next Saturday, I'm giving a talk on Planets around other Suns at the St Louis Gateway Arch. If you're in the area, please come! www.gatewayarch.com/about/arch-e...

Come get your fresh hot episode.

My bike and I are in this cartoon.

I bought this salt container from @surlyamy.bsky.social knowing full well it would never contain salt. Instead, it is full of hibiscus ginger tea, and brings me joy even my doctor can’t be mad about.

girl me too

The entirety of Bluesky collectively watching the scaffolding at the Kennedy Center does quite remind me of the days of peak twitter.

Folks, I made the mistake of getting this book in audio because the narrator is all kinds of amazing. This is a mistake because there is now a snow storm of postits on my desk of things I want to hold onto. I am now ordering a paper copy from my LBS so I can dog ear the shit out of this book.

Last week's thread has become this week's EVSN. Catch all the receipts in one long deep dive here: patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/spacex...

Obviously this is a terrible idea but also I think we need an immediate moratorium on LLMs using bi flag colors as they are not worthy of the aesthetic

I meant to write 15 minutes of content. That wasn't enough words... 26 minutes of content later, here is what I had to say.

Plea to headline writers: say which breed of AI: machine learning and LLMs are not the same. If you say “understanding neutron star mergers with machine learning”, I’ll read. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

I was sure this was a @surlyamy.bsky.social creation and I fear this us out of my price range

I'm watching the Apple WWDC Keynote and like, we will never again know what is and isn't real. By Design.

i did not know this

The OG vector Star Wars is the first I’ve I remember finishing

Mohamad Sofa, a representative at UNECOSOC, writes on Twitter “The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.” I am going to repeat these words wherever people might listen.

1. mainstream media is controlled by what? five, six oligarchs? the messaging won't change while it's profitable 2. the line must go up 📈

I feel like the economy is racing toward a cliff that mainstream media & gov't are blithely ignoring. Due to the Strait of Hormuz closures. we're headed toward food (from lack of fertilizer), fuel, oil, and textile shortages. Meanwhile, the AI bubble is a ticking timebomb. Why so much ignore?