@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Lardon?!?

It's, somehow, Friday night. I've done enough this week. Everything is going to work out. You've done enough this week.

I’m presenting at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival tomorrow on the Starstruck VR project I and my colleague Laura Brenneman worked on for the past year, along with an amazing team at Fever. Should be fun… www.youtube.com/live/sgRSEKK...

Just saw a fantastic talk by Mario Juric (UWash) on early results from Rubin on the solar system. He spent some time talking about his new tool pyacid (acid.juriclab.org) that looks really fascinating for many different uses. #AAS248

I wonder what the average # of times a #Tonys #TonyAwards attendee has seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show movie. I’d say it’s well over 5…

May need to reuse this one for the lab…

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social ACTINIC ???

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social NICTITATE ???

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social GLYCOLIC!?!

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

Lambiek has a really detailed biography. Some of it I knew, some I didn't. Nicole was really an altweekly cartoonist who somehow snuck into daily papers w/o the editors noticing. The only one of us who pulled that off.

Last night at a gala honoring George Clooney, the man himself told a few stories, including this one, and it's one of those things that you just sort of will never forget.

Red Sox have won two games IN A ROW what's happening someone hold me.

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social CONTINUO

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social INTINCTION

INTINCTION @rejectednytwords.bsky.social

Check out @ohdearz.bsky.social great talk at the CfA colloquium on feedback and outflows from nearby galaxies at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Nh.... And thanks for the shout-out for the AtomDB CX model!

We had a retirement party for several longtime Center for Astrophysics staff today: notably Bob Wilson (of Penzias-and-Wilson fame), seen here being introduced by John Kovac

We weren’t sure we had a menorah so the kids decided we needed a Banorah

A real loss. Hopefully we’ll see a resurgence of doing his works around the world- they are all worthy of attention.

@brucelevenstein.bsky.social question: who else besides The Pixies has been fame-adjacent without being truly famous. 4AD bands excepted.

It has not, on balance, been a good day. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

Perhaps the best definition of “engineer” ever….

Hey, @brucelevenstein.bsky.social , did you know His Name Is Alive remastered Livonia a few months ago? Not sure why, interesting listening though.

Postdoc at Black Hole Initiative (directed by Peter Galison), at Harvard University & Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (in Cambridge, MA) AOS: #philsci, Philosophy of #Physics, #histsci Deadline: December 3, Start: September, 2025 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14118

these noise canceling headphones are terrible. i can still hear the voices in my head

Vulcan final certification flight successfully launched and separated. Beautiful daybreak launch.

Being the top Preservation expert in dealing with contract law in the Corporation Rim apparently made Pin-Lee like the CombatUnit version of a lawyer.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of today's strong solar flare, which peaked at 6:20 p.m. ET. blogs.nasa.gov/solarcycle25...

Unacceptable. No.

Great article in WaPo today, although it has zero discussion of the election and doesn’t even say if this news is good or bad for Harris: wapo.st/4eJZBvA

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has openings for at least 2 permanent-track astronomers! After an initial four-year fellowship, a possible permanent Federal position after a formal review of scholarly achievement, leadership, service, and mentorship. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28549

Why call him Mayor Adams when Turkish Delight is available?

It’s unclear whether Nuzzi’s punishment will be an editorship of her own high-powered magazine or an endowed chair at the Kennedy School of Government. Could be both if they’re really harsh with her.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #195,484… Thanks to @brucelevenstein.bsky.social for the invite…

Congratulations! Your students are going to be amazing!

The thing about agreeing to platform and normalize and share the stage with Claremont because of the value “everything should be subject to discussion and that‘s the way society progresses” is that you’re talking about values they clearly don’t share. /1

Just gonna point out that “rural midwesterner who served 24 years in the National Guard, was a teacher and football coach, also accomplished politician and engaging speaker” is a bio that is rarely going to line up with “energizes liberal netroots and delivers progressive policy Ws in spades”

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords actually sounds like a pretty decent alternative right now

they came for Dolly. we ride at dawn.

I thoroughly enjoy reading Terry Pratchett. His insightful commentary and views are essential to all. But realizing that they apply to YOU seems almost rude. Oh dear…

At the Belle & Sebastian concert. About to start!

“He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew…then it was too high.” Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (Discworld, #29)

I bet it's really cool to be an astronomer. You guys still dress up for work?