Viewing lightning bugs through the foggy car windshield, or just Pleiades?

Triangulum Galaxy - No filter, 97 stacks lossy.

Flame Nebula - Dual Band

Anyone wanna go halfsies? planewave.com/products/cdk...

Thanks to @hackadayofficial.bsky.social and Bryan for covering Return Void. I hacked my telescope to allow those who'd otherwise feel overwhelmed by or just can't afford to try astronomy. I hope it inspires them to become scientists, astrophysicists, and experimenters to make cool stuff for others.

Horsehead Nebula, I took this image 30 seconds ago and it's already over 1500 years old.

I have successfully *redacted for legal reasons just in case* the Vaonis Vespera II telescope API and am now fully controlling it with Twitch commands.

It's slightly interesting, yet concerning at the same time, to be reading a news article clearly generated by AI about Bandcamp banning AI songs.

My 40th birthday is only a few months away. Let's see if we uphold the trend of shitting my pants on my birthday. Will report back on cinco de Mayo on these highly anticipated results.

Took a trip to the smoky mountains

Spent today playing Banished wondering when I was going to beat it, only to find there is no end-game. You just build forever and ever and stop whenever you feel like you "beat" the game.

Steam link for wishlisting! store.steampowered.com/app/3325390/...

Hi, I’m Brian, the solo dev behind Slumber Realm. Thanks for checking out my game! Links in these replies... First... please consider wishlisting the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3325390/... This way you will be told when the game demo is available.

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!!! 🎲😴💤SLUMBER REALM💤😴🎲 A dreamy dice roguelike with ‘90s flair. 😱 Battle your adolescent fears 🧠 Discover powerful synergies 🗝️ Unlock upgrades and equipment 🥦 Fight broccoli

I’m announcing my game TOMORROW If you’d like to be personally notified of this, leave a like or reply to this post and I’ll let you know! I’d like help boosting the announcement post and would be grateful of any help 😅

I can't imagine how someone could find a musical artist channel as a good fit for... *checks email again* hidden cameras and hidden camera detectors...

If anyone wants to know why my blood pressure spikes when I'm in a doctor's office, now you know why.

I'm all for mental health support, but what the hell is this gaslighting from YouTube? Just because I'm not creating content every day I must be having some kind of mental meltdown or something? Really weird vibes from this email.

My self-hosting journey hasn't come to an end, but it has slowed down and I'm happy to finally be settled with the results. $80+ a month saved in just hosting things myself. No cloud involvement whatsoever, and self-hosted websites. Really happy with the results.

Have you ever not subscribed to a service's emails for a legitimate million-dollar+ company, get spammed by them, and then when attempting to unsubscribe their domain won't resolve, meaning you just can't unsubscribe... ever?

Am I the only person I the world that always felt that going to the movie theater is/was weird just in general? You sit next to a person you don't know, don't want to know, and actively avoid each other to then do a thing together you wish you didn't have to. What ever, really, was the point?

Happy 39th birthday to me (it was over a few hours ago)! Instead of receiving gifts, here's a gift for you... I rebuilt AOL Instant Messenger from scratch. Retro Instant Messenger is here and (mostly, kinda-sorta, but probably not) out of alpha. retroinstantmessenger.com

It doesn't get any funnier than claiming you support and welcome diversity at the White House press briefing, then immediately introduce Tim Pool, the guy who's podcast was literally funded by Russia, at your briefing. That is somehow both the most, and the least diverse you could possibly be.

The amount of money I will have saved on cutting down cloud subscriptions services for password management, etc. pays for a multi-thousand-dollar NAS with equal perf in ~3 years. 20+ TBs storage, no cost for compute, high capacity ECC RAM, M.2 read+write caches, and 2x 10gbit links LAN & WAN.

I can confirm I have found the solution to the US egg problem. Tests are looking very positive.

Nothing quite like banning yourself from your own websites accidentally by sending pings to make sure the they are up. Then, getting woken up in the middle of the night with your webhooks telling you all your sites are down and spending an hour trying to fix it only to find it's just you.

Someone complimented my music and likened it to Philip Glass. One could only wish to live up to such high praise. Carrot on a stick goals 2025!

First Sun - Dimensions In Chaos www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uyi... All the images and timelapse footage you see were shot by me spanning over a ten-year period by telescope or DSLR with thousands of still images. One clip animated for visual enhancement (2:07-2:13) using frame-prediction algorithms.

Yep, exactly as expected. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The thing that makes me the saddest is that since the government has "banned" TikTok to prevent China from stealing user personal data, those users have signed up for a new service owned by Chinese State Media called Red Note, handing over their personal info directly. Not the outcome you wanted...

If you didn't know, Python has had switch case since 3.10! You should use switch/case instead of multiple else if's.

When you think about it, saying the "speed of light" doesn't make sense does it? Instead, I would argue that mass, or more specifically, the lack of mass, determines a binary inherence. If an object has mass, it can never reach lightspeed. If it does not, it will always be at lightspeed.

Bode's Galaxy and Horsehead Nebula

Sol

Happy Holidays OK

Andromeda from my backyard. Enhanced contrast with cleaned up stars. I don't usually work on images after stacking because I'm bad at it, but this was an attempt I was happy with.

@bennjordan.bsky.social I finally made the switch over to Bsky, except I had to hand-delete every tweet, reply, and unlike every liked post. I got too lazy to build a script to do it and just spent hours doing it myself. I was able to get my entire export from Twitter though!

Starting over is kind of weird. Not sure about how long I'll be on any social media at this point to be honest.