Wind Farm at Night #art

Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Wildly overselling their class's benefits may be my favorite Stock Teacher Joke. In a class for UH-60L pilots to learn to fly UH-60Ms: Instructor, after hearing my fulltime job: So are you gonna be an astronaut? Me: Applied, no luck so far. Instructor: Well when they find out you're 60M QUALIFIED…!!

I try to be a rational person, but shout-out to the "you will get wonderful news on Saturday" fortune cookie I got a few days ago, which is singlecookiedly carrying me through a week of waiting to find out about two opportunities I would really, really love to get (a science job and a short course).

Went into my grad school office boxes in the basement looking for my handout binder from Instrumental Analysis. Didn't find it, but did find one solitary Mineralogy lab report from my first year--doing thin section sketches every week was such a pleasure but also always felt like it took FOREVER

Keyboard shortcuts to change text color without lifting my fingers from the keyboard. Red for placeholder text, green for things I need to fact-check, blue for wording that sucks, black for final-ish text. Somehow color-coding a first draft makes it easier for me to let a sentence be bad & move on.

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

There’s a 10-day livestream with just external camera images from Artemis II with no commentary www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Took today off to prep for a con I'm going to w/friends who are visiting. Big thing I have left to do is debug the Arduino controller software, which is not a great vacation from debugging my GCM setup, but my warmup task was getting the BD unit's head LEDs working and I am _so_ thrilled with them.

From NASA Now give that a quick stir 🥣 Landsat 8 caught a swirl of sediment – known as "glacial flour" – flowing in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system. Glacial flour is rock that has been pulverized by a glacier. It's a critical source of nutrient for phytoplankton webs.go.nasa.gov/47fZBlD

Oh hey, going through old voicemails just reminded me that I missed my ten-year defense anniversary the week before last! Using this as an excuse to show off the beautiful Dorsa Argentea Formation cake Lauren Jozwiak made for me at the time.

Cú Chulainn gets called everything from Coca-Cola to Choo-Choo Train by his friends and caretakers, but we got a new one from the vet's office today: Garth. Mail merge error, I assume, but considering we already occasionally call him Andraste's Mabari (iykyk) I'm adding Garth to the nickname list.

LRT: I try to keep the shitposting to a minimum here, but so help me God, if a semi-topical Wraith Squadron reference crosses my skyline in 2026 it's getting reposted

Happy Year of the Horse everyone.

This is a Must Read.

5 classes you took in college [my ~top 5] - Climate Dynamics (as @climatebook.bsky.social was finalizing the Climate Book) - Evol. Hist. of Terrestr. Ecosys. (pterosaur term paper!) - Electronics (8h lab/wk, 💙d all 8) - E&M II (finally felt like I "got" physics) - Natural Hist. of N American Deserts

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

Carved out some time to hit up the Brett Allen Johnson show on its last day at the Maxwell Alexander Gallery, hands down one of my favourite working artists:

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

That S3 will continue next year is *really* helpful to know. Still unsure whether Congress approving a larger budget would actually mean more funding, how best to avoid playing myself with the year-between-resubmissions rule in the current environment, etc. but at least that's one question answered.

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

"To call her death merely a suicide misses the larger truth—no suicide happens in a vacuum. Policies designed to make life unlivable for transgender people bear responsibility too; every trans suicide is a murder by those in power." www.erininthemorning.com/p/every-tran...

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Submitted my first ever faculty application! It would obviously be incredibly exciting if I get an interview, but I'm also just really glad to have gone through the process of assembling a teaching statement, etc. for the first time.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Off the top of my head, the cover of Sleep All Summer by the National and St. Vincent... this probably also doubles as a response to that "what is your most Millennial opinion" meme that was going around again a week or two ago.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Makapuʻu-Stage #Koʻolau Basalt has the most radiogenic Sr87/86 of #Hawaiʻi #lavas, low εNd, Hf176/177, and Pb206/204, and high La/Nb and Sr/Nb indicating a filament of recycled material (secondary garnet #pyroxenite via #eclogite) of the Hawaiian ULVZ associated with the Pacific LLSVP. #geology

I met the world's cutest integrating sphere at NIST this week.

This passage nearly broke me.

I will always RT NASA U-2s :)

Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson

Yardangs in the morning, yardangs in the evening #Mars 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

i am preparing for a conference in october, and i went back and read this talk i gave at the climate hope conference in vancouver, and ugh. i just want to share it with more people. i think it's my favorite talk i've ever given. i usually never write them out. read if you'd like.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Post your last photo of DC to show what a hell-hole it is. [I think the subjects of my last photo in DC might be somewhat upset at that characterization]

Took a climber/rescuer course this week to qualify for upcoming work fixing a radiometer on an 80' tower. Excited for the project! Also so sore in muscles I haven't used since I climbed 4x/week that I can't tell if my current running injury is cured or just not yelling as loudly as everything else 😆

Life has been too busy for droidbuilding since early May but I've been lucky to spend all day today back on my BD project! Unfortunately today's job = repeatedly assembling & disassembling the same part in between rounds of soldering & crimping, rather than anything photogenic, but getting so close!

Good news RI story: PlumpyNut is a famine relief nutrition paste made in RI for USAID. Trump killed the contract leaving tons of it sitting in a warehouse. RI discount store chain will now donate trucks and labor to move to NGOs that can use it. turnto10.com/news/local/o...

as someone who was raised Catholic & has spent my adult life as a person of faith (Buddhism), this @theradr.bsky.social post spoke to me deeply. after reading it, I set up a monthly donation to Gaza Soup Kitchen (link within ⬇️) 🙏🏻💚 “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me”