My question is whether it was the drug use, Nazi salutes, election interference, racist and antisemitic tweets, creepy pronatalism, chilling sociopathy, puzzling inarticulateness, allegations of IP theft or persistent flouting of US law that pushed Tesla bros over the top on gifting Elon $1 trillion

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Musk as oligarchal vapourware

A million seconds is 11.6 days A billion seconds is nearly 32 years A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The smallest glimpses can mean so much Jupiter rising in Millcreek Canyon, Utah

This is true but misleading: it's not that the average American will have lost 450 pounds, it's that Joe from Tuscaloosa has lost 134.9 billion pounds (good work, Joe!)

SWOOSH! 🧹 When a meteoroid struck Mars, it triggered ~100 dust avalanches down an ancient volcano's slopes. @esa.int's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured the dramatic effect of the rare cascade. A new @nature.com study examines the most common causes of these streaks. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

and story by me!

More info about Marta Leiva, the woman I witnessed being assaulted by plainclothed men in the SLC airport last week. She has a work permit legal through 2029, mom of 4 with sick kids: www.ksl.com/article/5139... You can donate to her gofundme for legal expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/apoya-madr...

4 years of #invertober #SciArt goobers you know what, from going through 3-4 months of one of my worst art blocks ever to an outpouring of art 2025 was overall a good art year #HumanMade #noAI #invertebrates

Warm light and lavender as a tonic

Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter successfully observed the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in early October at a distance of ~29 million km, CNSA has just announced. www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6758823/n67...

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tom Gwilym)

"Postcards from Ancient #Mars: Isotopes Illuminate Early Martian Climate" New analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's #Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars' past to a time, some 3.7 billion years ago, when it was warmer and wetter. #RedPlanet #Caltech

Add this to the incoming administrator's dismissal of JPL's work, and it becomes even more clear every day that actual space exploration by the US (as opposed to merely having lots of rocket launches) is in existential danger.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

What if we kissed among the clouds of Jupiter, the whole sky above pulsing with light?

Juice and NASA's Europa Clipper mission will make coordinated observations in the Jovian system.

Frosty dunes in Hooke Crater, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in September. The area shown is about a kilometer across. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

📷 This shimmering view from the ESA Euclid mission shows the dark cloud LDN 1641. Though nearly invisible to the human eye, Euclid’s infrared vision uncovers a rich landscape of gas, dust and dozens of newborn stars🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @ec-euclid.bsky.social

A lot of Very Serious People will be pretending to be confused about What This All Means as a way to avoid the simple inconvenient reality: Voters like it when candidates are kind sincere non-weirdos who are passionate about big popular ideas that will actually help real people.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

VR look at Perseverance's recent location, built by Neville Thompson www.flickr.com/photos/nev-t...

Waiting for tonight's moon

the folks who'd do this to a working mother of four are evil and anybody who won't say so can't be trusted.

Barn owl, snowy field :) #sciart #birdart #artist #procreate #illustration

Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax #SciArt

SNAP funding isn't Trump's money to do with whatever he pleases. These are taxpayer dollars—YOUR dollars. Trump needs to FOLLOW THE LAW, listen to the courts, and get these benefits out ASAP.

Five months after launch, #SolarOrbiter was delivering its first images of the Sun. No other images of the Sun had been taken from such a close distance at the time. They revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed ‘campfires’, near the surface of the Sun. 2/ 🔭 #CM25

Part of our #CosmicVision plan, #ESASolarOrbiter launched in February 2020. An ESA mission with strong NASA participation, it's the most complex scientific laboratory ever sent to study our star to understand better its 11-year cycle, the corona, the solar wind & more. 🔭 1/ #CM25

New shots of the fascinating yardang unit captured by Curiosity with her Chemcam RMI telescope 🔭🧪 #Mars Nov. 2, 2025 - Sol 4707 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL

One of the coolest things about fandom is the reciprocity of inspiration. I once saw an interview of NASA folks and Star Trek actors, each crediting the other for inspiring what they do! I see devs or voice actors liking Horizon Zero Dawn fan art, and I just know it makes the artist's day!

Directly defying a court order so that he can withhold food from the poor

Word for word this could be a Muppets bit.

URSA MAJOR 🌙 URSA MINOR ✨🧸 #formline

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Open Sesame! The ELT doors have moved for the first time. This was no small feat, as each door will weigh 650 tonnes once completed. The ELT dome & its doors will guard the telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert. https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2544a/ 🔭 🧪 📹 ESO/ACe

La lettre d'informations astronomiques du Laboratoire Temps Espace (LTE) pour le mois de novembre 2025 vient de paraître : www.imcce.fr/newsletter/h... Avec notamment un article sur la découverte d'un système d'anneaux en cours de formation autour de l'astéroïde centaure Chiron.

roses are red the french are easy to outmaneuver

All last night the sky was covered with high clouds that drifted in a ghostly procession over the Moon. They at times became broad parallel strips which acted as a 'screen' for a Lunar halo surrounding the gibbous Moon. I obtained some all sky sequences as the clouds developed and passed by.

A trio of monster active regions have rotated into view over the Sun’s eastern horizon. Whilst the front of the Sun has been quiet for a while, these regions were producing significant activity on the Sun’s backside. They will rotate to face Earth later this week. #spaceweather

Re-upping this:

Io is the most active body in the solar system, with volcanic eruptions changing its face with new lava flows and volatile deposits. Just last year, an eruption west of Illyrikon Regio in Io's south polar region created a lava flow field the size of the US state of Maryland in less than 2 months!

call me radical, but i do believe there is a place in government for discussions about whether something is legal or doable or moral. thats just my beliefs

Disruption to science will last longer than the US government shutdown theconversation.com/all-governme...

My interest is planetary exploration, but when people ask what NASA has done since Apollo, I like to mention that it led the construction of a massive international space station and in the past quarter century NOT ONE DAY has passed without an astronaut in space. www.nasa.gov/reference/as...

HiPOD: Springtime on a Polar Cliff In this image we can see many dark streaks extending down the slope, but no sign yet of larger avalanches that were common in past years. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_068674_2640 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA