For comparison: old radio-telescope antenna (1970s-present) on left, upcoming new version (ngVLA) on right. The details they told us about the machining tolerances of the new version were borderline unbelievable.

I have returned from the National Science Foundation’s open house in Magdalena, NM, and can confirm that their Array is indeed Very Large. #VLA #ngVLA

Coffee shop is playing all the greatest hits from the 1970’s energy crisis.

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Gentleman’s Relish is toast after its maker axes the pungent anchovy spread

Rough couple weeks for sticklers about the original meaning of "decimated"

Easter is coming.

[scrolling greatest tweets] … but… but… but… is the Grink here

Love my Congressperson!

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

Resistance Dogs showing up at #NoKings in Albuquerque today. The crowd seemed both bigger and *younger* than the last one, when an estimated 37,000 pissed off Burqueños turned out. Resistance Dogs are the best dogs.

#NoKings. Auburn, #Maine representing all across the Longley Bridge. Oh, and Susan Collins is going to be very unemployed soon.

Getting The Onion @theonion.com in the mail on #NoKings day seems perfect.

Its a nice change to be mad with hundreds of people in person rather than being mad by myself on my phone.

don't let folks get you about how protest doesn't change things. a totally undervalued takeaway (for me) has been when you're out there in your unicorn onesie with your friends and neighbors, be it 10 or 10k, you are reminded you are not alone, so many people want a better world. #nokings

Even our small towns are going to show up in much higher numbers than previous rallies. People everywhere are pissed. Politicians won't be able to continue to ignore that constituents are pissed. More robust opposition is needed before the midterms.

Quercus muhlenbergia or thereabouts, you reckon?

New Mexico’s state flower is getting ready to pop.

"if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a rake—forever." newrepublic.com/post/207989/...

Well well well, look who’s wanting status quo ante bellum

“Dumb as hell” is elegant in its brevity, but less Clausewitzian in its scope than: “it is not possible for two sides to both win a war. But it is absolutely possible for both sides to lose; mutual ruin is an option.” An excellent analysis of how we got here.

Tough decade for me because i still want to know things, except no i do not

No Kings v. 3.0 | Coming up March 28, 2026 www.nokings.org/news/over-30... #Albuquerque #NewMexico #NoKings

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

Skating to where the puck is going, I’m investing every spare dime in monkeys

Reader, I spatchcocked him.

This should have things cleared up by this time next week

Coffee shop is playing “Rock the Casbah,” and the oil down the desert way has indeed been shaken to the top. RIP Joe Strummer.

Gathering up little bits of daylight and putting them in a ziplock bag in the freezer so we don’t have to go through all this again next year

“I called [my wife] the Fresh Air Bandit. I even got our kids to call her that. Long marriages are built upon such petty conflicts.” @drewmagary.bsky.social on the practice of airing your house, aka lüften

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

Jimmy is at his gam-dangling finest this morning despite losing an hour of overnight foot-bothering.

don't ever talk to me or my son again

As a proud patriot I am willing to sacrifice my 401(k) if it contributes to trump dying in prison

“Stop honoring our dead. You’re making us look bad” is the new “suckers and losers.”

Abiquiú raven

Rage Against the HVAC Machine

Not enough punk derpy ways going on in the timeline lately

Clearer every day

To “sit and nod, with a little, delighted smile, as though admiring a sandwich that had exactly the right amount of mayonnaise.” His entire career in a nutshell.

February sky says spring is on the way in Albuquerque.

Last night my sleeping brain decided there’s a new movie starring Rick Moranis and Yul Brynner called “Honey, I Shrunk the King and I.” Stupid brain, Brynner’s been dead longer than Reagan.

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

you don’t say www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The windy season may have come to Albuquerque (low confidence)

Hoping word hasn’t gotten around