🗓️ GET BACK ADVENT CALENDAR, DAY 13 (December 21, 1968): It’s 12 days to the Beatles’ Get Back sessions, 57 years ago today - we’re more than halfway through! Rockets fly, Marmalade jams, Hell's Angels sign and Krishnas correspond 🚀🏍️📝 theymaybeparted.com/december-21-...

(This and the previous one from 2024) "Minimoon Rising" Styluspainted on tablet with #SketchbookApp #ArtAdventCalendar

Being white is one of the very few things JD Vance doesn’t owe everyone an apology for.

2026 resolution: Get Derfed

Who is a scientist friend or colleague of yours doing truly excellent work that more people should know about?🧪

I want to wish a happy Summer Solstice to all my colleagues and friends across the Southern Hemisphere, from ZA to Oz, from the Andes to Rio de la Plata, and everywhere in-between, with a special shoutout to @astrokiwi.bsky.social in Aotearoa!

I hear that train a-comin’ It’s comin’ round the bend But I don’t mind at all because I’ve made a lot of friends I’m stuck in Wholesome Prison The guards are full of cheer So that train can keep a-rollin’ I’m gonna stay right here

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 20, a fun little number done as part of a group project in which everyone was assigned characters from the Rocky Horror Picture Show to translate into a manicure (I got Columbia). Hand painted with regular nail polish.

"NeMO" Styluspainted on tablet with #SketchbookApp #ArtAdventCalendar

Today is Primidi the 1st of Nivôse in the year 234. Nivôse is the month of snow. Today we celebrate peat.#JacobinDay More information on peat

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🗓️ GET BACK ADVENT CALENDAR, DAY 12 (Dec 20, 1968): It’s 13 days to the Get Back sessions, 57 yrs ago today. Finally, they're back together! Three of the Beatles partied in West London. Where was John? It's complicated. Meanwhile, their "latest record" came out 🥳⚫ theymaybeparted.com/december-20-...

Honestly, the funniest possible replacement is my uncle and you’ll have to take my word for it, but I accept she is a solid #2 (so to speak).

I went to Shen Yun and watched it slowly dawn on Christians in the audience that they were being proselytized to, and their outrage at being on that end of the equation, and having it done via art no less. I just sat back, thought about Handel’s Messiah, watched them, and smiled.

I’m threading this one for #ArtAdventCalendar day 19 for context because I did the thing! Please enjoy my invented species! Thumb: Maratus gingerbreadus Index: Maratus dreidelis Middle: Maratus yuletreei Ring: Maratus kinarae Pinkie: Maratus wreathii

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🗓️ GET BACK ADVENT CALENDAR, DAY 11 (Dec 19, 1968): It’s 14 days to the Get Back sessions, and John & Yoko are being swept into the “obscene and likely to deprave and corrupt” events from the Alchemical Wedding the night before - but they were just in a bag!🤬 theymaybeparted.com/december-19-...

One of the most wonderful and poignant things about astronomy for me is that there are things we study that practically every human being (by any definition) ever could have seen and things that only people living literally this year can fleetingly experience.

Just things like me saying early on that the story of rock and roll is the story of Black men easing out Black women, white men easing out Black men, and rich white men easing out poor white men, in that order, would hit *very* differently from a Black woman, even though it would be just as true.

I was wondering what the non-Christmas/Christian inflatable holiday decoration scene looks like, and the Muslims are really bringing it newtraditionsstore.com/collections/...

🗓️GET BACK ADVENT CALENDAR, DAY 10 (December 18, 1968): It’s 15 days to the Beatles’ Get Back sessions, 57 years ago today, and the day John & Yoko birthed Bagism amid a wild scene at the Royal Albert Hall 🤫🎒🕳 theymaybeparted.com/december-18-...

I broke my new-art-only rule today because I’m going to be attempting a festive holiday version of Maratus spiders during tonight’s live stream on my YouTube channel! youtube.com/live/0tAV9xk...

#ArtAdventCalendar day 18 is one I believe I’ve featured here before. From June of 2024. Still one of my favourite manis - this one is known by my nail friends as my “Priders” mani. For Pride spiders, naturally.

OK, well, it looks like that window of time where I found Mookie Betts likable has closed.

Grinchfinger

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

A Hard Day's Grinch

Brooks had no contact that he's admitted or has been found out or that the NY Times has admitted, in any case.

Should have put some feed info in this one: #PlanetaryScience 🧪🛰️⚒️

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Superb video included in today's JPL update for #PerseveranceRover (www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...). With synthetic frames and obviously, the rover doesn't move that fast, but the final result is impressive. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

oh i don't know, just kind of popped into my head

Q11: If there were one awe-inspiring sight/experience in a park that you think could lead to social growth, and make the world a better place, what would it be? #parkchat

🗓️ GET BACK ADVENT CALENDAR, DAY 9 (Dec 17, 1968): It’s 16 days to the Beatles’ Get Back sessions, 57 years ago today, and we've got an episode about the rhythm section. Paul sends regards in the waning hours of his getaway, while Ringo’s 2nd career takes off 📨🍬🎥 theymaybeparted.com/december-17-...

A nice overview from our media folks of the theoretical and observational work our team has out so far on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ☄️

hey if you're wondering "has a baseball website covered whatever the fuck Miller is talking about, for some reason and done it more accurately than he is?" the answer is absolutely, yes: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Hi friends, please help me spread the word on the open professor position in #planetaryScience we have in Bern 🔽

Expectations of #AGU25 attendees. Not pictured: our commitment to be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

One of Charlie Finley's failings was never giving us the pleasure of rooting for or against the Cincitaati Athletics.

I recognize this isn’t the kind of yeti in the QP, but I am reminded of the story of Kent Wells and The Hogbear of Mount Bigelow. (It’s better told in person after a few cold ones, TBH)

On the 3rd night of Hanukkah, we share this 1950s photo of Jewish American war veterans gathered around a menorah. 🕎 The preservation of images like this links the past to our present & shows how traditions endure across generations. 📸 archive.org/details/cala... #Preservation #Holidays #Veterans

If you’re at the @agu.org meeting in New Orleans, stop by the @aas.org Division of Planetary Sciences booth down in the 800 row of the Exhibition Hall and say hi! :)

Others are bringing up my usual response of pointing to the perpetually money-losing US military, so instead I'll ask: Like the way that we subsidize farmers? Both in general for decades and specifically now because of the tarriffs? Programs that aren't working cause that, right?

Oh, Mark Kelly, you say? I suppose the next inevitable email he sends titled “My Decision” should try to explain this one. :/

Attn @theymaybeparted.bsky.social

Back from dinner with a dear friend, now seeing the latest news. I'm gutted and I'm logging off. We need to be the great miracle that happens here.

And for #ArtAdventCalendar day 14, I’m back on my bug shit. I painted this during a live stream. I hadn’t set out to do a wasp manicure, but early in the stream a tiny parasitoid wasp landed on my nail desk, and I started talking about them. Chat ended up demanding I paint cuckoo wasps on my nails!

Kiel, Germany, 1931

🗓️ GET BACK ADVENT CALENDAR, DAY 6 (Dec 14, 1968): It’s 19 days til the Get Back sessions begin. Only John & Yoko could turn a dentist visit into a multimedia news conference. Plus, new live show rumors and the race to cover (and pretend to be) the Beatles🦷🎤 theymaybeparted.com/december-14-...