“why am i always so tired?“ the mom wondered, as her toddler who she managed to get to sleep in his own bed earlier woke up sad and now managed to use both pillows on her own bed, despite his small size and apparent dislike of using pillows except for non sleep activities

when do i admit to myself and the world that i have a problem with the neighbor’s faintly audible smoke detector that chirps from a water heater closet just across from my bedroom? they fixed it a while ago, but then it started up again. i just keep thinking surely they hear it too… surely

I mean, yeah, I do know I should make some new space art sometime. I blame Minecraft. And WoW housing. It's better than moping around at the grocery store and thinking about how much certain things suck lately. Wait, I do that too.

people keep asking me about my pecan pie and i keep having to tell them it’s just the recipe on the karo syrup bottle. it’s the easiest pie in the world. yes. the best is also the easiest. i broker no illusions.

how do you get links in posts like html anchors anyway? see: bsky.app/profile/apod...

discovering another way to be sick with some kind of common virus! somehow the kid gets it, is miserable for one night, and then wakes up the next morning and announces "I feel better!" me? no. where's my pillow

cleaning up my junk mail and see that wikipedia used the ol’ hst jwst one two combo for their holiday fundraising campaign this year

dogs have serrated lips. i think about this way too much. if your dog gets close to me, i’m looking at its lips to see if they’re serrated. i’m trying to get to sleep right now, but i’m thinking about serrated dog lips. why

my kid said skin is like wrapping paper and i'm still thinking about the implications

this house makes me so mad. just think how many neptunes and uranuses @elakdawalla.bsky.social could have made out of all that beautiful stone. please ban the use of precious stone by tasteless rich people www.zillow.com/homedetails/...?

The guys on the AstroViz mailing list are trying to convince "Lynnie" the spammer, who is offering duct cleaning services, to come and clean up the dust around Sag A*

personal achievement: frying an egg in my cast iron without it sticking

@atomicrocketturtle.bsky.social lol hi scott

unable to discern if the vaguely threatening random census survey I received is supposed to be filled out during the shutdown or after... 🫠 ("Your response is required by U.S. law." hits a little differently right now. Are they gonna find out I'm not Christian?)

my body: oh dear, it appears that we are sick. well, i know what will fix it. coughing. yes, that's right. now cough. some more. just a little bit more. any day now coughing will make this better. ... MUCUS

here is a photo of my cat, Tofu

Seeing this new video of a sperm whale eating a giant squid, it dawned on me that I haven't seen any "amazlng nature" or massimo type scraper accounts in a very long time. Seems like a collective win.

ok I see the advertising system on this site is to approach accounts with large followings and pay them to post some sponsored stuff. I don't really like it, but it is shrewd.

this whole "tough it out" thing for pregnant people brings back a weird twitter memory. I was doing some plumbing while pregnant, and laughed at the idea that it could harm the pregnancy. some reply guy got in and angrily chastised me. there's no correct way to be pregnant.

genuinely interested how anyone can ever believe anyone claiming to know the moment of the rapture. like, that's one of the big things I remember from church, was that not even Jesus himself knows. like he could just be mowing the clouds and then boom, oh hi guys must be the rapture

send cute pet pics while i am roasting some 🦠 with the burning embers of my metabolism plz

A view of NGC 2719 (and friend) for tonight. Hubble processing. PI @dalcantonjd.bsky.social archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... flic.kr/p/2rtF2mU

on one of the discord servers I use, we have a channel where we used to post pictures of food creations we were proud of or were funny or w/e. food styling, new stuff, etc. somehow the only thing that goes in there now is the weekly barrage of "look how much meat I grilled" while others opt out.

I've been nothing but a paragon of civility while using my fork and knife to carve a bit of your flesh out—just a bit, not even a lot—and you've done nothing but argue loudly and even scream at me.

I'm over here music.apple.com/us/album/ast...

Just passing some time. Like where this is going, but now I've got some astronomy data calling my name...

HST two-color view of NGC 1068. Proposal 17165 / @astronomisty.bsky.social archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... Some more info, plus links to all the other processing I've done of this galaxy. flic.kr/p/2rsj7rm

Getting vaccination this morning. Pharmacy won’t give me covid vaccine without a prescription. Walgreens in CA.

sliced my thumb a good .4 cm or so deep while cutting the ends off the asparagus, but still feelin' lucky 'cause spouse gave me a stitch

got some paxlovid for the 2025 covid experience and it tastes like a cat pissed in my mouth

I just subscribed to this so fast bsky.app/profile/auto...

An image I made quite a while ago finally got published in a multi-image press release at the Chandra website today. HST, Chandra, VLA, and JWST data all in one. flic.kr/p/2qb3dUX chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/c...

the bag says "tear here" and I just can't do it. I can't. I get some scissors and cut at the perforation. The zip closure is a free floating piece of plastic.

here’s a photo of my cat Noodle

Why does mommy stress clean?

genuinely can't figure out what the sins of the humanities scholars are

👀 www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... JWST looked at the Red Rectangle earlier this year...gimme gimme gimme. February! 😩

Worked on this yesterday with my new found free time with the kid starting school. From HST Proposal 17067, The diversity of protoplanetary disks: Imaging a complete sample of edge-on disks in four nearby star-forming regions Principal Investigator: Gaspard Duchene flic.kr/p/2rnisMm

Real email from my crappy assemblyman. lol

Geckzilla gecked gecks gecking geckoes.

Back again with late night astro posting. WR 112 as seen by JWST From GO 4093: Fingerprinting the history of episodic dust creation in Wolf-Rayet binaries, Principal Investigator Noel Richardson flic.kr/p/2rkausy

sometimes my cat fights invisible cats and I wonder if he has schizophrenia, or something like that. we're talking all out murder screams, growling, hissing, tail thrashing. not at anyone or anything in particular. it's hard to record a video of it because when I try he pops back to normal.

quick little addition: this is the center brightest shell, just in case you were wondering if it is also textured. it is! it's just hard to see when the dynamic range is shoved all the way up into the brightest parts of the image. (edit: forgot to rotate the image. fixed; deleted old post)

Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it. From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep? Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han flic.kr/p/2riELBn

WR 48A from JWST. You know you need some weird in your day. From GO 4093: Fingerprinting the history of episodic dust creation in Wolf-Rayet binaries, Principal Investigator Noel Richardson flic.kr/p/2riubcR

just a couple days until these data are public, it seems 😮

It... it could use a few more exposures. 🫠 I'd assume there's details in the coma, but wouldn't personally infer too much from the data. Just wait for it to get closer, methinks. 3I from Hubble David Jewitt / Proposal 17830 with hat tip to @astrafoxen.bsky.social

Processed a quick little dust cloud today with an embedded young stellar object. It is cataloged as IRAS 20126+4104 From proposal 17188, PI Ruben Fedriani Cosmic Beacons Towards a Theory of Massive Star Formation - A NIR View of the Most Luminous Protostars flic.kr/p/2rhZt2F

can't stop thinking about this instant pot with "carb reducing technology" described like it's some kind of magic so I went to look it up and all they did was put holes in the bottom. holes. it leaks the rice out.

sitting here, eating some ice, having a big brain moment... rocks* are just frozen lava *not all rocks, don't @ me