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

Spouse reports west nile is here in Modesto again. Thanks, global warming. Next up, dengue. (We had locally transmitted dengue last year. no one really bothered to report it.)

dude rings my doorbell and he's got a hat on in huge letters "christ is king" and just wants to talk about cleaning my windows. bro don't get me all worked up like that

A quick request galaxy: Two color HST view of NGC 4303 (Messier 61) flic.kr/p/2rdhwGn

wish I could sit here and enjoy these new space images without dread and depression.

I see things did not improve while I was working in the garden

trans people and undocumented immigrants are my family. I feel such rage for anyone who wishes them harm.

the caterpillars ate my petunias, but I just watched a lil yellow wasp come by and snatch a caterpillar. that's cool

when you defund science like astrophysics, you are not just redirecting money away from the void to something more useful. you are defunding dreams. but also, space science and astrophysics are a lot more useful than you'd think. anyway, yeah, go ahead, kill more dreams. assholes.

hang in there cw: spider