Ok, I'll say it, Reid Wiseman's new photo of the night side of Earth with stars and zodiacal light and auroras and everything is the best photo ever taken of any planet

saw a temporary dot matrix road sign today that was supposed to say "STOP AHEAD" but instead said "STOP HEAD" and yeah

learning cursive keeps coming up, and I once again find myself boggling over the fact that it is any kind of issue. I can't even remember learning it. Not like I forgot, but like it was just so easy. Could that be right? Is it some kind of neurodivergent thing or is my memory likely wrong?

my latest achievement is successfully seasoning a stainless steel pan and making paella in it. the paella caramelized and then... peeled right off. I am sure if I flipped the pan it would have plopped right out like a weird rice upside-down cake.

oh my gosh I know/knew the guy who did the original illustration that the one in this paper was inspired by. I've seen it in all sorts of science circles. Haven't heard from him in ages... but every time I see it I remember him. www.emanu.se/equality-hur...

it’s time to visit the rock show in turlock again…

do people in sports, or, like, dance, or comedy ever get asked why they don’t do anything useful? why is it always astronomy that’s useless

.00092 😅 whatever that means. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I saw something on my ceiling that looked like a piece of dust bunny, but it was wiggling? I have retrieved some kind of cocoon and a small worm with a dark head emerges when left alone. It has already hung itself back up near the top of the container. I suppose it'll pupate. Seems out of place, tho

why do people leave the big poles attached to trees which clearly do not need them. i mean i know why, but why. trees do not need to eat plastic

i did it again. poured myself a bowl of cereal to eat before heading out to the grocery store . . . because we're out of milk

trying to convince my neighbor that racism is a big thing and happens a lot and I may has well been trying to tell her the sky was polka dot green... gave her "basically the whole government" as example of who's racist when she asked, and it was like the answer didn't even count 🤷‍♀️

New paper day! In an effort led by PhD student Madison Markham, we determined the first accurate and precise distances to two famous AGN host galaxies: NGC 1068 and NGC 4303. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we identified Cepheid pulsating stars and measured their pulsation periods and mags 🔭🧪(1/2)

Turns out the TN Holler is yet another one of those "wow that felt good to watch/read, much validation of my viewpoints!" accounts that also turns out to be a dishonest, exploitative cesspit. I suggest blocking it.

important update: saw a cedar waxwing

Welp, Red Rectangle day is here. It finally came. I am both happy and also disappointed. I love to see that the nebula does indeed extend far beyond what HST (upper right) ever saw, but I'm sad that the view is so partial.

forbidden rectangle 😩

just thinkin about that jelly donut they found on mars like 12 years ago

in my annual "chat" with an Adobe rep seeing once again if I can alter my plan to something that make sense and the guy is offering 419.88 and I'm just staring at the .88 incredulously, like wait 419 adds up to 14. is Adobe 14/88'ing me?

when I die, if there's a hell, and I go to it, it's going to be removing shipping tape from a cardboard box that someone has practically mummified, and then inside the box it's going to be that same box over and over... i just sit there, dutifully unwrapping and composting that goddamn cardboard

I'm sorting through a bunch of old jewelry from my mom, mostly preparing to scrap it since it's heavily worn, damaged, and does not hold sentimental value to me. These pieces I thought maybe could be returned to a Navajo artist to be repurposed. I don't know anyone. I'd mail them for free.

bless our beautiful bodies 💋 Happy Black History Month! #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky #BlackArt

while i respect and abide by the law requiring me to make space in my bed right next to me for my cat, even if she makes me hyperthermic and stiff by morning, i fully reject the notion that i must allow her tail to slap me in the face. begone, pest!

damn a college student family member confided in me tonight that she went to a protest and i'm just super fucking proud of her

This video was recently published by @esa.int, but it was extremely dark, so it was hard to see details. Thanks to the ESA media team who provided me with a higher quality version, I was able to recover lots of shadow details and correct the hotpixel noise. Original: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

big dumb space dirt explosion

tell me how it works

anyone wanna join my WoW guild? ...anyone even play WoW?

hello, i'd like to trade one "ever-encroaching fascist, racist dickshits" back for "complaining about dumbass alien comet guy" i have a lot of remorse about this one

I just did a super job smoothing out the backgrounds of JWST's crazy ass mosaic barf and now I will attempt to magically remove the very unfortunate diffraction spikes. I am very skeptical that this will work.

sound up for lil snores

diffraction spikes are unfortunate

I did it. I took the tree down. And I untangled the lights. Sigh. Now it's summer. Ugh.

i love my family but oh my gosh when i get to lay in my bed and there’s no cat, kid, or spouse sharing it with me… 😴 ahhh

k it’s insomnia idea time: canada and mexico now share a border along the west coast where california, washington, and oregon used to be. invent the cuisine that arises along the new canadian mexican border. what’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner?

wow my brain still can't handle job hiring season.

write the alt text with all your human emotions

emailed my turncoat senator (she was a D and switched to R after getting elected) for all the damn good it'll do

insomnia thought for the night: years ago, making my stand for saturn that no, you can’t make a saturn puzzle without the rings. you can’t! turns out the way puzzles are made requires an expensive metal die cut thing and they wanted to reuse the same circle from the other planets.

“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*