today, my child is reckoning with the fact that he opened the can of beans. if you don't want beans for dinner, don't pull the top off the beans.

my ice cream flavor idea: calico. dark chocolate, salted caramel, and vanilla ice creams dumped together (but not mixed)

don't worry, the universe has seen fit to punish me for all the shitty reply-guy posts i've made lately. i heated up some very gone fried rice in the microwave and am still recovering from the smell (none was eaten)

drove through san francisco today and every single billboard was about ai. ok there was one apple advert. doesn’t that seem silly? some were even ai for ai. it’s ai the whole way down

the stupidest of my problems right now: people know I like pastries, and multiple people have brought me multiple pastries independently. I can't eat them all before the leave peak freshness. it's unfair

I'm never going to be a dog person... I watch a dog for some cousins about a week per year. Dog is currently sitting right next to me just licking and licking his paws and I smell him. It's just normal dog smell, but... I just can't. I washed him yesterday. So stinky... faugh! fine, I'll go to bed

got the neighbor's printer working in like 5 minutes. damn, maybe I do have a super power

This scaffolding is *extremely* safe. I hope they get paid overtime for working past midnight.

ugh, I keep trying to reply to that post about the screwworm article but bsky is busted or something. sorry if things keep showing up and getting deleted

Ok, I finally dug it out of my memory and did enough internet searching to find this article I read way back in 2020: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Worth re-reading. Clear picture of a multi-decadal effort requiring cooperation between many countries. By @sarahzhang.bsky.social

here we go again, the kid is defrauding me by buying things from the playstation store even though I swear I disabled it

just got all excited imagining it happening and finding out first among some friends, ordering them to get in discord and then yellinG IT HAPPENED while jumping up and down

can confirm venus and jupiter are up there right now over modesto. also it looks way better in person go outside i'm not posting a photo

it's just so achingly beautiful 😩

Two telescopes, two epochs, the same nebula. You might have to stare for a little bit to fully appreciate all the movement going. Apologies to any faint stars who got deleted. I tried to remove the NICMOS PSFs from the Hubble view (which is lower resolution/blurrier)

I remain in awe of the raw entropic power of a five-year-old. It feels like I do nothing but pick up little toys and rocks and bits of trash all day, carefully making sure everything is back in its place, but I never catch up to him. (And let's not talk about getting him to help out.)

little known fact: Gomez's Hamburger is zooming across the sky.

if a baby tree is a sapling, then a baby human is a bloodling

survive the ongoing crises and take a break from reality by browsing the mcmaster-carr website, a us-based industrial supply company with weirdly fast shipping. i don't know why it's so interesting to me

This is from a book someone gave my kid. It’s a Nat Geo book. I need to mark it up for correction. Tarantulas are impressive, but not quite that big… CW there is a partial spider butt in the photo.

kid was mad i was making spaghetti with meat sauce and didn't want to eat it, so i let him get really really really hungry and he still doesn't want to eat it. checkmate, kid

love the processing on the left one presumably the central star has been subtracted leading to those radiating shadowy artifacts, but I do wonder if some of it is shadows (could easily be, I think)

my friend makes cool art! and does a lot of gardening. who knows what she'll post...unless you follow her

which one of you lives here?

ok "JOY" you coulda also shared a simple name of the guy whose absolute passion, dedication, and skill enables us to enjoy these tiny, tiny creatures, but you didn't, so I will. Jurgen Otto. www.peacockspider.org/new-page-1

Very happy to report that some new tenants looking to start a family have moved into my back porch. I want badly to move the ladder to peep inside, but they only started building the nest a couple days ago. Must be patient…

Kevin posting this is like sending out the bat signal to me. Oh, there's an imaging challenge? Something to figure out? Fine, I'm interested... I guess Mars is cool. From the Psyche mission. solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-i...

Made a view of FU Orionis with Spitzer and WISE data. No particular reason other than an interest in FU Orionis after reading the name in the Star Formation Newsletter. As always, more to read at the Flickr page: flic.kr/p/2sdQhtR

part of me wonders what these allsky infrared mosaics would look like if no background correction were attempted and we just left the zodiacal light there, but the rest of me is still just annoyed at the zodiacal light

anyone else feel like their consent is violated when viewing "ai" generated art that very, very few actual artists would willingly create? they couldn't get people to make it, so they stole it and forced a machine to. it goes beyond mere copyright... it makes me so mad

@xenolith.bsky.social @phaneritic.bsky.social @geotripper.bsky.social you guys this ballot sucks. what we gonna do?

ugh, I can't figure out how to find WISE mosaics. This IRSA thing is confusing me... I swear that's what I used before 😩

I just wanted to draw Frog but I messed up his pants, which really need to come halfway up his belly. I almost gave up after realizing I couldn’t fix it. I want to try again but my hands hurt.

A small preview of an image I worked on is at the top of the Star Formation Newsletter. :) starformationnews.org/newsletters/...

after reviewing many of the Artemis images I am very sure the moon really is haunted

I was checking around the new yard plants with UV light, as perfectly sane, normal people do, when I passed by the geode and was like oh, I should check. And... it glows orange?!

how many billionaires are on the california state governor ballot again?

Came down with a sudden upper respiratory infection tonight; sat down with the kid to watch Sealook when this showed up... The iconic NGC 605 from Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer. Looked it up on Youtube and this thing has 15 million views. Loud electronic music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdp2...

alright, who's going to work on challenge mode and find out exactly which land mass / continent Hubble is over? inquiring minds need to know. and need timestamps

my kid’s drawing of the sun and the earth shaking hands.

this wasp is measured in microns. it's within an order of magnitude of a lot of wavelengths in infrared astronomy. can you measure your wavelengths in fractions of wasp? there are a lot of these teeny tiny wasps out there but this might be the cutest

it’s a beautiful day for a fascist to fall

fun watch this morning

oh, yeah, I spent a lot of time on this a while back! and then x-rays got cancelled.

i saw a rocket launch way up here from Modesto while i was on the way home from the grocery store today. actually never seen one before

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...