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I remember when we used to make fun of Baghdad Bob

took this absolutely gorgeous photo of the moon tonight, i love her so much

Lots of folks don't seem to grasp that, yes, you can take socialist ideals too far, but you can also do that with capitalism. Which is what has currently happened in the US. Also, there are a bazillion examples of socialist policies implemented in other countries to great success.

These posts are only ~1 year old. So, yeah, there's that.

LIVESTREAM feeding @garlab.bsky.social featuring our juvenile Alligator Gars (and maybe some other fishy cameos too!) #GarWeek Join us on InstaGARm 11:00 am CST 11.5.2025 for a glimpse into GarLab and other fishy friends! Ask questions, share puns, see some ancient fishes in action!

4 of 5 stars to If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿

The different colors of the cells indicate pollen from different species of plants, packed away to be used as food for hungry honey bee larvae.

How could this get better, you ask? The filmmakers connected with the potential project are the ones who made "Ready or Not." kotaku.com/brendan-fras...

Part of the job: explaining the data and helping people understand when and how it will be reported. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

<gesturing helplessly> Well, you see, there’s this thing called an idiom and—actually, let me back up, there’s this place called New York and— sorry, let me start over, there’s this phenomenon called a lighthearted—OK I think I need to frame things by saying there’s this idea of human social interac

Sclerocactus parviflorus, our Smallflower Fishhook Cactus, blooming near Gateway #nativeplants #FallbackFlowers #Fallback to May 4 🌿

The beehive! #Sydney Just wrapped up a visit to the dentist and she was extremely happy with my teeth 🦷 Friendly reminder to get your teeth checked/cleaned twice a year … super important for your overall health! Good teeth ➡️ better nutrition ➡️ better health ➡️

The plane reportedly had a nearly full tank - some 280,000 lbs of fuel. 😬

I realize I'm a weirdo (and I do love a good beat) - but this drumless Daft Punk album is my Fall go to.

for the love of god, don’t make me explain the joke

Argh! I keep finding mistakes in the solutions manual for this old Resnick, Halliday & Krane Physics textbook. Do people not proofread these things? 🎢 ⚛️

For most scrappy feisty players you can say "they got that Dog in em", but for Gator players you can say "they got that Herp Dog in em"

Aliciella haydenii, our San Juan Gilia, blooming above Gateway #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 4 🌿

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the AEGIS survey. It is at redshift 0.11 (lookback time 1.47 billion years) with coordinates (214.79672, 52.67557). 133 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

None of these words are in the Bible

Lavender and red cliffs northwest of Gateway #Fallback to May 4 🌿

Today in “homeownership is just a serious of Expensively Bad Noises”: why did the toilet just whistle?

A female Pileated Woodpecker working on a fallen log with a pop of Fall color in the background.

Tree rings on stump, Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿

When you want to mute the name of a particular shithead press secretary but you also don't want to mute that very same name of one of your favorite historical astronomers...

I’ve been married to @karenmcgrane.bsky.social for three years! She slid into my Twitter DMs and now we’re extremely married! We are celebrating by eating some very high-end Gobbler Bowls we got at the Wawa down the street — a joyous feast!

Hey my indie music playlist is now 8 hours long

Today at #EmTechMIT, Frank McCourt, the founder of Project Liberty, spoke about his hopes for the future of AI: “Let’s use the technology to get smarter. Let’s use the technology to spread the wealth. Let’s use the technology to revitalize democracy.”

There is a line out the door at my polling place which is wild because we never have lines here. I’ve worked like…idk, 7 elections here? Never seen this. This is good, I hope.

OK I admit this wasn't actually *my* idea

My reminder to myself and to you (strategically placed for the part of my hand that I see when driving)

It’s cute how my emotional well being currently rides on a bunch of state and local elections IN PLACES I DON’T LIVE

Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity. Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.

A final look at the Virginia polls, with an hour to go before polls close in the state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We saw a number of Common Terns on my #pelagic birding tour in the #BayofFundy. Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2025 #birds #COTE #marinelife #nature #photography

Sun is doing its THING

Our Races to Watch page: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In honor of the upcoming #WomenInPhysics Day, let's create a thread of amazing women physicists. I'll start with one my favorites, Chien-Shiung Wu, who is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬 🎢

“What is there to teach with respect to typing some text into a box and then mindlessly copy-pasting the output? Such a skilless relationship disregards our pedagogical commitment to foster a critical stance in our students and colleagues” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...

REMEMBER, if you are in line to vote in the New York City elections NO YOU ARE NOT you are On Line

For my whole adult life I have been in a love-hate relationship with Catholicism and oh man, is it complicated. But some days, I am just grateful to a Pope and that is that

And stringr 1.6.0 is out too: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... A fairly small release but some handy improvements thanks to tidyverse dev day contributors! #rstats

I made a video answering this question for Halloween several years ago! It’s a really fun question to think about. 🌿 #birds

No Needle visualization, but "as the night goes on and we get more results, we expect to be able to post insights from what the model is showing, both on our results pages and in our live coverage." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

When I arrived at Jökulsárlón on Sunday afternoon it was covered in fog - never seen it like that before (plenty of misty rain before, but not sea fog). The icebergs looked very ethereal when it cleared enough to see them. #Iceland

I miss @vcmcguire.bsky.social today a little extra for some reason. Maybe because it's Election Day, maybe because her photo came up on my slideshow, maybe because I always see her usernames on Pokemon Go — I hope she's somewhere in the cosmos blessing us all

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.12 (lookback time 1.60 billion years) with coordinates (150.61860, 2.31313). 47 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

David Hogg gets a lot of shit and accusations that he’s some sort of conservative plant and I don’t agree with him on everything but to me he seems like a sincere person who wants a better government and country.

I was surprised to see a Sora still around. Most of these marsh birds have migrated, and I imagine this one will very soon with the temps going below freezing at night in the next few days.

Today's #Nudivember took a ridiculously long time to paint considering how simple it is. #TradArt

How it started vs. how it’s going Today I passed the final step toward candidacy, my proposal defense, after completing my comps this past spring. It’s official! 🥹🧪 #PhDlife

Oh my gosh, so many good fantasy and sci-fi recs in the replies here! Bluesky, you are thoroughly awesome! #BookSky

"More than 60 professors and others up and down the state say they are suppressing their work and feel anxious about causing political problems for their campus, or that their own teaching will lead to hostility against themselves. Some say it’s already happened." www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

"Chuck Schumer" is both a complete sentence and a reasonable policy position.

don't worry y'all I'm coping just fine* *politics-posting through it

I'm excited about attending Newcastle's European Cup match tomorrow night. I've had better luck with ticket ballots for Euro games than in the league. Hoping it doesn't rain.

Damn there was a rally against Waymo for KitKat at Randa's Market. Was anyone here able to make it? sfist.com/2025/11/04/s...

Did you know that trans people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as cis people? Twice as likely to be below the poverty line? That about 30% will be unhoused at some point in their lives? That LGBT people are more likely to use SNAP than cis and straight folks? This is personal for me

A lanternfly just decided to fling itself in between my foot and flipflop, and let me just say that the resulting absolutely disgusting crunch and slime is definitely not *lessening* my desire to kill them all with fire.

Hot off the press at Remote Sensing in Ecology & Conservation is Alexandra Strang’s latest paper! Alexandra discovered there’s a caveat in using imagery to detect change at Adélie penguin colonies: Small population change is undetectable 🧪🌎🦑🦉 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 “Oh, I can't see straight and my hands are tied I could be your type from your zombie bite No, I can't see straight but the feeling's right I could be your type from your zombie bitе” #GymTunes #GagaCountdown

Datasette 1.0a20 is out, with an entirely new SQL-powered permissions system. This is by far the most ambitious project I've attempted with the help of coding agents (Claude Code and Codex CLI) - notes on how it works and what I learned along the way: simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/d...

I really like the feeling of waking up early and realising it's so early that I can go back and sleep some more. Makes me think I should go to bed earlier so I can feel that even more 😂

Wait. Which Bill de Blasio is this?

QIAGEN to acquire Parse Biosciences corporate.qiagen.com/English/news...

if bluesky is such a leftist bubble why are people arguing in my mentions that people should be forced to work to eat *outraged voice* "do you think our income taxes should be used to make food free??" I mean sure if that's what it takes, but I do think we could do way better than that!

I get the sense that many leading Democrats, in New York and elsewhere, don't really register the extent to which their brand of non-committal, finger-to-the-wind politics has fallen out of favor with voters.

Holy shit this is a real thing

Launch at 2102 UTC Nov 4 of an Ariane 6 from Kourou with the EU's Sentinel-1D radar satellite

Autumn gold

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.51 (lookback time 5.28 billion years) with coordinates (150.12033, 2.47156). 47 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Hoo boy. Midterms are gonna suuuuuuck.

Oh, what better feeling than getting a query from a fact-checker and being able to show exactly where the fact is in your notes and supporting material? Like runners high but for obsessive pedants.

Thanks for the tip, Moose. I always get a bit queasy when I take those battery doors off.

Sometimes my favourite images are the oddest ones. I just love this - I see fish (puffer and smelt, perhaps?). Drone view over a partially-frozen river estuary, taken along the south coast of #Iceland on Saturday. #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro #Abstract #Pareidolia

Vote yes on Prop 50. #California

public transportation was one major reason I went to grad school in San Francisco over some other choices. I knew I couldn't afford a car on my stipend. It was also a potent lesson on where accessible public transportation, like BART, is allowed to go (SF and the Easy Bay) and where it isn't (Marin)

Once I was in the running for a job in charge of a new thing, and well into the process the guy heading the search told me that I was still in the mix, but that he was giving himself the top spot. I loudly said “did you just Cheney this thing?!” So I did not get any job from that.

"Journal style does not allow 3-dimensional figures. Please rework Figure 5 into a figure with only 2 axes if possible"

When you decline an invitation to review a manuscript but suggest colleagues you’d like to keep occupied as “suitable alternative reviewers”

It's supermoon season! *airhorn* Let's gooooo www.popsci.com/science/brig...

I’m *dying* laughing.

An edge-on disk galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey. It is at redshift 0.67 (lookback time 6.33 billion years) with coordinates (53.08294, -27.95568). 120 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch now 🌿

It's really nice when people actually use software that you create. This is an updated usage figure for the MRIQC.org Web API showing continued usage for the last 7 years, with more than half a million unique BOLD images in BIDS datasets! If you aren't already using MRIQC, check it out!

A mother and child (perhaps!) enjoying the sunrise yesterday on Fellsjara beach. Jökulsárlón #Iceland #pareidolia

Not the most dystopian headline I've read this year, but certainly in a power 100 list

Is the scandal really that Shein is selling them, and not that men are buying them?

An aversion to aristocracy and "a select group of elites" is why this country was founded. We have often failed to live up to that ideal, but to just come out and say it is wild. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"Our discourse is clearly broken." Indeed, @cwarzel.bsky.social youtu.be/lnDEiirt_tc?...

Have to love (not all), how my maps page of personal reviews and comments has the Bermudas, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Houston, Jamaica, Boston, Clipperton isle and Guantanamo in it... 😂 But for the love of god Google at least indicate that is Guantanamo Cuba not Guantanamo Bay!

A lovely Cydno Longwing (Heliconius cydno) #butterfly that I found yesterday at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #bugsky #butterflies #nature

🎃 screen name —> 🦃 screen name, transition complete

Have to love (not all), how my maps page of personal reviews and comments has the Bermudas, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Houston, Jamaica, Boston, Clipperton isle and Guantanamo in it... 😂 Guantanamo Cuba not Bay! 😅even some I suppose would love to get rid of that place if it was their choice....

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Oh look. The thing that everyone with a smidgen of the smarts and common sense said was going to 100% happen ….. is 100% happening. 🤷🏼‍♂️

17 hours 30 minutes until Full Moon. 🔭 🧪

Pretty sure that Donald is in his own personal extinction burst right now. He knows he’s on his way out and is in part raging and in part terrified and thus doesn’t care about how any of his actions are perceived