ENJOY!
06.03.2026 00:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@benneholwerda.bsky.social
Dad, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Louisville. He/Him/hey you. Opinions are my own. As are the typos. Astronomy, datascience, ethics & occasional US/EU politics.
ENJOY!
06.03.2026 00:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0*puts on episode 187 of the rise and fall of sanctuary moon.*
05.03.2026 20:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
05.03.2026 14:11 β π 5079 π 1785 π¬ 95 π 105This is very neat. Makes sense when you think about the importance of the night sky to navigation.
05.03.2026 15:48 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The change to daylight savings time is announced with cannon blasts and sirens.
Feels that way anyway so why not?
This was the shock to Europe. Having deep magazines costs a lot.
Expending said magazinesβ¦
Anyway big cuts coming to EU health care and educationβ¦
Yup. Of course the military originally set a range of options for interceptors that were more budget friendly but we ended up with only the gold-plated one that costs that much.
(I have sympathy for those in uniform wanting something to shoot down incoming drones/missles etc.)
This is a national embarrassment.
04.03.2026 00:07 β π 176 π 19 π¬ 2 π 0Welcome to march. Your clever todo manager/system/thing is either smoking or actively on fire. There are still two months in the semester.
03.03.2026 23:23 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
03.03.2026 15:00 β π 1812 π 410 π¬ 198 π 108
When your new war makes Russian oil a "tempting alternative" for global buyers.
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I refuse to know what that means.
03.03.2026 12:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hamburger helper better get on this. It could save the company.
03.03.2026 01:51 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Hamburger helper is going to blow them away.
Also vegetables.
βDunno man, seems badβ. I mumble while trying to function like an adult on caffeine and poorly ignoring the glowing doomscroller.
03.03.2026 00:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
On top of everything else, oil and gas prices are going to spike because of Trumpβs war in Iran.
But guess what doesnβt get disrupted by wars?
Renewable energy. Solar. Wind. Geothermal. Storage.
Overlap!
02.03.2026 17:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0By Maureen Dowd?
02.03.2026 01:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This has been a bit of a head scratcher here for sure.
02.03.2026 00:09 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Eh thereβs always a parent where you suspect itβs bourbon in that thermos or theyβve got money riding on it.
01.03.2026 22:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Youβre supposed to be laser focused on the noodle of kids playing the game. Maybe shout loudly.
Meanwhile, they barely notice youβre there.
This looks like an interesting read.
01.03.2026 21:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a graph of the death of US science.
01.03.2026 19:20 β π 363 π 186 π¬ 9 π 5Oh this is excellent. Some illustrations for my class on FFT.
01.03.2026 18:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Remind me again who would benefit from oil prices being high?
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...