Yoni Brande

sizable public protest about this the other day while I caught my bus to work. lots of drivers-by honking in solidarity with demonstrators. heartening to see, but hard to know exactly what other pressures are needed to stop this

i don't think you've interpreted this post correctly

I can't say for sure how this will change things in town, but I would be very surprised if this doesn't come with at least a chilling effect on people's daily lives.

Community outrage after ICE arrest in Maryland turns chaotic A video showing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest in Prince George's County, Maryland has left a community on edge.

These are high traffic areas, in a place with significant vulnerable populations to the same ICE activity that has terrorized cities like Minneapolis for months. Just last year here, an ICE goon making an arrest dropped his gun and then waved it at locals:

www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

In addition to the concerns about community landmarks, the Hyattsville location is a shared office building with a community college, doctors offices, social services. There's a bus stop outside on a line taking mostly black and brown kids to school around the corner.

the riker strategy

oh my g-d, the first reviewer comment lmfao

nature moment

well, somebody cares and I have to admit that my mere astrophysics phd did not prepare me for this

if I can swing it I'll show it to all the space telescope people next week and get their opinions

Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen

the nyt had an animation lmao: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation - NASA Science Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition

goofy neutron star planet: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

like I'm thinking about the love number and roche limits of an eye because we just had an egg planet paper press release and the whole thing there was that it's very out of round

my physicist hunch says no but you might have to ask a topologist or whoever

I think usually it's pointier than round

happy birthday, lauren!

a letterboxed review of the Rob Reiner film "A Few Good Men", stating: a first rate courtroom drama, drowning under a thick slime of american civic responsibility and military fetishism. thirty years and countless war crimes on, with the ascendance of a civilian military leadership that watches jack nicholson's scenes as an instruction manual, it's hard to imagine anything in real life resolving the way this does (as unsatisfying as the resolution actually is). a nice nugget hidden in nicholson's tirade on the stand is the venom with which he spits out lieutenant weinberg (nearly as hateful as his remarks on tom cruise's navy whites). great writing, you have to hand it to early sorkin

pulled a stack of Reiner movies out of the library last month and I'm glad I waited to get around to this one last, after listening to the latest @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social podcast

when he finally gets his morning show host gig everyone else will be catching up

wow rip

the encore is perfectly fine you just need a refurbed bambino to go along with it

how are you gonna show up to coffee and cameras and not be able to talk coffee

not enough

one large survey and then fourteen smalls on each of the targets

sorry to hear this, colin. what a waste of a great program and an irreplaceable function of government

because still shooters are "togs"

astronomer thanksgiving would be nice!

a plate with roasted sweet potatoes, greens, and sliced roasted turkey with gravy

are they still thanksgiving leftovers if you were flying all day thursday and deboned turkey legs on sale into steaks and cooked today instead

yoni, a dark haired bearded man, walks though a neighborhood on a cold clear morning

yoni holds a copy of carl sagan's contact in front of the camera. the cover shows the night side of earth, with illuminated cities, framed against the disk of the Milky Way

after two weeks in germany I have ventured out into the 1°C morning to get a bagel and coffee and groceries. also a copy of contact out of the LFL

you say that but the number of times i've had to say "no flash" to security guys is creeping into triple digits