Bill Ruhsam

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

BAN #275: Telescope buying advice, Book: It’s Alive, Dial-A-Moon 2021 30 November 2020 Issue #271

I am often asked: What is the best telescope to buy for someone just getting into astronomy?

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As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️

Original image: selfie showing half my face and the cabin aisle on my flight with lots of bored people in their seats. Still in color.

Desaturated black and white image with "AI assist" to remove people. Not a particularly good job on this picture given that the people are mostly half people, hidden by seats. Looks like Lightroom added a couple dementors behind me.

Same image. Desaturated to black and white. I like this one better

Desaturated black and white with AI background blur. This was pretty good.

What to do on a long flight? Screw around with the sliders on Lightroom.

A great thread (and meme) for the holiday season!

I've just learned I will be honored with the Draft Kings Bancroft Prize for History and Three-Way Parlays.

#blessed

Delta aircraft outside the central portion of the ATL T Gates, showing lots of fog and soft lighting

I-85, looking south from a MARTA train just outside the airport. Look, Ma, no traffic!

Foggy day.

TIL pernickety vs. persnickety.

This is one of the narrow alleys in the southern part of the city. The resident of this alley took great pride in planting all sorts of things across the alleyway and on the side it’s green all around.

Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem

There is no house on the street, only an ever-consuming void that took its form

I was masking a house out of a photo for an edit and accidentally made an ontologically evil image

Street lights look very yellow in a foggy morning along the canal with for Dutch standards relatively high houses

Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Colorful birch tree painting

Celebrating the first snow day of the season by painting some new birches. Y’all got me excited for them again 😆.

16”x20” oil on canvas

#art #painting #trees

I love being pointed at things where I have enough math to read the words, but not nearly enough math to understand what the heck it means

Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

Delta aircraft being de-iced at O'hare. Lots of snow and slush around.

Delta gate staff literally shoveling the line that shows aircraft where to park at the gate.

Today's fun is watching O'Hare snow removal operations. I saw a flotilla of snowplows go by, clearing the ramp areas and many other activities. Thanks for working so hard to keep the planes moving, y'all!

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan

"...a rightwing man complains that women don’t want to date him. Often enough, he is an avowed libertarian, leaving it a mystery why he does not simply accept the workings of the free market."

One of the good, slow burns.

Same, pumpkin. Same.

We all know what needs to be done. Can anyone show the strength to do it?

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Congratulations, Doctor!

a “Space Force”, if you will

I opened the leaf on the table so I would have room to work, and he would have room to stretch out.

Also finally wrote up the “Are you sure you wanna dabble in fountain pens? Let’s talk the physicality of writing first“ thing that’s been knocking around in my head since I realized that people who break mechanical pencil lead with pressure need some special thought.

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Death Star

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

ok who did this? ☹️

Updating my LEGO White House