Maria Alexander

It's the cover slide from the presentation. It says "get started with smartphone astrophotography".

My smartphone #astrophotography presentation recording is up. The entire meeting is recorded, but mine starts at this link: youtu.be/7RJhz5C67hU?...

The presentations before mine are from 4th yr students, and after is a young member of my #RASC chapter who had an adventurous summer of science!

It is so fucking dumb.

Very timely, yes. It's only $4 over on Amazon right now. I can't recommend it highly enough.

If you love @davidmcraney.bsky.social and his podcast, you'll really love my friend Dr. Joe Pierre's first book, FALSE. I became acquainted with Joe many years ago in Shinkendo when he was the Director of Psychiatry for the VA here in Los Angeles. This is his first book and it's outstanding.

So the vampires all voted for Cuomo?

OpenAI Risks Billions as Court Weighs Privilege in Copyright Row OpenAI Inc.'s failure to shield internal communications about pirated books from copyright plaintiffs threatens to expose the company to billions in damages and potentially debilitating sanctions.

Looks like there's evidence that OpenAI destroyed evidence -- the database of our pirated work -- as soon as litigation loomed. Sucks to be Sam, waaaaaay more than it sucks to be Anthropic.

Thanks to Reddit, this post now has almost 1200 reads. And counting... #neilgaiman #dreams #synchronicity #truestory #outoffucks #thishappened #gede

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I swear to God. A red balloon, and this would've been a different movie.

The Halloween that Still Haunts Me 30 Years Later I never thought I'd tell this story, not like this

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My life changed forever that night as something tore the Veil and reached right through to our world. Bathe in the profound synchronicities and come out changed as I did. This is my first public telling following "Neil Gaiman: The Wolf in the Walls." A very blessed Samhain to you all.

Maria Alexander, Lili Chin, Keith Rainville, Nathan Long and me in a Thai restaurant in Hollywood.

Real live friends, meat-suits and all! With @keithrainville.bsky.social @lilichin.bsky.social @lamaupin.bsky.social and @nathanrlong.bsky.social !

Lordie 😆

Thanks, Nathan!

I'm humbled and happy to announce that Brimstone & Blades just won THREE BookFest Awards:

LGBTQ+ Fiction -- Winner
YA Fantasy -- Winner
YA Fiction -- Winner

Great thanks to the judges and hearty congratulations to all the winners this year!

America is going to be a smoking crater before 4 years are over.

It would be the opposite of a shame if a DoS attack took down the WH website. Repeatedly. Forever.

I love you.

Also? Shana Tova, lady!

Holy shit. @shad0.bsky.social

Abundance is never a justification for greed. The witch looks around the corner of the now and harvests the hedge for tomorrow's ailments. She has no temptation to take the birds' share, nor the Faery's tithe. The witch's way refuses rapacity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

🤩 These ones are def one of my favourites ❤️🦁🧠
#NoKings #Pinks 🌸

LA area peeps: If his owner doesn’t turn up, this sweet boy is available for adoption starting tomorrow.

When this story broke earlier today Republicans claimed it was probably fake news since it was reported by the NYT. Now multiple media outlets have confirmed it, including Fox. Hegseth and Vance are complete morons for pulling this dumb stunt.

Chasing dead mages What the hell was I thinking?

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I stood on a platform with a megaphone for an hour today leading chants in Studio City, CA. It was glorious to see thousands of people come out to protest. Just a few of my faves.

Completely vomitus.

Do NOT engage with the government propaganda accounts. Do NOT quote dunk, do NOT reply. Just BLOCK.

BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK

Department of War - Deptofwar.bsky.social Treasury Department - treasurydept.bsky.social US Department of Commerce - commerce-gov.bsky.social The White House - Whitehouse-47.bsky.social Department of the Interior - deptofinterior.bsky.social Dept. of Agriculture - usdagov.bsky.social Department of Energy - departmentofenergy.bsky.social US Department of Labor - dol.gov HHS - hhsofficial.bsky.social Homeland Security - homelandgov.bsky.social

Found ten propaganda accounts for y’all to block.