Ruth Kneale

A climatologist
told me it’s not normal
for it to be this hot
right now

An epidemiologist
told me it’s not normal
for so many to be sick
right now

A historian
told me it’s not normal
for the government to be shutdown
right now

It’s not normal,
my friends,
it’s not normal.

A screenshot of two X posts and a news broadcast image. The first post by @GavinNe ... (6h ago) reads: "Translation: 'We're desperately trying to rig the midterms. Our policies are so unpopular, it's our only option left.'" The second post by @Acyn (7h ago) reads: "Johnson: We're going win the midterms. Imagine if Democrats took over the house, they'd impeach him," with an attached image of a news broadcast from "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News, featuring a man in a suit speaking, with the text "IT'S ALWAYS UP UNTIL THEN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN" and a timestamp of 6:27 CT.

The people will boot you from your office, Mike “Moses” Johnson. May your party wander in a political desert long after.

Oh HELL no. Fuck that shit.

#ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #JustSayNo

Priorities.

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Terror Made Me Cruel Sundays

Terror Made Me Cruel

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This can't be America....yet, shamefully, it is.

Can't wait until I can see the whole movie, although I have no doubt it'll enrage, horrify, and deeply sadden me. The hypocrisy burns; the pain is the point.

#SaveLibraries #NoToCensorship #SaveLibrarians

this week in stupid: August 16 edition Jesse Watters sucks it up, Donny Convict fucks it up, and so much more...

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: August 16 edition" — Jesse Watters sucks it up, Donny Convict fucks it up, and so much more...
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The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

Legal documents same-sex couples should have in case marriage equality is overturned Revocable Living Trust Last Will & Testament Healthcare Power of Attorney Durable Power of Attorney Living Will Hospital Visitation Authorization Form one for your partner & one for your Chosen Family Agent for Disposition of Remains Pet Care Directive Tangible Personal Property Memorandum

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

The only things republicans don’t want you to get shot with are life saving vaccines.

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

OMG this would be amazing!! Hawaii ain't gonna happen - trust this veteran of 2 Hawaiian observatories - but this offer from Spain & the site at La Palma would save this amazing project. #TMT #SaveTMT #SaveScience

Person arguing that calling their congressperson is useless

The key mistake here, and this happens a lot across all parts of our culture, is the idea that unless your action is the sole deciding factor in the outcome, the action is useless.

Even people who get that we’re all just pebbles need to believe they could be *the one* that starts the avalanche.

National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office) I’m still trying to find out more about this. But as I...

So. Fucking. Stupid.

#SaveScience #SaveNSF

I'm gutted and heartbroken at the stupid DOGE and Trump cuts to science. Every time I think it can't get any worse, I'm proven so, so wrong... I fear now we'll never recover from it. #SaveScience

How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery

A big Q for new observatories is, how we gonna deal with the data? Oh, so much data...LSST (now Vera C Rubin Obs) is doing cool stuff! (We were planning something similar.) The data broker sitch is fascinating! Now it just needs to not be shut down... #SaveScience

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/s...

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

NO KINGS DAY has ARRIVED!!!

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A weather report screenshot showing temperatures in Tucson AZ exceeding 105F through the next week.

Oh, it's gonna be a rough week... #DesertWeather #NWSTucson #Oooof

Four people (L to R: Mark, me, Stephanie, and Rob) in a pub booth with a picture of a different man (Simon, RIP) centered behind them.

Remembering Simon...Do you say a wake was good? I think he'd have loved it. Good stories and laughter with DKIST family over Kiltlifters and Scotch eggs down the pub. #RIPSimon

(It's off-timeline; happened pre-SLA.)

Trump’s proposed cut to giant physics experiment could snuff out new form of astronomy Degrading LIGO’s observations of gravitational waves would amount to “killing a newborn baby,” one astrophysicist says

Trump’s proposed cut to giant physics experiment could snuff out new form of astronomy

Degrading @ligo.org ’s observations of gravitational waves would amount to “killing a newborn baby,” one astrophysicist says.

www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🔭⚛️

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts : All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience'

The Less You Know
🧪 🔭 🤬

Last time I checked my tax dollars paid for that quality content.

I worry about how it's impacting my observatories, too. They run on massive NSF grants (or the US parts of them do), and those are being yanked. No $$ = no operations, no staff paychecks, and how do we pay for the storage & backup of our massive datasets? #fretting #SaveScience

Need more pics from the #SLA2025 Dance Party, please!! #VicariousLiving

We talked about that at a few of the PAM roundtable. Everyone's feeling the stress over losing access. #SLA2025

There’s a Lot More of Us and You Can’t Eat Us All.