Syd Andersen

I think we've got a little aurora going on at APO (New Mexico) on the all sky cam:
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Has anyone figured out what this means for first year grads? We’re lost

Very Happy I was the one who got to tell my family group chat

Radicalizing the cat by explaining that dinner will be an hour late due to our government refusing to update outdated timezone protocol

A tortie cat sitting with her tail curled up under her chin. Her pupils are large and she’s looking down, away from the camera.

The same tortie cat from a slightly different angle. She looks off to the right and has huge pupils

Beebs Please Go a Month Without a Health Problem Challenge

Ross Bryant, flanked by Lou Wilson and Jiavani, saying "We robbed the Louvre!"

this was filmed april 4th 2025

Low-key planning on putting this somewhere in my eventual thesis

Excerpt from Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. Two characters are exchanging dialogue. "As a physicist, what do you do when you're faced by something that doesn't care what you do and isn't affected by your actions? Then you start thinking about dark energy and you go a little nuts.” "Yeah, it's something we think about: How do you know if something is out of the ordinary when you don't know if your instruments would register the progressions? Lasers, gravitational-wave detectors, X-rays. Nothing usetul there. I Got this spade here and a bucket and some rubber bands and duct tape, you know?"

I mean, yeah

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

Planetary Rings

xkcd.com/3156/

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
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Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Also, the moon is a real pain in the ass

I should ask if my parents had me for tax reasons

It’s been my greatest disappointment as an adult to realize it isn’t a random coincidence I share a birthday with a number of things like NASA and Disney World, but 100% just fiscal year nonsense

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At long last, my website is up! Not much is on there at the moment, but I have a number of things in the works.

www.tecyclops.com

A digital drawing of a watermelon bat.

Don't think about the science too much. A watermelon fruit bat can totally exist AND fly.

Just had to explain bean dad to a bunch of 22-23 year olds. I might be too online

You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS

IT’S FAT BEAR WEEK

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

liberals insisting trans people mourn a man who spent his life agitating for our eradication displays a deep sickness of the heart

Don’t bother having empathy for Charlie Kirk. He literally didn’t believe in the concept of empathy.

In his own words: “I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage."

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Two weeks until orientation and four weeks until 3-0 😭

Thinking about that boat scene in 1984

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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Listen! It was my first time going and I didn’t know the trivia questions were related to the talks! And it happened to be my advisor and a former observing lab partner speaking! And I’ve read a number of papers related to their research and was perhaps disproportionately prepared!

A selfie of a non-binary white person holding a huckleberry wine slushy

Astronomy on tap was a nice break from my last week of work and a warm up for grad school… in retrospect I should have recused myself from trivia.