I recall how we have George Washington's bar bills.
And also how Washington regularly took laudanum for chronic pain management.
I recall how we have George Washington's bar bills.
And also how Washington regularly took laudanum for chronic pain management.
In a recent SETI Live conversation, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Karen Perez, lead author of a new study reporting the possible discovery of a pulsar candidate near the Galactic Center. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/lost-pu...
219 Representatives refused to do their jobs and stop Donald Trump's illegal war.
While they did, Trump threatened to start another.
Yet again, USA:
Require that Congress end all of this, #ImpeachTrump, and remove him.
Give them no choice otherwise.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This is the second of six galaxies from Proposal 10550 I plan to process. They are all low surface brightness galaxies. I don't know much about them and that's why they interest me. There are very few Milky Way stars in this picture and many background galaxies for comparison to the foreground one. I tried to include as many as possible. Because these are remarkable for their lack of brightness, I have decided that it would be best to not try to brighten them a lot with processing, especially not relative to the other objects in the field. It is not very noticeable but the chip gap is running vertically down the left side of the galaxy. It should be easy to see the faked filler zoomed 100%. It's just a thin line that would otherwise be blank that I've matched the brightness of the galaxy to and added some noise on top of. I used to think I shouldn't do this but if I always note that I did so then I think it is permissible. There are so many pictures in the archive that almost nobody will ever see otherwise. Red: HST_10550_01_ACS_WFC_F775W_sci Green: Pseudo Blue: HST_10550_01_ACS_WFC_F475W_sci North is NOT up. It is 16.7° counter-clockwise from up.
UGC 477 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/oohYfC
05.03.2026 14:00 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Pete Hegseth is a Christian. So is JD Vance. So is Donald Trump.
Christians who advocate horrific crimes and mass death are still Christians.
To pretend otherwise is to give a pretext for avoiding addressing the systemic problem.
"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion ..." - United States Senate, 1797.
Yet again, USA:
#ImpeachHegseth
This is the beginning of Kristi Noem’s accountability, not the end.
05.03.2026 21:10 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Hazegrayart's picture is both greatly exaggerated and backwards.
05.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Estimates for what would have happened had YR4 impacted the Moon were for a roughly 1 km crater and an impact flash peaking around apparent magnitude -3.
To the eye, it would have been a dot that would have not been immediately obvious (since nearly all of the risk corridor was on the day side).
A lot of people seem to have really wanted 2024 YR4 to impact the Moon.
There will be other impactors.
A white, glowing egg-shaped object lies in the centre of the black-and-white image, on a dark, starry background. Glowing streaks spread upwards from the object. In the top left, a yellow arrow marked ‘Sun’ points straight down, and a blue arrow marked ‘Velocity’ points towards the 7 o’clock direction. In the bottom left, an inset shows the same object on a lighter grey starry background, filled with ragged-edged, concentric egg shapes gradiented black-to-white.
#PPOD: This striking image from the science camera on ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS spewing dust and gas. The tiny nucleus of the comet (not visible) is surrounded by a bright halo of gas known as the coma. 🧪 🔭
05.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
The House is voting on a War Powers Resolution to end Trump's illegal war in Iran.
The price of unchecked war powers is paid by innocent civilians and servicemembers sent into harm’s way.
Voting YES to put a check on Trump's reckless abuse of power.
MSF is alarmed by the dramatic escalation in conflict across the #MiddleEast.
We urge for the protection of civilians and healthcare facilities, as our teams adapt and scale up activities in #Iran and #Lebanon.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/middle-east-...
Goodbye and good riddance.
But don’t take the bait. Firing Noem alone won’t halt Trump’s campaign of terror.
The atrocities happening by ICE behind the walls of detention facilities and in broad daylight have proven that ICE cannot be reformed.
Abolish ICE NOW.
It is also a false attribution.
Which Orwell would presumably not appreciate.
The sky brightness depends considerably on where in Minneapolis and Saint Paul one is standing.
The downtowns are way brighter than the city between and around them.
"Cabinet Secretary" being distinct from "Cabinet Member".
Since Charles Curtis was part of the cabinet as Vice President nearly a century ago.
A black and white image of the night side of Jupiter. The curve of the planet in the upper-right corner shows a dim aurora. Bright spots of lightning are in the center of the frame.
Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter #OTD in 1979, passing just 172,000 miles above the planet's cloud tops.
This 3 minute exposure, taken from Jupiter's night side, shows aurora over the north pole and bright spots which are thought to be JOVIAN LIGHTNING. 🧪 🔭
Image: NASA/JPL
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
05.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 10326 🔁 2005 💬 252 📌 93
One offender out.
Yet again, USA:
Require Congress #CloseTheCamps, #AbolishICE and the Border Patrol, and remove everyone responsible for their crimes from the government.
And do not let Mullin, who defames people murdered by ICE, be appointed to anything.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/05/r...
I have had scammers spoof numbers belonging to medical centers here in Minnesota, which I cannot set my phone to filter out.
That has variously included their impersonating cardiology, oncology, and the emergency room.
I do not like it.
I again note how SpaceX is pleased to claim that it makes money on Starlinks by using EBITDA accounting to not include the cost of continuously replacing the things.
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Why SETI Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals www.seti.org/news/why-set...
05.03.2026 17:15 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE.
“To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”
Yet again, USA:
Require that Congress #CloseTheCamps, #AbolishICE and the Border Patrol, remove Homan and Miller, #ImpeachNoem, #ImpeachVance, and #ImpeachTrump.
Do not let what they have done in Minnesota continue here or anywhere else.
Again: Good luck over there, for whatever it is worth.
05.03.2026 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A significant number of kids here in Saint Paul will be on temporary virtual education for another week because of ICE and the Border Patrol.
And the city council is extending eviction protections for the rest of the year.
None of this is over.
www.twincities.com/2026/03/04/s...
Great time to have a book come out, amiright? /s
If you want a distraction from actual reality that includes a snarky magic cloak, car alarm shenanigans, superhero critique, and a variety of weird monsters I'm way too proud of, check out: rznicolet.com/books/the-cl...
#urbanfantasy
Acabamos de publicar que, gracias a las medidas que hemos obtenido de 2024 YR4 con el JWST, hemos determinado que el asteroide NO impactará contra la Luna en 2032.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
There have been simulations of what 2024 YR4 impacting the Moon would have looked like. For examples:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.106...
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11217