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drskyskull.bsky.social
Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
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Same energy

I have some feelings about the season finale of Doctor Who.

This is officially my anthem for the rest of 2025

"Let them eat shit." -- Joni Ernst

Via the WSJ I believe, h/t @notcapnamerica.bsky.social on Threads

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

i did not make this but lmao

I keep seeing people say Musk “failed” in his government takeover. No, he did not fail. He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US. That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.

Like Trump, he just said what he needed to say to get in the door. Actual interest in “government waste” was minor compared to his personal self interest.

The greatest ghost story of all time.

This song by Moon Walker is definitely a mood. Going on my "revolutionary" playlist. I challenge you to not have your jaw drop by the end of the first verse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUaC...

The amazing part of the MAGA delusion here is that somehow they thought we weren’t already going after gang members, for… reasons? I guess?

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

Blue states governors and Democratic mayors and councils need to mobilize their own National Guard units and police departments to protect residents from armed, masked federal agents. If they don't trust their Guard or law enforcement leaders to do that, then they need to remove them.

every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

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A sign that opposition can work.

We’re speeding towards the moment when one of these ICE kidnappings ends in bloodshed.

When something like this happens, there's always a raft of "in any other administration this would be a historic scandal" responses. It's important to remember why this admin is different. It's not the media, and it's not (primarily) the admin itself. It's the congressional GOP. Period.

I feel like Trump’s tariff changes are all correlated to micro-strokes he experiences

Once again, none of this is related to a national emergency and it's all fucking illegal as hell.

excited that my little niece lost her dream job at the EPA in one of the poorest areas in the country because this guy was out of his mind on cat tranquilizers and The Turner Diaries

Visited my dad today, played a boardgame and finished building a LEGO parrot.

Oh, nice -- I was appointed a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, starting July 2026.

NASA now exists to fund Elon’s drug habit

This guy has murdered hundreds of thousands of people this year, most of them children.

Now now now that wasn’t the drugs, he just had to pee badly. Because his bladder has shrunk 50%. Due to the drugs.

If Australian politicians were serious about long term productivity and could read the writing on the wall they would invest heavily in national R&D now including universities.

Friday PM attempted massacre... of science. The fight is not over. There are things to do. Organize with @standupforscience.bsky.social Get informed: scienceimpacts.org Call your representative & ask: what are they doing to stop the self-destruction of American's innovation economy?

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BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

Wow, powerful stuff. So when did Elon turn around and take Trump to task for pardoning so many criminals?!

Novelty Car Horn Playing ‘La Cucaracha’ Sends Stephen Miller Into Dissociative Fugue State theonion.com/novelty...

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

The Scepter of Mercy books wind up with THE SCEPTER'S RETURN, in which you get to find out what that really means. Oh, the cats with thumbs do matter. www.amazon.com/Scepters-Ret...

Jake Tapper: Does Biden have a drug problem?

He admits being punched, and considering every admission is usually a half truth, I now believe Miller socked him

Exactly that! I want him to remember forever the night a woman beat him up for touching her without her consent. And you know what? Two other men tried to intervene to stop me from beating him up. @rerutled.bsky.social stopped them from stopping me. He didn't intervene because he knew I had it

One very practical reason: if a guy had beaten him up, he would’ve been sure to pick a woman alone as his next target. Now that a woman beat him up, all women will appear as a threat to him.

I don't think you ever regret reading anything @monaeltahawy.bsky.social writes.

“It remains unclear whether Musk was under the influence during his time at the White House…” Um no, it doesn’t