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DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP

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ngl the military obeying unlawful orders now does not make me hopeful about them disobeying unlawful orders later

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The image used as background here is the Flammarion engraving (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammar...), which is a seemingly popular choice in physics! I've seen it used in many talks and writings at this point.

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When López Alvarado tried to tell the officers that she was due June 17, she said they responded, “‘OK, your baby is going to be born here, but you’re from Mexico, right?’ And I told them no.” https://trib.al/NsJH2Yd

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“I can excuse manhandling the public, but I draw the line at US Senators!”

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Pass the word!

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

i see this car on my nightly berkeley walks and always think “you too”

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I know it's wild to ask a physics pedagogy question at a time like this but here I go: Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

I went on a boat tour of NYC a few years ago and I was surprised by how emotional it felt to see the Statue of Liberty from the water. Rejecting immigrants means rejecting the best American ideals.

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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

my favorite “social media” is a link aggregator site I am part of that has, at most, ~2k active users. I’ve been a member for 6 years and it’s great as I have come to know individual users in a pseudononymous way. People forget that smaller forum-like communities used to be the default online.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 9 days ago • 735 comments

RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

making chili

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Just to make it clear to you guys- having to yoink the NG away from the governor and dispatch them at platoon strength because 400 zoomers are camped out in a Home Depot parking lot is regime weakness. In indicates how little power you actually have.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 9 days ago • 171 comments

make gentle the life of this world or die trying

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

this is some bullshit

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this was a good one

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very excited that my copy of Other Networks by @loriemerson.net has finally arrived!

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near transit stops like train stations and rapid bus stops, has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee! It now heads to the Senate floor. Learn more:

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Given the current proposed funding levels for US basic scientific research, I find this particularly timely history.fnal.gov/historical/p...

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Your Senators have until tomorrow to request robust levels of funding for NASA, NSF, and the DOE Office of Science - use our easy form to request that they do so today! aas.org/advocacy/get...

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make gentle the life of this world or die trying

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submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

This may not be obvious, but a paper like the Naidu et al on the new distance record holder galaxy arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 would normally be submitted to Nature. The fact that it was submitted to the @ojastro.bsky.social signals a major shift in the field. 🔭🧪

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

this is giving precambrian

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Proof! Coming later this year, but you can pre-order from your favourite small bookseller today.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

temporarily claiming the "most ominous" title from muskegon

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