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Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Astronomer working on galaxies, cosmology, and the dark matter problem. Read about them at https://tritonstation.com/
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Yes. That is precisely what my reaction has been every time I’ve been demoralized at work by absurd dictates made by incompetent, disconnected overlords.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

There are about 2 million federal employees. If each of them spends on average half an hour writing said email, this exercise will cost the government around 20-30 million dollars in work time. If they do this every week from now on, it is $1.3 billion per year. What a waste!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

🤔

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Morning in the ‘hood: Neighbor’s dog: barking Me, looking: deer in the yard, on my side of the fence. I run them off. Dog: single laudatory bark Me: yeah, we’re both domesticated and have pretty much the same job.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Demanding mineral rights always seemed a peculiar and specific ask. Who in the US government wants this? Is it just Musk who wants them for his industries?

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Flat panels of snow! The picture contains enough information to deduce how these came to be.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is an easy fix for a remotely competent editor.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Icicles in the sun.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What a tell. So not subtle. “If you pay into the system ‘honestly’” is the most blatant political lie I’ve heard since John Major swore he wouldn’t devalue the pound in 1992.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EcK6...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There were over a million excess deaths* in the US during the first Trump administration. What’s the over/under for the second? Ten million? I bet over. *mostly due to Covid. Statistical studies suggest that a large fraction would have been preventable with a more competent, less RFK-like response

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

About this time, a legit bald eagle flew over.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is a dirty secret of how constellations got their names. It was dark back then, with the occasional goat to bump into. So clearly, a kid was asking an astronomer about the constellations. Kid: what are those stars called? Astronomer, tripping on a goat: Fucking goat! Kid: I don’t see it, but ok

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Beautiful in December, unwelcome by February.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus. 🔭 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 106 comments

“The amended version curtails [Rubin’s] legacy of championing women in science” That’s like telling someone to stay in her lane when that is her lane.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Make Solvang Great Again!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like the accelerationists will get what they want, followed promptly by what they deserve. Unfortunately, we’re all along for the ride.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Galaxies got too big too soon: kinematics edition. It’s not just the photometry that contradicts LCDM. tritonstation.com/2025/02/10/k...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

In the end, it was only ~1”, albeit with a crunchy crust of ice.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Flipped on the superspectacle to Tom Brady leading a procession down Bourbon street while spouting inanities about the unity of American spirit in memorial to the victims of the pickup truck terrorist as the republic is being robbed by a super rich illegal alien and convicted felon & insurrectionist

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This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

submitted 16 days ago • 113 comments

It begins, but now the prediction is back down to 3”. I guess we’ll do the experiment.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, the forecast was to get 2” of snow. This morning it was 3”. By lunchtime, 4”. Now, as the sky darkens, they’ve bumped it up to 8”.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Pull trigger first, check targets after

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Breakfast is the most important meal. Eating it is a privilege not a right. Eggs cost extra.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk and his Dunning-Kruger compatriots of DOGE have the capacity to trigger a government funding crisis that could lead to the collapse of world financial markets simply by screwing up in exactly the way they “fixed” Twitter, with malicious incompetence.

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submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

What should be the threshold for a criminal to be kicked entirely out of the country? 34 felonies?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The polite phrasing of this righteous outrage sounds so 21 hours ago.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

T gets more bananas every day and he hasn’t been back in office even a month yet. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukr3...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Has she had [more] work done? Is there some Dr. Mengele of plastic surgery practicing the same travesties on all the women in Trump’s orbit?

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments