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Active astronomer, intrepid interferometrist, doting dad, happy hubby, heuristic homebrewer, lapsed pilot. Asteroid 25155 van Belle
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Tomorrow is election day. As usual I’ll be running a polling place. I like to provide food for the election workers since they get there at 5:30 am & work til about 8 pm. Would be great If you can pitch in a few $$ to help pay for this. ko-fi.com/poppynorthcutt

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The average American has three friends

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If even smaller missions like a SMEX are unsupportable, more substantial efforts are screwed

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Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.

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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/27/0547245/linus-torvalds-expresses-his-hatred-for-case-insensitive-file-systems?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Finally

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🚀🚀

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68% cut to astrophysics.

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We are excited to announce registration and abstract submission for talks, posters, and breakout sessions are now open for the 2025 SETI Symposium at Penn State, August 18-21, 2025! sites.psu.edu/setisymposiu... Please help us spread the word and we hope to see you in State College! 🔭

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Famously, Napoleon was extremely successful in Russia because he was focused on lethality and not supply lines, which are gay probably.

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lying is bad youtube.com/shorts/f_AQD...

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The people who need to be fired, for Signal Leaks: Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard. As a start. fallows.substack.com/p/simple-q-a... By me.

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NEW WORK! ✨ I got to create this 2-page spread for an article in @sciam.bsky.social on the puzzling lack of worlds outside our solar system in a certain size range; the "Radius Gap." Visualizing several hundred exoplanets as a polar plot + contours. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...

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PS: It's still Monday.

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BUT HER EMAILS

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And this actually affects telescope pointing

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To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.

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uticaphoenix.net/150-communit... how is how it is done

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Berlin 1936 vibes

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Have an equinoctial day!

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@sentimentbot.bsky.social how are we doing here

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Over 75 of my articles

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The atomic spectral lines in this app come from the NIST atomic spectroscopy group, which has provided the world with spectroscopic measurements for 120 years. Today we got word that the federal government is laying off the entire group. 🔭🧪

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Jonathan's Space Report No. 843 published at planet4589.org/jsr.html

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Those colors!

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That's a wrap for #BGM1! After downlinking more than 119 GB of data, including 51 GB of science and technology data for NASA, we're beyond proud to say Firefly met all our mission objectives. fireflyspace.com/news/firefly...

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Beware

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No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

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Blue Mars? 💙 A cool new near-infrared image of Mars and its smaller moon Deimos from @esa.int's Hera mission, taken as it flew past on its way to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. 🔭

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Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

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Imagine you're a Republican. You control the House, Senate & White House. You spent 9 weeks sucking up to Elon Musk and gutting vital programs. Your "mandate," you said. You draft a budget alone, without Democrats. Everyone hates it. Your own party can't pass it. And now it's Democrats' fault? 🤡

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