Gar Bering

Stealing “this is a long-ass arc.”

May Virginia Giuffre's memory be for a revolution.

Good morning ☕

Prince Andrew to seek asylum in the United States and join Donald Trump’s cabinet to avoid further persecution.

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

Raymond Priestley's still hits like a brick:

“For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton!.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (!!!) is now publicly criticizing ICE. Oh, they're getting scared now. The backlash is being felt, and they don't want any part of this narrative.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2...

How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?

Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.

Indie bookstores are making a shocking, triumphant comeback Since 2020, the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. grew by 70%.

Outstanding news!
www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

I would like to say that pretty much every immigrant in this country is more of an American than anyone doing Trump’s bidding

A new low.

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI.

Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

A felt colossal squid tangled up in Christmas lights

The perfect Christmas ornament doesn’t ex-

That is a dissertation waiting to be writtem

Some of my best friends are other people’s dogs 🐶❤️🥹

Now this is the way to start winter -- 14-27" of snow predicted by Thanksgiving in Houghton!

0%. Wed is a day off

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.

Beam Dump

xkcd.com/3168/

Me

Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

Been discharged completely
Having my 80th bday in Boulder. Details to follow

"The government shouldn't operate missions, they should purchase science data from missions operated by private companies" is the techbro equivalent of "The government shouldn't help the poor, that should come from churches and charities", and then people don't get help from churches and charities.

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

Good morning.

It's been 31 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade - Blog - Dr. Emily L. Hunt Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.

uv makes installing and using Python *so* easy! It works on pretty much any computer and it's lightning fast. 🔭☄️ #astrocode

If you're still using conda, pyenv, or... basically any other tool, then I can *highly* recommend switching:

Protest marchers moving along a road

No Kings march is beginning in Ellsworth, Maine!

I’m on board with this assessment, and it is also striking to me that McCartney has been an A-list celebrity continuously for 60+ years, probably longer than anyone else in history. I believe that every show he has performed in since 1963 has had him or his group as headliners.

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

This is a fucking good question, now isn't it? 🤔