Thad Szabo

I remember when a 5 hit while I was in the backyard doing astrophotography. My rig stayed polar aligned despite trees and power poles swaying.

Got to see a seiche in the pool at our apartment when a 7.2 hit northern Mexico. That was a wobbly 20-30 seconds.

I just learned about something called recency bias.

It's my favorite thing ever.

We're at war with Iran because the President of the United States likes to fuck kids

That's super clear, right?

He fucks kids

Children

Trump fucks Children

That needs to be very clear

Crochet cat >> spherical cow

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I'm sure I know some folks who could come up with similarly compelling versions

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

Maybe I can use pictures of clouds as flat frames - always look on the bright side of life (insert whistling)

If I get out a 2nd telescope 🔭 I bet it will make the clouds even thicker

This looks familiar

Trying to watch and photograph this #LunarEclipse through passing clouds of various thickness is kinda eerie

I had medical appointments on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday last week. I have them on Monday and Wednesday this week. Not how I want to spend so much of my time, but hey - #KidneyFailure and waiting for a transplant. Can you help me find a living donor?
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Total Lunar Eclipse on March 2–3, 2026 – Where and When to See Total lunar eclipse on March 2–3, 2026: Where and when is the Blood Moon visible and what will it look like? Visibility map, animation, and local times.

🌕➡️🔴 Lunar eclipse alert!

Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight!

You can find information about timing and viewing locations here: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

How’s the regime change going in Venezuela, the opposition is in power now right? … right?

Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile

Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile

How to stop the robot apocalypse - mirrors and runny eggs.

I was at a Tesla event in OCTOBER 2014 where we heard Lone Skum's eternal promise - "Full self-driving is 6 months away." In case, like Skum, you can't count, that was over 11 years ago.

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

How hard is "Prosecute murderers" and #AbolishICE ? That's what we want

I'm teaching calculus based physics for the first time this semester. Usually, I get the trig/algebra based intro course. I feel parts of my brain waking up that haven't been roused in many years.

I like it. Hope my students do too.

I have not been able to get this out of my head since, oh... January 2025?

Not the birds we wanted, but go birds.

Hot ancient galaxy cluster challenges current cosmological models – Physics World Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away suggest much more energetic early cluster growth than current theories assume

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away are at least five times greater than theories predict, suggesting much more energetic early cluster growth than predicted by current models. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/hot-ancien...

You're welcome! That "tiny" red spot in the South Temperate Zone is the size of the north part of the continent of Africa.

So I think Jupiter is pretty darn large.

If you haven't heard anything from Die Spitz yet, look them up and have a listen. Reminds of the best of punk/metal/cathartic screaming that I would listen to in college. Adding them to the list of live shows I would love to get to see once I get my kidney transplant.

How to identify an astronomer as GenX

Jupiter, 2026-01-18 around 0540 UTC Although there's still a problem with the mount, I will be able to use it and the C14 on campus for visual observations and planetary imaging this semester. This image of Jupiter was part of the test ...

Good target, especially at its current declination. Here's what it looked like on Saturday night.
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Trying to figure out if I have enough proverbial spoons

Sorry - at least now I know not to bother another friend in Toronto about it

I have a dialysis (home, PD) treatment tonight and a lecture and lab to teach tomorrow. Do I still try driving for 90+ minutes to get somewhere far enough north of LA to see aurorae?