This is some really good news for NASA's science budget amid deep uncertainty. arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/…

Superb, indeed. If the moon had been a little more full it would have outshone Regulus and the balance of the three celestial objects would have been marred. It’s perfect this way.

A moon, planet & star over Toronto - Moon, Venus & Regulus. (gorgeous photo by friend Andrew Yee)

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Zoom in to see the fainter comet on the left. The combination is remarkable.

Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. There’s 120 times MORE formaldehyde in a single pear than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

Agree. I also keep a record of the books I read in a notebook—title/author/date etc and a few lines. It’s not electronically searchable, sadly, but manually paging through it is satisfying.

Weekend, I hardly knew ye.(Was writing the whole time.) Good night!

💚💙Uranus Why it’s so difficult to see Uranus without binoculars or a telescope, AND very dark skies free of light pollution.

"Kicked away their ladders"--barbarians.

What artificial satellites are doing to the night sky.

Harlan Thomas Leila Belkora Ph.D. astrophysics All major stacking software with at least two images does this, in fact. However, the problem isn't the removal of traces. Cumulatively, they increase the brightness of the sky background, so even very dark sites will appear contaminated.

It was still overcast this morning with some crepuscular rays getting through (Photo: Sicco Rood).

If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin) The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

I was just notified of ANOTHER death in ICE custody — the 16th since Trump took office. The second death TODAY. This is absolutely unacceptable.

My “jeans of Theseus”. I’m determined not to let them die!! #visiblemending #sashiko #workinprogress #makedoandmend #lovedclotheslast

What a gorgeous photo! I believe Miethe went to Svalbard in 1910 *with* Count Zeppelin, not on a Zeppelin; the voyage by airship was later, in 1931.

“Nearly 90% of administrative expenditures came from the federal budget, the report concluded, meaning that Georgia’s experiment is being funded by taxpayers around the country.”

Enjoy.