Cynthia Froning
@astra2.bsky.social
We just said goodbye to Willow. For 15 years, she was our best companion. We’ll miss her so much.
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We just said goodbye to Willow. For 15 years, she was our best companion. We’ll miss her so much.
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
What I wonder is what is driving MTG and Hanania to articulating positions of relative normality. Is the MAGA craziness about to lose its grip?
You are all a bunch of suckers with short memories you can all get fucked!!
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What I wonder is what is driving MTG and Hanania to articulating positions of relative normality. Is the MAGA craziness about to lose its grip?
OMG that’s hilarious.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
OMG that’s hilarious.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Hey, @chanda.blacksky.app, I was just reading about your mother and grandmother last night.
I Stand Here Ironing | Dorothy Sue Cobble
At a moment of unparalleled assault on state social services, a new book recovers the daring ideas of a movement that struggled to win compensation for domestic workers and caregivers in the home.
www.nybooks.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hey, @chanda.blacksky.app, I was just reading about your mother and grandmother last night.
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
Whoa, I hadn’t heard who was ousted. I worked with Markham in 2020, when we worked with the UT admin on covid response planning. He put an enormous effort into serving the university during that time. What a farce.
“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.”
This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.
This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.
Texas professor ousted from admin role over "ideological differences"
Art Markman had served as a senior vice provost for academic affairs since 2021.
www.axios.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Whoa, I hadn’t heard who was ousted. I worked with Markham in 2020, when we worked with the UT admin on covid response planning. He put an enormous effort into serving the university during that time. What a farce.
Does anyone have a word for the guilt you feel when you are working but you are avoiding the hard task you really need to be addressing?
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Does anyone have a word for the guilt you feel when you are working but you are avoiding the hard task you really need to be addressing?
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Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.
I wrote my last term paper (on boron in the interstellar medium), finishing at 3 a.m. the day it was due. I was pulled over by a police officer as I left campus. He let me go when he realized I wasn't drunk, just dorky.
I wrote my take-home final for Law of War at 4 a.m., still half-drunk. It was due at 9 a.m. I got a B, which was my school's equivalent of taking you behind the barn and shooting you. It dropped my honors one level. My father was perturbed.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I wrote my last term paper (on boron in the interstellar medium), finishing at 3 a.m. the day it was due. I was pulled over by a police officer as I left campus. He let me go when he realized I wasn't drunk, just dorky.
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E Pluribus Dumdum
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
E Pluribus Dumdum
Ooh, the next SPIE meeting is in Copenhagen. Getting excited already.
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ooh, the next SPIE meeting is in Copenhagen. Getting excited already.
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i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long
September 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long
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watched like three seconds of Hegseth and woo call him the Secretary of War cause my boy is bombing hard
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
watched like three seconds of Hegseth and woo call him the Secretary of War cause my boy is bombing hard
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jesus: turn the other cheek
pete "christian crusader" hegseth: shut up pussy
pete "christian crusader" hegseth: shut up pussy
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
jesus: turn the other cheek
pete "christian crusader" hegseth: shut up pussy
pete "christian crusader" hegseth: shut up pussy
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It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.
BREAKING
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account.
Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account.
Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1
September 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.
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ADS has given astronomy THE BEST literature tools available anywhere. I almost never have to use the garbage that other academics have to suffer through (GoogleScholar, JSTOR, LexisNexis, WoS, PubMed...)
Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep
Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep
A natural evolution of ADS, SciX brings its powerful capabilities into new domains. Expanded coverage, intuitive search, smart recommendations, and tools for collaboration. SciX makes research more discoverable, connected, and accessible than ever before. https://scixplorer.org/scixblog/scix-launch
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ADS has given astronomy THE BEST literature tools available anywhere. I almost never have to use the garbage that other academics have to suffer through (GoogleScholar, JSTOR, LexisNexis, WoS, PubMed...)
Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep
Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep
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This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.
www.texastribune.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
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There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump.
That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.
That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump.
That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.
That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.
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For those posting things they perhaps shouldn’t, it costs you nothing to show someone’s small children the kind of grace that Someone Else would never think to show the children of their slain or hurt enemies.
That is not the same thing as accurately assessing a dead man’s legacy or record
That is not the same thing as accurately assessing a dead man’s legacy or record
September 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
For those posting things they perhaps shouldn’t, it costs you nothing to show someone’s small children the kind of grace that Someone Else would never think to show the children of their slain or hurt enemies.
That is not the same thing as accurately assessing a dead man’s legacy or record
That is not the same thing as accurately assessing a dead man’s legacy or record
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Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
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It’s important to see that Trump didn’t have to push these people too hard to become fully fascist thugs.
Rep. John McGuire on the FBI raiding John Bolton's home: "I'm glad they're going after him."
August 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s important to see that Trump didn’t have to push these people too hard to become fully fascist thugs.
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This gets more infuriating each time I see it. Trump has made clear for years that he wants to exert dominance over cities and states that don't support him -- nonwhite cities in particular. His aides and supporters have made it clear.
Stop conceding his premise. This is not about crime.
Stop conceding his premise. This is not about crime.
The Washpost’s new Opinions editor had an opportunity to take a meaningful stand on a huge local story this week — and instead, he and his editorial board gave us this warm bucket of slop
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
August 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This gets more infuriating each time I see it. Trump has made clear for years that he wants to exert dominance over cities and states that don't support him -- nonwhite cities in particular. His aides and supporters have made it clear.
Stop conceding his premise. This is not about crime.
Stop conceding his premise. This is not about crime.