Christian Fröschlin
@chrfrde.bsky.social
Amateur astronomer from urban 15th floor balcony. Celestron 8" / Lunt 40 / Galileoscope. Software developer. Image processing / HALCON. Fledgling skeptic. He/him.
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This evening's view of #Saturn with Titan shadow transit. Somewhat blurry shot under adverse conditions (even getting rained on) but I'm happy to have caught it at all. 1000 x 50 ms RGB in Celestron 8" + ADC + 2.5x powermate.
That was intense
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM
That was intense
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BTW, re: my fanfic: Some discussion off a Tumblr ask of some years back. https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/702759387521007616/hello-i-was-wondering-if-youve-shared-your-ao3
dduane
Anonymous said: Hello! I was wondering if you’ve shared your ao3 account? Like, have you acknowledged “this account is mine,” or do you keep it personal? Totally respect if you keep it under wraps I...
dduane.tumblr.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
BTW, re: my fanfic: Some discussion off a Tumblr ask of some years back. https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/702759387521007616/hello-i-was-wondering-if-youve-shared-your-ao3
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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Not to mention the reality that Black feminist thought in America is a tradition extending back to the 18th century, and not something invented in the 2010s as some people seem to assume …
January 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Not to mention the reality that Black feminist thought in America is a tradition extending back to the 18th century, and not something invented in the 2010s as some people seem to assume …
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Go click a bunch so they give me more op eds please
I have an op-ed out in the @inquirer.com today about misogyny, motherhood and resistance in the age of Trumpian fascism.
Gift link: share.inquirer.com/SDFg79?utm_s...
Gift link: share.inquirer.com/SDFg79?utm_s...
Trump’s message to politically active mothers: Stay home, or your children will suffer the consequences | Opinion
But where the regime has sought to instill fear, they have instead inspired righteous fury. After all, hope is a mother.
share.inquirer.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Go click a bunch so they give me more op eds please
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This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
Fight and help win a world war.
Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.
Blow it all up.
What am I missing?
Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.
Blow it all up.
What am I missing?
January 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
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It gets much, much better!
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
January 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
It gets much, much better!
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC.
Incredible imagery!
I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457
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Over halfway through with this new #embroidery.
January 17, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Over halfway through with this new #embroidery.
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this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
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We felt the shift. It didn’t matter that we have experience, earned degrees and head households. We were ‘too uppity’ in wanting success that didn’t completely involve service to everyone.
A decision was made in nov 2024 that was not simply a repudiation of one Black woman
But a repudiation of Black womanhood
But a repudiation of Black womanhood
January 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
We felt the shift. It didn’t matter that we have experience, earned degrees and head households. We were ‘too uppity’ in wanting success that didn’t completely involve service to everyone.
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Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday).
It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country.
Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest:
1/9
It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country.
Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest:
1/9
January 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday).
It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country.
Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest:
1/9
It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country.
Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest:
1/9
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in any case, i have been a vocal critic of trump for a decade. i want nothing more than to see trumpism purged from this country. my view is that this will only be accomplished by a deep and nuanced understanding of where trump is strong and where he is weak.
January 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
in any case, i have been a vocal critic of trump for a decade. i want nothing more than to see trumpism purged from this country. my view is that this will only be accomplished by a deep and nuanced understanding of where trump is strong and where he is weak.
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JWST captured a missing link in galaxy evolution: the time when their central black holes began to form. These young, fast-eating black holes look a lot different than expected, creating the enigmatic Little Red Dots.
Look new places, discover new things! 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Look new places, discover new things! 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
JWST captured a missing link in galaxy evolution: the time when their central black holes began to form. These young, fast-eating black holes look a lot different than expected, creating the enigmatic Little Red Dots.
Look new places, discover new things! 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Look new places, discover new things! 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Thanks to our latest findings, we now know that early citizens of the United States had a more nuanced system of government than previously thought,” said Professor Lee Somers, director of the site excavation
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
theonion.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
“Thanks to our latest findings, we now know that early citizens of the United States had a more nuanced system of government than previously thought,” said Professor Lee Somers, director of the site excavation
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since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
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Here is that deorbit burn as imaged by a still camera at the lightsoverlapland.com/aurora-webcam/
January 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Here is that deorbit burn as imaged by a still camera at the lightsoverlapland.com/aurora-webcam/
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Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, a radio telescope is back online. The signal is back. 😀 #AreciboWow phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach #RadioAstronomy #Outreach
January 10, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, a radio telescope is back online. The signal is back. 😀 #AreciboWow phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach #RadioAstronomy #Outreach
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Category theory is a cool field of math because we can use pretty diagrams to easily describe how things compose...
October 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Category theory is a cool field of math because we can use pretty diagrams to easily describe how things compose...
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people knew they were voting for cruelty
I do not think even the worst of them knew they were voting for a literal invasion of Greenland and the end of relations between the US and Europe because President Dipshit over here had a big mercator projection map over his bed as a child
I do not think even the worst of them knew they were voting for a literal invasion of Greenland and the end of relations between the US and Europe because President Dipshit over here had a big mercator projection map over his bed as a child
January 11, 2026 at 7:18 AM
people knew they were voting for cruelty
I do not think even the worst of them knew they were voting for a literal invasion of Greenland and the end of relations between the US and Europe because President Dipshit over here had a big mercator projection map over his bed as a child
I do not think even the worst of them knew they were voting for a literal invasion of Greenland and the end of relations between the US and Europe because President Dipshit over here had a big mercator projection map over his bed as a child
Quoted post captures a rare Callisto transit that can only occur when Earth is near a #Jupiter ring plane crossing about every 6 years. To top it off this one occurred close to opposition so the moon and the shadow are both in the image apparently "touching". skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
January 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Quoted post captures a rare Callisto transit that can only occur when Earth is near a #Jupiter ring plane crossing about every 6 years. To top it off this one occurred close to opposition so the moon and the shadow are both in the image apparently "touching". skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO
open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO
A statement by 14 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM
America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO
open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
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This is such a cool finding--the oldest direct evidence of poisoned arrows. Poisoned hunting weapons were a game-changing innovation for our ancestors. Absolutely incredible that researchers found traces of plant toxins on these tiny arrowheads from 60,000 ago 🤯🏹 🧪
Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known
www.scientificamerican.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This is such a cool finding--the oldest direct evidence of poisoned arrows. Poisoned hunting weapons were a game-changing innovation for our ancestors. Absolutely incredible that researchers found traces of plant toxins on these tiny arrowheads from 60,000 ago 🤯🏹 🧪
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BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
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If you're looking for an accurate timeline of events from Jan. 6, backed by copious amounts of video and courtroom evidence, have I got a website for you!
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
apps.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:24 PM
If you're looking for an accurate timeline of events from Jan. 6, backed by copious amounts of video and courtroom evidence, have I got a website for you!
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
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We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
apps.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 PM
We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/