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.
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🔭 Welcome to the world, brand new Moon crater! Impact caught yesterday morning in the video below ⬇️ Such a cool event to have captured! 🤩
Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🔭 Welcome to the world, brand new Moon crater! Impact caught yesterday morning in the video below ⬇️ Such a cool event to have captured! 🤩
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Solar mamas and sisters play a key role in promoting rural electricity access. "Real men" love to build huge power plants that fail to reach the most vulnerable.
Case Tanzania:
eepafrica.org/portfolio/14...
Case Myanmar:
www.niras.com/media/qszk5y...
Case Tanzania:
eepafrica.org/portfolio/14...
Case Myanmar:
www.niras.com/media/qszk5y...
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Solar mamas and sisters play a key role in promoting rural electricity access. "Real men" love to build huge power plants that fail to reach the most vulnerable.
Case Tanzania:
eepafrica.org/portfolio/14...
Case Myanmar:
www.niras.com/media/qszk5y...
Case Tanzania:
eepafrica.org/portfolio/14...
Case Myanmar:
www.niras.com/media/qszk5y...
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Paxton points out there are 5 stages of fascism. It is not the kind of thing that either "fully is or isn't." The stages are:
1) Creation of movements: A movement emerges from a society disillusioned with the existing political order, often driven by nationalism and a sense of decline. /6
1) Creation of movements: A movement emerges from a society disillusioned with the existing political order, often driven by nationalism and a sense of decline. /6
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Paxton points out there are 5 stages of fascism. It is not the kind of thing that either "fully is or isn't." The stages are:
1) Creation of movements: A movement emerges from a society disillusioned with the existing political order, often driven by nationalism and a sense of decline. /6
1) Creation of movements: A movement emerges from a society disillusioned with the existing political order, often driven by nationalism and a sense of decline. /6
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We took professional sports - a job that is, by its very nature, one of the most high-stress, unhealthy things you can do for a living - and then added the ability for the most unsavory, unhinged freaks on Earth to tie their life savings to you, and threaten your family, without leaving their couch
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
We took professional sports - a job that is, by its very nature, one of the most high-stress, unhealthy things you can do for a living - and then added the ability for the most unsavory, unhinged freaks on Earth to tie their life savings to you, and threaten your family, without leaving their couch
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
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Blue Origin sends satellites to Mars in historic launch. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Watch: Blue Origin sends satellites to Mars in historic launch
The booster powering New Glenn also separated from the rocket's upper stage and successfully touched down back on Earth.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Blue Origin sends satellites to Mars in historic launch. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Für das Maximum der Geminiden diesen Dezember gibt es einen Aufruf, am Morgen des 14. die 'dunkle' Seite des Mondes stundenlang zu filmen: www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.... - dann ist nämlich die Chance besonders hoch, einen oder mehrere Einschläge von Geminiden-Teilchen als Blitze aufzuzeichnen.
Dan Fischer
Ein gut besuchtes Online-Meeting gestern Abend zur LGM (Lunar Impact Flashes Geminids Campaign) 2025 war ausgesprochen motivierend - und der Hauptvortrag und die Folien sind nun bei...
www.facebook.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Für das Maximum der Geminiden diesen Dezember gibt es einen Aufruf, am Morgen des 14. die 'dunkle' Seite des Mondes stundenlang zu filmen: www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.... - dann ist nämlich die Chance besonders hoch, einen oder mehrere Einschläge von Geminiden-Teilchen als Blitze aufzuzeichnen.
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Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.
August 26, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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HELLO BELGIUM!!!!!!! Thank you @bruegel.org for introducing #TheDoubleTax to the EU airwaves.
One thing that BAFFLES me is that so many EU countries don't collect data on race so literal stories about Black people are absent from the numbers. We dig into that in this episode: #blacksky
One thing that BAFFLES me is that so many EU countries don't collect data on race so literal stories about Black people are absent from the numbers. We dig into that in this episode: #blacksky
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
HELLO BELGIUM!!!!!!! Thank you @bruegel.org for introducing #TheDoubleTax to the EU airwaves.
One thing that BAFFLES me is that so many EU countries don't collect data on race so literal stories about Black people are absent from the numbers. We dig into that in this episode: #blacksky
One thing that BAFFLES me is that so many EU countries don't collect data on race so literal stories about Black people are absent from the numbers. We dig into that in this episode: #blacksky
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Polls haven't even closed and Mamdani is already delivering.
BREAKING: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84.
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at age 84. The hard-charging conservative became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Polls haven't even closed and Mamdani is already delivering.
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Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.
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$698 Billion. That’s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
$698 Billion. That’s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
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Deeply unexpected that one of the best exhibits of extraterrestrial gems and minerals is in the terminal of the Portland, Maine airport??
April 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Deeply unexpected that one of the best exhibits of extraterrestrial gems and minerals is in the terminal of the Portland, Maine airport??
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We've lost another #StarTrek legend. The great #RIPRalphSenensky, the director of 7 great TOS eps like "The Paradise Syndrome" & "Metamorphosis", wrongly fired form "Tholian Web," and then lived long to blog and share it all, was 102. Blessed to have talked/hosted him for us all.
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We've lost another #StarTrek legend. The great #RIPRalphSenensky, the director of 7 great TOS eps like "The Paradise Syndrome" & "Metamorphosis", wrongly fired form "Tholian Web," and then lived long to blog and share it all, was 102. Blessed to have talked/hosted him for us all.
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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Via the Minor Planet Mailing List:
"The flash occurred at 20:33 and lasted 13.4 seconds on October 30, 2025"
groups.io/g/mpml/topic...
"The flash occurred at 20:33 and lasted 13.4 seconds on October 30, 2025"
groups.io/g/mpml/topic...
groups.io
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Via the Minor Planet Mailing List:
"The flash occurred at 20:33 and lasted 13.4 seconds on October 30, 2025"
groups.io/g/mpml/topic...
"The flash occurred at 20:33 and lasted 13.4 seconds on October 30, 2025"
groups.io/g/mpml/topic...
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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
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I gave a presentation at @sacnas.bsky.social on "archival astrophysics" in a session "Astronomy on the Cheap", showing tips on pursuing research using only archival data. Here are my slides, which include examples of different public archives & how to use them! 🔭 drive.google.com/file/d/1mw42...
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I gave a presentation at @sacnas.bsky.social on "archival astrophysics" in a session "Astronomy on the Cheap", showing tips on pursuing research using only archival data. Here are my slides, which include examples of different public archives & how to use them! 🔭 drive.google.com/file/d/1mw42...
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Hey there astronomy community! If anyone has any information or new footage of that impact flash on the Moon, please let me know—I’d love to see it/hear about it.
📸: @dfuji1.bsky.social
📸: @dfuji1.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hey there astronomy community! If anyone has any information or new footage of that impact flash on the Moon, please let me know—I’d love to see it/hear about it.
📸: @dfuji1.bsky.social
📸: @dfuji1.bsky.social
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Ladies and gentlemen, I captured Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)!
*just signed up to 2025 comet group
*just signed up to 2025 comet group
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, I captured Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)!
*just signed up to 2025 comet group
*just signed up to 2025 comet group