Jonah Otto
@ottothe2nd.bsky.social
Graduate student in astrophysics at TCU
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You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
🔭🐡🧪
🔭🐡🧪
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So my pie take is there are no bad pies, but some pies have to be eaten a certain way:
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So my pie take is there are no bad pies, but some pies have to be eaten a certain way:
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
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Thanksgiving Travel By The Numbers https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-travel-by-the-numbers/
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thanksgiving Travel By The Numbers https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-travel-by-the-numbers/
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Genuinely though, from the bottom of my heart 💖 and with all of my soul ✨, I hate writing recursive functions
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Genuinely though, from the bottom of my heart 💖 and with all of my soul ✨, I hate writing recursive functions
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I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
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statistics were made up by big math to sell more numbers
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
statistics were made up by big math to sell more numbers
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“the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, that we hold as fundamental today.” 🔥
At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia."
Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
August 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, that we hold as fundamental today.” 🔥
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RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines (and mRNA) continues. mRNA naturally occurs in all of our cells, and vaccines have been used safely for hundreds of years. We've never seen a US health official completely reject fundamental science this much before. My story:
HHS winds down mRNA vaccine development funded by BARDA
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a plan to end mRNA vaccine work funded by the | The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a plan to end all mRNA vaccine work ...
www.fiercebiotech.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines (and mRNA) continues. mRNA naturally occurs in all of our cells, and vaccines have been used safely for hundreds of years. We've never seen a US health official completely reject fundamental science this much before. My story:
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Hello, I’m an astronomer in a film. I turn the lights on in the dome when I’m observing.
Hello, I'm an author in a film. I will be seen doing anything but writing a book, because typing is boring. Then I will have a 30-second montage of clicking away at a keyboard, I will hand a ream of paper to my editor who will declare it to be genius and a week later I will be atop the NYT list.
Hello, I'm an attorney in a film. I have a pure and perfect knowledge of every area of practice in every jurisdiction. Nevertheless, I will be corrected by a plucky law school grad who just passed the bar. After some stubborn resistance, I will silently nod and take her under my wing.
July 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hello, I’m an astronomer in a film. I turn the lights on in the dome when I’m observing.
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This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade.
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
June 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
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The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
June 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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*Camera pans to a group of fans outside of the Vatican in pope jerseys, going nuts even though most of them haven’t heard of the pick before last week*
May 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
*Camera pans to a group of fans outside of the Vatican in pope jerseys, going nuts even though most of them haven’t heard of the pick before last week*
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How much did Michigan pay JD Vance and when did they pay him
April 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
How much did Michigan pay JD Vance and when did they pay him
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This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻♀️
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻♀️
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Ah! The classic astronomer colloquium joke, now in context and friendly to the masses: xkcd.com/3066/
Cosmic Distance Calibration
xkcd.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ah! The classic astronomer colloquium joke, now in context and friendly to the masses: xkcd.com/3066/
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We can't afford to pause federal funding to the sciences. For example: unemployed theoretical physicists helped cause the 2007-2008 banking meltdown by bringing their know-how to hedge funds and other banking units.
January 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
We can't afford to pause federal funding to the sciences. For example: unemployed theoretical physicists helped cause the 2007-2008 banking meltdown by bringing their know-how to hedge funds and other banking units.
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Proud of my students @nrmyers.bsky.social and Alessa Wiggins (co-advised by @sloebman.bsky.social) on giving excellent Dissertation talks at the @aasoffice.bsky.social meeting this morning! 🔭
January 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Proud of my students @nrmyers.bsky.social and Alessa Wiggins (co-advised by @sloebman.bsky.social) on giving excellent Dissertation talks at the @aasoffice.bsky.social meeting this morning! 🔭
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Now that my fantasy football season is over I am flummoxed why the NFL persists in playing games
January 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Now that my fantasy football season is over I am flummoxed why the NFL persists in playing games
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give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
December 12, 2024 at 4:25 AM
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
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I have a cosmic microwave background joke but it takes 13.8 billion years for the punch line to arrive
I have a copyright joke, but it lacks originality
We have a joke about manels, but we’d have to explain it.
December 4, 2024 at 12:54 AM
I have a cosmic microwave background joke but it takes 13.8 billion years for the punch line to arrive
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when you’re eating fresh delicious blueberries and accidentally eat a mushy one and it’s like. Am I being punished for my greed? Is life never without suffering?
November 21, 2024 at 5:19 PM
when you’re eating fresh delicious blueberries and accidentally eat a mushy one and it’s like. Am I being punished for my greed? Is life never without suffering?
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #466,149!
September 17, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #466,149!
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I reiterate my complete confusion at the fact that members of Congress and federal judges can own and trade individual stocks. It’s just indefensible, given the corrosive possibilities of the abuse that would be so straightforward.
sorry haters but this isn’t insider trading this is just what owning Nvidia stock is like now
June 6, 2024 at 2:06 AM
I reiterate my complete confusion at the fact that members of Congress and federal judges can own and trade individual stocks. It’s just indefensible, given the corrosive possibilities of the abuse that would be so straightforward.
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It's so fucked up that everything costs money
January 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
It's so fucked up that everything costs money