Rachel P-M
@rpmastronomy.com
Former astronomer trying to be a current astronomer. Jeopardy! Champion.
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Should I buy a 3 day SoCal Disney pass? I did last year, and it was fun, but also kind of intense.
Should I buy a 3 day SoCal Disney pass? I did last year, and it was fun, but also kind of intense.
January 1, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Should I buy a 3 day SoCal Disney pass? I did last year, and it was fun, but also kind of intense.
Should I buy a 3 day SoCal Disney pass? I did last year, and it was fun, but also kind of intense.
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Happy New Year all. 🎉🥳 We are going to win.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Happy New Year all. 🎉🥳 We are going to win.
9 PM on the west coast, it's pouring in LA, and the fireworks have already started. My poor dog is shaking.
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 AM
9 PM on the west coast, it's pouring in LA, and the fireworks have already started. My poor dog is shaking.
DO IT. Unfortunately my company has a $1k max, but I always make sure that I get them to match my donation to @abortionfunds.bsky.social. This year I also did a local food bank, a local mutual aid org (those were double matched), my child's preschool, @spreadthevote.bsky.social, and my choir.
A reminder that if your company matches donations of any kind - go do that! Donate their money!
Are you not sure who to give to? I can find you an organization that will make your (and their) year.
Are you not sure who to give to? I can find you an organization that will make your (and their) year.
January 1, 2026 at 4:09 AM
DO IT. Unfortunately my company has a $1k max, but I always make sure that I get them to match my donation to @abortionfunds.bsky.social. This year I also did a local food bank, a local mutual aid org (those were double matched), my child's preschool, @spreadthevote.bsky.social, and my choir.
Well, despite the fact that I live in West LA, home to some prominent anti-vaxxers (including the big cheese himself, RFK, Jr.) and also just...a lot of woo in general, every school that I would possibly send my child to has good coverage.
5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found.
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
January 1, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Well, despite the fact that I live in West LA, home to some prominent anti-vaxxers (including the big cheese himself, RFK, Jr.) and also just...a lot of woo in general, every school that I would possibly send my child to has good coverage.
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the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored
December 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored
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theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them
December 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them
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they wouldnt be doing this had the media shamed them for “theyre eating the pets” instead of treating it like a legit campaign issue. they wouldnt be doing it if the democratic leadership had made them pay a political price for gutter racist trash
December 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
they wouldnt be doing this had the media shamed them for “theyre eating the pets” instead of treating it like a legit campaign issue. they wouldnt be doing it if the democratic leadership had made them pay a political price for gutter racist trash
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Happy New Year, Bluesky.
January 1, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Happy New Year, Bluesky.
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bye bitch!!
December 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
bye bitch!!
Between my dog not wanting to go outside because of the rain and soft-attempting to potty train a toddler I am spending way too much time today coaxing my dependents to pee in the appropriate place.
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Between my dog not wanting to go outside because of the rain and soft-attempting to potty train a toddler I am spending way too much time today coaxing my dependents to pee in the appropriate place.
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This is the exact stuff my colleagues and I used to report on. This is Pizzagate shit. And I am going to RIP MY HAIR OUT if a single Democrat even entertains the idea that these losers are making a valid argument.
You simply can’t understand the modern GOP if you don’t conspiracy theories.
You simply can’t understand the modern GOP if you don’t conspiracy theories.
December 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is the exact stuff my colleagues and I used to report on. This is Pizzagate shit. And I am going to RIP MY HAIR OUT if a single Democrat even entertains the idea that these losers are making a valid argument.
You simply can’t understand the modern GOP if you don’t conspiracy theories.
You simply can’t understand the modern GOP if you don’t conspiracy theories.
My dad was born on Long Island and moved to CA in his 20s. He once said that the east coast is incredibly provincial and it’s stuck with me.
A final thot on NY Nativisim before I go off to get ready to celebrate NYE in a city I apparently dont belong in bc I, like a majority of its residents, had the audacity to be born somewhere else: in any other context, those sorts of ppl would be easily recognized for the townie losers that they are
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
My dad was born on Long Island and moved to CA in his 20s. He once said that the east coast is incredibly provincial and it’s stuck with me.
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How is this EXCLUSIVE video from Meidas?
It was a closed deposition. Recorded by the govt. Released to the public, including the press? Available to everyone at the same time? Unless leak/bribe?
If it's a U.S. govt product, why is Meidas branding it so heavily? It's just a freaking clip!
It was a closed deposition. Recorded by the govt. Released to the public, including the press? Available to everyone at the same time? Unless leak/bribe?
If it's a U.S. govt product, why is Meidas branding it so heavily? It's just a freaking clip!
Question: Did anyone from the White House, including President Biden, ever tell you they expected you to bring charges against Donald Trump?
Smith: No.
Smith: No.
December 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How is this EXCLUSIVE video from Meidas?
It was a closed deposition. Recorded by the govt. Released to the public, including the press? Available to everyone at the same time? Unless leak/bribe?
If it's a U.S. govt product, why is Meidas branding it so heavily? It's just a freaking clip!
It was a closed deposition. Recorded by the govt. Released to the public, including the press? Available to everyone at the same time? Unless leak/bribe?
If it's a U.S. govt product, why is Meidas branding it so heavily? It's just a freaking clip!
As reminder you can’t actually deport a person born in the USA from the USA.
There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
December 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
As reminder you can’t actually deport a person born in the USA from the USA.
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This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”
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Starting tomorrow, federal agents who cover their faces can be arrested across the state of California. If your local elected officials have been crying about ICE raids for the past year, now they can direct the police who exist entirely under their control to do something about it.
Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Ban on Extreme Masking by ICE & Other Law Enforcement
Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.
sd11.senate.ca.gov
December 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Starting tomorrow, federal agents who cover their faces can be arrested across the state of California. If your local elected officials have been crying about ICE raids for the past year, now they can direct the police who exist entirely under their control to do something about it.
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✊🏼
Thank you, rapid response, journalists, lawyers, advocates, whistle teams, and ordinary people of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland for fighting back so tenaciously.
This great victory belongs to you and benefits us all.
Thank you, rapid response, journalists, lawyers, advocates, whistle teams, and ordinary people of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland for fighting back so tenaciously.
This great victory belongs to you and benefits us all.
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
✊🏼
Thank you, rapid response, journalists, lawyers, advocates, whistle teams, and ordinary people of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland for fighting back so tenaciously.
This great victory belongs to you and benefits us all.
Thank you, rapid response, journalists, lawyers, advocates, whistle teams, and ordinary people of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland for fighting back so tenaciously.
This great victory belongs to you and benefits us all.
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.
"America’s Housing Crunch Has the Wrong Villain" www.aei.org/economics/am...
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.
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all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
www.theverge.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
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Alt NPS has always been a barely-concealed resistance grifting account and this is just another example.
The Alt National Park Service has a new hobby, and it's more upsetting than I could have imagined.
AltNPS thought the real terror and suffering of people being targeted by ICE just wasn't juicy enough, so they decided to punch things up a little.
You can read more here:
AltNPS thought the real terror and suffering of people being targeted by ICE just wasn't juicy enough, so they decided to punch things up a little.
You can read more here:
The Alt National Park Service Can't Stop Posting ICE Raid Fanfiction
To AltNPS, real-world brutality is just fuel for the Content Machine.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Alt NPS has always been a barely-concealed resistance grifting account and this is just another example.
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Anytime these guys show up a daycare center, the managers should immediately start filming and tell them to stop behaving like pedophiles and trying to access children without their parents’ permission. Publish their photos and names
A bunch of weirdos with a documented party history of pedophilia who are in the middle of covering for Epstein want to hang out at child care centers. Fucking freaks. And we should say so.
“I’m here to search your child care center for fraud.”
December 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Anytime these guys show up a daycare center, the managers should immediately start filming and tell them to stop behaving like pedophiles and trying to access children without their parents’ permission. Publish their photos and names
I got my husband a CD player for Christmas.
My twelve-year-old daughter's Christmas haul included a cassette Walkman and a Discman, and music to play on both.
Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT
Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT
I used to think that smartphones and streaming were a mistake because giving people the illusion of access to everything all of the time would break us irreparably, but this & returns to iPods, DVDs, records, etc prove that people just want to be people, not 24/7 consumers and marketing targets.
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I got my husband a CD player for Christmas.
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Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋
December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋