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Yoni Brande
@yonibrande.bsky.social
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phd astrologer, world class barista, and professional chef
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pulled a stack of Reiner movies out of the library last month and I'm glad I waited to get around to this one last, after listening to the latest @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social podcast
a letterboxed review of the Rob Reiner film "A Few Good Men", stating: a first rate courtroom drama, drowning under a thick slime of american civic responsibility and military fetishism. thirty years and countless war crimes on, with the ascendance of a civilian military leadership that watches jack nicholson's scenes as an instruction manual, it's hard to imagine anything in real life resolving the way this does (as unsatisfying as the resolution actually is). a nice nugget hidden in nicholson's tirade on the stand is the venom with which he spits out lieutenant weinberg (nearly as hateful as his remarks on tom cruise's navy whites). great writing, you have to hand it to early sorkin
January 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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are they still thanksgiving leftovers if you were flying all day thursday and deboned turkey legs on sale into steaks and cooked today instead
a plate with roasted sweet potatoes, greens, and sliced roasted turkey with gravy
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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after two weeks in germany I have ventured out into the 1°C morning to get a bagel and coffee and groceries. also a copy of contact out of the LFL
yoni, a dark haired bearded man, walks though a neighborhood on a cold clear morning yoni holds a copy of carl sagan's contact in front of the camera. the cover shows the night side of earth, with illuminated cities, framed against the disk of the Milky Way
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I want to post something happier today as well, so here are some scientists whom I recommend platforming and financially supporting!

I'm a bit out of the loop, so I'm bound to miss people. Please reply with your own recommendations!
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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scenes from No Kings, deemed too "dangerous" to post on instagram by their automated content filtering
a black and white photograph from the no kings rally, showing a crowd of people in front of the US Capitol building. someone holds up a sign that says "Trans Rights are Human Rights". another sign reads "DC and America are NOT for sale. FIGHT PLUTOCRACY" a black and white photograph from the no kings rally. a police officer speaks to a woman high above his head, crouched on top of an electrical box plastered in rally advertising flyers. a black and white photograph from the no kings rally. three people, a black woman and two white men, are sitting on a concrete bench on the side of a government building. one of the men is holding a hand-painted sign that reads "Fascists feed on your fear, starve them!" a black and white photograph from the no kings rally. An older woman, wearing knee-high boots, a scarf, and a "Queen RBG" shirt, walks among protesters, looking shockingly like RBG herself
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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there is an aroma of cookies in the office and I can't locate them
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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some campus views from the start of the semester and an abandoned synagogue in my neighborhood. kodak gold 200
a large, patinated bronze sundial showing the seal of the university of maryland, with a large brick porticoed library in the background, against the blue sky. a view of mckeldin mall, centered on the terraced ODK fountain, which peaks with mckeldin library in the background a red granite bench with bronze statues of jim henson speaking to kermit the frog, shaded under trees with the brick of the stamp student union behind a large brick synagogue, with a decorative menorah candelabra on the exterior niche wall, framed between overgrown bushes and trees, with rusting handlebars along a cracked concrete walkway
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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tuna steak au poivre
a blue ceramic plate with a portion of seared tuna steak, sliced and covered with a peppercorn cream sauce, served alongside crispy french fries
October 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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one of the most incredibly cursed contributors lists I've ever seen in a collection. fully 10% of these people are (astro)physicist sex pests.
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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13 total JWST proposals in (2 PI, 1 Co-PI), with 2014 submissions btw the earliest and latest. are we gonna break last year's record of 2377?
October 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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having mandatory couch time
Luna, a big white dog, smiles sweetly and shows off her gaping maw Luna, a big white dog, reclines on a couch and gets scratched under the chin
October 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
yonibrande.bsky.social
someone mentioned passing around the snuff box at neilah yesterday and I feel like the contemporary equivalent would be a box of zyns

can someone pasken whether they're fasting-appropriate or not since they're lip pouches
October 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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just got a 245 page PDF in my spam folder about ether theory I love having a physics phd
September 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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pissed off because I wouldn't let him have my boba
a small brown fluffy bird perches on a blue painted metal chair
September 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I will never be able to afford a house
egg, cheese, avocado, and latke on an everything bagel with an iced coffee
August 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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actually starting to live in a place now
a gray couch with striped throw pillows sitting on a dark blue rug a TV stands on a console/bookshelf, holding cookbooks, fiction, nonfiction, and a nintendo switch
August 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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unexpected @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on npr talking about her new book, sloppy, out now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751421...
Sloppy by Rax King: 9780593688458 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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congrats to Dr. David Coria, who defended his dissertation with honors on stellar elemental abundance and isotopic ratios (and had an emergency appendectomy last week when he was supposed to originally defend!)
David speaking at a lectern, presenting some slides on stellar spectroscopy and elemental abundance measurements celebratory whiteboard, with champagne and party hat
July 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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views from the alameda antique fair. canon ql17 giii, kentmere 400
a man in a flat cap, looking slightly downward, hangs out of the side of his van at a stall full of books and paintings. a distraught clown peeks out from behind a framed painting. shipping containers and loading cranes provide a skyline in the background a man in a stall of furniture and wall art looks at an offscreen patron, while a painting of a glamorous woman in an early/mid-century style stares straight at the viewer a woman orders from the Lockeford Sausage stand, advertising BIG OLE BRATS for $10 a man, sitting inside a large white sprinter van, wistfully stares out the door. another man, standing in front of the open van door with his back to the viewer is speaking to another unseen person inside the van, next to a large standee of santa claus
July 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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montréal is kind of nice I guess
large and majestic fireworks fill the sky over a bridge behind a ferris wheel
July 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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accidentally poignant commentary by the local daycare kids
a tattered looking american flag made of toilet paper streamers hangs limply on a chain link fence
July 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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feels like 95° if I don't eat cold noodles I will die
July 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I'm going to get mission impossible 1'd in the malott elevator
a closed elevator door, with light shining through visible gap into the empty shaft in which there is no actual elevator
June 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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stirring a jalapeno limeade with a lime ice fruit bar
June 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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mike lee go jump off one of the mountains you want to sell
yoni posing at a campsite up in the mountains eliot, cassidy, connor, and anat posing for a picture on top of a mountain, with snowy peaks in the background
June 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM