Thad Szabo
@astrothad.bsky.social
(he/him) Professor of Phys & Astro at Cerritos College
Has benefited from the companionship of chinchillas, a dog, & a cat. Some humans are OK.
Seeking a living kidney donor: www.kidneyforthad.info
Astrophotos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrothad
Has benefited from the companionship of chinchillas, a dog, & a cat. Some humans are OK.
Seeking a living kidney donor: www.kidneyforthad.info
Astrophotos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrothad
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Back in 2017, I realized the Republican claim of "less spending, fewer taxes, smaller government" was a lie.
They spend the same amount of tax dollars as Democrats: they only choose differently who to collect it from & who gets to be the recipient.
And they LOVE wasting money on war & bailouts. 🧵
They spend the same amount of tax dollars as Democrats: they only choose differently who to collect it from & who gets to be the recipient.
And they LOVE wasting money on war & bailouts. 🧵
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Back in 2017, I realized the Republican claim of "less spending, fewer taxes, smaller government" was a lie.
They spend the same amount of tax dollars as Democrats: they only choose differently who to collect it from & who gets to be the recipient.
And they LOVE wasting money on war & bailouts. 🧵
They spend the same amount of tax dollars as Democrats: they only choose differently who to collect it from & who gets to be the recipient.
And they LOVE wasting money on war & bailouts. 🧵
I went outside tonight to reset the charger for one of our cars and was struck by how prominent the winter stars look - especially joined by Jupiter and a waning gibbous moon. It drove home just how little time I have spent under the night sky since starting dialysis.
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I went outside tonight to reset the charger for one of our cars and was struck by how prominent the winter stars look - especially joined by Jupiter and a waning gibbous moon. It drove home just how little time I have spent under the night sky since starting dialysis.
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I just want to say to every Dem that voted yes, you should retire because we are going to retire you. I am not 34 years old, I am a 72 year old last of the Boomers. I was feeding families to helped the cause you only helped yourself. I have a degree in Media and know how to use it, let's roll.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I just want to say to every Dem that voted yes, you should retire because we are going to retire you. I am not 34 years old, I am a 72 year old last of the Boomers. I was feeding families to helped the cause you only helped yourself. I have a degree in Media and know how to use it, let's roll.
I really hope I live to see slavery abolished in the United States.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I really hope I live to see slavery abolished in the United States.
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Can’t donate? Sharing through your networks is a big help. Email, carrier pigeon, Facebook group, whatever the way, get the word out!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Can’t donate? Sharing through your networks is a big help. Email, carrier pigeon, Facebook group, whatever the way, get the word out!
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You should ignore any political analysis that fails to consider how the right wing has captured both legacy and social media to spread propaganda in lockstep with the Trump regime.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You should ignore any political analysis that fails to consider how the right wing has captured both legacy and social media to spread propaganda in lockstep with the Trump regime.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate
Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
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This is just not true. The Trump administration has been cancelling nearly-done solar and wind projects approved by local regulators, constricting the supply of electricity
Pressed by Stephanopoulos on the fact that electricity prices have in fact gone up, Bessent punts: "Electricity prices are a state problem ... look, there are things the federal government can control. Local electricity prices are not one of them."
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is just not true. The Trump administration has been cancelling nearly-done solar and wind projects approved by local regulators, constricting the supply of electricity
I used to do cool stuff with my students. 🔭 This was 14 years ago tonight:
youtu.be/urqRB19-rfg
youtu.be/urqRB19-rfg
Tracking an Asteroid
YouTube video by Thad Szabo
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November 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I used to do cool stuff with my students. 🔭 This was 14 years ago tonight:
youtu.be/urqRB19-rfg
youtu.be/urqRB19-rfg
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David Lynch said this specifically about the fact that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
That said, if it *also* becomes a rallying call for human rights in general, I don't believe that would be a bad thing either.
That said, if it *also* becomes a rallying call for human rights in general, I don't believe that would be a bad thing either.
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
David Lynch said this specifically about the fact that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
That said, if it *also* becomes a rallying call for human rights in general, I don't believe that would be a bad thing either.
That said, if it *also* becomes a rallying call for human rights in general, I don't believe that would be a bad thing either.
Maybe I am lucky(?) that I don't get asked this. But you can't get a kidney transplant if you have an active infection. If I were asked, I would hand them my card with this website.
nkr.org/KRN489
nkr.org/KRN489
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Maybe I am lucky(?) that I don't get asked this. But you can't get a kidney transplant if you have an active infection. If I were asked, I would hand them my card with this website.
nkr.org/KRN489
nkr.org/KRN489
I can't beat The Big Bang, so...
Post you from a different era.
Post you from a different era.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I can't beat The Big Bang, so...
Post you from a different era.
Post you from a different era.
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Keep track of the victories when they come
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November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Keep track of the victories when they come
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idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
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Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
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Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.
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You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
Distinctly tired and annoyed with health care services asking for feedback. Being chronically ill takes enough time on its own - find another way to review how you're doing rather than asking for more of my precious time and energy.
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Distinctly tired and annoyed with health care services asking for feedback. Being chronically ill takes enough time on its own - find another way to review how you're doing rather than asking for more of my precious time and energy.
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🚨 Paul Goodrich, Exec Board Member, IW Local 63
Paul discusses the history of labor strikes and the real change that has come from them over time. Unity is FUNDAMENTAL for success. Please share his messaging. “We want more justice and less revenge.” 1/2
Paul discusses the history of labor strikes and the real change that has come from them over time. Unity is FUNDAMENTAL for success. Please share his messaging. “We want more justice and less revenge.” 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨 Paul Goodrich, Exec Board Member, IW Local 63
Paul discusses the history of labor strikes and the real change that has come from them over time. Unity is FUNDAMENTAL for success. Please share his messaging. “We want more justice and less revenge.” 1/2
Paul discusses the history of labor strikes and the real change that has come from them over time. Unity is FUNDAMENTAL for success. Please share his messaging. “We want more justice and less revenge.” 1/2
Was really hoping something would supersede Joe Carter's shot in Blue Jays lore so I didn't have to keep hearing about '93
A traumatizing home run to left field in Toronto? Join the club
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Was really hoping something would supersede Joe Carter's shot in Blue Jays lore so I didn't have to keep hearing about '93
Have gone into "Herd Pets Into Soundproof Room" mode
Now back to our regular "Go Birds" program
Now back to our regular "Go Birds" program
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Have gone into "Herd Pets Into Soundproof Room" mode
Now back to our regular "Go Birds" program
Now back to our regular "Go Birds" program
I really want to hear some music from The Hip in between innings.
I also really want to stop hearing about how the World Series ended in '93.
I also really want to stop hearing about how the World Series ended in '93.
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I really want to hear some music from The Hip in between innings.
I also really want to stop hearing about how the World Series ended in '93.
I also really want to stop hearing about how the World Series ended in '93.