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I am often asked: What is the best telescope to buy for someone just getting into astronomy?
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As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️
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As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️
BAN #275: Telescope buying advice, Book: It’s Alive, Dial-A-Moon 2021
30 November 2020 Issue #271
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I am often asked: What is the best telescope to buy for someone just getting into astronomy?
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As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️
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As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️
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The Simpsons already did this.
a cartoon of two men standing next to each other with the caption and now the winner of the first annual montgomery burns award for
ALT: a cartoon of two men standing next to each other with the caption and now the winner of the first annual montgomery burns award for
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December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Simpsons already did this.
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"The future of #programming with #AI won’t be determined by who publishes model weights. It’ll be determined by who creates the best ways for ordinary #developers to participate, contribute, and build on each other’s work." New #Radar article by @timoreilly.bsky.social: bit.ly/4ryeoQZ #MCP
What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI
The debate about open source AI has largely featured open weight models. But that's a bit like arguing that in the PC era, the most important goal would have
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December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"The future of #programming with #AI won’t be determined by who publishes model weights. It’ll be determined by who creates the best ways for ordinary #developers to participate, contribute, and build on each other’s work." New #Radar article by @timoreilly.bsky.social: bit.ly/4ryeoQZ #MCP
Preach brother!! Even amongst all the other crappy corporate 80s, this was quite a low.
ABSOLUTELY NOT
This is a trash song with trash lyrics and trash production that is the absolute worst thing ever to escape Bernie Taupin's head, it sounds like cocaine heavily cut with baby powder and expired laxative feels, if 80s pop music were the Hapsburgs, this song is Charles II of Spain.
This is a trash song with trash lyrics and trash production that is the absolute worst thing ever to escape Bernie Taupin's head, it sounds like cocaine heavily cut with baby powder and expired laxative feels, if 80s pop music were the Hapsburgs, this song is Charles II of Spain.
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh... I never understood the hate for that song. There are truly terrible songs. This isn't one of them.
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Preach brother!! Even amongst all the other crappy corporate 80s, this was quite a low.
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Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day One: K-Pop Demon Hunters
A couple of years ago I did a series of movie reviews about the movies I enjoy rewatching — not the best movies of all time, or the most important movies, but the ones I’m happy to spen…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
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“Research in behavioral finance reveals how financial institutions design “yield enhancement” products to systematically exploit predictable patterns in human decision-making enabling them to extract economic rents caused by cognitive biases (such as yield-chasing and complexity bias).”
How Banks Exploit Your Psychology
The Hidden Cost of Behavioral Biases in Financial Products
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December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Research in behavioral finance reveals how financial institutions design “yield enhancement” products to systematically exploit predictable patterns in human decision-making enabling them to extract economic rents caused by cognitive biases (such as yield-chasing and complexity bias).”
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I could not love this editorial cartoon any more! 😆❤️💪
Hoekstra is such a douchebag! 🤡
Hoekstra is such a douchebag! 🤡
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I could not love this editorial cartoon any more! 😆❤️💪
Hoekstra is such a douchebag! 🤡
Hoekstra is such a douchebag! 🤡
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Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
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An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.
Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
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"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
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Breaking News: Dharmendra, a Bollywood actor of easygoing machismo who became one of India’s most versatile stars, died in Mumbai at 89.
Read more about his life and legacy: nyti.ms/3XeET08
Read more about his life and legacy: nyti.ms/3XeET08
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Breaking News: Dharmendra, a Bollywood actor of easygoing machismo who became one of India’s most versatile stars, died in Mumbai at 89.
Read more about his life and legacy: nyti.ms/3XeET08
Read more about his life and legacy: nyti.ms/3XeET08
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there.
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there.
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
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And here you GO! I turned it into a whole thing.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Face Turn and the Marks Who are Buying It
How understanding professional wrestling unlocks modern politics
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November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And here you GO! I turned it into a whole thing.
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
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Trump’s lawsuit against CNN over the phrase “Big Lie” has been ruled "meritless"
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Trump’s lawsuit against CNN over the phrase “Big Lie” has been ruled "meritless"
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Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
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Too cloudy? Too sleepy? Too lazy to go outside?
I have a solution for you. Aurora webcams.
I have a solution for you. Aurora webcams.
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Too cloudy? Too sleepy? Too lazy to go outside?
I have a solution for you. Aurora webcams.
I have a solution for you. Aurora webcams.