Frank Horowitz
@frankhorowitz.bsky.social
(Sort-of) Retired research geophysicist.
"Assume a spherical C̶o̶w̶ Earth."
"Assume a spherical C̶o̶w̶ Earth."
The letter from reader A.H. in Newberg OR (quoted in this webpage) is well worth your time to read.
www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...
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Fascism Watch, Part II: Trump
Click on the map for the article
www.electoral-vote.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The letter from reader A.H. in Newberg OR (quoted in this webpage) is well worth your time to read.
www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...
www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...
Paraphrased from @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting somebody on her politics chat yesterday.
August 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Paraphrased from @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting somebody on her politics chat yesterday.
Given that the House Appropriations Committee just passed a resolution to rename Kennedy Center’s Opera House in Washington, D.C. after First Lady Melania Trump, I hereby submit an "alternative fact".
July 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Given that the House Appropriations Committee just passed a resolution to rename Kennedy Center’s Opera House in Washington, D.C. after First Lady Melania Trump, I hereby submit an "alternative fact".
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Video: Uranus observations over 1 year - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pUN7Ec
June 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Video: Uranus observations over 1 year - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pUN7Ec
And here you thought that the Earth, Sol, or indeed even the Milky Way might be significant?
Introducing the Laniakea supercluster. 1E17 Solar masses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayj4...
(H/T to the inimitable @tbray.org, and another one of his "long links" blog posts for the pointer to this.)
Introducing the Laniakea supercluster. 1E17 Solar masses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayj4...
(H/T to the inimitable @tbray.org, and another one of his "long links" blog posts for the pointer to this.)
The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies
YouTube video by Francis Villatoro
www.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
And here you thought that the Earth, Sol, or indeed even the Milky Way might be significant?
Introducing the Laniakea supercluster. 1E17 Solar masses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayj4...
(H/T to the inimitable @tbray.org, and another one of his "long links" blog posts for the pointer to this.)
Introducing the Laniakea supercluster. 1E17 Solar masses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayj4...
(H/T to the inimitable @tbray.org, and another one of his "long links" blog posts for the pointer to this.)
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Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
The government ignored his protective legal status & deported Abrego Garcia. “Now they claim that the court is powerless to order any relief. If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless because the government can deport ANYONE & no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”
March 31, 2025
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln.
open.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
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80 years ago today, Sylvester debuted in the Looney Tunes short ‘Life with Feathers.’
March 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
80 years ago today, Sylvester debuted in the Looney Tunes short ‘Life with Feathers.’
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Incredible moon rise behind the Extremely Large Telescope @eso.org
A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT.
#astronomy
A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT.
#astronomy
March 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Incredible moon rise behind the Extremely Large Telescope @eso.org
A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT.
#astronomy
A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT.
#astronomy
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Three light-years tall pillar of gas an dust known as the ‘Mystic Mountain.’ Located in the Carina nebula, infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming out from its peak.
(M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team)
#nebula #space #cosmos #astrophysics #stars
(M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team)
#nebula #space #cosmos #astrophysics #stars
March 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Three light-years tall pillar of gas an dust known as the ‘Mystic Mountain.’ Located in the Carina nebula, infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming out from its peak.
(M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team)
#nebula #space #cosmos #astrophysics #stars
(M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team)
#nebula #space #cosmos #astrophysics #stars
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Pritzker: You know, I was asked the other day if I could say one thing to Donald Trump, what would it be? And I said, “What does Putin have on you?”
Everybody rational understands that Putin is trying to rebuild the old Russian Empire. And Donald Trump is literally handing it to him.
Everybody rational understands that Putin is trying to rebuild the old Russian Empire. And Donald Trump is literally handing it to him.
March 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Pritzker: You know, I was asked the other day if I could say one thing to Donald Trump, what would it be? And I said, “What does Putin have on you?”
Everybody rational understands that Putin is trying to rebuild the old Russian Empire. And Donald Trump is literally handing it to him.
Everybody rational understands that Putin is trying to rebuild the old Russian Empire. And Donald Trump is literally handing it to him.
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In case you find your anger flagging, this should revitalize it
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In case you find your anger flagging, this should revitalize it
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Maybe these slow rotating weirdos are binary star systems! Find out more in this @aunz.theconversation.com article by Iris de Ruiter theconversation.com/mysterious-r... 🔭🧪
Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down – and the source is not what astronomers expected
Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one of them.
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Maybe these slow rotating weirdos are binary star systems! Find out more in this @aunz.theconversation.com article by Iris de Ruiter theconversation.com/mysterious-r... 🔭🧪
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As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
March 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
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