Mike Garrahan
@mgarraha.bsky.social
Amateur classical musician and astronomer. Advocate for year-round standard time.
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21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
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It's 6:55 AM right now and the Sun's about to come up. To anyone who wishes we were still on daylight saving time, it would be as dark now as it was an hour ago and the Sun wouldn't be starting to come up until an hour from now. For me, that would be 8 AM. It would still be dark then. At 8 AM. #DST
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It's 6:55 AM right now and the Sun's about to come up. To anyone who wishes we were still on daylight saving time, it would be as dark now as it was an hour ago and the Sun wouldn't be starting to come up until an hour from now. For me, that would be 8 AM. It would still be dark then. At 8 AM. #DST
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People really do not understand how awful for your health it is to routinely wake up in the dark.
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
People really do not understand how awful for your health it is to routinely wake up in the dark.
In the past lunar month, these potentially hazardous asteroids were recovered, refining our estimates of their orbits: 2015 XK261, 2018 QN1, 2022 AY2, 2025 DY4.
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In the past lunar month, these potentially hazardous asteroids were recovered, refining our estimates of their orbits: 2015 XK261, 2018 QN1, 2022 AY2, 2025 DY4.
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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If you prefer something wearable, grab a silk scarf or tie in a sciency pattern artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡 #BSNM Support your bsky artists
December 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
If you prefer something wearable, grab a silk scarf or tie in a sciency pattern artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡 #BSNM Support your bsky artists
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Editorial: Leave clocks alone. Our health depends on it trib.al/LFJgdv8
Editorial: Leave clocks alone. Our health depends on it
There are some economic reasons for permanent daylight saving time, but the health and safety reasons for permanent standard time overwhelm them.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Editorial: Leave clocks alone. Our health depends on it trib.al/LFJgdv8
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anyone who bitches about daylight savings this time of year (outside of the adjustment the first week or two or a parent) doesn't have to wake up early bc the only reason i am a functional human at work is because it is light out at 7 am
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
anyone who bitches about daylight savings this time of year (outside of the adjustment the first week or two or a parent) doesn't have to wake up early bc the only reason i am a functional human at work is because it is light out at 7 am
In the past lunar month, these potentially hazardous asteroids were recovered: 2004 HF12, 2005 YS8, 2020 FA5, 2021 GN16, 2021 PL3, 2022 BH7, 2022 YU4.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In the past lunar month, these potentially hazardous asteroids were recovered: 2004 HF12, 2005 YS8, 2020 FA5, 2021 GN16, 2021 PL3, 2022 BH7, 2022 YU4.
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New Jersey residents: Tell your state senators to oppose S1510 permanent DST before its Transportation hearing on Monday. Last time pDST was tried, it was a deadly and expensive disaster. Tell them to support S4084 permanent Standard Time for safety instead!
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New Jersey residents: Tell your state senators to oppose S1510 permanent DST before its Transportation hearing on Monday. Last time pDST was tried, it was a deadly and expensive disaster. Tell them to support S4084 permanent Standard Time for safety instead!
Interesting piece by @thawking.bsky.social, but year-round DST in 1974 failed due to winter morning safety problems. I doubt that it had much to do with Watergate.
The "Sunshine Protection" bill would impose perma-DST except in states already exercising the standard time option.
The "Sunshine Protection" bill would impose perma-DST except in states already exercising the standard time option.
The U.S. tried permanent daylight saving time—and hated it
In 1974, America set its clocks forward for good in the name of energy savings.
www.popsci.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Interesting piece by @thawking.bsky.social, but year-round DST in 1974 failed due to winter morning safety problems. I doubt that it had much to do with Watergate.
The "Sunshine Protection" bill would impose perma-DST except in states already exercising the standard time option.
The "Sunshine Protection" bill would impose perma-DST except in states already exercising the standard time option.
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It's pitch black outside as my kid leaves for school at 7:25am. She has to cross a busy street to get to the bus, and not all drivers have their lights on. Daylight Savings is awful anyway, but it DEFINITELY should be over by now.
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's pitch black outside as my kid leaves for school at 7:25am. She has to cross a busy street to get to the bus, and not all drivers have their lights on. Daylight Savings is awful anyway, but it DEFINITELY should be over by now.
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On Sunday, October 26, we switch from summer time to #wintertime.
At 3:00 in the morning we move the clock back one hour (2:00).
To this day, Belgium has not yet given decision ending the daylight saving time system. Here are consequences of permanent summer or winter time: www.astro.oma.be/en/...
At 3:00 in the morning we move the clock back one hour (2:00).
To this day, Belgium has not yet given decision ending the daylight saving time system. Here are consequences of permanent summer or winter time: www.astro.oma.be/en/...
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
On Sunday, October 26, we switch from summer time to #wintertime.
At 3:00 in the morning we move the clock back one hour (2:00).
To this day, Belgium has not yet given decision ending the daylight saving time system. Here are consequences of permanent summer or winter time: www.astro.oma.be/en/...
At 3:00 in the morning we move the clock back one hour (2:00).
To this day, Belgium has not yet given decision ending the daylight saving time system. Here are consequences of permanent summer or winter time: www.astro.oma.be/en/...
This goes with funky music featuring the Pointer Sisters. Interactive pinball game here:
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This goes with funky music featuring the Pointer Sisters. Interactive pinball game here:
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“Standard Time lets noon mean noon, keeps our inner clocks in tune with the planet, and frees us from a system that benefits from keeping people out of step.” #DitchDST joesmind.com/why-permanen...
Why Permanent Standard Time Is the Healthiest—and Most Honest—Clock for Our Lives - Jepsen Mindset and Meditation Monk
Learn why the end of Daylight Saving Time doesn’t steal sunlight—it only realigns our clocks with the Earth’s natural rhythm. Discover the health, logic, and honesty behind keeping permanent standard ...
joesmind.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Standard Time lets noon mean noon, keeps our inner clocks in tune with the planet, and frees us from a system that benefits from keeping people out of step.” #DitchDST joesmind.com/why-permanen...
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Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
The PHA (p)recovery of the past lunar month is 2024 XR8. The additional observations extend the data arc from 15 to 1370 days and reduce the uncertainty parameter U from 7 to 0. #asteroid
MPEC 2025-S142 : 2024 XR8
We are the official body that deals with
astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.
www.minorplanetcenter.net
October 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The PHA (p)recovery of the past lunar month is 2024 XR8. The additional observations extend the data arc from 15 to 1370 days and reduce the uncertainty parameter U from 7 to 0. #asteroid
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As one of the only people I know who hates daylight savings time - only one month to go! Give me back my early sunrises!! Dark mornings are catastrophic to my morale 😂
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As one of the only people I know who hates daylight savings time - only one month to go! Give me back my early sunrises!! Dark mornings are catastrophic to my morale 😂
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Whose fool idea was it to push the end of daylight saving time back to November?? It’s Oct 1 and I already have to get up in the dark and I hate it. Make standard time permanent already!!!
October 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Whose fool idea was it to push the end of daylight saving time back to November?? It’s Oct 1 and I already have to get up in the dark and I hate it. Make standard time permanent already!!!
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Lisa Alexia is a physician assistant who specializes in eating disorders & expert on health risks of sleep disruption. She supports ending daylight saving time. #akleg
Listen:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
For questions about eating disorders, visit AKEDA: www.akeatingdisordersalliance.org
Listen:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
For questions about eating disorders, visit AKEDA: www.akeatingdisordersalliance.org
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Lisa Alexia is a physician assistant who specializes in eating disorders & expert on health risks of sleep disruption. She supports ending daylight saving time. #akleg
Listen:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
For questions about eating disorders, visit AKEDA: www.akeatingdisordersalliance.org
Listen:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
For questions about eating disorders, visit AKEDA: www.akeatingdisordersalliance.org
Gianluca Masi tracks asteroid 2025 FA22 live here:
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 close encounter: online observation – 18 Sept. 2025
YouTube video by The Virtual Telescope Project
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Gianluca Masi tracks asteroid 2025 FA22 live here: