Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon finally up high enough to image from my driveway (and no clouds for the first time in what seems like months...thanks Florida rainy season). Seestar 1 minute exposure, lightly denoised with Topaz. #Seestar #Astronomy #Astrodon

Fuck Republicans in general and DeSantis in particular. This is the message you get when you try to book a COVID shot at a Florida CVS.

Happy Moon Day! 56 years ago today.

This will be a welcome change. My wallet will be tons thinner if I don't have to have all those $100s in it. (Seriously, who carries cash anyway. Furthermore, only formerly alive people are allowed on currency. Perhaps Rep. Wilson is projecting.)

Couldn't have said it better myself. I wonder why our elected Congresspeople (sorry...CongressMEN...I wouldn't want to be accused of DEI language) and Senators aren't bragging on their social media channels about how many thousands of jobs have been lost due to DOGE cuts in their respective districts. Hmmm.

I would direct anyone who holds the opinion that Elon Musk is a genius to the post attached. Having spent a career consulting with large companies and governmental agencies (including the Social Security Administration) I would have drawn a very different conclusion if I saw these numbers: that I clearly don't understand how this data is being used/interpreted. But no, very stable genius Elmo concludes that millions of people over 100 must be getting fraudulent Social Security checks.
Idiot.

Your task today:

Too good to not share.

Interesting. The left half of the sun was taken back in early July, near aphelion. The right, today at perihelion. A noticeable difference in size (to the telescope, obviously, not to the naked-or shielded-eye). Also, for some reason after the last update, the Seestar records the sun as greenish, rather than bluish; same Baader filter both times. The good news is that after the latest update (Android 2.2.3) the scope found the sun on the first try. #Astronomy #Astrodon #Seestar #Sun

Happy New Year everyone! May your troubles be as fleeting as your New Year's resolutions. 🙂