Juan Cabanela

OBAMA: Remember that whole thing about drain the swamp? The only thing that got drained. was the reflecting pool after some no-bid contract got it all messed up. And then they tried to blame a 3 time Olympian by claiming he vandalized it.

Pretty happy with how this turned out for a first attempt. This is the International Space Station crossing in front of the Sun as shot with a Seestar S50. I did some processing using Python scripts to shift color to "natural." Here is the composite image of the frames from the crossing. #Seestar

Didn’t even last one Scaramucci! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

If confirmed this is not only unsurprising but highly illuminating… the hateful traffic would appear to be mostly driven by Putin essentially psyoping the Western nations.

A rare solo #NobelPrize in physics goes to neutrino scientist Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”. Full coverage here: physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha... 🧪⚛️

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

There has been a recent rash of "baby's in his find out era". 🤣🤣🤣

There is no strict constitutional prohibition against bestiality so it’s hard to see what Kash Patel’s critics are so upset about. by Jonathan Turley

Have to admit I'm impressed by this little telescope and how easily it captures things in the night sky. This is Supernova 2026aaiv, which appears to be a white dwarf that detonated, briefly outshining all of the NGC 7331, the galaxy that contains it, about 47 million light years from Earth!

A timelapse of last night's lunar eclipse. I did 'stabilize' the image by aligning all the frames so the moon remained centered since tracking wasn't perfect. I hope you’ll forgive the fact that I was new this and kept adjusting the exposure and gain to try to see the eclipsed part of the moon.

Last night’s total lunar eclipse!

How long before Trump deploys these secret police in every blue state swing district.

Peter's Law of Chatbot Accuracy*: "everything you read that's produced by an LLM is absolutely true, except for the rare output about which you happen have expert knowledge". *Remixed from Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy, where the exact same rules apply!

Ugh! And I blew a tire on my bike 3.5 miles from home and forgot the patch kit. Had to walk home. Luckily that was when it was 10 degrees cooler this morning. Not forgetting my patch kit again…

Here's Mikel Merino mocking you know who. 😂

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO https://ca.pcmag.com/news/16760/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-giant-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate

Bill Kristoll: "It is Lorenzo's family who are calling for a full and honest investigation into why a peaceful man was killed while driving to work by agents of our government.. it is our government that is stonewalling and covering up." The toll of homicides by Trump's secret police keeps climbing.

Live your life in a way that Republicans don't have to cover up whether you're dead or not

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he could not articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if and when Iran flexed its control over the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Trump is cornered, and he’s going stark-raving mad.

I just filled out the form in my own words, because we MUST take a stand against these partisan attacks on science. I urge everyone who follows me here to do the same. If you love science, then please help us protect it. I attached a screenshot of what I wrote. 🧪 🔭

First night playing with the Seestar S50. I am stunned at how simple it is to use this, just level it, focus it, tell it what to photograph). These three shots were done over the course of 75 minutes.

Wake up babe, new exoplanet classification system just dropped

I think we are only now starting to realize how much this technology is damaging education…

Happy 250th, America.

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F—- Springer

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Where is the Senate in all this? Sure looks like a treaty... and there are lifted sanctions, commitments, and $300 billion at stake....

Wow. Iran gets sanctions relief, the release of frozen funds, the ability to export oil, and a $300 billion reconstruction fund. The U.S. gets a reiteration of the vague promise Iran won’t develop a nuke. Hard to imagine a more thorough capitulation.

Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660

I am bookmarking this article and will no doubt be linking to it in many, many emails.

💯💯💯 #RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES

Wow. Trump is in so very far over his head. The Iran War is a generational blunder. After expending so many munitions, we are in a much worse position than before. Trump gave Iran a reason and an opportunity to seize the global economic chokepoint. And he hasn’t stopped it from getting nukes.

I must admit I'm enjoying his "I'm the best at not having dementia, nobody has less dementia than me" phase. Maybe we can trick him into ending the Iran war with a sudoku.

I'm surprised Putin let her do that.

I need to think of butter jokes....

In 2013, Donald Trump sued Bill Maher for $5 million after Maher challenged Donald to produce a birth certificate to prove he isn’t the "spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan."

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Judges should have to stand behind their reasoning and accept criticism if their arguments don’t hold water. Most importantly, providing reasoning is an essential protection against arbitrary power and helps ensure that like cases are being treated alike. bit.ly/4sZ1wCR

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I’ve never seen anything as weak as Hegseth’s need for constant affirmation. The American military (the Navy in particular) has more than a century of history of red-team testing of plans; wargaming; & criticizing itself. Hegseth on the other hand needs an unending attaboy or he crumbles like this.

This actually explains a problem I was having a few weeks ago with my office Mac suddenly losing connectivity.

Is it an FCC violation to quote the president verbatim? Asking for a friend

Yeah, fascinating that they do seem to be the people who can never “read the room.” Picking this moment to announce you are gutting NASA because you need to pay for a war no one wants is stupid. Not that it will matter, it’s not like they actually care about what the little people think.