David Grinspoon
@drfunkyspoon.bsky.social
Astrobiologist, Author, Musician. 👽🎸❤️🚀
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
I think I might be a cosmic influencer (a bad influencer?)
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
I think I might be a cosmic influencer (a bad influencer?)
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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The easy way gets harder all the time!🎶🕺🏻
Here’s GROOVADELICS covering a @rhettmiller.bsky.social song (Recorded w Old 97s)
Our final song Saturday night in Silver Spring.
youtu.be/br01lQkmraI?...
Here’s GROOVADELICS covering a @rhettmiller.bsky.social song (Recorded w Old 97s)
Our final song Saturday night in Silver Spring.
youtu.be/br01lQkmraI?...
GROOVADELICS - The Easy Way - 11/22/25
YouTube video by David Grinspoon
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The easy way gets harder all the time!🎶🕺🏻
Here’s GROOVADELICS covering a @rhettmiller.bsky.social song (Recorded w Old 97s)
Our final song Saturday night in Silver Spring.
youtu.be/br01lQkmraI?...
Here’s GROOVADELICS covering a @rhettmiller.bsky.social song (Recorded w Old 97s)
Our final song Saturday night in Silver Spring.
youtu.be/br01lQkmraI?...
RIP Jimmy Cliff- original global reggae ambassador who paved the way for so many. As a teen I was completely turned on by “The Harder they Come” and it started me on a musical journey that’s lasted my whole life. A passionate performer, I always enjoyed seeing him in concert.
Thank you Jimmy!
Thank you Jimmy!
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff- original global reggae ambassador who paved the way for so many. As a teen I was completely turned on by “The Harder they Come” and it started me on a musical journey that’s lasted my whole life. A passionate performer, I always enjoyed seeing him in concert.
Thank you Jimmy!
Thank you Jimmy!
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This is ... not a good idea.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is ... not a good idea.
Seriously the cheetah cub cam is riveting right now. The babies are crawling all over their mom and lining up to get licked like they’re in a car wash. (In Den 2)
nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...
nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...
Cheetah Cub Cam
The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
nationalzoo.si.edu
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Seriously the cheetah cub cam is riveting right now. The babies are crawling all over their mom and lining up to get licked like they’re in a car wash. (In Den 2)
nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...
nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...
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Sun. Nov. 23 in DMV DC- Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas @ Creative Alliance Balt.; Mynabirds @ Galaxy Hut ;
Rare Essence, Sirius Company @ Restaurant 55 (go-go) ;
Glitterer 7pm @ Joint Custody Takoma (dc rock) (sold out); Marietta, Pulses @ Black Cat; Noah Gundersen, Nate Bergman @ Union Stage 🧵
Rare Essence, Sirius Company @ Restaurant 55 (go-go) ;
Glitterer 7pm @ Joint Custody Takoma (dc rock) (sold out); Marietta, Pulses @ Black Cat; Noah Gundersen, Nate Bergman @ Union Stage 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Sun. Nov. 23 in DMV DC- Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas @ Creative Alliance Balt.; Mynabirds @ Galaxy Hut ;
Rare Essence, Sirius Company @ Restaurant 55 (go-go) ;
Glitterer 7pm @ Joint Custody Takoma (dc rock) (sold out); Marietta, Pulses @ Black Cat; Noah Gundersen, Nate Bergman @ Union Stage 🧵
Rare Essence, Sirius Company @ Restaurant 55 (go-go) ;
Glitterer 7pm @ Joint Custody Takoma (dc rock) (sold out); Marietta, Pulses @ Black Cat; Noah Gundersen, Nate Bergman @ Union Stage 🧵
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Hey DC area folks: come see my band GROOVADELICS tonight at McGinty’s in Silver Spring!
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey DC area folks: come see my band GROOVADELICS tonight at McGinty’s in Silver Spring!
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
14 years since we lost Lynn Margulis (November 22, 2011). Still can’t believe she’s gone.
A giant of biology, through her co-creation of the Gaia Hypothesis, & her endosymbiotic theory, she changed the way we see life, evolution, our planet, ourselves. I feel so privileged to have known her.
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A giant of biology, through her co-creation of the Gaia Hypothesis, & her endosymbiotic theory, she changed the way we see life, evolution, our planet, ourselves. I feel so privileged to have known her.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
14 years since we lost Lynn Margulis (November 22, 2011). Still can’t believe she’s gone.
A giant of biology, through her co-creation of the Gaia Hypothesis, & her endosymbiotic theory, she changed the way we see life, evolution, our planet, ourselves. I feel so privileged to have known her.
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A giant of biology, through her co-creation of the Gaia Hypothesis, & her endosymbiotic theory, she changed the way we see life, evolution, our planet, ourselves. I feel so privileged to have known her.
🧪
Hey DC area folks: come see my band GROOVADELICS tonight at McGinty’s in Silver Spring!
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey DC area folks: come see my band GROOVADELICS tonight at McGinty’s in Silver Spring!
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
youtu.be/rR3JqUa8q68?...
Here’s TOO FAR GONE, 3rd video from the Durty Neil “Rabbit Hole Sessions” on WOWD.
(We only play obscure Neil Young songs that have never received significant airplay.)
Come see us at Hell’s Bottom in Takoma Park, MD on 12/10!
youtu.be/Ucww4Yljx0Y?...
(We only play obscure Neil Young songs that have never received significant airplay.)
Come see us at Hell’s Bottom in Takoma Park, MD on 12/10!
youtu.be/Ucww4Yljx0Y?...
Durty Neil - Too Far Gone - WOWD
YouTube video by David Grinspoon
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here’s TOO FAR GONE, 3rd video from the Durty Neil “Rabbit Hole Sessions” on WOWD.
(We only play obscure Neil Young songs that have never received significant airplay.)
Come see us at Hell’s Bottom in Takoma Park, MD on 12/10!
youtu.be/Ucww4Yljx0Y?...
(We only play obscure Neil Young songs that have never received significant airplay.)
Come see us at Hell’s Bottom in Takoma Park, MD on 12/10!
youtu.be/Ucww4Yljx0Y?...
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Uso como narcótico los documentales de ovnis. Es el material narrativo más circular que puedas encontrar. Avi Loeb (Abraham) es uno de los charlatanes habituales (revestido con la falsa legitimidad de Harvard).
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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(1/7)
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Uso como narcótico los documentales de ovnis. Es el material narrativo más circular que puedas encontrar. Avi Loeb (Abraham) es uno de los charlatanes habituales (revestido con la falsa legitimidad de Harvard).
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All of this, but especially the one at 5/7
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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(1/7)
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
All of this, but especially the one at 5/7
Reposted by David Grinspoon
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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Powerful and important reporting in today’s New York Times on the unbelievably cruel treatment of even legal residents caught up in Trump’s evil deportation machine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Powerful and important reporting in today’s New York Times on the unbelievably cruel treatment of even legal residents caught up in Trump’s evil deportation machine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
What??!!
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
What??!!
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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And in other news, Brown University researchers have confirmed that bears really do shit in the woods!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
Smoking Weed Could Lead to Less Drinking, New Study Suggests
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And in other news, Brown University researchers have confirmed that bears really do shit in the woods!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
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Here’s another vid from our Durty Neil radio sesh on Tuesday.
That was so much fun. Big thanks to the Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole!
youtu.be/HF2UdNFuXfI?...
That was so much fun. Big thanks to the Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole!
youtu.be/HF2UdNFuXfI?...
Durty Neil - Walk On
YouTube video by David Grinspoon
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Here’s another vid from our Durty Neil radio sesh on Tuesday.
That was so much fun. Big thanks to the Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole!
youtu.be/HF2UdNFuXfI?...
That was so much fun. Big thanks to the Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole!
youtu.be/HF2UdNFuXfI?...
I fixed the headline:
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I fixed the headline:
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Here’s the first Durty Neil video from our Radio session on Tuesday (WOWD Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole Neil Young birthday special)
youtu.be/XSM8geyORBY?...
youtu.be/XSM8geyORBY?...
Durty Neil The Old Laughing Lady 11 11 25
YouTube video by David Grinspoon
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Here’s the first Durty Neil video from our Radio session on Tuesday (WOWD Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole Neil Young birthday special)
youtu.be/XSM8geyORBY?...
youtu.be/XSM8geyORBY?...