Stacy McGaugh
@dudedarkmatter.bsky.social
Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Astronomer working on galaxies, cosmology, dark matter and modified gravity.
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Stacy McGaugh
@dudedarkmatter.bsky.social
· Dec 17
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Has FedEx incorporated AI into deliveries? Their mis-delivery rate has skyrocketed of late, just in time for the holidays.
December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Has FedEx incorporated AI into deliveries? Their mis-delivery rate has skyrocketed of late, just in time for the holidays.
Garrett posts his second sack of the day, placing him just a half-sack shy of tying the season record.
Garrett answers in the affirmative.
Perhaps the most interesting question left in the Brown’s season is whether Myles Garrett (leads NFL in sacks) can sack Bears QB Caleb Williams (top escape artist) next week.
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Garrett posts his second sack of the day, placing him just a half-sack shy of tying the season record.
Garrett answers in the affirmative.
Perhaps the most interesting question left in the Brown’s season is whether Myles Garrett (leads NFL in sacks) can sack Bears QB Caleb Williams (top escape artist) next week.
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Garrett answers in the affirmative.
That does sound familiar, but getting past (3) is taking forever.
1. An experimental result doesn’t make sense
2. A physicist proposes a radical solution.
3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient trick.
4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected. (9/n)
2. A physicist proposes a radical solution.
3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient trick.
4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected. (9/n)
December 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
That does sound familiar, but getting past (3) is taking forever.
And as the OL leaves a hole so big to give up a sack *I* could have made to end the first quarter, I reach for the TV remote and the laptop.
That didn’t take long. Not ten minutes into the first quarter and the Browns have driven the wife to find something less annoying to do than watch them, like clean the kitchen.
December 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And as the OL leaves a hole so big to give up a sack *I* could have made to end the first quarter, I reach for the TV remote and the laptop.
That didn’t take long. Not ten minutes into the first quarter and the Browns have driven the wife to find something less annoying to do than watch them, like clean the kitchen.
December 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
That didn’t take long. Not ten minutes into the first quarter and the Browns have driven the wife to find something less annoying to do than watch them, like clean the kitchen.
Good thing “centrist Democrats struck a deal with Republicans last month to end the 43-day government shutdown in exchange for a vote on extending the subsidies.” Who could have predicted that vote would fail? Aside from absolutely everyone.
apnews.com/live/donald-...
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Live updates: Health care costs set to rise after Senate rejects extension of ACA subsidies
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs if the subsidies expire on Jan. 1.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Good thing “centrist Democrats struck a deal with Republicans last month to end the 43-day government shutdown in exchange for a vote on extending the subsidies.” Who could have predicted that vote would fail? Aside from absolutely everyone.
apnews.com/live/donald-...
apnews.com/live/donald-...
Reposted by Stacy McGaugh
The universe is full of a seemingly unending number of different things, from subatomic particles to plants and animals to gas giants and supernovae. But where did all of this stuff (for lack of a better word) come from? Let’s take a look.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_s...
Where does Everything come from?
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The universe is full of a seemingly unending number of different things, from subatomic particles to plants and animals to gas giants and supernovae. But where did all of this stuff (for lack of a better word) come from? Let’s take a look.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_s...
Republican Senator Sheehy claimed that there are foreign powers “actively attacking this country, using illegal immigration, using transnational crime, using drugs to do so.”
Not those things, but there is a mode of attack via propaganda laundered through useful idiots at Fox & social media.
Not those things, but there is a mode of attack via propaganda laundered through useful idiots at Fox & social media.
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Republican Senator Sheehy claimed that there are foreign powers “actively attacking this country, using illegal immigration, using transnational crime, using drugs to do so.”
Not those things, but there is a mode of attack via propaganda laundered through useful idiots at Fox & social media.
Not those things, but there is a mode of attack via propaganda laundered through useful idiots at Fox & social media.
The roof providing a worked example of how ice sheets might collapse: note the water flowing under the ice.
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The roof providing a worked example of how ice sheets might collapse: note the water flowing under the ice.
Impressive. Jalen Hurts just managed to throw an interception and also fumble away the ball on the same play.
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Impressive. Jalen Hurts just managed to throw an interception and also fumble away the ball on the same play.
Reposted by Stacy McGaugh
Large flares and CMEs are perfectly common and normal around solar maximum as are strong geomagnetic storms. It may "feel" like we are seeing more activity than usual, but this is what an average cycle produces. Solar cycle 24 was anemic in comparison to cycle 25 (current).
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Large flares and CMEs are perfectly common and normal around solar maximum as are strong geomagnetic storms. It may "feel" like we are seeing more activity than usual, but this is what an average cycle produces. Solar cycle 24 was anemic in comparison to cycle 25 (current).
Perhaps the most interesting question left in the Brown’s season is whether Myles Garrett (leads NFL in sacks) can sack Bears QB Caleb Williams (top escape artist) next week.
December 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Perhaps the most interesting question left in the Brown’s season is whether Myles Garrett (leads NFL in sacks) can sack Bears QB Caleb Williams (top escape artist) next week.
Reposted by Stacy McGaugh
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Just in time for Xmas.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Just in time for Xmas.
Reposted by Stacy McGaugh
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.
Browns gonna Brown.
December 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Browns gonna Brown.
Reposted by Stacy McGaugh
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
Red team wins!
Go red. Beat that team who also wears red.
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Red team wins!
Reposted by Stacy McGaugh
My model of masculinity will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor!
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My model of masculinity will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor!
Go red. Beat that team who also wears red.
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Go red. Beat that team who also wears red.
Full moon on snow.
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Full moon on snow.
We got a quarter inch of snow last night. Not enough to warrant shoveling, but enough to make the albedo high, reflecting ~90% of incident sun light. And it is partly sunny this morning, so a quick, lazy science experiment: if I sweep a strip revealing the blacktop (< 10%), will the sun do the rest?
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We got a quarter inch of snow last night. Not enough to warrant shoveling, but enough to make the albedo high, reflecting ~90% of incident sun light. And it is partly sunny this morning, so a quick, lazy science experiment: if I sweep a strip revealing the blacktop (< 10%), will the sun do the rest?