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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 4h

Still haven't gotten my Soros check for the 2017 women's march- can you help with that?

Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 11h

We charge our Ioniq 5 off our solar panels. Basically free to drive. Just had its first required maintenance at 8K miles - a tire rotation.

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 1d

And the fraction of women among Physics Nobelists drops from 2.21 to 2.18% (5/229). For reference, women have earned something like 15% of Physics PhDs over the last 50 years

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 1d

Flew from Denver to Phoenix this morning and flight was delayed by 45 minutes with no explanation.

Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 2d

LOL. I don't want the newspaper that bad :^)

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 2d

I'll give you fifty bucks and a case of Schlitz. Whaddaya say?

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe he could preemptively call them up himself and send them to some rural MAGA town to harass white racists.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 4d

Also Lawrencium

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I guess it’s hard to count, more LPs released in US than UK

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 4d

Wait, I think that was 11. But Let it Be is purty good too

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/VUpLiJfV4_A?...

Boy Meets Girl

YouTube video by Free To Be Foundation, Inc.

youtu.be

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 5d

the newsletter is shit

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 5d

Fun fact: more people voted for Trump last year in Chicago than in the state of Wyoming.

Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 5d

The US government has put $2.1bn in funding for infrastructure projects in Chicago on hold, in another jab at a Democratic-led city.

Trump administration freezes $2.1bn in funds for Chicago transit projects

www.theguardian.com

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 5d

Is it brought to us by the Willy Wonka folks?

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 6d

and we'll send you a text message asking you to fill out a survey before you have even left the office!

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 7d

Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew

Yes, NASA science is being destroyed, and the NASA we know is actively in the process of being gutted.

Here are the receipts.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #nasa #usa

Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew

As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.

bigthink.com

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 7d

OK, sure, let's add a program that can't do basic arithmetic to Excel. OTOH, maybe it can add "1-2" to excel without it instantly turning into January 2

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 7d

oh wait, I thought you said "song you get tired of after 10 seconds"

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 7d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rTZ...

IT'S A SMALL WORLD After All Lyrics

YouTube video by STAR Kids Music

www.youtube.com

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 7d

Gemini South finds Hayabusa2’s target asteroid is 3x tinier and spinning 2x faster than previously thought! #astronomy noirlab.edu/public/news/...

Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Santana-Ros
ESO/M. Kornmesser. Asteroid: T. Santana-Ros et al. Hayabusa2 model: SuperTKG (CC-BY-SA)

Gemini Data Critical to Revealing that Hayabusa2 Target is Tinier and Faster than Thought - Gemini South paves the way for characterizing small asteroids from the ground with new data on spacecraft Ha...

Astronomers using observatories around the world, including the Gemini South telescope, the SOAR telescope and the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope funded in part by the U.S. National Science Founda...

noirlab.edu

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 7d

maybe quit sane-washing the Republican party and its leader?

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 7d

I think the next Dem president should convert it into a homeless shelter/ free abortion clinic

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 7d

This thread is making me sad that I have never needed to use QM in my research career, even though I absolutely loved it as a student (using the Cohen-Tannoudji book) and I've forgotten so much. But I love what I do, so oh well.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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