Luke Dones
@lukemeister.bsky.social
The comet is coming.
Fan of San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Blue Jays
Woke, but sleepy
At least 51,200 years old
Not very fly, even for a white guy
🎧 https://www.nts.live/
Astronauts report it feels good
🐈🦝🦔
Fan of San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Blue Jays
Woke, but sleepy
At least 51,200 years old
Not very fly, even for a white guy
🎧 https://www.nts.live/
Astronauts report it feels good
🐈🦝🦔
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It’s so frustrating. They told us we couldn’t criticize the Utah legislature or HB261 or Utah’s book banning law. My presentation was all about combatting book bans in K-12 schools and how they’re unconstitutional. Even if I’d wanted to, it would have been impossible to comply.
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It’s so frustrating. They told us we couldn’t criticize the Utah legislature or HB261 or Utah’s book banning law. My presentation was all about combatting book bans in K-12 schools and how they’re unconstitutional. Even if I’d wanted to, it would have been impossible to comply.
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Better than Jesus, eh? The @royalsociety.org really should add that to their biography of Elon Musk FRS. royalsociety.org/people/elon-...
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Better than Jesus, eh? The @royalsociety.org really should add that to their biography of Elon Musk FRS. royalsociety.org/people/elon-...
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Last month, Weber State University cancelled a conference *on censorship* after it became clear that all of the presenters (including me) would have to censor their material to comply with HB 261. I applaud your integrity and am here to commiserate—it’s a terrible law with terrible consequences.
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Last month, Weber State University cancelled a conference *on censorship* after it became clear that all of the presenters (including me) would have to censor their material to comply with HB 261. I applaud your integrity and am here to commiserate—it’s a terrible law with terrible consequences.
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Come do a PhD at the @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC). The avaialble PhD projects starting in the 2026/2027 school year are now up. Application deadline is January 16th . I have project on doing cool things with @vrubinobs.bsky.social Solar System discoveries 🧪🔭.
Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC). The avaialble PhD projects starting in the 2026/2027 school year are now up. Application deadline is January 16th . I have project on doing cool things with @vrubinobs.bsky.social Solar System discoveries 🧪🔭.
PHD Studentships | Astrophysics Research Centre | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Come do a PhD at the @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC). The avaialble PhD projects starting in the 2026/2027 school year are now up. Application deadline is January 16th . I have project on doing cool things with @vrubinobs.bsky.social Solar System discoveries 🧪🔭.
Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC). The avaialble PhD projects starting in the 2026/2027 school year are now up. Application deadline is January 16th . I have project on doing cool things with @vrubinobs.bsky.social Solar System discoveries 🧪🔭.
Autocorrect just asked if I wanted to change TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects) to snot. I mean, they do contain organics ...
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Autocorrect just asked if I wanted to change TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects) to snot. I mean, they do contain organics ...
"Judge McCourt said he was prepared to spend all afternoon watching videos of a cat shittng in Mr Nugent's garden, but he wanted lunch first" is a scene that even Flann O'Brien would have been pushed to invent
Judge James McCourt heard that an aggrieved lawyer and his wife had recorded for 18 months what Coco the cat had got up to night and day in their newly-laid-out front garden at their Mountain View Road home in Ranelagh, Dublin.
jrnl.ie/6881470
jrnl.ie/6881470
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"LPSC did not provide specifics on the criteria that will be used to evaluate abstracts.. but the conference appears worried enough ... to strike straightforward information about bathrooms. From 2022-24, LPSC listed the locations of gender-neutral bathrooms on its website, but not in 2025 or ’26."
New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"LPSC did not provide specifics on the criteria that will be used to evaluate abstracts.. but the conference appears worried enough ... to strike straightforward information about bathrooms. From 2022-24, LPSC listed the locations of gender-neutral bathrooms on its website, but not in 2025 or ’26."
“I do not pay attention to the moon, he once told me.”
Good thing he doesn't! RFK Jr. could be running NASA too.
Good thing he doesn't! RFK Jr. could be running NASA too.
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
newsletter.anamariecox.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“I do not pay attention to the moon, he once told me.”
Good thing he doesn't! RFK Jr. could be running NASA too.
Good thing he doesn't! RFK Jr. could be running NASA too.
Trump, the new Pythagoras
JD Vance: "He's fundamentally a humanitarian, and we've got 8 peace deals at this point. We're working on number 9 and number 10. And I think if he gets number 10, purely for mathematical harmony the Nobel Prize should be awarded to Donald J Trump."
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Trump, the new Pythagoras
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mark kelly's wife was literally shot in the head bc of violent political rhetoric & now the president of the united states is calling for him to be executed.... but iTs tHe LeFt
Martha Blackburn defends Trump's call to arrest (and execute) Democratic elected officials
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
mark kelly's wife was literally shot in the head bc of violent political rhetoric & now the president of the united states is calling for him to be executed.... but iTs tHe LeFt
"Potentially divisive"
Nuclear weapons: "Potentially disruptive"
Nuclear weapons: "Potentially disruptive"
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Potentially divisive"
Nuclear weapons: "Potentially disruptive"
Nuclear weapons: "Potentially disruptive"
This is an amazing lineup in London on December 5 that Carista mentioned on her NTS show this week. I hope some of you get to go!
drumshedslondon.com/event/hydra_...
drumshedslondon.com/event/hydra_...
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is an amazing lineup in London on December 5 that Carista mentioned on her NTS show this week. I hope some of you get to go!
drumshedslondon.com/event/hydra_...
drumshedslondon.com/event/hydra_...
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Picked up my 15th spaceberg last shift, C/2025 V2 (Rankin). This one has precoveries back to Nov 2024, indicating it was active at 8+AU out. Very hypothetical light curve assuming m1=8. Hopefully puts on a decent show in 2027. #cometwatch #comet
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Picked up my 15th spaceberg last shift, C/2025 V2 (Rankin). This one has precoveries back to Nov 2024, indicating it was active at 8+AU out. Very hypothetical light curve assuming m1=8. Hopefully puts on a decent show in 2027. #cometwatch #comet
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'd like to think my intangibles make up for my mediocre h-index.
I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'd like to think my intangibles make up for my mediocre h-index.
@realhopejahren.bsky.social Phillies fans are advised to leave their batteries at home.
[MLB] Major League Baseball returns to Iowa with the Twins and Phillies playing in the third edition of MLB at Field of Dreams on August 13, 2026. Netflix will bring the game to fans live from Dyersville
https://twitter.com/mlb/status/19...
https://ouo.io/B9RP08X
#phillies #philly #jawnphilly
https://twitter.com/mlb/status/19...
https://ouo.io/B9RP08X
#phillies #philly #jawnphilly
[MLB] Major League Baseball returns to Iowa with the Twins and Phillies playing in the third edition of MLB at Field of Dreams on August 13, 2026. Netflix will bring the game to fans live from Dyersville
https://twitter.com/mlb/status/19...
ouo.io
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
@realhopejahren.bsky.social Phillies fans are advised to leave their batteries at home.
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“You look at the babies in those states. They’re all named Wokey McWokerson.”
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“You look at the babies in those states. They’re all named Wokey McWokerson.”
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youtu.be/zz3eFAqcsmA
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AAS Journal Author Series: Matthew Hopkins on 2025ApJ...990L..30H
Matthew Hopkins (University of Oxford, University of Canterbury) chats about his article on 3I/ATLAS within the context of predicting the properties of the interstellar object population.
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AAS Journal Author Series: Matthew Hopkins on 2025ApJ...990L..30H
Matthew Hopkins (University of Oxford, University of Canterbury) chats about his article on 3I/ATLAS within the context of predicting the properties of the interstellar object population.
AAS Journal Author Series: Matthew Hopkins on 2025ApJ...990L..30H
YouTube video by AAS
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
youtu.be/zz3eFAqcsmA
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AAS Journal Author Series: Matthew Hopkins on 2025ApJ...990L..30H
Matthew Hopkins (University of Oxford, University of Canterbury) chats about his article on 3I/ATLAS within the context of predicting the properties of the interstellar object population.
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AAS Journal Author Series: Matthew Hopkins on 2025ApJ...990L..30H
Matthew Hopkins (University of Oxford, University of Canterbury) chats about his article on 3I/ATLAS within the context of predicting the properties of the interstellar object population.
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That tiny cone is giving me life
The famous cone on the Duke Of Wellington statue has been replaced with a pigeon reading a newspaper - and the pigeon has a tiny cone hat.
📸 by @the.rebel.bear
Story by Secret Glasgow Read it here: bit.ly/duke-of-wellington-cone-replaced
📸 by @the.rebel.bear
Story by Secret Glasgow Read it here: bit.ly/duke-of-wellington-cone-replaced
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
That tiny cone is giving me life
"The Functionality of Ice Line Latitudinal EBM Tenacity (FILLET) project is a CUISINES exoplanet model intercomparison project (exo-MIP) that compares various energy balance models (EBMs) through a series of numerical experiments." 🧊🧑🍳🌍
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11957
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11957
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"The Functionality of Ice Line Latitudinal EBM Tenacity (FILLET) project is a CUISINES exoplanet model intercomparison project (exo-MIP) that compares various energy balance models (EBMs) through a series of numerical experiments." 🧊🧑🍳🌍
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11957
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11957
The White House:
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The White House:
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
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My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
The bad timeline started when Olivia Nuzzi volunteered for Anthony Weiner's campaign for mayor of New York City in 2013.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The bad timeline started when Olivia Nuzzi volunteered for Anthony Weiner's campaign for mayor of New York City in 2013.