it’s time we start oppressing ppl that use the word “hubby”

sorry but “Hubble Space Telescope” takes too long to say

@annabethisterrified you’re

LOL yep that’s the day job! I started last year after graduating, working on the NASA side of things with the mission doing social media/outreach, so I’m going to do my obligatory HUBBY LINK DROP: insta, twitter, fb

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in the post from lemjpanda13, a screenshot of tags reading:

#as the literal social media manager for said telescope i promise i screamed and frothed at the mouth #with the desire to tweet a screenshot of this

in the post from dexmathylphenidate, a screenshot of two replies/reblogs, reading:

@/stuffedgrapeleaves: i can’t believe we’re all young professionals and academics and we’re still logging on to tumblr.com every single day to clown on ourselves. who let this happen

@/a-singular-canadian: Look man this is the only place left im allowed to say clown shit without it impacting my career, just lemme have this

/end ID]

2023 May 22

Supernova Discovered in Nearby Spiral Galaxy M101 Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Stocks

Explanation: A nearby star has exploded and humanity’s telescopes are turning to monitor it. The supernova, dubbed SN 2023ixf, was discovered by Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki three days ago and subsequently located on automated images from the Zwicky Transient Facility two days earlier. SN 2023ixf occurred in the photogenic Pinwheel Galaxy M101, which, being only about 21 million light years away, makes it the closest supernova seen in the past five years, the second closest in the past 10 years, and the second supernova found in M101 in the past 15 years. Rapid follow up observations already indicate that SN 2023ixf is a Type II supernova, an explosion that occurs after a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel and collapses. The featured image shows home spiral galaxy two days ago with the supernova highlighted, while the roll-over image shows the same galaxy a month before. SN 2023ixf will likely brighten and remain visible to telescopes for months. Studying such a close and young Type II supernova may yield new clues about massive stars and how they explode.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230522.html

"mathematics is as close as we can get to perfect rationality" said the mathematician, who regularly relies on at least three theorems they no longer know how to prove. "on a fundamental level our job is about truth", they said, making their tenth sign error of the day

'Let n be an integer' Why should I let it? I don't think n has behaved well enough today to be an integer. Maybe if n behaves better tomorrow I'll let it be an integer.

if you own k distinct colors of sock, you can draw k+1 arbitrary socks from your sock drawer and, by the pigeonhole principle, be guaranteed at least one matching pair. this is the only known application of combinatorics to the real world

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I was trying to prove in court that (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2 was wrong. Saul Goodman was my lawyer.

the episode where Saul Goodman does a risky and semi-illegal deal to get his hands on some black market noncommutative rings

“Butterfly Fractal Sequence-62,” acrylic on Dura Lar, 25” x 40”, 2023, Reginald Brooks

Butterfly Fractal 1 (BF1): original, base fractal based on the Exponential Power of 2.

Butterfly Fractal 2 (BF2): original, base fractal based on the Exponential Power of 2, but with the Running Sums (R∑) emphasized.

Butterfly Fractal 3 (BF3): based on cubing the exponents.

Butterfly Fractal 4 (BF4): the 10 fundamental parameters of every Mersenne Prime Square (MPS) are revealed by SAME fractal-pattern of BF1, only using the x, y and z values of a given MPS.

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My friend Kaleigh is trying to get back from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Indianapolis, Indiana. Ze needs help with transportation and money, and possibly finding a stable place to live, or at least a place to stay. Ze has errands ze needs to run here in Indy. Ze is in the process of appealing zir current ban from all IU campuses, and has made significant progress towards that.

Kaleigh has faced significant abuse at the hands of homeless shelters and police.

I've made previous posts for zir, and for about a week it seemed like things were finally getting settled, but things are getting worse again. Lyft has been charging zir extra fees, and because of that ze's already halfway through the SSI check ze got this weekend.

CashApp: KaleighOGrady.

Kaleigh has found a place in Kalamazoo where the rent is only $150/month. I'll be doing my best to help zir run errands while ze's there, but some of the things ze needs to do need zir to be present here in Indy for an extended amount of time.

In particular, ze needs to do 24 hours of court-ordered community service before zir hearing on May 25th, and ze needs to pick up mail items (including legal documents and zir SNAP card) from the various places ze previously stayed. Ze's trying to find out if ze can do zir community service in Michigan instead of Indy, and we're both trying to see if I could pick up zir mail for zir, but even in the best-case scenario, ze still needs more help than I can provide alone.

We haven't heard back from the public defender yet as to whether ze can do zir community service hours in Michigan, so it's looking like ze'll need a motel stay in Indy. I can provide at most $500 for this ($600 if I start skipping meals/mooching off friends), which would be enough for maybe 8 nights at most if we book the stay soon.

I'll be picking up zir SNAP card tomorrow.

I wasn't able to pick up the SNAP card before Horizon House closed today, and it turns out the Wheeler Mission only holds mail for 24 hours before returning it to sender, so that's probably going to create problems down the line. At least I've picked up the prescriptions that were ready at the Damien Center.

Kaleigh needs zir scripts ASAP, and I'll need gas money to get them to zir. My CashApp and Venmo are both regicide1997 (same as my Tumblr url). I also have Tips enabled on my blog if you prefer that. DM for PayPal because deadname.

Please do not donate to me if you yourself are in need. I get paid monthly, $1,700 a month. Shit's just been a bit tight recently.

Thirty Transcendent Virtues

Thomas Greenbaum

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Thanks @sevenfactorial for the HT to this artist!

The proof is left as an exercise to the IRS

abstract algebraist that wears a lot of rings

joins a lot of groups

frolics in a lot of fields

does a lot of algebra. wait.

Funny, saw a python article about using lambda inside filters and it was like "cool trick you've probably never seen!" and I was like. theres a reason for that. 1) lambdas are looked down upon for testing and maintenance reasons, 2) theres also very few scenarios where filter(lambda, iterator) is somehow a better choice than list comprehensions with an "if" in them, especially if you wrap that filter in a list() immediately after. I guess it is a fun trick but it's not particularly good code in most scenarios

however. if you havent seen zip or enumerate you should learn to use those as much as possible because they are actually good

There was a group of angels at the bar tonight. Super intense vibe, but they kept to themselves and didn't disturb the other patrons, except for one point when they all suddenly burst into cheers and ordered a round for the bar. I asked what they were celebrating. They told me that for a split second all of the air molecules bounced petfectly into one corner of the room. It's like their version of the dvd screensaver.