I'm starting to think that adding "quantum" to the popular lexicon was a mistake.... I'm just trying to imagine what anti-science rabbit hole a person has to go down not only to believe this, but to believe that somehow quantum computers are the problem, not the core concept of a data center

I work in an office that's under roughly 50 meters of limestone and the other day we picked up KCNW 1380 as they beseeched me to accept our Lord and Savior. Through God's light truly all things are possible...or a radio tower is directly above us. One of those two, for sure.

my general explanation for the state of the world is that the center of this venn diagram is empty

Show me a picture that captures your essence

Gotten a lot of other pictures I'm quite proud of the last few days, including some cool cat pigeons and a Dodge Charger that just begged me to turn all the Lightroom knobs up to 11

Vintage lenses are fun*...if you get lucky and have an Eastern Bluebird pose for you long enough to figure out how to nail the manual focus. Konica Hexar AR 200mm f/4 attached to a Olympus Pen E-PL2 *that is, cheap and therefore actual accessible to me

There is a $40 dollar product that does this exact thing, but instead I spent $500+ in labor to craft one myself. Worth it.

I try not to be too "oh everything is 1984" but holy everloving sh*t I just can't imagine the audacity of calling an unprovoked act of war a sign of "determination to be a man of peace"

Dog sitting and the dog in question (Blue) was nice enough to allow me to practice my portraiture on her My only regret is that I ended up with five adorable candids and bluesky only lets me post four...

I could spend every day just photographing the squirrels in my backyard and I would have ended up living a happy life

Highly recommend @adamneely.bsky.social's most recent video on how technocapitalists are working to make recorded music worse, if only for this one frame www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

A bunch of birds were hanging out in my backyard and *immediately* scattered when I stepped outside. But it was too cold for me to not get something for my trouble

Related, I kinda want to start a blog of "animals that aren't supposed to be at the zoo"

*shakes you by the shoulders* blem cheetah, BLEM CHEETAH

My lovely spouse and I spent a quiet Monday afternoon taking some pictures at @kansascityzoo.bsky.social, and now I'm going to make it every one else's problem

And since I got this nice camera, obligatory cat pics:

I feel like I'm doing photography backwards since I became interested in it by way of astrophotography ("Well I do already have this DSLR..."), but, eh.

Was gifted a duo-band filter (Ha/OIII) as an early b-day gift from my lovely parents. Couldn't get a clear night, so I aimed it at something more terrestrial, and well, this guy seemed just chuffed to bits to have his picture taken

Took this photo of NGC 6914 (6k ly away) the other night, using a red filter and moon and skyglow filter together as a ghetto H-alpha filter, which I used as a luminance channel. Did it work? Kinda. Will I do it again? Probably not.

Been doing some house rewiring recently....

Sorry, all I got was *this* crummy picture of the Pelican Nebula, I just apparently still had quite a bit of learning to do about post-processing #astrophotography

I H-alpha modified my DSLR and all I got was this crummy picture of the Pelican Nebula

It's amazing what a month of getting smarterer (well, and a >2x bigger aperture) can get you. #astrophotography (Also, don't check the spelling of 'smarterer,' your dictionary probably isn't cool enough to list it.)

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers.

Three-hour exposure of the North America Nebula from my backyard in a Bortle 7 area. Discovered in 1786, but up until 2020 guesses as to how far away it is ranged anywhere from 1500 to 3000 lightyears (actual is 2590 +/- 80 ly) #astrophotography

First attempt at M13. Turns out, astrophotography is way easier when you have the equipment to take 60 1 minute shots instead of 7200 half second shots. Who knew? Canon EOS 100D/Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2i ISO 400 300mm FL f/11 60 sec exposures 60 frames Bortle 7

The justification for tariffs on Heard Island and McDonald Islands:

Hey, I make silly science content. Check it out! youtube.com/@sgtbrainiac

Never thought I had a green thumb until I got some plants that are literally impossible to kill. Still don't think I have a green thumb, but they're nice to look at